Editing Hillary Clinton (section)

== History of flip-flopping ==

'''Providing Driver's Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants:'''
During her 2008 Presidential campaign, Clinton came out against providing undocumented immigrants with driver's liceneses. "As president, I will not support driver’s licenses for undocumented people and will press for comprehensive immigration reform that deals with all of the issues around illegal immigration, including border security and fixing our broken system.”[[http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/clinton-now-against-licenses-for-illegal-immigrants/?_r=1]]

However, in the 2016 Presidential campaign, Clinton has flipped her views on the issue. Her campaign released a statement saying "Hillary supports state policies to provide drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants. This is consistent with her support for the president's executive action." [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/04/16/this-time-hillary-clinton-supports-giving-drivers-licenses-to-undocumented-immigrants/]]

'''Same-Sex Marriage:'''
Clinton has also changed her position on Same-Sex Marriage. As recently as 2014, she stated the issue should be left to the individual states themselves to decide. "Marriage had always been a matter left to the states. And in many of the conversations that I and my colleagues and supporters had, I fully endorse the efforts by activists who work state-by-state." [[http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-gay-marriage-and-immigration-flip-flops-2015-4]]

However, as the Supreme Court considered whether some state's bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional, Clinton voiced support for the court deciding the issue rather than states. A Clinton aide said "Hillary Clinton supports marriage equality and hopes the Supreme Court will come down on the side of same-sex couples being guaranteed that constitutional right." [[http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-gay-marriage-and-immigration-flip-flops-2015-4]]

Clinton was initially opposed to same-sex marriage, stating in 2000 that "Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman." [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/03/18/how-hillary-clinton-evolved-on-gay-marriage/]]

'''Crime:'''  	
Clinton has switched her views on the issue of crime and incarceration as well. During Bill Clinton's presidency she supported his tough on crime policies and a 1994 law "that among other things, has increased untold numbers of prison sentences (by encouraging states to drastically reduce or eliminate parole and early release." [[http://www.vox.com/2015/4/30/8522259/hillary-record-criminal-justice]] Said Hillary Clinton in 1994, "We need more and tougher prison sentences for repeat offenders," she said in 1994. "We need more prisons to keep violent offenders for as long as it takes to keep them off the streets."[[http://www.vox.com/2015/4/30/8522259/hillary-record-criminal-justice]]
	
In her 2016 Presidential campaign, Clinton has taken a much different tone on crime and incarceration, saying "We have allowed our criminal justice system to get out of balance, and these recent tragedies should galvanize us to come together as a nation to find our balance again," and calling for an end to "the era of mass incarceration." [[http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-baltimore-riots-to-end-the-era-of-mass-incarceration/]]

'''Iraq War:'''
See Iraq war section of page. 
	
'''Ethanol:'''
Clinton has changed her position on Ethanol at convenient political moments. The Daily Beast writes "[I]n 2002, Clinton opposed the mandated use of just two billion gallons of ethanol per year. But a mere five years later, after seeing that she had to go through Iowa — which produces more ethanol than any other state — to return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, she was advocating the use of 18 times that quantity of biofuel. [[http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/04/16/hillary-embraces-disastrous-biofuel-policy/]] 
	
A 2002 letter written with fellow Democrats states about the ethanol mandate states the measure would add "an astonishing new anti-consumer government mandate — that every US refiner must use an ever-increasing volume of ethanol.” [[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/14/hillary-s-big-iowa-flip-flop.html]] The Daily Beast writes that in all during her time in the Senate, Clinton voted against ethanol 17 times. [[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/14/hillary-s-big-iowa-flip-flop.html]]
	
But in early 2007, seeking the Democratic nomination for President and a win in the Iowa caucus, Clinton changed her rhetoric on ethanol, a product important to many voters in Iowa. Clinton said the U.S needs to work on "limiting our dependence on foreign oil. And we have a perfect example right here in Iowa about how it can work with all of the ethanol that’s being produced here.”[[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/14/hillary-s-big-iowa-flip-flop.html]]
		
'''Trade:'''
	
Clinton has flip-flopped on the issue of free trade, specifically in regard to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, or TPP. in 2012, as Secretary of State, Clinton said "We need to keep upping our game both bilaterally and with partners across the region through agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP. ... This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field. And when negotiated, this agreement will cover 40 percent of the world's total trade and build in strong protections for workers and the environment."[[http://www.ibtimes.com/hillary-clinton-trade-deal-flip-flop-she-praised-trans-pacific-partnership-now-hedges-1887195]]
		
However, in 2015, as opposition from the more liberal faction of the Democratic party grew and activists and labor advocated railed against the TPP, Clinton flipped her view on the free trade deal. When pressed for an answer about whether she would vote for the trade package giving President Obama fast track authority to negotiate the trade deal, widely seen as the path for the deal to be finalized, Clinton said "At this point, probably not."[[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/19/clinton-breaks-with-obama-on-trade-despite-supporting-deal-as-secretary-state/]]
	
Clinton has also flip-flopped on the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, which was championed by Bill Clinton. In 1996 she said of the agreement "I think everybody is in favor of free and fair trade. I think NAFTA is proving its worth." [[http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/feb/25/barack-obama/clinton-has-changed-on-nafta/]] Clinton also wrote in a 2003 memoir of NAFTA "Creating a free trade zone in North America — the largest free trade zone in the world — would expand U.S. exports, create jobs and ensure that our economy was reaping the benefits, not the burdens, of globalization. Although unpopular with labor unions, expanding trade opportunities was an important administration goal." [[http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/feb/25/barack-obama/clinton-has-changed-on-nafta/]]
		
However, during a 2007 debate Clinton changed her tune, saying "NAFTA was a mistake to the extent that it did not deliver on what we had hoped it would, and that's why I call for a trade timeout."[[http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/feb/25/barack-obama/clinton-has-changed-on-nafta/]]