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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:26 PM
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Tell us why you support Clinton?
Without tearing down the other candidates.
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:28 PM
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1. To piss people off
:eyes:

Sorry, I'm sick of this "Justify Your Support" horse shit.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:28 PM
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2. Ditto!
Very tiresome.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:29 PM
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3. actually this is not horseshit
All the other crap is horseshit. Why not SELL YOUR CANDIDATE? Are you incapable of doing that?
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:30 PM
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6. Just the responce I expected.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:33 PM
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12. why cant you answer a basic question?
Why do you support Hillary Clinton?

I support John Edwards because

- He announced his candidacy in the 9th ward of NOLA
- He called on activism on issues, not just token support of himself
- His health insurance program includes a medicare for all option which I believe will drive Insurance Companies out of business
- He has spoken time and again against Corporations and lobbyists
- He has an outstanding Environmental plan
- I read his book Four Trials and his career as a lawyer tells me he is very much on the side of the poor and middle class.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 03:06 PM
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57. I won't answer it like this either
I don't perform on demand, and I won't allow myself to be attacked by some of the goons that'll show up in this thread. I'm sick of it. You can't discuss anything on here anymore -- or even debate.

See Post 50? ALL HRC supporters are being called racist, and ronnyk directly. He isn't a racist, and he knows what discrimination is like.

I'm a known Progressive on here -- I don't have to defend anything.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 03:56 PM
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66. I CANT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR OTHER POSTERS
SO WHY AM I GETTING GRIEF FOR THEM???

TAKE IT OUT ON THEM.

I ask a PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE QUESTION, its not my fault GDP has degraded to total cesspool of waste.

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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 06:24 PM
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75. all the more reason that your answer would be interesting
Why would any progressive support Clinton? Is she progressive enough that I could actually vote for her without puking?

However, since I am a known conservative on this board, she is probably more progressive than me - on social issues, on identity politics. It's only on economic, class issues where she and the DLC are disgustingly conservative.

Some of the split here may be between self-identified progressives over which issues are more important. Arguing or discussing rationally becomes difficult when people are passionate about their issues or candidates.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 06:52 PM
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84. Dance, girl, dance.
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:30 PM
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7. Why would anyone want to share with you -
another poster perhaps but not you.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 03:08 PM
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58. Especially with an unnecessary insult in the OP
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notundecided Donating Member (86 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:11 PM
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38. Okay
Smarts, experience, guts, pragmatic, charisma....ect.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:14 PM
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42. Actually, that's the only reason I've ever heard.
"I'm voting for Hillary because Obama supporters are so mean."

And so on.
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Nedsdag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:59 PM
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50. ANSWER THE QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!
STOP HEMMING AND HAWING!!!!!!!

Or let me put it to you in language you understand: Stop shuckin' and jivin'.
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 02:53 PM
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54. ....
Edited on Thu Jan-10-08 02:53 PM by ronnykmarshall
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 02:58 PM
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56. I can't fucking believe you just called the poster a racist
Edited on Thu Jan-10-08 02:59 PM by LostinVA
A LONGTIME KNOWN PROGRESSIVE

As well as all HRC supporters.

WTF is your problem???

Grown up, follow the rules, or leave.

See LSK? THIS is why I won't answer your OP.
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 03:23 PM
Response to Reply #56
62. Thanks!
Which is why instead of reply with a classic smart ass responce .... I added it to ignore.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:29 PM
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4. I'm sick of this justify-yourself bullshit. Clinton's record speaks for itself.
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Bread and Circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:32 PM
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11. She has a great record in many ways....
Edited on Thu Jan-10-08 12:33 PM by Bread and Circus
and an illustrious career in public service.

I've only found a few things contrary to it:

1.) She flunked the D.C. bar exam
2.) She worked at a corporate law firm for her profesional career when imo she would have done better things with her legal degree
3.) She supported George W. Bush in his march to an illegal war and continues to refuse to come clean and admit her wrongdoing (which Edwards did).

But yes, overall Clinton has probably done more good than harm.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:38 PM
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18. I don't think those attacks are quite fair.
1. Many lawyers fail bar exams on their first go for a multitude of reasons; I don't think anyone would think she is incompetent. And while she did fail DC on the first go, she passed Arkansas on the first try.

2. Clinton did work at the Children's Defense Fund, as well as in the impeachment of Richard Nixon. And while she was primarily an IP lawyer, she did lots of pro bono work in child advocacy.

3. A fair attack.
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Bread and Circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:47 PM
Response to Reply #18
27. She did flunk the bar exam, which puts her in the bottom
50% of people taking that test the first time, from what I've read.

But it's true, it happened. There's nothing unfair about mentioning it.
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:41 PM
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20. she did do "better things with her legal degree."
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Bread and Circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:46 PM
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25. I said professionally, as in how she made money, it's
a qualified statement.

And yes, the Rose law firm represents Walmart and Tyson. Clinton sat on the Walmart board, which is a very anti union corporation which has done it's fair share of help ship manufacturing jobs overseas.

It's fair to point out.
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:53 PM
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32. no you didn't. "professionally" is not in your post at all.
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Bread and Circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:21 PM
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43. yes I did...it's right there
"2.) She worked at a corporate law firm for her profesional career when imo she would have done better things with her legal degree"

Willful ignorance isn't persuasive.

Also, welcome back now that Clinton squeeked out a slim margin in NH when she was leading by a large margin all year. In all reality, she lost ground in NH. It's a pyrrhic victory but certainly got her back oof life supprt. We missed you.
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:29 PM
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46. actually, no
You said "She worked at a corporate law firm for her profesional career when imo she would have done better things with her legal degree"

I said she DID do better things with her legal degree. You then inserted a qualifier - discounting anything she did with her legal degree that did not earn her money.

FYI, here are some points on her legal career:

1969 Truehaft, Walker and Bernstein in Oakland, one of the most liberal law firms in the country. They defended the Panthers.
1970 Yale University - city legal services, provided free legal advice for the poor.
1971 Staff attorney, Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1971 Carnegie Council on Children, legal consultant.
1974 Impeachment Inquiry staff in Washington, D.C., advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal.
1974 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville School of Law - One of only two female faculty members.
1976 Worked pro bono on child advocacy.
1978 Jimmy Carter appoints Clinton to the board of the Legal Services Corporation.

