Sean Penn is as qualified to write opinion pieces about foreign policy in Iran as Hillary Clinton is to run for president.

Clinton has nothing to offer America besides an unwarranted air of self-importance and memories of when her husband was president. Stories from White House staffers as well as members of Congress and former business partners show that Clinton’s reputation as vindictive and unapproachable is not unfairly earned. Even among Democrats, Clinton is a polarizing figure.

Clinton’s candidacy offers no significant value to women’s rights. There, I said it. It would be more beneficial to the progress of women in America if the woman who is running for president was able to do so because of her own abilities and accomplishments, not her husband’s. Clinton met Bill at Yale while studying law and despite his numerous extramarital affairs she remained by his side. With her knowledge of the law she could have represented herself in a divorce and picked him apart. So why didn’t she? Clinton says that she supports women to make their own choices when dealing with unfaithful husbands. But the truth is that there was power in it for her as long as she held on to that last name. What kind of woman would have subjected herself, or her child for that matter, to such public degradation and embarrassment? She rambles and grandstands incessantly about the importance of nurturing the next generation but leaves her own flesh and blood in the middle of a media battlefield while she is off writing deeply flawed legislation for the well being of children. Apparently the “village” Clinton lives in is comprised of all the hired help that has raised her child.

Clinton is not the right candidate because she is dangerously idealistic. Clinton is trying to force socialized medicine down America’s throat through the “American Health Choices Plan”. The plan is built around the belief that every American has to have health care and certain middle class families would earn tax breaks. Obviously, people should have access to affordable health care but Clinton’s plan is a money pit. The idea would be fine if people only went to the doctor and visited hospitals when they absolutely needed to, but America is a land of hypochondriacs, pill poppers and doctor shoppers. Long lines crammed with people sniveling about non-illnesses like impotence and chronic fatigue syndrome already plague doctor’s offices nationwide. The children and elderly Clinton wants to help will have to wait even longer to receive care because every homeless meth addict and heroin junkie will be working the doctor over for a Norco prescription.

According to her personal website, when she was the first lady, she advocated the Prescription for Reading program. The idea was that parents would receive a prescription from their pediatrician that advised them to read to their children. So while a kid with a puss-soaked eardrum agonized in the exam room across the hall, parents were being given poorly written and painfully obvious advice on how to raise their children.

Clinton is so infatuated with family-oriented policies and being viewed as a maternal figure that I have reasonable suspicions that she is not far off from proposing a program that tucks us in bed at night and leaves the bedroom door open just a crack.

Clinton cannot prevent her husband from embarrassing her to this day, how can she efficiently run the country? Just last week, Bill nodded off while listening to an address before a predominately black audience on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Bill’s powernap is still not nearly as shameful and embarrassing to white people as Hillary’s distasteful rendition of a hymn that came several years ago. There are countless rationalizations for what she was probably thinking, but to me she is the female Al Jolson.

America is ready for a woman to be president, and so am I, but not this woman. Clinton is too divisive to be taken seriously at home, much less abroad. People may think that electing Clinton would be a boon for women’s rights but her election would most likely ensure that no other woman would be able to become president for several decades afterwards.

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