Why I want Hillary Rodham Clinton to be President
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I have supported Hillary Clinton ever since she first appeared on the national stage several decades ago. As a woman growing up in the 60s and 70s I found in her someone I could look up to.
Many younger Americans don't often understand how she shook up the status quo when her husband entered the White House and she was not content to chose new china plates and give tours of the Rose Garden. Here was a First Lady who could actually make a difference rather than just be a hostess.
She came from a middle class background. She went to top schools by virtue of her hard work, study and determination. She was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth and everything she achieved, she worked damned hard for. She became Senior Class President of Wellesley, becoming the first student ever to give a Commencement speech and graduated from Yale Law School with Honors.
She was a key player in getting Bill Clinton elected to the White House both times. Under his Presidency, all of America prospered like never before. Jobs were created, the middle class prospered and the blueprint for health care for everyone was first formed.
Her entire adult life she has championed the cause of a better world for women and children. She has been an advocate around the world for both.
I think she is the best qualified candidate running from either party in this election. She served for 8 years in the US Senate, where she soon developed a reputation for being able to reach across the aisle and work with members of both parties. She also had the very difficult job of becoming Secretary of State after the George Bush years, which had virtually destroyed America's reputation abroad. The damages wrought by the Bush administration were expected to take years to repair. Hillary managed to not only repair and heal the damage in less than 4 years, but she strengthened ties with our allies and created a footprint to follow in the years ahead.
As a professional woman who has worked in a 'man's world' for most of my career, I am here to tell you that being a woman in a workplace dominated by men is not an easy task. A feminist once said that: “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good." Hillary and other women have lived with that reality their entire lives and live with it on a daily basis.
I don't support Hillary Clinton just because she is a woman. I support her because she is the best qualified candidate for the office of President. The fact that she is a woman, tells me she is better qualified times two from her nearest competition.
I leave you with Hillary's own words that sum a lot up for me:
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That is all we need ask of one another. 
Your post was positive and I totally respected it, until I read your comment.
"I think Hillary will win it with or without your vote. No one is forcing you to vote for her"
I feel like your divisive response in that comment totally negates the genuineness as well as the effectiveness of your post/argument for your primary decision to support HRC. 
Which made the statement they would not vote for Hillary Clinton under any circumstances. I replied that was certainly their right, but that I would be voting for the nominee.
If me stating I will vote for the nominee in response to someone making a statement essentially saying they won't ... negates the 'genuineness and the effectiveness' of my op and makes me divisive, then we will have to agree to disagree. My op is why I am voting for Hillary Rodham Clinton. I believe I stated it pretty clearly.
Your divisiveness comes from your statement of presuming her as the nominee--and not just stating your opinion on why you think she is the best candidate to support.
One would hope that you can come to terms with the way you come off when you use that type of rhetoric.
And I keep >>>>
maybe one day you'll learn how to write without propagating a presumptive nominee--that's what the main stream media is for.
Sorry....I'm not biting.
