Subject: My view on Clinton's candidacy
From: Anthony Pang <[email-masked]>
To: "H" <[email-masked]>, "Huma Abedin" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked], "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 03:43:10 +0800

Dear Secretary Clinton-I have written my view below which I hope would be
able to help you. I have protected Secretary Albright's comments too last
week. Please read and share to the public if you find it useful. I look
forward to hearing some comments from you. Please feel free to let me know
if you need some amendments. I wish you every success in the Presidential
Campaign. Anthony

 

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  Among all candidates in the race, I think Hillary Clinton is the only
person who is best qualified to become the 45th President of the United
States. May everyone allow me to express my opinions here bluntly, honestly
and freely, it is not fair to blame Secretary Clinton of reversing her
positions on some issues. I believe most of us have experienced of making
wrong decisions in life too. In order to avoid the same mistake, we will
change our positions. For the same reason, Secretary Clinton also changes
her positions on issues that she thinks she had decided wrongly in the past.
On that basis, why don't we give Secretary Clinton an opportunity to rectify
her views on issues such as gay marriage and Keystone XL pipeline? I think
it is never too late to make wise judgements, or you want a candidate who
insists in his wrong opinion judgement until he ends his presidency? I
believe the majority of us would not wish to have a stubborn and unopen head
of state. 

  It is also unjust to declare Mrs Clinton guilty before trial regarding her
exclusive use of private email server. In fact, it is still not clear
whether Secretary Clinton has mishandled classified information, and the
most important thing is, it was allowed when she was the Secretary of State.
What we heard to be honest, were rumours, or attacks from different parties
which are against her.

  While people are saying the Hillary camp is being unfair to Senator
Sanders, have we ever thought of some young adults from the Sanders camp
also attack Secretary Clinton in the same way? I query about that. Everyone
makes mistakes, and indeed, Secretary Clinton has already felt very sorry
for the mistakes she made before. Why don't we give her one more chance? I
am sure she won't make the same mistake again when she gets elected. I am a
15-year-old teenager, and from my view, as young people, we must always be
objective and rational, otherwise, we are destructing ourselves and our
future! 

  Referring to Secretary Albright's comments, to some extent, I think she is
right because she only wishes to emphasize the importance of unity among
women. Therefore, it is really not necessary to overreact to her statement.
Let's see Mrs Clinton's record, she is a lifelong fighter. If someone
queries about the accomplishments of Secretary Clinton, then my question is:
what are the accomplishments of Senator Sanders, and other rivals from the
Republican Party? From my view, we must be impartial to everyone. Wearing
tinted glasses is a bad practice. Don't be influenced by some presidential
candidates or the media, independent and comprehensive thinking is
essential.

  All foreign and domestic agendas Secretary Clinton has raised will be
achieved and realized only if she becomes the head of the United States. We
must know she was only the Secretary of State from 2009-2013, but she played
a critical role in reaching the Iran Deal in 2015, the death of Bin Laden,
the Cease Fire of Gaza etc. As the chief diplomat of America, she also
aggressively advocated the rights of women, children and the LGBT community.
Apart from the diplomatic accomplishments above, Secretary Clinton also
wisely used the "smart power" strategy which effectively carries out the
President's foreign policy by combining military hard power with diplomacy,
and soft power capacities in global economics, development aid, technology,
creativity, and human rights advocacy.

  As the head of state and government, a single-issue candidate will not be
suitable for the post. Secretary Clinton is experienced in foreign policies
as she has been the First Lady and the Secretary of State. Accurate
judgements can only be nurtured when he or she gains sufficient experiences.
Judgement could not be gained without any experience! Therefore, I query
what "judgement" Senator Sanders has. As what the New York Times said,
Secretary Clinton is only one the most broadly and deeply qualified
presidential candidates in modern history. Secretary Clinton is also good at
solving profound problems in the community, like the improvement of school
systems in Arkansas, reformation of juvenile prison in South Carolina, and
expansion of early childhood education. People criticise Secretary Clinton
that she always flip-flops her positions, however, from the three records
above, it is proved that Secretary Clinton never changes her principles,
especially her intentions of fighting for women, children and equality,
which she stored in her heart when she graduated from college. From
1993-2001, President Clinton has accomplished the longest economic expansion
in American history, more than 22 million new jobs, highest homeownership in
history, enacted most sweeping gun safety legislation, Family and Medical
Leave Act for 20 million Americans, lowest poverty rate in 20 years, lowest
federal income tax burden in 35 years, and converted the largest budget
deficit in American history to the largest surplus etc. From 2009 onwards,
President Obama has accomplished the realization of health care reform,
helping over 8 million Americans be able to enjoy the financial assistance
of affording health coverage. He also normalized relations with Cuba, ending
a failed policy of over 50 years by re-establishing diplomatic relations and
facilitating greater travel, commerce, and people-to-people ties. His
administration reached the Iran Deal, dismantled al Qaeda's leadership,
modernized alliances with Japan and South Korea, concluded new defence
agreements with Australia and the Philippines, reformed Wall Street, set new
accounting standards to move all exposures onto firms' balance sheets, used
proceeds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to stabilize banks
that lend to small businesses, expanded the Child Tax Credit and Earned
Income Tax Credit for low-wage working families and made those expansions
permanent, created 14 million new jobs over 71 straight months, making the
unemployment rate for Americans fall to 4.9% in January for the first time
since February 2008, and for African Americans has fallen to 8.8% in January
2016 from 16.8% in March 2010. We need a change-maker to succeed and
strengthen these achievements, and Secretary Clinton will be the best person
to be the change-maker. Reinventing the wheel is time-consuming,
unpractical, unachievable and will not be supported by majority of the
legislators in the Congress, nor the citizens in the country. 

  As examples listed above, accomplishments of a presidency are not only
about breaking up the Wall Street, free college tuition, and get big money
out of politics. A single-issue candidate is not competent to be the
President of the United States whatsoever. On the contrary, Secretary
Clinton is committed to bring positive changes for America in criminal
justice reform, economy, gun violence prevention, further integration of
health care, K-12 education, different types of equality, social security,
women's rights and opportunities, climate change and international diplomacy
etc., by laying out realistic and doable plans to the public. In addition,
many experts from Clinton's and Obama's administrations and other
organizations are eager to assist Secretary Clinton in realizing her plans
and goals. Consequently, her promises from my view, are more trustworthy.
And obviously, she is not a single-issue candidate.

  I also hate hypocrites. I don't like people finding shortcuts and
loopholes. For example, Senator Sanders said he wouldn't attack his
opponents, nevertheless, he offends Secretary Clinton by clear implication.
Yes, he did not mention the exact name, but does this approach violate the
basic political morality? I also think he is a disrespectful candidate,
warning the super-delegates not to violate voters' wills, but have all of
you including him ever remembered the primary election in 2008? Secretary
Clinton won the popular votes but lost the votes from the super-delegates.
Did she complain or warn the super-delegates not to go against people's
will? No, she respects the game rules. Once you decided to run the campaign
within the Democratic Party, you have to respect and obey every rule it has
implemented. You can ask for changes before and after the campaign, but you
can't do this in the middle of the primary. His behaviour sounds like a
rogue -a person who likes to be seen as daring, and yet won't actually take
risks! Also, he always interrupts Secretary Clinton during the debate. Yet,
a President or a Commander-in-Chief should not behave like this.

  I am a young teenager too, but I don't want to be irrational. Therefore,
after exercising my comprehensive and independent considerations, I decided
to support Secretary Clinton, and I hope other young adults in the country
will do the same too! Remember, your decision will affect the Americans'
future. Think twice.

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