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And the endorsements keep coming.



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Sun-Times Endorsement: Hillary Clinton a skilled public servant
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to workers at the Detroit Manufacturing Systems facility on Friday. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to workers at the Detroit Manufacturing Systems facility on Friday. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)



Hillary Clinton has been a public servant all her adult life.

She has been steeled by the fire of over-hyped scandals, learned the hard way the wisdom of building bridges, and developed a pragmatic, feet-on-the-ground approach to getting things done.

That might not sound like high praise to the most liberal wing of Clinton’s Democratic Party, which has rallied behind the pie-in-the-sky agenda of Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s opponent in the party’s presidential primary race. Nor might this assessment of Clinton jibe with the views of right-wing zealots who will forever mumble on about Whitewater, Travelgate and Benghazi.

There’s no pleasing some folks.


But in Hillary Clinton we see the possibility of not only the first woman American president, but also the first president in awhile who might have the professional and personal skills to get Washington back to real governing. Our endorsement goes to Clinton. It’s an easy call......................


Sanders would make college free for all, whatever the price and the impossibility of getting cooperation from Congress. Good luck with that. Clinton would create incentives for states to offer students free tuition at two-year community colleges and make it possible to refinance student loans at lower interest rates.

Sanders has called for universal health care, apparently not noticing how eagerly Republicans are to kill what we’ve already got, the Affordable Care Act. Clinton knows the realistic goal should be to protect and improve Obamacare.......................






Political Cartoon:

[Gamecock Lefty]

1. Common Sense, Leadership vs the Gimme Free Stuff Campaign!

[Hortensis]

2. Every quality editorial board in the nation is

endorsing Hillary. Those that issue endorsements. Thanks yet again for the not-at-all-surprising but good news, Riversedge.

[riversedge]

4. You are welcome.

[Jefferson23]

3. Skilled at taking WS money and hawking for war..yes. n/t

[grossproffit]

5. Great illustration.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. She certainly has gotten the corporatists and war-mongers everything they've wanted!

And by golly the newspaper of America's biggest political machine would the ones to know that.

[xloadiex]

7. Not a Surprise

considering they also backed our business loving, union busting, Republican governor, Bruce Rauner. Rauner was also shareholder in the Suntimes parent company Wrapports LLC. I would expect no less from that rag.