Willful ignorance isn't persuasive.

And by the way, I never left. Don't know what you're referring to.

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Bread and Circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 05:40 PM
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69. as a real life professional, I can tell you that when one
refers to your professional career, they are referring to what you do to make money, and she worked for a corporate law firm.

For instance, I am a family physician, I work for myself as a solo doc. That's what I do professionally.

I also do volunteer work, but that's not my profession or what I do professionally.

This is all semantic but suffice it to say Clinton has done a lot of good things in her career, but in my opinion it's not any more impressive than Obama.

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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 07:51 PM
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88. Yeah, I'm a real life professional, too. But no one discounts the work I've done for free
she worked for a corporate law firm.

She also worked for...

... Truehaft, Walker and Bernstein in Oakland, one of the most liberal law firms in the country. They defended the Panthers.

... Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts

... Carnegie Council on Children, legal consultant.

... for money.

... Yale University - city legal services, provided free legal advice for the poor.

... child advocacy.

... for free.

Clinton's career is so much more impressive than Obama's there's no comparison.
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Bread and Circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 11:19 PM
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89. I think it's a matter of she is just older... she's just had more time
to build her CV

But yes, I 100% agree that she has done an amazing amount of social work!!!

And one more thing...

my dad can beat up your dad...

just kidding

/peace
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 05:43 AM
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90. well, sure. There's always a reason somone's resume is more impressive
:shrug:
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Bread and Circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 10:54 AM
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98. Well, Wes Clark's resume was the most impressive resume
for a Presidential candidate in well over 50years. It didn't do him much good.

It's a combination of things. Judgement being most important.

Voting to give permission to Bush to go to war was really bad judgement on Clinton's part and that is but one example of where she has let her political ambitions get in the way of doing the right thing.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:09 PM
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37. to be fair, she was on Walmarts board in the 80s
Most of the outsourcing damage Walmart did was well after that.
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Bread and Circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:24 PM
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44. Or maybe the decisions of the 80's were reaped in the 90's....
we will never know as we didn't sit on the board.

Nonetheless, I don't think working for a corporate law firm and sitting on a corporate board like that are liberal bona fides.
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Nedsdag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 02:00 PM
Response to Reply #11
51. Don't forget:
Screwing over friends like Lani Guinier and Marian Wright Edelman for political purposes.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 03:10 PM
Response to Reply #11
59. OMFG
1. OMFG
2. OMFG
3. Wrong
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:11 PM
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39. Yeah, but her record is why I'm voting against her.
So tell me why her record should be a reason to vote for her.
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Jai4WKC08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:45 PM
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48. Her record is better than the other two
She has done far more good than either.

If she has also done more harm, it's because she has done more. Lots more.

People who act sometimes make mistakes. Sometimes they are wrong. But at least they have the guts to try. And mostly, they learn.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:49 PM
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49. Why would I do that? I'd prefer you not vote for her.
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niceypoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 06:46 PM
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81. Present!
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:30 PM
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5. I don't have to. Vote how you want.
I don't need a crowd around me to prove to myself that I'm doing the right thing.
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:30 PM
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8. you have a donor star. Use DU "search" for the last 20 or so times this was asked.
Why in the world would anyone feel the need to justify supporting the presidential campaign of a US Senator and wife of the only twice elected Democratic president since FDR?
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magatte Donating Member (323 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:31 PM
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9. So her last name is her only trump card?
Talk about substance.
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:36 PM
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16. I'm noticing a correlation between new people on DU and low reading comprehension
Edited on Thu Jan-10-08 12:36 PM by wyldwolf
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Catsbrains Donating Member (352 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 06:55 AM
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91. Cound you please use smaller words..heh
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:38 PM
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17. ever hear of selling your candidate?
:shrug:
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:40 PM
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19. yep, which I have done repeatedly. But I don't do it on demand or...
..when someone thinks they've come up with a brilliantly original question that has actually been asked and answered multiple times here.
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quinnox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:32 PM
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10. lol, I love the responses
Ok, but instead of being flippant or very aggressive, I support her because she is the most brilliant and most prepared candidate in the race. And she is a sexy woman too. And she would be the first woman president, which is important.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:34 PM
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13. 10 posts until I get an answer to a simple question
Edited on Thu Jan-10-08 12:34 PM by LSK
Thank you.
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quinnox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:35 PM
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14. welcome n/t
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More Than A Feeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:35 PM
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15. I'll try to think like a Clinton supporter (I'm for Edwards)
Edited on Thu Jan-10-08 12:42 PM by Heaven and Earth
1. Being first lady as well as having one term in the senate means she has the experience and competence to get things done immediately, during the presidential honeymoon that electees have traditionally gotten.

2. Before she gets elected, she will have the experience with the Republican noise machine to fight off any new attacks, and any old attacks will be blown off by the culture as old noise, a remnant of nasty newt gingrich.

3. Resentment, both towards Republicans who undermined the prior Clinton administration from day one, and fellow Democrats who accuse her, and her supporters via personalization, of being sell-outs.

4. Rosy memories of the 90's compared to the past seven years.

5. First woman president.

None of these is compelling enough for me to support her, though.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 03:15 PM
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61. And the OP wonders why we didn't answer the question
Unbelievable. Your guy deserves WAY better than this. And, taht's why I won't give you tit for tat in a response.
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More Than A Feeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 03:45 PM
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64. Well, that's something to be happy about, i guess, but would you mind explaining
why my list offends you? I don't see anything wrong with the reasons I listed. They are perfectly legitimate reasons to support a candidate. I wasn't trying to insult you.
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suston96 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:41 PM
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21. Because she is a woman......
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 06:50 PM
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83. How is that any different than voting against her because she's a woman?
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moriah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:42 PM
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22. Why I support Hillary:
1) I think her ideas are good ones.
2) I think her Senate service has been a real eye-opener to her in how to get those ideas implemented.
3) I think she is strong enough to fight off the RW extremists.
4) Her life has been under a microscope for 15 years and I think all the damaging things have already been dug out and aired, they'll be old news in November -- RW attacks are going to be less meaningful that way.
5) Her "on the job training" by being First Lady does give her insight into what being a President really is, and she wouldn't be the first wife of a politician to take over the job and carry it off -- look at other countries.
6) I believe she is genuine and that was long before the "tears" fiasco.

