Electing Hillary Clinton as President will help advance women's rights

[BainsBane]

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"With her memoir predicted to be a best seller next year, Hillary Clinton took the stage at the Women in the World summit at New York’s Lincoln Center on Friday to continue her surge for global women’s rights. Fans lined up to see the former Secretary of State, who called women’s rights “the unfinished business of the 21st century.” In what could be viewed as a hat tip to 2016, she vowed, “I look forward to being your partner in all the days and years ahead.”

Clinton said, “I have always believed that women are not victims. We are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace. All we need is a fighting chance.”

Though she was speaking broadly about global women’s issues, she didn’t shy away from the fact that women in America are also still working to achieve equality, “We now have American women at the high levels of business, academia, government, you name it. But as we’ve seen in recent months, we’re still asking age old questions of how to make the women’s way in male dominated fields. For too many American women the opportunity, and the dream of upward mobility, the American dream, remains elusive. That’s not the way it’s supposed to be.”

“If America is going to lead the way we expect ourselves to lead, we need to empower women here at home to participate fully in our economy and our society. We need to make equal pay a reality. We need to invest in our people so they can live up to their own God-given potential.”

I'm all in on supporting Hillary Clinton for President in 2016. She did a lot as Secretary of State to highlight women's issues around the world. As President, she can shine a greater light on those issues as well as direct attention toward the importance of women's rights in the US. I say so, not just because she's a woman but because of the issues she cares so much about, which strike me all the more important now than they have ever been.

I know Elizabeth Warren has a significant following on DU. I think she would be superb Secretary of the Treasury.

[ismnotwasm]

1. I read her speech

I have to admit to some ambivalence before. She come out fighting on women's rights and I was very impressed.

Hillary Clinton Vows to Continue the Fight for Women Across the Globe

Hillary Clinton’s fight for women isn’t over. ‘This is the great unfinished business of the 21st century,’ she says.
It felt more like a rock concert than an issues powwow when Hillary Clinton appeared on stage to a standing ovation, luminous in bright pink, to take stock and address the unfinished agenda in the fight for women’s equality around the world. “We’ve come so far together, but there is still work to be done,” she said as she highlighted the accomplishments of women in far-flung places. But too many women remain marginalized at best and treated like a subhuman species at worst, she said. “This is the great unfinished business of the 21st century.”
If there is an issue Hillary Clinton owns, this is it. She has made the status of women and girls a centerpiece of her life, and as secretary of State, she elevated it to a focal point of U.S. foreign policy. “I have always believed women are not victims,” Clinton told the sold-out David H. Koch Theater at the Women in the World Summit at Lincoln Center. “We are agents of change. We are drivers of progress. We are makers of peace. All we need is a fighting chance.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/04/05/hillary-clinton-vows-to-continue-the-fight-for-women-across-the-globe.html?account=thedailybeast&medium=twitter

[BainsBane]

2. I did not support her in 08

It took me a while to decide whom to support before backing Obama in the caucuses, but I never considered Clinton because of the Iraq war and concerns about the Clinton administration I unfairly saddled her with. I have been continually impressed with her performance as Secretary of State and how she handled the cretins during the Benghazi hearing. If she decides to run, which it appears she has, I will support her in 2016.

[ismnotwasm]

3. That's about where I'm at

During the Clinton administration , I was still voting Socialist. But I paid close attention to the shenanigans of the time. The press crucified her. In 08', as in '04, I was voting Democrat. Period. A woman would have been great, and (then) Senator Clinton even greater, but I knew whoever was coming on would have a disaster to avert, if not fix. I hate that fucker Bush. BTW. So maybe this will be better, she has one hell of a lot of political experience, and has been further tempered by her time as SOS, as is far less associated with her husband.

She's been a woman I cautiously admire, but I'm coming around to full fledged support.

[BainsBane]

4. Yep, Bush turned me into a solid Democrat

No more third party voting for me. Screw ideological purity. The consequences are too dangerous.

[ismnotwasm]

5. You too?

It was like an epiphany. I was politically aware enough to be think 'oh, my GOD, you've gotta be kidding me-- that whole family reeks of corruption when he began a viable candidate. I quite fooling right then and there.

I also 'knew' we would be involved in a war of some sort (I have friends who remember me predicting one-I figured thats just how they operate)

I Never would have predicted 9/11 however.

I have a friend who traveled to New York when it was safe to do so. She got close to ground zero, but was a little lost. 'I found it by the smell' she said. Still gives me the chills.

[BainsBane]

6. I did not foresee the disaster

I am ashamed to say I voted for Nader in 2000, while living in Palm Beach county Florida. Never again.

It was witnessing the travesty of his presidency that turned me into a solid Democrat. I worked hard to see Kerry elected in 2004 and have volunteered in every presidential election since.

[msongs]

7. depends on whether there is a lib/progressive alt choice really nt

[Autumn]

8. I think we are seeing what Hillary will be doing with her life now.

She is such a wondeful compasionate person. With the attacks on womens right I think Hillary will step in and spend her time working on those issues. I adore her.

[BainsBane]

9. Carville just joined her superpac

She's running.

[Autumn]

10. That surprises me, I was sure she wouldn't run.

Was that on the news?

[BainsBane]

11. Yes, Friday I believe

They also discussed it on Meet the Press today. Everyone seemed sure she was running. Of course she hasn't said so. They are reading tea leaves.

[DURHAM D]

17. She has not made a decision.

They are just maintaining the possibility. btw I believe this is the second SuperPac for her.

[BainsBane]

18. I understand that

As I said, they are reading tea leaves.

[Doctor_J]

12. You should aim higher than that

while women's rights might be advanced, we would continue down the road toward corporatization of the entire culture. I am mortified at the euphoria in the LBGT forum over (some) advances in their rights, while the president decimates the New Deal, Voting Rights Act, Medicare, public education, and so on.

Here's a suggestion: instead of hoping to elect a neocon with ovaries, find a real progressive of some gender or another and your rights will grow along with everyone else's.

[DURHAM D]

13. Let me see if I got this right...

You want the "others" to put aside their interests for yours.

got it...

[Doctor_J]

19. Uh, that's sort of the opposite of my post,

but OK

[DURHAM D]

21. I want to make certain everyone here is aware that this sort of post

is why you have been blocked from the LGBT group from almost the beginning of DU3.

"I am mortified at the euphoria in the LBGT forum over (some) advances in their rights..."

[BainsBane]

14. Which country do you live in?

I'm in the US. Good luck with that plan for whatever non-capitalist society you live in.
She's not a neocon. Perhaps you should figure out what the terms you use mean.

[DURHAM D]

15. One of the HofF watchers

has already put up a GD OP in response to your OP.

[BainsBane]

16. that's fine

I see the great human rights struggle of our time involves legalization of cannabis.

[BainsBane]

20. Opps, wrong OP

That other one at least had a political point of view. The one you're referring to: we shouldn't elect a woman because it will create a backlash against women's rights? Give me a fucking break. Why not just say stay in the kitchen where you belong.

[seabeyond]

24. kinda like, women should not speak out against the sexism/misogyny cause it makes them look weak and

a victim.

well, there you go. our job is done. not saying a damn thing will fix it all.

[nomorenomore08]

23. You focus on what impacts you the most. But expect others (e.g. LGBT) not to do the same.

Strange...

[boston bean]

22. Hillary in Beijing, China 1995

This speech is phenomenal!