Hillary Dismisses American Families

Last night’s presidential debate showed just how little Hillary Clinton really cares for average American families. Again and again, the Democratic candidate put forward ideas and proposals that go directly against the values of hardworking middle-class moms and dads.

Pandering was at the top of the agenda for Clinton in St. Louis. She said in the opening minutes of the town hall debate, “We [Americans] are going to respect one another, lift each other up. We are going to be looking for ways to celebrate our diversity, and we are going to try to reach out to every boy and girl, as well as every adult, to bring them in to working on behalf of our country.”

Remember “deplorables”? How will this candidate promote diversity when she can’t tolerate those with differing viewpoints?

Clinton actually has shown little respect for average folks who don’t share her vision of America.

Remember “deplorables”? How will this candidate promote diversity when she can’t tolerate those with differing viewpoints — even calling them “irredeemable”?

The treatment of women was a hot-button topic Sunday night after the leaking of 11-year-old “Access Hollywood” tape in which Trump made lewd comments about women.

The Republican was ready to point out the obvious hypocrisy in being called out by Clinton — speaking forthrightly about former President Bill Clinton’s sordid sexual past.

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Clinton’s opening salvo was, “What we all saw and heard on Friday was Donald talking about women, what he thinks about women, what he does to women. And he has said that the video doesn’t represent who he is.”

Trump volleyed back hard, articulating what sensible people already know. “Hillary Clinton attacked those same women and attacked them viciously — four of them here tonight. One of the women, who is a wonderful woman, at 12 years old, was raped at 12. Her client she represented got him off, and she’s seen laughing on two separate occasions — laughing at the girl who was raped.”

“If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse,” Trump continued. “Mine [the verbal offenses] are words, and his was action. His was what he’s done to women. There’s never been anybody in the history of politics in this nation that’s been so abusive to women.”

In discussing education, Clinton dismissed out-of-hand the uproar over education in America — by not even acknowledging the many issues with American education that parents struggle with every day.

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Common Core has been a dismal failure, and college graduates are drowning in debt. As early as 2014, a poll conducted by the Times Union of Albany and Siena College Upstate Education revealed that a staggering 82 percent of New York residents — the state Clinton served as senator — want to abandon the Common Core Standards Initiative.

Clinton has had years to improve education for American kids, but instead has offered yet another brand-new vision, hoping it sticks. “I’ve set forth some big goals … making sure that we have the best education system from preschool through college and making it affordable, and so much else.”

Unemployment of Americans is one of the biggest issues facing families — only 62.7 percent of American adults are now working, according to Money.com.

Clinton spouted the same old lines about getting America working again during Sunday’s debate — but Trump knew better.

“It’s just words, folks,” he said dismissively. “Those words, I’ve been hearing them for many years. I heard them when … Hillary was going to bring back jobs to Upstate New York and she failed.”

Clinton, an enthusiastic backer of Obamacare, tried to tout the benefits of the disastrous health care model — one that has ravaged the pockets of American families. “The 170 million of us who get health insurance through our employers got big benefits,” she said.

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She was promptly hit with a dose of reality by Trump. “Health insurance and health care is going up by numbers that are astronomical — 68 percent, 59 percent, 71 percent,” the Republican candidate pointed out.

Parents care about honesty in their leaders, and Clinton has shrouded her work emails in secrecy — and in some cases, perhaps even bleach.

“There’s never been anybody in the history politics in this nation that’s been so abusive to women as Bill Clinton.”

“Obviously, as secretary of state, I had some of the most important secrets that we possess, such as going after [Osama] bin Laden. So I am very committed to taking classified information seriously,” she told the debate crowd.

Trump hit back, saying, “But for you to say that there was nothing wrong with you deleting 39,000 emails — again, you should be ashamed of yourself. What you did, now — this was after getting a subpoena from the United States Congress.”

Families know better than to believe that a secretary of state didn’t understand the rules. And Americans everywhere are worried about a future punctuated by deadly terrorist events, should Clinton become president.

“National security — we could be very politically correct, but whether we like it or not, there is a problem,” stressed Trump. “And we have to be sure that Muslims come in and report when they see something going on.”

“It’s also important I intend to defeat ISIS, to do so in a coalition with majority Muslim nations,” the Republican candidate noted.

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Clinton offered mostly platitudes to defend her weakness on terrorism. She also claimed that Trump took advantage of the tax code.

“Well, why didn’t she change it? Why didn’t you change it when you were a senator?” Trump parried back. “The reason you didn’t is that all your friends take the same advantage that I do.”

On abortion, Clinton is hard-left, supporting even late-term abortion. “I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality,” she emphasized.

Yet, as a January Marist poll pointed out, 81 percent of Americans — including 82 percent of women and 66 percent of those who support abortion — say abortion should be banned after the first trimester of pregnancy. How is this an expression of the will of the people? And it certainly isn’t child-friendly — for obvious reasons.

Perhaps Trump summed it up best with a powerful comment to Clinton Sunday night. “People have been — their lives have been destroyed for doing one-fifth of what you’ve done. And it’s a disgrace. And honestly, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.”

He’s one of the few to have pointed at her and said those words to her face.