More superficial reasons:

It'd be cool to have a female president.
I have to admire someone who manages to carpetbag to New York of all places.
I lived in both New York and Arkansas, and while I was in New York her office assisted me and my (now ex) husband when government bureaucracy was about to make him lose his job since they couldn't get paperwork to him in a timely fashion. She personally called me back, not just an aide.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:45 PM
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24. thanks
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:49 PM
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28. Also, she want to fight the GOP and hard right.
Not placate them.
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Auntie Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:02 PM
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Wow! She personally called you! How nice and what an honor! n t
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shayes51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 09:18 AM
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96. Excellent. Thank you.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:43 PM
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23. Hillary's the most competent AND she has the political machinery to win the general.(eom)
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:49 PM
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29. Yes!
You will need that machinery to win and deal with the GOP.
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zappaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:47 PM
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26. Cuz she teared up in NH
And that will be helpful when she has to deal with world leaders.
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smalll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:50 PM
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30. 1) Because it's time to pick a President, and she'll be ready from day one -
Edited on Thu Jan-10-08 12:50 PM by smalll
2) I'm convinced that she would be a far more electable nominee than Obama or Edwards. All her baggage is old stuff from her First Lady days and before. Obama is just too inexperienced, and while I like Edwards' rhetoric, his personal life makes his rhetoric unviable. Ironically, if Edwards were running as a DLC-type centrist, his triple-H problems wouldn't be so debilitating.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:57 PM
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35. Edwards personal life?
:shrug:
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:13 PM
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41. What does that even mean?
She'll be president from day one?

I know that's a sound bite straight from her campaign, but what does it mean?

Is she supposed to be more prepared then any other candidate?
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Nedsdag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 02:03 PM
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52. What's with the "day one" crap?
I don't get it.

What is she trying to say? That Edwards and Obama will take the day off after being inaugurated?

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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:51 PM
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31. One more time (bookmark it this time)
Education

Wellesley College where she majored in political science.
Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action.

Political Activist Experience

Pragmatic Liberal

Always fascinated by radicalism, she wrote her senior thesis on a great radical organizer of poor people, Saul Alinsky of Chicago. Though when she was offered a job by Alinsky, after she wrote about him, and she turned him down--because she didn't think he was effective enough. She said to her boyfriend at that timebe in politics you have to win. And it didn't look to her like Alinsky was winning enough of his battles. She came to question his methodology and concluded in her thesis that larger government programs and funding were needed, not just community action at the grass roots.

She was the commencement speaker at Wellesley in 1969, chosen by her fellow students--there had never been a student commencement speaker there before.
The scheduled speaker was Sen. Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, who Hillary had campaigned for, a Republican, the first black to be a member of the U.S. Senate in a hundred years. In his remarks he was patronizing, Hillary thought. He seemed to defend the Nixon administration's conduct of the war, and didn't mention the wrenching events of 68. When he finished, Hillary got up and extemporaneously excoriated him. As a result of that speech, she was featured in Life magazine as exemplary of this new generation of student leaders. They ran a picture of her in pedal pushers and her Coke-bottle glasses. That article made her well known in the student movement in the U.S.

She monitored the Black Panther trial in New Haven. She monitored the trial to see if there were any abuses of the rights of the Panthers on trial, and helped schedule the monitors. Her reports were turned over to the ACLU.

1971
Senator Walter Mondale's subcommittee on migrant workers, researching migrant problems in housing, sanitation, health and education.

Political Campaign Experience

1964 In high school, volunteered for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater.
1968 New Hampshire, Eugene McCarthy primary challenge to LBJ.
1972 Campaigned in the western states for 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern
1976 Jimmy Carter Presidential race, served as an Indiana campaign coordinator.

The Clinton Campaigns (Bill Clinton has stated Hillary played pivotal roles in his campaigns)

1974 Bill Clinton's Congressional race (L)
1976 Bill Clinton's Attorney General race (W)
1978 Bill Clinton's Governor's Race (W)
1980 Bill Clinton's Governor's Race (L)
1982 Bill Clinton's Governor's Race (W)
1992 Bill Clinton's Presidential Race (W)
1996 Bill Clinton's Presidential Race (W)
2000 Hillary Clinton's Senate Campaign (W)
2006 Hillary Clinton's Senate Campaign (W)

Legal Experience

1969 Truehaft, Walker and Bernstein in Oakland, one of the most liberal law firms in the country. They defended the Panthers.
1970 Yale University - city legal services, provided free legal advice for the poor.
1971 Staff attorney, Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1971 Carnegie Council on Children, legal consultant.
1974 Impeachment Inquiry staff in Washington, D.C., advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal.
1974 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville School of Law - One of only two female faculty members.
1976 Rose Law Firm. In 1979, she became the first woman to be made a full partner.
1976 Worked pro bono on child advocacy.
1978 Jimmy Carter appoints Clinton to the board of the Legal Services Corporation.

She was twice named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America, in 1988 and in 1991.

First Lady of Arkansas

1979 Chaired the Rural Health Advisory Committee
1979 Introduced the Arkansas' Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth, a program that helps parents work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy.
1982 - 1992 Chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee

She was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984.


Clinton had co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families in 1977.

Served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital Legal Services (1988-1992)and the Children's Defense Fund (as chair, 1986-1992)

Corporate board of directors of TCBY (1985-1992),Wal-Mart Stores (1986-1992), and Lafarge (1990-1992)


First Lady of the United States of America


"She's very smart ... people rightly give her credit for having been a participant in the Clinton administration and for doing some heavy lifting on issues." Barack Obama, speaking of Hillary Clinton's White House experience and contradicting Obama supporters - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 8/22/07



When asked about his wife's role in his administration in August of 2000, President Bill Clinton said "She basically had an unprecedented level of activity in her present position over the last eight years.''

1993 First to bring a serious universal healthcare plan to be considered by the US Congress
1997 Helped develop the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997

The First Lady led the effor on the Foster Care Independence bill, to help older, unadopted children transition to adulthood. She also hosted numerous White House conferences that related to children's health, including early childhood development (1997) and school violence (1999). She lent her support to programs ranging from "Prescription for Reading," in which pediatricians provided free books for new mothers to read to their infants as their brains were rapidly developing, to nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses. She also supported an annual drive to encourage older women to seek a mammography to prevent breast cancer, coverage of the cost being provided by Medicare.

