Hillary Clinton Pros And Cons

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Final Candidate Project: Hillary Clinton Let’s face it: Clinton’s got the candidacy in the bag. She’s practically president already, in fact, we might as well just skip the whole voting process and give her the office now.
“In 1969, Hillary entered Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of Yale Law Review and Social Action, interned with children 's advocate Marian Wright Edelman,” (Black). When she graduated she joined the Children’s Defence Fund in Cambridge, and the impeachment inquiry staff that was helping the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives get Nixon impeached. After marrying Bill Clinton in 1975, she continued to be politically active by publishing articles about laws affecting families and children, …show more content…

On drug issues, she supports the legalization of marijuana, and wants to give states more resources to deal with the “opioid epidemic” and says that “We have to move away from treating the use of drugs as a crime and instead, move it to where it belongs, as a health issue,” (“Hillary Clinton on Drugs”).

Clinton has always supported improving and increasing funding for public schools. She’s strongly supported by the National Education Association. On free college, at the NH Democratic debate in February she said “I believe in affordable college, but I don 't believe in free college, because every expert that I have talked to says how will you control the costs. I want to make sure middle class kids, not Donald Trump 's kids can afford college.”

On women’s and family issues, she’s pro-choice, supports equal pay, and says she’ll “fight for paid family leave and affordable child care,” (“Women’s Rights and Opportunity”).

It’s safe to say that Hillary Clinton is extremely experienced in dealing with foreign policy issues. Currently, she says the US needs to lead the world because “if the United States does not lead, there is not another leader,” and “we’ve got to do more to support our partners in NATO,” (“Hillary Clinton on Foreign Policy”). She supports letting Puerto Rico restructure its debt, saying “they deserve to be treated as citizens,” (“Hillary Clinton on Latin