Reply #38: Again, policies should matter when it comes to "progressive cred"

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Not who likes or supports the candidate...or at least who supports them should be a secondary consideration.

Labor unions supported Bill, and yet he gave us shitty trade policy and destructive deregulation programs. Like I said before, all kinds of reasons to like or support a candidate and not all of them are good.

Mr. Clinton is not getting "progressive cred" b/c of his trade and economic policies (NAFTA and deregulation) and his aggressive foreign policy (Plan Colombia, Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, the Balkans, etc.)

Ms. Clinton is not getting it b/c of her association w/ Bill, as well as her IWR vote, saber-rattling foreign policy pronouncements regarding Iran and Syria, knee-jerk support for Israeli aggression, and little indication she will depart much from the neoliberal trade and economic policies of her husband.

"But Black folks like them" isn't a sufficient reason to zero out their authoritarian, pro-corporate and pro-imperial policies.