Hillary Clinton was the only First Lady to keep an office in the West Wing among those of the president's senior staff. While her familiarity with the intricate political issues and decisions faced by the President, she openly discussed his work with him, yet stated that ultimately she was but one of several individuals he consulted before making a decision. They were known to disagree. Regarding his 1993 passage of welfare reform, the First Lady had reservations about federally supported childcare and Medicaid. When issues that she was working on were under discussion at the morning senior staff meetings, the First Lady often attended. Aides kept her informed of all pending legislation and oftentimes sought her reaction to issues as a way of gauging the President's potential response. Weighing in on his Cabinet appointments and knowing many of the individuals he named, she had working relationships with many of them.

She persuaded Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to convene a meeting of corporate CEOs for their advice on how companies could be persuaded to adopt better child care measures for working families.

With Attorney General Janet Reno, the First Lady helped to create the Department of Justice's Violence Against Women office. One of her closest Cabinet allies was Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Following her international trips, Hillary Clinton wrote a report of her observations for Albright. A primary effort they shared was globally advocating gender equity in economics, employment, health care and education.

During her trips to Africa (1997), Asia (1995), South America (1995, 1997) and the Central European former Soviet satellite nations (1997, 1998), Hillary Clinton emphasized "a civil society," of human rights as a road to democracy and capitalism.

The First Lady was also one of the few international figures at the time who spoke out against the treatment of Afghani women by Islamist fundamentalist Taliban that had seized control of Afghanistan.

One of the programs she helped create was Vital Voices, a U.S.-sponsored initiative to promote the participation of international women in their nation's political process. One result of the group's meetings, in Northern Ireland, was drawing together women leaders of various political factions that supported the Good Friday peace agreement that brought peace to that nation long at civil war.

Hillary Clinton was also an active supporter of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), often awarding its micro-loans to small enterprises begun by women in developing nations that aided the economic growth in their impoverished communities. Certainly one of her more important speeches as First Lady addressing the need for equal rights for women was international in scope and created controversy in the nation where it was made: the September 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.

Senator From New York

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Hillary worked with her colleagues to secure the funds New York needed to recover and rebuild. She fought to provide compensation to the families of the victims, grants for hard-hit small businesses, and health care for front line workers at Ground Zero.

She is the first New Yorker ever to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

She has introduced legislation to tie Congressional salary increases to an increase in the minimum wage.

She helped pass legislation that encouraged investment to create jobs in struggling communities through the Renewal Communities program.

She has championed legislation to bring broadband Internet access to rural America.

She worked to strengthen the Children's Health Insurance Program, which increased coverage for children in low income and working families.

She authored legislation that has been enacted to improve quality and lower the cost of prescription drugs and to protect our food supply from bioterrorism.

She sponsored legislation to increase America's commitment to fighting the global HIV/AIDS crisis.

She's working for expanded use of information technology in the health care system to decrease administrative costs, lower premiums, and reduce medical errors.

She's worked to ensure the safety of prescription drugs for children, with legislation now included in the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act, and her legislation to help schools address environmental hazards. She has also proposed expanding access to child care.

She has passed legislation that will bring more qualified teachers into classrooms and more outstanding principals to lead our schools.

Hillary is one of the original cosponsors of the Prevention First Act to increase access to family planning. Her fight with the Bush Administration ensured that Plan B, an emergency contraceptive, will be available to millions of American women and will reduce the need for abortions.

She introduced the Count Every Vote Act of 2005 to ensure better protection of votes and to ensure that every vote is counted.

Senate Armed Services Committee

Subcommittees:

* Airland
* Emerging Threats and Capabilities
* Readiness and Management Support

Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works

Subcommittees:

* Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health (Chair)
* Subcommittee Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
* Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions

Subcommittees:

* Children and Families
* Employment & Workplace Safety




Sources:

Wikipedia
Firstladies.org
Alternet
hillaryclinton.com
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:56 PM
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34. actually, I am
And I will try to memorize all your posts in the future.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:02 PM
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36.  A five page printout.
:wow:
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musicblind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 07:14 AM
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92. Wow
What a VERY GOOD, HIGH QUALITY post! Thank you!
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Maribelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 12:56 PM
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33. Hillary is brilliantly poised to go down in history - cracking the ceiling wide open for woman.
She is an outstanding role model for the young women in this country, currently thirsting for female role models. She manifests exceptional intelligence, keen ability, and has all of the skills and talents needed to be president. She is fully qualified to be the first in the history of this nation. She will make it great again.

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Proud2BAmurkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:12 PM
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40. Neutralizes the PUKE nominee on national security, blows them away on domestic issues
The other D candidates will be easily painted as national security lightweights and national security will be the top issue in November.
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BringBigDogBack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:28 PM
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45. Because I WANT to see the death throes of the Dem party
...and I want an Repig elected in 08.

At this point, I am Anybody But Clinton.
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BringBigDogBack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 01:29 PM
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47. Because I WANT to relive the 90's
over, and over, and over, and over, and over again, for eight more fucking years.

How about some fresh blood?
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 02:12 PM
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53. THE CLENIS made me
BOW DOWN BEFORE THE CLENIS
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 02:55 PM
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55. Oh brother
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 03:12 PM
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60. Why not ask other posters to allow us to answer w/out tearing down Clinton?
Or, didn't you want to insult them in your OP, too.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 03:51 PM
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65. great, blame me for other posters
IM SORRY FOR THEM OK???

:grr:
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 03:28 PM
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63. Because there is no one cooler than Clinton
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J-Lo Biafra Donating Member (418 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 04:01 PM
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67. Because her hair smells like strawberries and creme.
:shrug:
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paulk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 04:05 PM
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68. becasue she is the candidate I believe is most ready to be
President.

