This is just creepy. She brings up Marian Wright Edelman all of the time, like they were best buds.

[jillan]

This was posted on twitter. My gosh. Does she really think she can say anything & not understand that people fact check her?

In a July 2007 interview with Amy Goodman, Marian Wright Edelman had this to say about the "welfare reform bill" and Hillary Clinton:

AMY GOODMAN: Marian Wright Edelman, we just heard Hillary Rodham Clinton. She used to be the head of the board of the Children’s Defense Fund, of the organization that you founded. But you were extremely critical of the Clintons. I mean, when President Clinton signed off on the, well, so-called welfare reform bill, you said, “His signature on this pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to hurt children.” So what are your hopes right now for these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about Hillary Rodham Clinton?

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton is an old friend, but they are not friends in politics. We have to build a constituency, and you don’t—and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were for welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we need health care, we need transportation, we need to invest preventively in all of our children to prevent them ever having to be on welfare.

And yet, you know, many years after that, when many people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success, you know, we’ve got growing child poverty, we have more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over the last six years than we had earlier in the year. When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare reform is what happens to the poor when the economy is not booming. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap between rich and poor widening. We have what I consider one of—a growing national catastrophe of what we call the cradle-to-prison pipeline. A black boy today has a one-in-three chance of going to prison in his lifetime, a black girl a one-in-seventeen chance. A Latino boy who’s born in 2001 has a one-in-six chance of going to prison. We are seeing more and more children go into our child welfare systems, go dropping out of school, going into juvenile justice detention facilities. Many children are sitting up—15,000, according to a recent congressional GAO study—are sitting up in juvenile institutions solely because their parents could not get mental health and health care in their community. This is an abomination.

http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/how-hillary-clinton-betrayed-the-childrens-defense-fund-for-political-gain

MWE sounds more like Bernie than Hillary.

[malokvale77]

1. MWE needs to make up her mind

My emails to her go unanswered.

I will not support any organization that thinks HRC would be a good president.

[jillan]

2. Has she publicly supported Hillary? I honestly don't know. It's just weird that she was

against Bill's Welfare Reform, says that they are old friends but not political friends - yet Hillary beams when she talks about her relationship with MWE.

I find this very strange.

[greymouse]

3. Hillary thinks it will be to Hillary's benefit to claim MWE approves of her.

You'd have to go pretty far to find a politician who's been worse for children and women, while acting like she's God's gift to them.

[Baobab]

4. Good jobs, require better skills which we need to give people and create a favorable economic enviro

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nment for- Or- it would be better to just make all the essentials of life that it was even remotely possible to do, free or close to it, and change our trade committments (other countries too) to make that possible, because right now GATS - the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services- makes it impossible - GATS renders countries unable to do that. HOW? you probably ask.

Example: Good paper on how GATS conflicts with health care.

Even welfare might be framed to the WTO as conflicting with payday high interest lenders and then challenged successfully by a foreign lender as stealing their potential customers, and they would win. that's the monster we've created with our bad trade deals now.

That is the REAL legacy of the 1990s.