How many people are hell bent for Hillary only because she's a woman?
To start - I have no question about her ABILITY to be president.
I think she'd be a competent one.
This is about people only looking at her gender and voting with their... hearts, yes hearts.
As opposed to actually, seriously looking at her personal beliefs and policies she's supported over the years.
As far as the first female president, I would have preferred Elizabeth Warren.
There's a legislature in California who would be an AMAZING president. She is wicked smart and VERY progressive.
I forget her name, but there's a black congress woman who is on Stephanie miller's program I would prefer over Hillary.
My issue is with Hillary's politics, and who she is in bed with.
But I wonder how many people are just looking for the first female president.
I have a great deal of respect for MRS Clinton. The bullshit she and Bill have been put through is epic and they still manage to hold their dignity. That's not a bad trait in a president. I can understand how that could make fanatical followers
But is She really the best person for the job?
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She's the most qualified candidate evah.
There are a lot of people who say things like that but have never come up against being slandered by clever uses of words. Women have been forever. Many others of minority have been. I don't usually get into that unless I know someone well enough to know that is what they are doing. You kindly pointed it out and that was terrific.
It is good to see you and you are always good to point things out. I am tired of yelling but not tired of yellen. Oh my, I was just doing laundry and watching Broadway silly stuff and that just came out and I am leaving it with a 
because I feel silly today.
And I am a woman and a feminist.
I discovered today that Hillary's progressive stance on womens rights started right after she got support from planned parenthood in this election.
Let me go find the link.
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/01/
"Which is what makes it so notable that Hillary Clinton — who, despite a strong record of supporting reproductive rights, has not always spoken about them with righteous vigor (her 2005 discussion of abortion as a “sad, tragic choice for many” enraged many activists) — has decided to publicly do battle against Hyde. Even more important, she is explaining her stance in terms that offer a crucial and long-awaited corrective to the course of the abortion debate in America.
In the days after being formally endorsed by both Planned Parenthood and NARAL last week, Clinton brought up Hyde at a rally, describing it as a law that “ it harder for low-income women to exercise their full rights.” A few days later, when asked by Alicia Menendez at the Iowa Brown & Black Presidential Forum whether she would support a congressional effort to repeal Hyde, she answered “yes” unequivocally and described reproductive rights as “a fundamental human right.”
She started fighting this Hyde law decades after it passed - just now... since she's been campaigning for women's votes.
"But as too few people seemed to have noticed, Hillary Clinton has spent the past ten days campaigning vocally and without apology against the Hyde Amendment. Hyde, a legislative rider first passed in 1976 and added to appropriations bills every year since, prohibits the use of federal funds to pay for abortion, which means that the low-income women, many of them women of color, who rely on Medicaid for health insurance cannot use their insurance to terminate their pregnancies except in cases of rape, incest, or their life being in danger.
It is a discriminatory law that perpetuates both economic and racial inequality. And the notion of repealing it has remained a third rail in American politics until about five minutes ago … or, more precisely, until this summer, when California representative Barbara Lee introduced the EACH Woman Act, which would effectively repeal Hyde. So far, the bill has 109 co-sponsors but a vanishingly small chance of going anywhere"
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how nice of her to finally decided to lead in womens reproductive health. However, during campaign season, I believe nothing from someone who just found liberal democratic values in November 2015. And, I mean her saying she stands for everything Bernie does - only Bernie has consistent support for that agenda, and Hillary goes the opposite direction when you google her history on the liberal causes.
My favorite - being backed by the biggest banksters and hedge funds on wall street in her super pack and telling her supporters at rallies that she's going to reign in wall street. Her supporter... cheered 
instead of Chanting JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and so many more of her superpac. As, it stands, I don't know who the heck these people are who cheered her in the face of such clear dishonesty. You don't take money from the people you say you are going to stop to the point that said people are funding your whole campaign.
