Hillary Clinton for President »
Posted by: RickyDawkins 6 months, 3 weeks ago103 Comments Report this Story
Journalism is dead, folks. Start with that. Let us leave aside the blatant sexism of merging Bill and Hillary's names, as if the fact that Bill Clinton is campaigning for his wife means she is just an appendage of her husband. I am supporting Hillary Clinton because I believe that among the remaining candidates she will make the best President.
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humemacdonald6 months, 3 weeks ago
Thanks Ricky, I really enjoyed the article. This excerpt was one of my favourites. It's times like this that we see that sexism is alive and well in America.
"But while all of these empty-headed, dim-witted, gossip columnists are busy excoriating Clinton for anything their warped and sordid minds can conjure up, true or false, not one of them has been able to write a column saying that Hillary Clinton would be a bad president. No one is saying that she would follow irresponsible policies, or make bad decisions, or be less able than her competitors to deal with the problems the country will face in the next four and eight years. They can't say that, because it is obviously false. Hillary will govern very much like Bill did, which is a considerable improvement over Reagan or the first Bush, and a dramatic, orders of magnitude improvement over the second Bush."
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injest6 months, 3 weeks ago
"as if the fact that Bill Clinton is campaigning for his wife means she is just an appendage of her husband"
Uhm that is real close to the reality. What has Hillary done/accomplished that is not directly related to Bill as Gov or Prez?
Did Wal-mart seek her out for her legal abilities or did they put her on the board cause her husband was the Gov?
Rose law firm? her legal abilities or her husband was the Gov?
Senator?
Bills campaigning is a wink and a nod to folks that "ya Hills not ready for prime time but don't worry I'm gonna run the show wink wink."
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Dionys6 months, 3 weeks ago
Passing the BAR -- Hard to get Bill's help there.
Senator Clinton -- I'm guessing Bill only voted once.
Thanks for proving the point of the article.
P.s. - Have you done such an analysis for Bush? Interesting how he drove every single business he ran (all given to him by BushCo or the Saudis) into the ground. Just like the US.
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sumptuousdigs6 months, 3 weeks ago
"...sexism is alive and well in America".
But of course, Ms. Hume! Haven't you ever watched "Father Knows Best"? (On the '50s channel of course)!
My favorite was "Leave It To Beaver". LOL!
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Locky126 months, 3 weeks ago
You want another 4-8 years of Billary?
Racist Bill Clinton: implying that Barack Obama is the "Black Candidate". That's why he did well in S.C. Jesse Jackson did well there too.
Side by side with Hillary?
The heck with that!
No wonder their "loyal friends" are abandoning them in the droves to endorse Obama.
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moribull6 months, 3 weeks ago
An how about abandoning his dear friend of 20 years, Tony Resko?? Obama knew, when he was having his luxurious house purchased for him by Rezko, that this guy was in some the funky business of money laundering. When he got indicted, he was no more Obama's friend, because he would have hindered his presidential ambitions. You cannot trust this guy!!
To the stupid democrats who are supporting him, there are plenty of republicans who want you to believe that they will vote for him if he was the democratic nominee. Hey wake up dudes, this is another clever plan by Karl Rove! The republicans will so much beat the crap out of Barack Hussein Obama that even darkest blue democrats will vote for the republican candidate.
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marshx6 months, 3 weeks ago
Its easy to blame the journalists but why doesn't Bill take a step back and let her prove herself? she is the candidate but he keeps making the headlines, what does that tell you?
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humemacdonald6 months, 3 weeks ago
Klarissa, I agree with your comment and the others who have pointed out that perhaps she is too close to the corporate lobbyists. My comment was not meant as an endorsement of Clinton , but rather to point out the blatant sexism that has imbued every aspect of this campaign. Far too often she is not criticized for her policy positions but to her role as "wife" and /or some other aspect relating to her gender.
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cushi6 months, 3 weeks ago
I agree that the media is a major player in the perceptions people are forming of all the candidates. However, I also feel that Bill Clinton, for whatever reason (perhaps well meaning...perhaps self serving) is indulging in over the top behavior. He has shown a somewhat ruthlessness in his zeal to support Hillary that is having the direct opposite effect. He is a very smart man, but is he wise enough to know when to step back a bit or will his own drive and ego prove to be her undoing?
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memestryker6 months, 3 weeks ago
Who cares? He also got a bl*w j*b in the White House. Again, who cares? He's not running for president, and only those like yourself who keep obsessing about it keep it in anyone's consciousness. Ignore him.
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rightfromwrong6 months, 3 weeks ago
America needs a bigger change than just a woman. America needs radical thought. Hillary is too close to the corporate lobbyists and the Israel lobby.
