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SunSeeker's JournalWhy Sexism at the Office Makes Women Love Hillary Clinton
“You realize how many women are left standing as you age, and what happens to your brilliant and talented friends and colleagues from your 20s and 30s,” said Heather Boushey, the executive director and chief economist for the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, who has provided advice to the Clinton campaign. “These are tough lessons, and ones that you may not think are as pressing until you actually see them happen to your own friends and cohorts.”<snip>
Many more women over 25 are in the work force than those under, and women over 25 also do about twice as much unpaid domestic work as their younger counterparts.
For the many women who live at the center of that time crush, Mrs. Clinton’s emphasis on the wage gap, paid family leave and universal prekindergarten may be particularly appealing. Mr. Sanders, who also supports paid leave and universal pre-K, takes a different rhetorical tone, usually stressing affordable higher education and universal health care. <snip>
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/opinion/campaign-stops/why-sexism-at-the-office-makes-women-love-hillary-clinton.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-abc-region®ion=span-abc-region&WT.nav=span-abc-region&_r=0
Older women know. They've been through it. Once you've had kids and tried to hold down a job, you realize it really still is a man's world out there. That's why those women favor Hillary. They know Sanders "free college for all," even if it has a chance of passing (which it doesn't), is not going to fix sexism, it will not improve their lives. Only a dedicated feminist champion like Hillary will draw attention to the problem and do something about it.
Hillary Clinton is the president we need: Nicholas Burns
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Sanders, in many ways, is everything Trump is not — a man of decency, intelligence and purpose. In his long career in public service in Vermont and the Congress, however, he has demonstrated little interest in global politics, and it shows in the debates. His foreign-policy focus seems cast backwards almost exclusively on the Iraq War. But he has not developed a coherent strategy for what we should do about Iraq in 2016. When he has made specific policy suggestions, they tend to betray a lack of sophisticated insight about the countries and leaders the president has to deal with. One telling example was his recent suggestion that the way to defeat the Islamic State terror group is for Iran and Saudi Arabia, implacable foes, to join other Muslim nations in a military coalition.
Sanders’ most serious deficiency, however, could be in his capacity to lead as commander in chief in a dangerous 21st century world. It is difficult to imagine he'd have the confidence of our military, or understand how to use America’s Foreign Service effectively during a crisis. I fear electing him would be a risky roll of the dice on the most basic responsibility for any president, keeping the country safe in a hostile world.
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Of the remaining candidates, Republicans Jeb Bush and John Kasich have both run large state governments, have been active in national politics and have, by experience and interest, a good grasp of America’s place in the world.
But neither has the specific and deeply rooted experience Clinton earned as secretary of State, senator from New York and first lady in her extraordinary, indeed unique, service to our country. That is one of the many reasons I am supporting her and advising her campaign. She has broad and in-depth knowledge of global politics and economics, and has advocated for a strong national defense. Based on her time as a highly effective secretary of State, she is deeply respected by other world leaders for her intelligence and drive, and her reliability and integrity. These are vital qualities for a successful American president. She also has both the temperament to build coalitions with our friends and allies, and the toughness to deal firmly with our adversaries. In my view, she is by far the best prepared of all the candidates to lead our country at this difficult and dangerous time overseas.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/02/18/hillary-clinton-president-foreign-policy-crises-sanders-bush-kasich-nicholas-burns/80472346/
Hillary Had My Back
By Joseph C. Wilson
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The administration promised that it would seek explicit UN support prior to any military action. Meanwhile, every top official, including Secretary of State Colin Powell, assured senators that Saddam did indeed have WMD. It was in that context that the congressional vote for the Authorization for the Use of Military Force took place. Hillary has acknowledged in retrospect that her vote was an error. I agree. The error, however, was to believe an administration that has since been exposed as having serially lied to Congress, the American people and the world at the United Nations. We should never forget the extent to which the Bush administration betrayed our trust. The rest of the world doesn't.
During the U.S. occupation of Iraq, Hillary emerged as one of the administration's toughest critics. She traveled frequently to Iraq to observe the facts on the ground for herself and to speak directly to military commanders and U.S. officials. And she used her position as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee to harshly question the disastrous Bush policy. She never flinched in her criticism. Not to acknowledge the full story of Hillary's record is to distort it.
Valerie's and my support for Hillary is owed as much to her character as to the issues. When I challenged the Bush administration on the truth of its case for war in a New York Times opinion piece in 2003, its reaction was to betray Valerie's identity as a covert CIA officer. The subsequent vicious attack on us by Republican partisans, designed to shift the focus from their crime was withering and unrelenting. Hillary repeatedly reached out to us with counsel and empathy as we navigated the shark infested waters. Speaking from her own personal experience, she reminded us of the importance of the good fight, however difficult it might be. Those who were attacking us, like those who had attacked her over the years, wanted to destroy people doing the right thing in order to discourage others from venturing into the public square. If they can't win on the facts, they invent smears to attack the characters of their critics. With Hillary's moral support, we stood up to the bullies. We could not give them that victory. She was right and we were vindicated.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-wilson/hillary-had-my-back_b_9243038.html
Chris Hayes apologizes for editing Bill Clinton clip to make it sound like he was attacking Obama.