It's really that simple.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 05:41 PM
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70. Because he's the baddest, funkiest mofo on the planet


/ wait, what?
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Politicub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 05:47 PM
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71. I'll bite
Though it will backfire on me (putting on my flame suit)

I support Hillary because:
Based on her experience, she is the only dem candidate running that can bring some semblance of universal health care to the U.S. I firmly believe she's learned from her experience, and will do what it takes.
She will pull no punches when it comes to dealing with the republicans. She has proven herself to be a fighter, and won't fold no matter what mud the GOP slings at her during the general.
She has worked for more than 35 years for the rights of everyone
She's very smart, and will be able to work with the dem congress to create strong policies for the American people
She has never, not once, hinted that she'll take away social security
She has a great personality, and I like her family
Her record on civil rights for the gay community is strong, and I support her incremental approach to civil unions.
I would feel safer with Hillary in office than any republican.
I recall how much the entire world seemed to admire her in the 90's. It will be difficult, but she will work tirelessly to restore America's standing in the world.
She'll work with international bodies like the UN.
She'll get us out of Iraq
Etc. Etc. Etc.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 05:48 PM
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72. If she gets the nod, I will support her...
Edited on Thu Jan-10-08 05:49 PM by redqueen
becasue not doing so would be madness.
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Perry Logan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 05:56 PM
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73. I'm a Hillary defender. Here's info on her record, which belies most of the crap you hear about her.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the NARAL Pro-Choice America 100 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the The Humane Society of the United States 100 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the National Trust for Historic Preservation 100 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 95 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights 100 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the National Education Association 100 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the American Wilderness Coalition 100 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund 100 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the League of Conservation Voters 95 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Children's Defense Fund 100 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the American Association of University Women 100 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the National Organization for Women 100 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group 91 percent in 2006.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group 100 percent in 2005

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence 100 percent from 1988-2003 (Senate) or 1991-2003 (House).

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the American Public Health Association 80 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers 100 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Service Employees International Union 100 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the United Auto Workers 93 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the AFL-CIO 93 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers 84 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Worker 100 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees 88 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the American Federation of Government Employees 83 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the National Committee for an Effective Congress 95 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Americans for Democratic Action 100 percent in 2005.

According to the National Journal - Composite Liberal Score's calculations, in 2005, Senator Clinton voted more liberal on economic, defense and foreign policy issues than 80 percent of the Senators.

According to the National Journal - Liberal on Social Policy's calculations, in 2005, Senator Clinton voted more liberal on social policy issues than 83 percent of the Senators.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 100 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Disabled American Veterans 92 percent in 2005.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Bread for the World 100 percent in 2003-2004.

Senator Clinton supported the interests of the The Partnership for the Homeless 100 percent in 2003-2004.
http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=WNY99268

She was promoting universal coverage before it was cool. Furthermore she helped to create the SCHIP program. And most importantly she was dead on in the debate the other week where she said political will was the most important thing needed to push health care reform through and we know without a doubt she has that.

She has fougt unrelentingly for a woman's right to choose as well as women's rights both domestically and abroad

Create a Strategic Energy Fund - Hillary has proposed a Strategic Energy Fund that would inject $50 billion into research, development and deployment of renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean coal technology, ethanol and other homegrown biofuels. Hillary's proposal would give oil companies a choice: invest in renewable energy or pay into the fund. Hillary's proposal would also eliminate oil company tax breaks and make sure that oil companies pay their fair share for drilling on public lands. Instead of sending billions of dollars to the Middle East for their oil, Hillary's proposal will create a new clean energy industry in America and create tens of thousands of jobs here.

Champion a Market-Based "Cap and Trade" Approach - Hillary supports a market-based, cap and trade approach to reducing carbon emissions and fight global warming. This approach was used successfully to limit sulfur dioxide and reduce levels of acid rain in the 1990s. By capping the amount of emissions in the environment and allowing corporations to buy and sell permits, this approach offers corporations a flexible, cost-efficient method to do their share to reduce emissions and combat global warming. The program will reduce emissions, drive the development of clean technologies, and create a market for projects that store carbon dioxide.

20% Renewable Electricity Standard by 2020 - Hillary believes we need to shift our reliance on high carbon electricity sources to low-carbon electricity sources by investing in renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind. As President, she'll work to require power companies to obtain 20 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020.

Make Federal Buildings Carbon Neutral - Hillary believes that the federal government should lead the way in reducing carbon emissions from buildings. Buildings account for 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the federal government owns or leases more than 500,000. Hillary would require all federal buildings to steadily increase the use of green design principles, energy efficient technologies, and to generate energy on-site from solar and other renewable sources. By 2030, all new federal buildings and major renovations would be carbon neutral, helping to fight global warming and cutting the $5.6 billion that the federal government spends each year on heating, cooling and lighting.

Protecting Against Exposure to Toxic Chemicals - Hillary wants to make the products we use safer, especially for children. There are tens of thousands of chemicals used in the U.S. and hundreds of new chemicals introduced each year, but little health testing is conducted for many of them. Hillary would require chemical companies to prove that new chemicals are safe before they are put on the market, and would set more stringent exposure standards for kids. She would also create a "priority list" of existing chemicals and require testing to make sure they are safe. To improve our understanding of the links between chemicals and diseases like cancer, Hillary would create an "environmental health tracking network" that ties together information about pollution and chronic diseases.

Hillary's Record

In the White House, Hillary led efforts to make adoption easier, to expand early learning and child care, to increase funding for breast cancer research, and to help veterans suffering from Gulf War syndrome who had too often been ignored in the past. She helped launch a national campaign to prevent teen pregnancy and helped create the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, which moved children from foster care to adoption more quickly and the number of children who have moved out of foster care into adoption has increased dramatically.

She was instrumental in designing and championing the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which has provided millions of children with health insurance. She battled the big drug companies to force them to test their drugs for children and to make sure all kids get the immunizations they need through the Vaccines for Children Program. Immunization rates dramatically improved after the program launched.

Hillary has been a leading member of the Environment and Public Works Committee since she was elected to the Senate. Today, she chairs the Superfund and Environmental Health Subcommittee and in that capacity has promoted legislation to evaluate and protect against the impact of environmental pollutants on people's health and clean up toxic waste.

Global warming and Clean Air
Spoken out forcefully about the need to tackle global warming in hearings, speeches, rallies and on the Senate floor and co-sponsored "cap and trade" legislation.
Worked to reduce air pollution that causes asthma and other respiratory diseases by writing and helping to pass new laws to clean up exhaust from school buses, and other diesel-powered equipment.
Supported legislation to reduce pollution from power plants, including harmful emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury, and carbon dioxide - emissions that contribute to poor air quality, smog, acid rain, global warming, and mercury contamination of fish.
Aggressively fought the Bush Administration's ill-advised attempts to weaken clean air laws.

