Best line from Clinton tonight:

[AGirl]

I want to thank all my friends and family, particularly my mother, who was born before women could vote and is watching her daughter on this stage tonight.












I know she will win this.

[gateley]

1. I loved that - I'm so grateful I'm seeing this in my lifetime. nt

[emilyg]

5. So am I.

[calimary]

9. Me, too!!!!!

And I heard so many stories like that all day long. Randi Rhodes was talking about them on her show today. Callers kept stepping up to add more. SO many stories about mothers and grandmothers taking such personal pride. Amazing stories told by women about their mothers and grandmas who were born before women got the right to vote.

I have encountered so many women about my age and older who have said the same sort of thing - "I've waited all my life to vote for a woman for president." If Hillary is our nominee, I will work my fingers to the bone for her.

Frankly, we win either way. Either way we're gonna make history. Either way, I'm happy!

:toast:

[Straight Shooter]

2. Hillary is a lucky woman.

She has a great mutual love with her mother and her daughter.

[Hoof Hearted]

3. Wow. I'm so happy for her! n/t

[MonkeyFunk]

4. It really is a powerful point

Gomama!

[Qanisqineq]

6. I loved that line, too

As someone in her mid-30's, it is so hard for me to imagine women not being able to vote. Just like it is hard for me to imagine segregation. Things have changed so much just in my grandmother's lifetime.

[El Pinko]

7. Congrats to Sen. Clinton on a well-earned victory.

I really had a hard time choosing, and ended up voting Obama, but almost had to flip a coin to decide.

I really have a hard time understanding the Hillary haters - and I was furious with her over the IWR vote, but I still respect and admire her.

[Vickers]

8. Great soundbite, but...

...Illinois (where Clinton and her mom are from) was one of the first states to grant voting rights to women (for presidential elections), and it preceded the 19th Amendment (1920) by several years.

Hey, I have 3 daughters, they drill me with this info!

[Recursion]

11. Jeannette Rankin voted for peace...

...before 90% of women were allowed to vote for her.

[candice]

12. ...an advanced state....land of Lincoln, my favorite president....

[candice]

10. Hillary's mother told her daughter that one day she could be president...

back when that was unconceivable for a woman.

Still the bar is set so much higher for a woman than a man, but that means that a woman candidate will be supremely qualified to do the job.

[avrdream]

13. Very true about that bar being set so high.

We have seen it this entire primary season.

[FirstLight]

14. As an Edwards supporter...I am leaning towards Hillary

I know, I know, The corporate evil blah blah blah... BUT

I feel more of a conection with her, I have met Bill and think she has to be an amazingly strong woman to have stayed with this man for his wandering... but he was incredible too. I like his politics, and think that hers and his are similar and linked, because you can't be married for that long and not have some of the same beliefs - which isn't all that bad, because they do believe in fighting for regular people, I honestly believe that.. more and more as I see her flex her WOMAN POWER
which is long overdue IMO

We need the feminine to claim her strength
we DO need a village Hillary
can you help us create it?

I am still siting the fence, me and my 3 kids living in poverty in America
we have food and shelter, but no hope for freedom the way most people experience it
I can't go to the store and get the soap I want
...I have to ask my mother to shop for me and bring me what she can, because I am too poor to buy my kids bubble bath, or eggs and milk for that matter...(and YES I WORK)

I NEED a President who "gets it"

And I know I will vote Dem in the Generals
I hope Hillary can work with Edwards to make some real shifts in our world, our lives, our country...

[AGirl]

16. I believe Hillary generally do cares about the American people like Edwards

[midnight]

22. Hi Journalgrrl. I kinda have the same feeling about leaning

towards Hillary. I will vote for Edwards in the primary, but then vote for whomever is the primary winner in the G.E. Hopefully Edwards will have have a job in this next administration that will continue to work to correct lifes of working people so they too can have freedom to by the basics for their family's.

[demokatgurrl]

24. Me too. More strongly now

and I have been through Kucinich, then Edwards, then Clinton, then Obama. Now I'm getting a little scared at the thought of an Obama win. He's no progressive. Read up on him a bit, especially his ideas on social security.

Clinton has been in public service a long time. And I'm not talking about "First Lady"- she was an advocate for children as an attorney, and has worked hard for social causes. She has a true liberal's conscience. She is not "corporate evil". Don't listen to the neocons- they are going to be slinging it fast and furious now.

[farmboxer]

15. Women have come a long way,

There was a time they were not allowed to vote. Republican MSM hates her guts. She tried to give us Universal Healthcare, but suffered, she suffered for "We The People" and Republicans will never forgive her.

[leftynyc]

17. That makes my eyes tear up

(or curling into a fetal position and crying my eyes out as an Obama supporter would describe it). Think of all the women out there who are in that position. I so wish my grandmothers were still alive to see this.

[joshcryer]

18. Women vote for Hillary in staggering numbers. Nearly 60% in most cases.

Women are winning this for Hillary.

[DemExpat]

19. Kick

This is so wonderful.

DemEx

[NastyRiffraff]

20. One reason I switched to Hillary was because she was a strong, capable woman

It certainly wasn't the only, or main reason, but it definitely was a part of my decision. If she does win the nomination, and the White House, I'll definitely "tear up."

[RestoreGore]

I have to admit that line made me proud as a woman n/t

[RestoreGore]

21. Sorry, dupe

[demokatgurrl]

23. I liked the "Swift Boat" line-

she had to say that, to let us know she won't take the bullshit they threw at Kerry. And really, they have already thrown it all at her, what's left?

[Bread and Circus]

25. As much as I loathe Hillary, that was touching.

[AGirl]

26. kick!

[AGirl]

27. kick

[AGirl]

28. kick

[BlackVelvet04]

29. That was my favorite thing that she said.....

It hasn't been so many years ago that women were the property of their husbands. They couldn't own land. They couldn't vote. If a man beat his wife it was his right. We HAVE come a long way baby.

Why am I voting for Hillary Clinton? Lots of reasons but in part because in the past 7 years we have seen a woman's right to birth control challenged and the right to an abortion challenged. We fought damn hard for those rights and NO man, I don't care who he is, has the same emotional investment in those issues. So this election I vote for the person I believe will best support MY interests and the interest's of my nieces and great nieces.

Anyone remember the photo of the signing of the partial birth abortion law that showed all those men standing around grinning over it? Well, it's time WOMEN actually have the say over the abortion laws.

President Bush's signing of the partial birth abortion ban:




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