I just saw Chris Hayes apologize on his show tonight, saying "we shouldn’t have done that" in editing a Bill Clinton clip. Mediate ripped Hayes over the edited clip, which aired Friday night:
Busted: MSNBC Butchers Bill Clinton Mid-Quote to Make Him ‘Slam’ Obama
by Tommy Christopher | 3:27 pm, February 13th, 2016
Clinton: She’s always making something good happen. She’s the best change maker I’ve ever known. A lot of people say, you don’t understand. It’s different now. It’s rigged. Yeah, it’s rigged because you don’t have a president who is a change maker.(clip stops)
Hayes: (knowing glance)
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The “slam,” in case you missed it, is that by extension, President Clinton must be saying that Barack Obama is not a change-maker. He must be. Mustn’t he be? I mean, it can’t be that MSNBC cut him off in mid-sentence right before he was about to get the crowd to deliver a huge ovation for President Obama, could it? Not in mid sentence!
(Full Clinton statement:
She’s always making something good happen. She’s the best change maker I’ve ever known. A lot of people say, you don’t understand. It’s different now. It’s rigged. Yeah, it’s rigged because you don’t have a president who is a change maker with a Congress who will work with him. But the president has done a better job than he has gotten credit for. And don’t you forget it!
(Applause so huge Bill has to wait for it to die down, then continue talking because it won’t)
Don’t you forget it! Don’t you forget it! I’ve been there, and we shared the same feeling. We only had a Democratic Congress for two years. And then we lost it. And yet some of the loudest voices in my party said, it’s unbelievable, said “Well the only reason we had it for two years is that President Obama isn’t liberal enough!”
Is there one soul in this crowd that believes that?
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/busted-msnbc-butchers-bill-clinton-mid-quote-to-make-him-slam-obama/
The bold text is what Hayes cut off, completely changing the meaning of the sentence. Unfuckingbelievable. Nice to see Hayes apologize, but what a hack job. And there are still folks who insist MSNBC is in the tank for Hillary!
Samantha Bee's take on Dem debate.
Boy Crushed When His Mom Doesn't Vote for Clinton
Aiden Gerety, of Manchester, New Hampshire, went to the polls with his mother and, when he overheard his mom had not voted for the Democratic candidate, he started crying because he couldn't vote for her himself.
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So how did she calm young Aiden down? "I literally had to pretend to call the place to tell them I wanted to change my vote to get the tears to stop!" Gerety wrote in the Facebook post.
http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/year-clinton-supporter-crushed-mom-vote-candidate/story?id=36835086
The tike is beyond cute when he cries, "I want to vote for Hillary Clinton!"
Now THAT is getting the youth vote!
The Numbers Show Bernie Sanders Won’t Win, So What Will His Faithful Do Then?
If Sanders somehow does survive Super Tuesday, then he has March 15th, two weeks later, to contend with. In Florida, which holds its primary on that date, combined polling puts Clinton at 61% while Sanders has only 26%; North Carolina has 58% for Clinton and 28% for Sanders; Ohio is 53% for Clinton, 39% for Sanders. Regardless, by now it’s all over. Keeping in mind that Clinton already has a 45 to 1 advantage over Sanders in terms of pledged superdelegates, this thing will almost certainly be sewn up before the end of spring. That’s not an opinion. It’s math. The thing about reality is that it’s always there and you’re subject to the constraints of it whether you choose to believe in it or not. Barring a political deus ex machina of statistically inexpressible proportions, Bernie Sanders just isn’t going to be president.
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What Democrats and liberals in general can’t do is stay home out of spite. And it’s easy to look at the behavior of far too many Sanders supporters and discern that if Bernie’s presidential hopefuls die, a whole slew of Democratic votes die with him. They actually do conduct themselves like petulant children, and their unwillingness to acknowledge how both the electoral process and the American government works — which manifests clearly in the fact that they ignore campaign math and governmental reality in favor of emotional broad-strokes on how Bernie’s the singular figure who’ll make it all irrelevant — is a huge detriment to the Democratic party.
http://thedailybanter.com/2016/02/sanders-numbers-game/
102-year-old Iowan prepares to cast her 20th presidential vote
Steininger, 102, of Pleasant Hill, expects to vote this fall in her 20th presidential election. She hopes to cast her vote for Hillary Clinton, whom she considers one of the best candidates she’s ever seen.
The retired teacher came to Grand View University to hear the former secretary of State speak Friday. She backed Clinton in the 2008 Democratic caucuses and plans to do so again Monday.
“I think she’s the best qualified. She has so much experience,” Steininger said, shortly before the candidate took the stage.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/01/29/iowan-hopes-cast-20th-presidential-vote/79536016/
Hillary Rocked! (HILLARY GROUP)
Hillary's performance at that Town Hall was amazing. I am so proud of her. Far and away the most presidential candidate. She had the most applause, even though it was a much younger crowd, apparently mostly university students. She showed so much energy, humor and intelligence. Such a refreshing contrast from the grumpiness of Sanders and the blandness of O'Malley. Can't wait to vote for her!
(HILLARY GROUP) Our Collection Isn't Big Enough?
Signe Wilkinson- Washington Post Writers Group and Cartoonists Group
http://www.politico.com/gallery/2016/01/cartoon-carousel-002182?slide=2
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