Improving Water Quality and Protecting Drinking Water
Helped to overturn the Bush Administration's attempt to allow more arsenic in drinking water.
Cosponsored legislation to protect lakes, rivers and coastal waters by fighting the spread of destructive invasive species, such as the zebra mussel.
Helped ot pass new clean water laws, including measures to protect New York City's water supplies and clean up Long Island Sound.

Protecting Public Lands
Fought oil company efforts to pen the Artic Wildlife Refuge in Alask and Pacific and Atlantic coastal waters to drilling.
Cosponsored the Roadless Area Conservation Act, which prohibits road construction and logging in unspoiled, roadless areas of the National Forest System, and voted for additional funding and manpower to combat forest fires in the west.

Reducing Dangerous Chemicals and Cleaning Up Hazardous Waste
Supported legislation to restore the "polluter pays" principle by reinstating a chemical company fee to fund cleanups of highly contaminated "Superfund" waste sites.
Cosponsored the "kids-Safe Chemical Act," which requires chemical companies to provide health and safety before putting new chemicals in consumer products.
Proposed legislation to create an environmental health tracking network to enable us to better understand the impact of environmental hazards on human health and well-being.

Tackling the Toxic Legacy of 9/11
Pushed for health care benefits for first responders, residents and others whose health has been impacted from breathing the toxic dust and smoke in New York City after 9/11.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/8/20/134810/677

Hillary Clinton co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a state-level alliance with the Children's Defense Fund, in 1977. In late 1977, President Jimmy Carter (for whom she had done 1976 campaign coordination work in Indiana) appointed her to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation, and she served in that capacity from 1978 through the end of 1981. For much of that time she served as the chair of that board, the first woman to do so. During her time as chair, funding for the Corporation was expanded from $90 million to $300 million, and she successfully battled against President Ronald Reagan's initial attempts to reduce the funding and change the nature of the organization.

Following the November 1978 election of her husband as Governor of Arkansas, Clinton became First Lady of Arkansas in January 1979, her title for a total of twelve years. Bill appointed her chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee the same year, where she successfully obtained federal funds to expand medical facilities in Arkansas' poorest areas without affecting doctors' fees.

Hillary Clinton chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee from 1982 to 1992, where she sought to bring about reform in the state's court-sanctioned public education system. One of the most important initiatives of the entire Clinton governorship, she fought a prolonged but ultimately successful battle against the Arkansas Education Association to put mandatory teacher testing as well as state standards for curriculum and classroom size in place. She introduced Arkansas' Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth in 1985, a program that helps parents work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy.

And a bit of stuff from the White House :

The First Lady worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War, which became known as the Gulf War syndrome. Together with Attorney General Janet Reno, Clinton helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice. In 1997, she initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which she regarded as her greatest accomplishment as First Lady.

Along with Senator Ted Kennedy, she was the major force behind the State Children's Health Insurance Program in 1997, a federal effort that provided state support for children whose parents were unable to provide them with health coverage.<124> She promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses and encouraged older women to seek a mammogram to detect breast cancer, with coverage provided by Medicare.<125> She successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health.<43> The First Lady worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War, which became known as the Gulf War syndrome.<43> Together with Attorney General Janet Reno, Clinton helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice.<43> In 1997, she initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which she regarded as her greatest accomplishment as First Lady.<43> As First Lady, Clinton hosted numerous White House Conferences, including ones on Child Care (1997),<126> Early Childhood Development and Learning (1997),<127> and Children and Adolescents (2000),<128> and the first-ever White House Conferences on Teenagers (2000)<129> and Philanthropy (1999).<130>

Hillary Clinton traveled to over eighty countries during this time,<131> breaking the mark for most-travelled First Lady held by Pat Nixon.<132> In a September 1995 speech before the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, Clinton argued very forcefully against practices that abused women around the world and in China itself.<133> She was one of the most prominent international figures at the time to speak out against the treatment of Afghan women by the Islamist fundamentalist Taliban that had seized control of Afghanistan.<134><135> She helped create Vital Voices, an international initiative sponsored by the United States to promote the participation of women in the political processes of their countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton

More:
http://clinton.senate.gov/issues/nationalsecurity/israel/index.cfm
http://clinton.senate.gov/issues/nationalsecurity/darfur

The following are polls from progressive groups, rating Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, on how often they vote for progressive issues. For each group, http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/011142.php

Clinton Vs. Barack Obama (progressivepunch)
Overall Progressive Score: 92% 90%
Aid to Less Advantaged People at Home and Abroad: 98% 97%
Corporate Subsidies 100% N/A
Education, Humanities and the Arts 88% 100%
Environment 92% 100%
Fair Taxation 97% 100%
Family Planning 88% 80%
Government Checks on Corporate Power 95% 97%
Healthcare 98% 94%
Housing 100% 100%
Human Rights & Civil Liberties 82% 77%
Justice for All: Civil and Criminal 94% 91%
Labor Rights 91% 91%
Making Government Work for Everyone, Not Just the Rich or Powerful 94% 90%
War and Peace 80% 86%
easures to protect New York City's water supplies and clean up Long Island Sound.

HILLARY'S EXPERIENCE ON THE WORLD STAGE:

Her historic speech at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 not only galvanized women around the world, it helped spawn a movement that led to advances politically, legally, economically, and socially for women in many countries over the next decade. Among other initiatives, she spearheaded the Clinton Administration's efforts to combat the global crisis of human trafficking. She persuaded the First Ladies of the Americas to use their collective power to eradicate measles and improve girls' education throughout the western Hemisphere. And she is widely credited with helping women in Kuwait finally win the right to vote.

As First Lady and now as a two-term senator who represents the most ethnically diverse state in the nation and who sits on the Armed Services Committee, Hillary Clinton has become a fixture on international issues over the past 15 years. She has traveled to more than 80 countries, going from barrios to rural villages to meetings with heads of state. She has consulted with dozens of world leaders - Nelson Mandela, King Abdullah, Tony Blair among them -- on matters as diverse as America and NATO's roles in Kosovo, eradicating poverty in the Third World, and the plight of women living under the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Today, she is one of the most influential voices in the world on human rights, democracy, and the promotion of a "new internationalism" in foreign affairs that calls for a balanced use of military force, diplomacy, and social development to strengthen American interests and security globally.

