LETTER: Clinton has the right experience

I am an independent voter and I am voting for Hillary Clinton for president. Why?

Experience. With the challenges we are facing we need a president who has experience in all aspects of government, domestic and international. She served with distinction as senator and secretary of state from 2000 to 2013. She has championed laudable social causes supporting children, women, and families. She is smart, open to input from others, and skilled in gaining consensus.

Her positions: Her positions are comprehensive, pragmatic, based on evidence, and seek to benefit Americans of all social, economic, and ethnic backgrounds. Check out her website.

Transparency: She has made her most recent federal tax returns public. Her life has been an open book for years.

Resiliency: She has been under attack by the right forever it seems and admit it — the attacks were due to her likelyhood to be a presidential candidate. Yet she has remained attentive to her obligations, effective at her job, and committed to America.

E-mails: She admits she erred in using a home server for work and personal e-mails. Perhaps it was concern over the security of government systems (at least five hacks of government systems 2006 to 2010). To my knowledge her private server was never hacked. Alleged mishandling of classified documents is another issue. Of 30,000 e-mail strings examined by the FBI, three were found to contain a partially labeled paragraph with a small “c” as classified that Hillary did not recognize. The required full labels at the top and bottom of the page were missing. The Republican director of the FBI ruled that it did not rise to the level of a crime.

In conclusion, I am voting for experience, knowledge, wisdom, consensus building, evidence-based decision making and rational thinking. My descendants deserve no less. —Charles W. Davis II, Columbia Falls