Subject: Fwd: ICYMI: Editorial: Clinton is Democrats' best choice [Concord Monitor]
From: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
To: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
Cc: Alexandria Phillips <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:24:49 -0500
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Friends -

In addition to being endorsed by the Des Moines Register and the Sioux City
Journal yesterday evening, the Concord Monitor endorsed Hillary Clinton
this morning, leading with this key line: "Only one Democratic candidate
for president is truly qualified to hold the job: Hillary Clinton."

Read the full editorial below:

*Editorial: Clinton is Democrats’ best choice*

*The Monitor’s Editorial – Concord Monitor*

*January 24, 2016*

*http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/20636012-95/editorial-clinton-is-democrats-best-choice
<http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/20636012-95/editorial-clinton-is-democrats-best-choice>*

Only one Democratic candidate for president is truly qualified to hold the
job: Hillary Clinton.

No contender’s resume can come within miles of matching Clinton’s. She’s
ready to take up the nation’s top job on day one and her knowledge of
domestic issues and foreign policy is encyclopedic. There is also a strong
chance, should Clinton become president, that the poisonous partisanship
that’s paralyzed Washington will be diminished rather than increased. Why?
During her eight years as a senator from New York, she proved her ability
to find common ground with Republicans, accords that allowed needed
legislation to advance.

Clinton’s performance during her four years as President Obama’s secretary
of state during tumultuous times and terrorist attacks led former secretary
of state Henry Kissinger to say that she “ran the State Department in the
most effective way I’ve ever seen.” He was not the only senior Republican
with foreign policy experience to feel that way. In contrast, Clinton’s
chief rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, despite his quarter-century in Congress,
is a foreign policy naif, albeit one who made the right call in opposing
the war in Iraq.

Clinton has visited the Monitor many times over the years and we’ve come to
know her pretty well. Sure, she’s tough as nails when she needs to be, but
we’ve found her to be warm, funny and without the arrogance displayed by so
many high-level politicians.

She is a centrist, but one who has campaigned for social justice since
early adulthood. Clinton began her political life as a Republican like her
parents, but a speech Martin Luther King gave in her hometown of Chicago
changed her life and drew her to public service. She became a Democrat, and
as a law student at Yale worked to prevent child abuse and promote child
welfare. Her first Washington job was as a researcher on then Minnesota
Sen. Walter Mondale’s committee investigating the living conditions of
migrant workers.

Clinton’s concern for the downtrodden has been unwavering.

In the 1970s, she became the first woman to chair the board of the Legal
Services Corporation, which was created to increase access to legal
services for the poor. As first lady, and the lead proponent of a failed
attempt to provide access to health care for all that’s not unlike the
Affordable Care Act, she learned how Washington, and the special interests
that fight to get their hands on the levers of government, work. In the
process, she played a key role in the creation of what became the
Children’s Health Insurance Program operated by the states.

The plans Clinton has put forward – whether on foreign policy, making
college more affordable, addressing climate change or increasing access to
health care – display her knowledge of the issues. They are not pie-in-the
sky, but achievable. Her health plan, for example, builds on the success of
Obamacare. By contrast, Sanders’s health plan, such as it is, was described
by Vox founder and health care analyst Ezra Klein as offering voters
“puppies and rainbows.” Virtually none of what he has pledged to do is
achievable.

Clinton was the first first lady in history to run for elected office and
the first female senator from New York. If elected, she would become the
first female president. She knows how to get things done in a country with
many needs and many threats, the greatest of which is the political
dysfunction that has prevented their being addressed. She gets our
strongest possible endorsement for the Democratic nomination.

Adrienne K. Elrod
Director of Strategic Communications & Surrogates
Hillary For America
*www.hillaryclinton.com <http://www.hillaryclinton.com>*
@adrienneelrod

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