While American First Ladies historically have made great (and often overlooked) contributions to our nation, Hillary Clinton's wide-ranging experience on international issues as First Lady is unprecedented. Indeed, she is the only First Lady to have delivered foreign policy addresses at major gatherings of the United Nations, the World Bank, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the World Economic Forum.

Hillary Clinton has been fighting for the rights of children for special needs for decades. In her first job out of law school working for the Children's Defense Fund, she conducted research that led to Congress passing the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, the landmark bill mandating that all children with disabilities be educated in the public school system. later, she helped improve the education of children with special needs by working to reauthorize the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act. In 2005, she sponsored an amendment to increase funding for the act by $4 billion dollars. She also cosponsored the Personal Excellence for Children with Disabilities Act, a bill that promised to help schools recruit and retain new special education teachers, and better prepare general education teachers and staff to work with children with special needs.

Most recently, she has called for greatly expanded funding to the National Institute for Health to investigate treatments for children with disabilities. And she has put forth a comprehensive and detailed plan to help children and families affected by autism, with numerous elements that correspond very closely to what families in the autism community have been demanding for years.

some points on her legal career:

1969 Truehaft, Walker and Bernstein in Oakland, one of the most liberal law firms in the country. They defended the Panthers.
1970 Yale University - city legal services, provided free legal advice for the poor.
1971 Staff attorney, Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1971 Carnegie Council on Children, legal consultant.
1974 Impeachment Inquiry staff in Washington, D.C., advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal.
1974 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville School of Law - One of only two female faculty members.
1976 Worked pro bono on child advocacy.
1978 Jimmy Carter appoints Clinton to the board of the Legal Services Corporation.


Education

Wellesley College where she majored in political science.
Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action.

Political Activist Experience

Pragmatic Liberal

Always fascinated by radicalism, she wrote her senior thesis on a great radical organizer of poor people, Saul Alinsky of Chicago. Though when she was offered a job by Alinsky, after she wrote about him, and she turned him down--because she didn't think he was effective enough. She said to her boyfriend at that timebe in politics you have to win. And it didn't look to her like Alinsky was winning enough of his battles. She came to question his methodology and concluded in her thesis that larger government programs and funding were needed, not just community action at the grass roots.

She was the commencement speaker at Wellesley in 1969, chosen by her fellow students--there had never been a student commencement speaker there before. The scheduled speaker was Sen. Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, who Hillary had campaigned for, a Republican, the first black to be a member of the U.S. Senate in a hundred years. In his remarks he was patronizing, Hillary thought. He seemed to defend the Nixon administration's conduct of the war, and didn't mention the wrenching events of 68. When he finished, Hillary got up and extemporaneously excoriated him. As a result of that speech, she was featured in Life magazine as exemplary of this new generation of student leaders. They ran a picture of her in pedal pushers and her Coke-bottle glasses. That article made her well known in the student movement in the U.S.

She monitored the Black Panther trial in New Haven. She monitored the trial to see if there were any abuses of the rights of the Panthers on trial, and helped schedule the monitors. Her reports were turned over to the ACLU.

1971 Senator Walter Mondale's subcommittee on migrant workers, researching migrant problems in housing, sanitation, health and education.

Political Campaign Experience

1964 In high school, volunteered for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater.
1968 New Hampshire, Eugene McCarthy primary challenge to LBJ.
1972 Campaigned in the western states for 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern
1976 Jimmy Carter Presidential race, served as an Indiana campaign coordinator.

The Clinton Campaigns (Bill Clinton has stated Hillary played pivotal roles in his campaigns)

1974 Bill Clinton's Congressional race (L)
1976 Bill Clinton's Attorney General race (W)
1978 Bill Clinton's Governor's Race (W)
1980 Bill Clinton's Governor's Race (L)
1982 Bill Clinton's Governor's Race (W)
1992 Bill Clinton's Presidential Race (W)
1996 Bill Clinton's Presidential Race (W)
2000 Hillary Clinton's Senate Campaign (W)
2006 Hillary Clinton's Senate Campaign (W)

Legal Experience

1969 Truehaft, Walker and Bernstein in Oakland, one of the most liberal law firms in the country. They defended the Panthers.
1970 Yale University - city legal services, provided free legal advice for the poor.
1971 Staff attorney, Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1971 Carnegie Council on Children, legal consultant.
1974 Impeachment Inquiry staff in Washington, D.C., advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal.
1974 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville School of Law - One of only two female faculty members.
1976 Rose Law Firm. In 1979, she became the first woman to be made a full partner.
1976 Worked pro bono on child advocacy.
1978 Jimmy Carter appoints Clinton to the board of the Legal Services Corporation.

She was twice named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America, in 1988 and in 1991.

First Lady of Arkansas

1979 Chaired the Rural Health Advisory Committee
1979 Introduced the Arkansas' Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth, a program that helps parents work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy.
1982 - 1992 Chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee

She was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984.

Clinton had co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families in 1977.

Served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital Legal Services (1988-1992)and the Children's Defense Fund (as chair, 1986-1992)

Corporate board of directors of TCBY (1985-1992),Wal-Mart Stores (1986-1992), and Lafarge (1990-1992)

First Lady of the United States of America

"She's very smart ... people rightly give her credit for having been a participant in the Clinton administration and for doing some heavy lifting on issues." Barack Obama, speaking of Hillary Clinton's White House experience and contradicting Obama supporters - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 8/22/07



When asked about his wife's role in his administration in August of 2000, President Bill Clinton said "She basically had an unprecedented level of activity in her present position over the last eight years.''

1993 First to bring a serious universal healthcare plan to be considered by the US Congress
1997 Helped develop the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997

The First Lady led the effor on the Foster Care Independence bill, to help older, unadopted children transition to adulthood. She also hosted numerous White House conferences that related to children's health, including early childhood development (1997) and school violence (1999). She lent her support to programs ranging from "Prescription for Reading," in which pediatricians provided free books for new mothers to read to their infants as their brains were rapidly developing, to nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses. She also supported an annual drive to encourage older women to seek a mammography to prevent breast cancer, coverage of the cost being provided by Medicare.

Hillary Clinton was the only First Lady to keep an office in the West Wing among those of the president's senior staff. While her familiarity with the intricate political issues and decisions faced by the President, she openly discussed his work with him, yet stated that ultimately she was but one of several individuals he consulted before making a decision. They were known to disagree. Regarding his 1993 passage of welfare reform, the First Lady had reservations about federally supported childcare and Medicaid. When issues that she was working on were under discussion at the morning senior staff meetings, the First Lady often attended. Aides kept her informed of all pending legislation and oftentimes sought her reaction to issues as a way of gauging the President's potential response. Weighing in on his Cabinet appointments and knowing many of the individuals he named, she had working relationships with many of them.

