Hillary Clinton to receive prestigious Harvard medal

[DonViejo]

Source: The Sacramento Bee/AP


The Associated Press

May 20, 2018 10:01 AM

Updated 1 hour 12 minutes ago

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - Hillary Clinton is being honored with a medal during Harvard University's graduation week.

The former First Lady, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State and Democratic candidate for president will be awarded Friday in Cambridge with the Radcliffe Medal, which the university says honors individuals whose life and work have had a "transformative impact on society." Organizers say Clinton was chosen because she's a "champion for human rights," a "skilled legislator" and "an advocate of American leadership" on the world stage.

Former Secretary of State and 2001 Radcliffe Medalist Madeleine Albright will deliver a personal tribute to Clinton, and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey will take part in a keynote conversation with her Friday.

Previous medal recipients include Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole.

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Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article211533979.html

[Grassy Knoll]

1. I Smell Orange Hair Burning..

..

[Wellstone ruled]

10. So that is why the Orange

POS is all worked up.

[redstatebluegirl]

28. I had so hoped the Obama's would have been invited to the royal wedding.

That combined with this would have given him a stroke.

[vsrazdem]

2. That is sure to chap Trumps behind.

[sandensea]

7. Oh, well.

He can always get one from Trump University.

[Paladin]

3. Suck on THAT, trump. Same for our resident DU Hillary-bashers.

Kudos to Harvard for bestowing such a distinguished honor upon someone so worthy of it.

[ashling]

4. Latest trump tweet

I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into Harvard University

[Doreen]

5. You all know that trump will insist on getting that award also.

Obama got the Noble peace prize so trump thinks he should to. He can't let anyone outdo him.

[karynnj]

16. UHMMM look at all the names of the winners and remember that Radcliffe was once a woman's

college.

There are a whole slew of reasons that Trump does not deserve this - or any respectable organization's award, but note that this does not seem to have been given to Harvard grads - JFK or Barak Obama.

[Doreen]

23. Yeah, I know, but do you think those facts would stop trump from feeling like he

should get something to its equal?

[meow2u3]

6. I heard an orange head just exploded

[lunamagica]

8. WTG, Hillary!

[iluvtennis]

9. Well deserved!!!! Hill's been a champion for hum rights since she was a teen.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. Watch for videos of Trumpers blowing up their Harvard bedframes. NT

[lillypaddle]

12. well deserved, Secretary/Senator Clinton

You are a star.

[Alethia Merritt]

13. It is about time her supporters did something to honor her life's service and persistence through

everything that her detractors have thrown at her and the media's complicity in delivering the "kitchen sink."

She was clairvoyant about Trump and his administration.

[calimary]

14. Welcome to DU, Alethia Merritt!

DAMN STRAIGHT!!! Yes, I'm SHOUTING.

She's been right on so many issues that it's frankly rather painful to think about them, much less try to list them all.

I find myself almost constantly in comparison mode. If Hillary were in the White House she rightfully and legitimately earned (AND WON), how differently things would play out.

The only thing that even minimally eases my angst is the realization that if she had prevailed, and she were our President now, she would be freakin' HOUNDED. Hounded by the republi-CONS, and Pox Noise, and the Sinclair people, AND hate radio, AND all the damn "think" tanks on the far right, and the so-called "Freedom" caucus, and all those jerks who simply hate her for the sheer delight of hating her - because MAN-oh-MAN we simply CANNOT have an Alpha female in this country. An Alpha female doesn't know her place and has no business doing a man's job. And all that other crap. Having had the White House stolen from her, she's in the private sector these days, and not a direct or first-line target. Her enemies all have other things on their plate now, and their desperate attempts to protect and excuse and cover for their deceitful and destructive pet orange weasel.

[Alethia Merritt]

25. Thank you. She was saved from the wolves by grace.

[keithbvadu2]

15. Easily fixed... Donald will have some Nobels made up.

Easily fixed... Donald will have some Nobels made up.

[BootinUp]

17. She earned it, congratulations Hillary. Nt

[BigmanPigman]

18. Fuckin A!

[Cha]

19. Good on Hillary!

Suck it up.. all those assholes who LIE about her.

[flibbitygiblets]

20. Meanwhile Rump is relegated to the less-than-prestigious PutzPuller Prize. SAD.

It's a statue of a man with his head up his own ass.

[truthisfreedom]

21. 45 to receive sour grapes

[lordsummerisle]

22. Couldn't be more deserving

...individuals whose life and work have had a "transformative impact on society." Organizers say Clinton was chosen because she's a "champion for human rights," a "skilled legislator" and "an advocate of American leadership" on the world stage.

F*ck you Hillary haters...

[riversedge]

24. Congratulations to Hillary.

[quartz007]

26. Hillary sounds like she wants to run in 2020!

She said in the speech, she is NOT over her loss in 2016.
Go Hillary 2020!

[stonecutter357]

27. K&R !