She will continue to support the defense contractors and big pharma...find some more phantom WMD.
http://members.tripod.com/~rcjustice/pres.html
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injest6 months, 3 weeks ago
"how are we to expect them to carry political relationships throughout their presidency?"
Sounds like the same problems the San Diego charges had a couple of weeks back, what uniform were they going to wear at the Super bowl?
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cushi6 months, 3 weeks ago
Oh please, what a non issue. No one fights uglier and dirtier than the repugs, but when it's time to pull together, they somehow manage to do so enough to achieve their goals and support their party, however despicable.
Airing differences of opinion are what debates are all about, are they not? Does that mean you can't come together and iron out those differences toward a common cause? Of course not, it happens all the time!
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THOMNH626 months, 3 weeks ago
Hillary does not need the media to get her message out it is loud and clear, COMMUNIST
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/29/polit...
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Baltika66 months, 3 weeks ago
"I'm not a Clinton fan, but I'm really tired of the media running the campaigns" like that http://secret-servicevvaexuydfp.blogspot.com
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tehranchik6 months, 3 weeks ago
I thought some of the comments after the story made better reading.
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slate6 months, 3 weeks ago
((as if the fact that Bill Clinton is campaigning for his wife means she is just an appendage of her
husband.))
SO what has she been for the last 30 years, an independent that has made it on the name of Rodham? She HAS indeed been an appendage of Bill's for her entire career, once she became 'attached' to Bill.
Sure she tried to throw in her maiden name to help seem like she was set apart from Bill's but she always was and always will be in his 'shadow' and if she had never been married to William Jefferson Clinton she would be a second tier lawyer somewhere trying to chase ambulances or trying to tweak the 'system' trying to cover some corporation's butt.
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slate6 months, 3 weeks ago
Now that she has risen to where she is, not by her merit but by association to Bill, her (dual president), now it's 'sexist' to attach her to her husband? Gawd I love how the liberal mind works. Poor Hillary, now you will not only let your husband toss blacks under the bus, now you want to be your OWN woman and disassociate yourself from the bread wagon. Niccccceeee, class never was your strong suit that's for sure.
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humemacdonald6 months, 3 weeks ago
Slate, how could you possibly know the fate of Hillary's legal career had she not married Bill. From what I heard she was the "smarter" at least academically of the two.The fact remains that in any marriage where children are present, one partner has to make sacrifices about their career, in most cases it is the woman who makes this concession. This in no way, suggests that she is less capable or that if not associated with her husband she would have just been another "ambulance chaser" as you suggest.I think you fail to realize that the mere fact that you do not apply the same standard to the male that this is sexist.It is also sexist for some people to assume that Bill is controlling her moves behind the scenes.
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Sock_Puppet6 months, 3 weeks ago
It's funny that we focus on the spouses, and WE know they'll be on the campaign trail. I guess Bill just has too much magnetism. =D
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canadianrancher576 months, 3 weeks ago
While reading the artical I began to wonder which is going to be the biggest problem if either Hillary or Barack is elected, the problems that I'm refering to are sexism and racism, If Hillary wins we have the problem of sexism in both parties, and if Barack wins there is the problem of racism, again in both parties. In the beginning I was glad to see both in the race now I'm not so sure.
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nostalgia6 months, 3 weeks ago
There was an excellent article in the Washington Post about Super Tuesday and the strategy each Democrat will use
Delegates are distributed proportionally on the basis of the votes for each candidate - not winner take all
That means that if Edwards remains a force through Feb. 5 and wins 15 percent of the vote in most contests, Clinton and Obama will need enormous margins to rack up a significant advantage in delegates.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
Even if one candidate wins more states, it's possible that the other candidate may end up with more delegates
The 6 largest states are critical in the calculations.
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RickyDawkins6 months, 3 weeks ago
I have nothing against Obama. I think he is a great motivator and uniter.
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ETproductions6 months, 3 weeks ago
I am convinced the Hillary and Bill (particularly) have burned enough bridges in their lust to return to the White House that they cannot possibly pull together the coalition needed to win the general election. A vote for Hillary is a vote for 8 more years of stay the course Bushism.
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Petom16 months, 3 weeks ago
I've always considered Hillary's biggest liability (and asset) to be her last name.
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rightfromwrong6 months, 3 weeks ago
There is no telling how far Hillary would have gone had she not been married to Clinton but there in no doubt that her roll as a mother and wife held her back.
Still the fact is that she has been bought off by the corporations and lobby groups. One might also consider the 47 people (advisers,security guards etc.) who died very suspiciously....like falling from windows,suicides,gun shots to the head. She is like the anointed one.
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