For the record, Hillary Clinton got where she is own her own merits

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Topic subject For the record, Hillary Clinton got where she is own her own merits
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2730402, For the record, Hillary Clinton got where she is own her own merits
Posted by journalist3072 on Sun Jan-20-08 10:11 PM

I see we've still got the DUers (be they sexist, disingenuous, whatever you want to call them) who baselessly and shamelessly advance the theory that Sen. Clinton would not be where she is today, without Bill Clinton.

So let's just examine the facts here.

- When Hillary Rodham was asked to give the commencement speech at Wellsley College, it wasn't because of Bill Clinton. In fact, she didn't even know him. Her classmates choose her to represent them. When her college commencement speech was featured in Life magazine, it wasn't because of Bill Clinton.

- When Hillary Rodham was accepted into Yale Law School, it wasn't because of Bill Clinton.

- When Hillary Rodham was asked to come to Washington, DC and serve on the impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon, it wasn't because Bill Clinton was her boyfriend (which he was then).

- When Hillary Rodham worked for Marian Wright Edeleman at the Children's Defense Fund, it wasn't due to Bill Clinton getting her that job.

- When she got into the Rose Law Firm, and became the first woman to make partner there, it wasn't because Bill Clinton was her husband.

- She wasn't elected United States Senator because Bill Clinton was her husband.

The point being that she's a woman of her own means and accomplishment. Bill Clinton didn't make her.

So can we please stop this ridiculous notion that everything she has or has become, is because of Bill Clinton.