Hillary Clinton Is My Choice–part 1–Why I Support Sen. Clinton

[kerrygoddess]

Hillary Clinton Is My Choice–part 1–Why I Support Sen. Clinton
by Diane Elayne Dees
February 13th, 2008 @ 8:39 pm


As a Green Party member, I am well aware that the American people are not seeking the kind of radical change that Green values represent. Thankfully, though, there are still people in the Democratic Party who believe strongly in progressive values, and who practice them. One of those people is Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. When I think of Sen. Clinton, I cannot help but think about the dreadful “family values” arguments that were so popular during the Reagan days, and which are still dragged out by conservatives from time to time. Those values had a lot to do with very outdated (even then) ideas about what an American family is, and with the concept of exclusion. LGBT parenting, “interfering” child protection agencies and progressive education are all anathama to “family values” proponents.

But what about the average family in the U.S., whose parents and/or caregivers need tools to strengthen their children’s physical growth, mental health, educational progress, equal opportunity, safety, and well-being? Whoever provides these tools is someone who believes in real family-oriented values, and that someone–more than anyone else in public life–is Hillary Clinton, and she has been that person for a very long time. Even as a young woman, Clinton provided free legal advice to families, advocated for children through the Children’s Defense Fund, and founded a legal clinic for the poor, which handled child abuse cases. Clinton designed the successful State Children’s Health Insurance Program while she was First Lady, and she also designed the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which finally gave relief to children and adolescents who were forced by an unfair system to spend years going from one foster family to another.

One of her plans, as president, is to get rid of No Child Left Behind, and another is to finally fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA). She also advocates universal pre-kindergarten education for all children.

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[FrenchieCat]

1. That's right.....HIllary voted for NCLB before she said she was against it......

Who is this freak?

[jillan]

3. Funny - since this is Teddy's proud legislation.

[FrenchieCat]

4. And?

[jillan]

6. And everyone that voted for it because they trusted Kennedy are now against it.

It was never funded or carried out the way the legislation was written....

I'm sure you already know that.

[kerrygoddess]

12. "While we breathe we will hope"???

Good gracious. You have got to be joking - that is campaign sticker for Obama? Holy rollers here we come.

[rodeodance]

16. Hillary can make an assesment that it is not working. Why mock her -when you

have so many good things to post about your candidate?

[jillan]

2. For all of the reasons you have mentioned

are the main reasons I support her.

[Straight Shooter]

5. Adoption and Safe Families Act

That is an issue of major importance to me. :thumbsup:

[FrenchieCat]

7. So we cans send the adoptees to war later on? Iraq or Iran?

[kerrygoddess]

9. Come on...

You know it's crap like that that is really uncalled for.

[rodeodance]

17. go POOP on another thread --

[babylonsister]

8. Well, have a good time. I don't care if she's the

first female with a viable shot, I'm not a fan. One of her plans should she become prez is to abolish NCLB? Why doesn't she do it already-why didn't/haven't they all?

[kerrygoddess]

11. I'm quite sure many in the Senate feel the same way

ask them all why don't you.

YOu know I don't along and piss all over your threads now do I? So why don't you not piss on mine. Thanks.

[babylonsister]

13. So you rue opinions on a discussion forum? Gotcha. This is a happy thread! nt

[kerrygoddess]

14. What I rue is

meaningless digs.

[hfojvt]

10. very nice positive essay

but it does not say very much about poverty or working class issues, does it? That's hard to justify for a candidate who things a person making $110,000 a year is part of the middle class.

Also, this is not accurate:
"Yes, I regret that Sen. Clinton–and almost all of her colleagues–voted the way they did."

"almost all of her colleagues" voted for the Iraq war? That's certainly not true of her DEMOCRATIC colleagues. Some 110 or so in the House voted against it, and so did some 20 in the Senate. That's a blatant whitewash to say that Clinton voted like "almost all" of her fellow Democrats. Plus, she not only voted for it, she got on TV in February and said things like "Saddam is not co-operating with the inspectors" basically making Bush's case for war. And then spent two or three years opposing an end to the war, only switching to a more anti-war position when the 2006 elections made clear that the vast majority of voters were sick of it.

[kerrygoddess]

15. Funny...

That she gets so much of the lower income vote isn't it. Thanks for sharing.

[hfojvt]

18. actually it's not funny at all

it just shows the power of the M$M. Hillary could do one of those ads.

Hillary: "I'm not a person who cares about the poor and working classes, but I play one on TV."

She pretends to be a populist in her ads and on David Letterman and is good about talking about their problems and how little Republican policies will do to help. She falls far short in actually proposing something of her own that will do anything for the poor.