{"id":5621,"date":"2016-11-08T08:28:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T14:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=5621"},"modified":"2016-11-08T08:28:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T14:28:12","slug":"clintons-closing-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2016\/11\/clintons-closing-argument.html","title":{"rendered":"Clinton&#8217;s closing argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4968\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/533\/2016\/08\/Hillary_Clinton_official_Secretary_of_State_portrait_crop.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AHillary_Clinton_official_Secretary_of_State_portrait_crop.jpg; By United States Department of State (Official Photo at Department of State page) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"479\" height=\"438\"><\/p>\n<p>As published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2016\/11\/06\/hillary-clinton-vote--for-me-election-day-column\/93400038\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">USA Today, on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She proclaims her intention to be bipartisan, to be sure. \u00a0But then she lists her 4 top priorities:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u201cthe biggest investment in new jobs since World War II.\u201d \u00a0Not sure exactly what she has in mind, and I\u2019ve tried to find more details in the past, but it seems to be a matter of massive subsidies for \u201cgreen jobs\u201d as well as substantial increases in government infrastructure spending.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cComprehensive immigration reform\u201d \u2014 meaning mass amnesty with a nod to border security.<\/li>\n<li>A constitutional amendment to overturn <em>Citizens United<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEnd to end criminal justice reform,\u201d the specifics of which I\u2019m not sure of, either from this editorial or from prior things I\u2019ve read, except for, now, a statement that too many people are being sent to jail, and for too long.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Are these bipartisan, \u201ccommon ground\u201d priorities? \u00a0You tell me.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Image:\u00a0https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AHillary_Clinton_official_Secretary_of_State_portrait_crop.jpg; By United States Department of State (Official Photo at Department of State page) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As published in USA Today, on Monday. She proclaims her intention to be bipartisan, to be sure. \u00a0But then she lists her 4 top priorities: \u201cthe biggest investment in new jobs since World War II.\u201d \u00a0Not sure exactly what she has in mind, and I\u2019ve tried to find more details in the past, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":4968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[442,229],"class_list":["post-5621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-election-2016","tag-hillary-clinton"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Clinton&#039;s closing argument<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As published in USA Today, on Monday. 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