{"id":67132,"date":"2016-04-11T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67132"},"modified":"2016-04-11T19:39:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T23:39:01","slug":"to-the-editor-hillarys-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67132","title":{"rendered":"To the Editor: Hillary\u2019s Honesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=58690\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58690\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg\" alt=\"letters to the editor\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To the Editor:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Claims that Hillary Rodham Clinton is not honest and cannot be trusted are baffling. In\u00a0speeches, debates, interviews, and testimony before legislative committees, she has offered\u00a0careful, knowledgeable responses. She seems honest and good-humored as she campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>None of the extensive investigations of Hillary have proven wrongdoing. To me, she is more\u00a0than \u201clikeable\u201d; she is inspiring.\u00a0Secretary Clinton has said that she will not promise <!--more-->what she knows cannot be delivered. Isn\u2019t\u00a0that more honest than her opponent\u2019s promises of \u201cfree college\u201d and \u201cuniversal health care\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>No president can enact such programs alone. Negotiation with those elected in gerrymandered\u00a0Congressional districts will be required just to maintain and improve the Affordable Care Act.\u00a0Tuition-free public higher education would require unlikely taxpayer-supported funding from\u00a0the states and cities as well as the federal government. Hillary\u2019s pragmatic honesty has led her\u00a0to plans for reducing college debt and improving the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders about Sanders\u2019 complete honesty when he repeatedly criticizes Clinton for accepting campaign contributions from \u201csuperpacs\u201d and large donors. He has said that he\u00a0chose to run as a Democrat because he needed publicity and knew that in the general ,election\u00a0he would need the money the Democratic Party can raise. Apparently, until real reform of\u00a0campaign finance law happens, purists cannot completely buck the system.<\/p>\n<p>The main job of political parties is to find and support the leaders our government needs. In New York\u2019s closed primary, Democrats can say to the whole country that our former senator\u00a0offers experienced pragmatic leadership in both domestic and international affairs and should\u00a0be nominated by the party.<\/p>\n<p>Wanda Warren Berry, Hamilton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: Claims that Hillary Rodham Clinton is not honest and cannot be trusted are baffling. In\u00a0speeches, debates, interviews, and testimony before legislative committees, she has offered\u00a0careful, knowledgeable responses. She seems honest and good-humored as she campaigns. None of the extensive investigations of Hillary have proven wrongdoing. To me, she is more\u00a0than \u201clikeable\u201d; she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23678,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-local","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}