Hillary Clinton
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SHE IS AUTHENTIC
....When a person has been running a campaign for elected office since high school, I accept the fact that this is who she is: A consummate politician rooted in strategy, thoughtful word choices and crafted optics. And I consider such traits as assets for a president inheriting a Congress that is dangerously divisive. She knows defeat, but is not afraid to get back on the field to run the ball. As a United States senator and a cabinet secretary, she has learned to compromise and work with her rivals. With Hillary, we know what we are getting authentic experience.
SHE'LL REALLY FIGHT FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS
Growing up middle class, I was able to witness the value and rewards of my parents' hard work, while simultaneously being sensitive to the notion that others weren't as fortunate by circumstance....In voting for a president, I don't care if the candidate is of economic means. What I care about is if he or she has the moral compass to understand that classism exists, the desire to help others advance from their current station in life, and the sense to support the industries that keep America working....
SHE UNDERSTANDS FOREIGN POLICY
....Hillary traveled to 112 countries, making her the most widely traveled secretary of state in history. She attended 306 diplomatic meetings and spent the equivalent of 87 full days on airplanes. By these stats alone, she is ahead of any of her Democratic or Republican challengers on familiarity with world leaders, their allies and agendas....
SHE HAS THE QUALIFICATIONS
There is no college degree or career that can possibly prepare one for the responsibility of becoming the most powerful person in the world. Therefore you have to have the audacity and will to believe you can make a difference. It became clear to me that Hillary had this mix when she recalled, in "Living History," the story of how, as an eighth-grade supporter of Richard Nixon's presidential campaign against John F. Kennedy, she showed up at a downtown hotel in her hometown of Chicago (unbeknownst to her parents), "went off with strangers" in a car to check voter lists against addresses to uncover (alleged) voter fraud in Chicago.
Today, she's just as bold....
http://cnb.cx/1Mp1o81 via CNBC
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)enid602
(8,620 posts)5. She's tough.
DeepModem Mom
(38,402 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)sheshe2
(83,790 posts)Hillary 2016
DeepModem Mom
(38,402 posts)sheshe2
(83,790 posts)Thanks, DMM!
riversedge
(70,242 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)To jump in the gutter, class all the way.
calimary
(81,313 posts)In high school, when I was only starting to wake up to the mere notion that there was more to life out there than just this insular stuff I was doing. So I was a "USA! USA!" kinda gal. I think I did it because everybody else did and it seemed the proper thing to do - "America, love it or leave it." Mindless, really. I mean, when you're 14 and 15, it seemed to me, a rah-rah-rah-America kind of person was really the only thing to be. You didn't question, and it didn't even occur to you that anything could EVER be wrong. Your country was perfect! In the mid-60s, it was possible still to be wistfully remembering the Kennedy years, before we shifted through LBJ who started with the nation's sympathy after JFK's assassination, but then with Vietnam blowing up, and student unrest and women's marches and the draft and civil rights issues particularly acute in the Black community - all forcing people into the streets with marches and protests. Then came Nixon and Watergate and this widely-documented national disillusionment that set in. And meanwhile, whatever fleeting thoughts I gave to anything like politics went only so far as student elections for Pep Club officers early in high school. I soon moved a little more toward the left, later in high school, and found myself working on two unsuccessful campaigns: the Student Coalition for Humphrey-Muskie and the first Tom Bradley campaign for L.A. Mayor (he won on his second attempt). As I moved on to college I continued leaning leftward.
And sometimes it's where you're from, and who your parents talked about, at the dinner table. My dad was conservative and MAN did he love ronald reagan. My mother mainly just talked back to the television all the time - kept up a running commentary throughout whatever the news was. We watched the NBC Nightly News every evening while eating dinner. I liked that ritual. Found it increasingly interesting and compelling. And as time went on, it started to dawn on me that stuff my father approved of - I didn't agree with. Like ronald reagan.
LONG-WINDED way of saying that one shouldn't necessarily jump to suspicion, mistrust, or condemnation when saying Hillary was once a Goldwater girl or worked on something related to the Nixon campaign against Kennedy. All that means is that she's capable of evolving. All that means is that she won't stay static, as her experience through life has shaped, reshaped, and leavened her thinking. All that means is that she will be flexible, not rigid. All that means is that she won't be one of those who decided they knew what was good years ago and By Crackey if it was good then, it's good now. Cuz things change. Things CHANGE. And you either respond to it and evolve with it yourself, or die (or get left behind and become irrelevant). I think time must have moving parts. Because it can't stand still.
DeepModem Mom
(38,402 posts)this bit of your life's journey with us, calimary! You're a wise woman. And it's interesting to me that Hillary's Dad, your Dad, and my Dad -- three conservative Dads -- raised three liberal daughters!
Kath1
(4,309 posts)Very liberal from EXTREME conservative family.
DeepModem Mom
(38,402 posts)Kath1
(4,309 posts)She will make an excellent President.
TrumanTown
(15 posts)katmille
(213 posts)And I'm probably old enough to be the mother of any of you (or grandmother). Raised by conservative dad, progressive mom, I got my liberal leanings from my grandfather Poppy, my mother's dad. He was an FDR man all the way. My late mother and I celebrated Claire McCaskill's election a few months before my mom died. She didn't get to see Barack Obama elected president but she would have been thrilled! And she would be so pleased if Hillary becomes our first woman president. I think Hillary just needs to keep up the message of fighting for American families, especially the children.
calimary
(81,313 posts)some such. I found myself thinking back to the eddies and currents in the historical flow that I was alive to see - everything from the British Invasion in the first half of the 60s with the Beatles (at one point, I found myself so sad that JFK didn't live to see the Beatles tear up the "Ed Sullivan Show" two months after the assassination) - all the way to Crosby Stills Nash & Young singing about the Kent State shootings, and Watergate, and Ford pardoning Nixon and all that - that I saw even with my eyes barely even half-open.
I think it's just one of those things that comes when you accumulate enough years to start noticing a longer rear view. It's a package deal - part of what you get as you age, along with deeper crows' feet, crepey necks, "arthritis-and-rheumatism" (as the aspirin commercials years ago used to refer to - see? I'm old enough to remember THOSE, too! Ipana toothpaste anyone?), vanishing hairlines, failing teeth, and crappy knees. I'm finally the "blonde" I always wished I was (for all the bigger fun we were always told they have) - except it's total WHITE hair now.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)Change is a good thing. Hillary has experience, intelligence and tenacity. And she kicks Republican ass.
ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)PBass
(1,537 posts)Perception is power. Hillary already has a level of "gravitas" on the world stage that some dopes (like Scott Walker) will never achieve.
#6 - Hillary will fight on issues of gender equality with a level of conviction that nobody else will match.
#7 - Hillary understands the political opposition. She invented the phrase (still accurate today) "the vast right wing conspiracy". I believe she can reach across the aisle in a a sensible way to accomplish goals, and if she needs to triangulate she will do it to her side's advantage. She will not make some of the mistakes President Obama made, in a search for bipartisanship. I believe she can be more effective than Bernie Sanders, because of her national experience.
Gender equality and choice. She is excellent on those issues.
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)sheshe2
(83,790 posts)Cha
(297,304 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Another reason mentioned why I support Hillary - I - her son, her spouse, her brother, her father:
DeepModem Mom
(38,402 posts)William769
(55,147 posts)katmille
(213 posts)I'm kind of a newbie and I just learned what K and R was a few days ago.