I Wouldn’t Want Jill Stein as My Physician Let Alone My President

Aaron Goldstein

I made a point of watching the Green Party Town Hall on CNN featuring Jill Stein and her running mate Ajamu Baraka on Wednesday night.   As a resident of Massachusetts, I am familiar with Stein. She’s run for Governor twice, run for Congress and serve a stint on the town council in Lexington. I met her once when she ran for Governor in 2002 and found her quite kooky.

Nearly 14 years later, not much has changed. If anything, she’s become kookier with age. In fact, Stein makes Bernie Sanders look like Ted Cruz. Stein calls for a 50% cut in defense spending, closure of all U.S. military bases, a Truth & Reconciliation Commission on police violence and wants the Federal Reserve to nullify student debt.

 

If that wasn’t enough, Stein doesn’t think we should bomb ISIS because ISIS hasn’t attacked us. I gather she’s unfamiliar with San Bernardino and Orlando. Stein believes ISIS exists as a result of poverty. Yes, because ISIS is wanting for jobs and health care, they behead journalists, burns Jordanian pilots alive and subjects Yazidis and American relief workers to sexual slavery. .....To Read More.....