Clinton in 1996: My beliefs are rooted in conservatism

Overthrowing Gadaffi was a fucking disaster. Saying he deserved it, his people hated him, etc... is missing the point. ISIS filed that power vacuum and it's been an unmitigated disaster since. It was the same problem with toppling Hussain in Iraq, which she also supported. She's a nation builder, and it doesn't work. Whatever she's saying now, her record is one of a foreign policy hawk.

I'm a lawyer who handles bankruptcy, so don't tell me bs about those amendments. I've heard that line and it's nonsense. The amendments she opposed would have made it harder for women with children relying on child support but the bankruptcy laws as they were didn't allow those obligations to be discharged. There was nothing good about those amendments for consumers. They were supported by credit card companies and that's why she voted for them. Period.

Deregulation was more than Glass-Steagall. This bit about it not going far enough is double think. She supported repealing it and doesn't support going back to where we were in 1999, much less taking it further our breaking up banks which are too big to fail. She won't even acknowledge that there are currently banks that are too big to fail even though many are bigger than they were when we bailed them out.

The crime bill was a disaster. Mandatory minimums for drug crimes, private prisons, and denying public benefits such as food stamps and public housing for ex offenders which has been a disaster in terms of recidivism. Of course, anti-recidivism efforts are at odds with the interests of private prison industry.

But hey, if yippy think the crime bill was a good idea - even though Bil Clinton himself has admitted it was a horrible mistake - then all we have is an honest difference if opinion.

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