She persuaded Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to convene a meeting of corporate CEOs for their advice on how companies could be persuaded to adopt better child care measures for working families.

With Attorney General Janet Reno, the First Lady helped to create the Department of Justice's Violence Against Women office. One of her closest Cabinet allies was Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Following her international trips, Hillary Clinton wrote a report of her observations for Albright. A primary effort they shared was globally advocating gender equity in economics, employment, health care and education.

During her trips to Africa (1997), Asia (1995), South America (1995, 1997) and the Central European former Soviet satellite nations (1997, 1998), Hillary Clinton emphasized "a civil society," of human rights as a road to democracy and capitalism.

The First Lady was also one of the few international figures at the time who spoke out against the treatment of Afghani women by Islamist fundamentalist Taliban that had seized control of Afghanistan.

One of the programs she helped create was Vital Voices, a U.S.-sponsored initiative to promote the participation of international women in their nation's political process. One result of the group's meetings, in Northern Ireland, was drawing together women leaders of various political factions that supported the Good Friday peace agreement that brought peace to that nation long at civil war.

Hillary Clinton was also an active supporter of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), often awarding its micro-loans to small enterprises begun by women in developing nations that aided the economic growth in their impoverished communities. Certainly one of her more important speeches as First Lady addressing the need for equal rights for women was international in scope and created controversy in the nation where it was made: the September 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.

Senator From New York

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Hillary worked with her colleagues to secure the funds New York needed to recover and rebuild. She fought to provide compensation to the families of the victims, grants for hard-hit small businesses, and health care for front line workers at Ground Zero.

She is the first New Yorker ever to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

She has introduced legislation to tie Congressional salary increases to an increase in the minimum wage.

She helped pass legislation that encouraged investment to create jobs in struggling communities through the Renewal Communities program.

She has championed legislation to bring broadband Internet access to rural America.

She worked to strengthen the Children's Health Insurance Program, which increased coverage for children in low income and working families.

She authored legislation that has been enacted to improve quality and lower the cost of prescription drugs and to protect our food supply from bioterrorism.

She sponsored legislation to increase America's commitment to fighting the global HIV/AIDS crisis.

She's working for expanded use of information technology in the health care system to decrease administrative costs, lower premiums, and reduce medical errors.

She's worked to ensure the safety of prescription drugs for children, with legislation now included in the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act, and her legislation to help schools address environmental hazards. She has also proposed expanding access to child care.

She has passed legislation that will bring more qualified teachers into classrooms and more outstanding principals to lead our schools.

Hillary is one of the original cosponsors of the Prevention First Act to increase access to family planning. Her fight with the Bush Administration ensured that Plan B, an emergency contraceptive, will be available to millions of American women and will reduce the need for abortions.

She introduced the Count Every Vote Act of 2005 to ensure better protection of votes and to ensure that every vote is counted.

Senate Armed Services Committee

Subcommittees:

* Airland
* Emerging Threats and Capabilities
* Readiness and Management Support

Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works

Subcommittees:

* Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health (Chair)
* Subcommittee Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
* Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions

Subcommittees:

* Children and Families
* Employment & Workplace Safety
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Kucinich4America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 06:42 PM
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78. ah, there's the SPAM
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goodgd_yall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 07:07 PM
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87. Well, the OP asked for it.
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Perry Logan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 07:20 AM
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94. What are we gonna do with these people?
Edited on Fri Jan-11-08 07:22 AM by Perry Logan
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shayes51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 09:21 AM
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97. Thanks. I will print.
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jlake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 05:59 PM
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74. She has a proven track record.
I know where she stands....and don't have to hope... I know.
I think she will be most effective at out-maneuvering the RW machine.
She will win and will not cave to the rw.
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 06:25 PM
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76. search for the last 20 times it was asked and answered
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indimuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 06:35 PM
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77. SHE will certainly be a CHANGE
Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change-Hope & Change- Hillary gives me HOPE and SHE will certainly be a CHANGE! When she speaks I get goose bumps...she's sooooooooooooooo charasmatic. YES SHE CAN! YES SHE CAN! THat's waht America needs ANOTHER AMERICAN IDOL! :woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:
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Kucinich4America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 06:43 PM
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79. Change of what?
A woman in the White House........

Doing all the same stupid shit that the other morons have done for the last 25 years??

Not what I call "Change"
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 06:44 PM
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80. She makes good cookies
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 06:48 PM
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82. I don't. I support the Democratic nominee, whoever that will be.
My personal preference is that it be Edwards, but I will support whoever it is. Why?

President Huckabee.
President Giuliani.
President Romney.
President McCain.
President Thompson.

Those 10 words should scare the fuck out of anyone who only has 5 toes on each foot. HRC is so far above any of those 5, that it's not even a challenge to decide. All of our candidates are. So why are there so many people claiming that supporting HRC is tantamount to voting for StormFront?
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ileus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 07:01 PM
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85. She's going to give us 50 states in November.
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goodgd_yall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 07:01 PM
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86. Why
Edited on Thu Jan-10-08 07:03 PM by goodgd_yall
At the risk of sounding redundant, her experience in the senate and on 10 different committees and subcommittees.

Also:
Her experience in the White House. As the spouse of a president she has had an inside look that none of the other candidates have.

Her toughness. I'm impressed when I see her at work as a senator. She cuts through the BS when she has to.

Her committment to reproductive rights.

Her limitation of using "God" in her speeches.

Her sane position on illegal immigration.

Voting against most of Bush's appointees.

Pro-Environment.

Her promise to get us out of Iraq.

Trust in her diplomatic skills.

ON EDIT: Forgot to mention how groundbreaking it would be to have a woman president. This is no small matter.
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 07:16 AM
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93. She is one of the strongest hardest working
politicians on our side and has the gravitas to win the big one. She represents the core of our party not the centrists. She is one smart lady. I enjoy watching the Clintons kick repukelican ass.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 08:54 AM
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95. These "I demand to know why you support HRC" threads are tedious beyond belief.
Why, exactly, are HRC supporters being demanded to explain why they support her?
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