Volume 126, No. 37
Monday, October 10, 2016
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Our View: The Collegian Editorial Board endorses Hillary Clinton for President Hillary Clinton speaks at the Denver Democratic Party Dinner in Denver earlier this year. PHOTO BY ABBIE PARR COLLEGIAN
By Collegian Editorial Board @CSUCollegian
At this point in the 2016 election cycle, it is no longer a difficult question which candidate the Collegian Editorial Board will endorse for President — we endorse Hillary Clinton for President of the United States of America. The editorial board strongly believes Hillary Clinton is the only candidate this year who has the ability, both in personality and qualifications, to become the president. In writing this, though, we acknowledge that Clinton is far from a perfect candidate. Hillary Clinton has been in politics for more than 25 years, since before she became the First Lady of President Bill
Clinton. Over that time, she has accomplished and been associated with a wide variety of accusations - some substantiated, but most utterly false. Clinton has proven herself over time to be an effective leader, organizer and politician, as First Lady, Senator from New York and Secretary of State. She said she will work to create a fairer tax for the wealthy after her opponent in the Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders, ran a campaign critical of the ultra-wealthy. She criticised the justice system for excessive incarceration rates and for not fixing racial profiling, and has said that everybody deserves the right to vote - including ex-felons. Unlike Trump, she believes climate change is real, not a hoax
perpetuated by China. But we agree with Clinton most strongly not on her foreign or economic policies, but on her social policy. She is for marriage equality and is a supporter of transgender rights. She said that police are not the only ones who can be biased against minorities, and that everyone can have implicit bias, but that she would address police brutality. Not to mention, if she is elected the first female President, it will be a massive leap for women’s rights in the country. Clinton recognizes the privileges she has been granted in life and she has said over and over again that she wants to be a president for America - even for people who do not want to vote for her. Whether you agree with her
ideas or not, she shows time and time again that she is willing and able to fight until the bitter end while maintaining a clear and diplomatic demeanor, even when she is accused of being too sickly to become President while suffering from pneumonia. At the end of the second presidential debate, even Trump said something similar to this, calling her a “fighter” and someone who “doesn’t give up.” However, it is important to note that Clinton is far from a perfect candidate, as evidenced by a historically high unfavorability rating for a democratic candidate. She has had close ties to Wall Street in the past - several transcripts of private speeches she gave were released last week where she said it is important for
politicians to have a public and a private policy stance. Clinton is still embroiled in controversy surrounding a private email server she used as Secretary of State, and has had issues with her own privacy, including a couple of months where she did not hold a single press conference during much of the primary season. She has been accused of much worse and much less substantiated things as well, such as being responsible for the deaths of four Americans during an attack on an American embassy in Libya in the Benghazi scandal. She has also been accused of harassing women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by President Bill Clinton, both see ENDORSEMENT on page 9 >>