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61. ok first of all that wasn't the initial hit on the
OP -- the OP whines that white women took advantge -- inveigled their way into a legislation that was really meant for someone else.

there are just REAMS wrong with that.

second -- you're not going to ever find a woman with a bettter record and story than this.
and why i find so much of the anti-hillary outrage to be phony.
just as i find it phony that you say woman 'x' is ok -- but not a woman with the record i'm posting below.

third obama used an utterly sexist strategy with his anti-gay gimmick in south carolina.

all of which is falling in line with the OP -- your statements -- and a great deal of obamanation hill hate.

and i am not a hill supporter -- i have not donated to her campaign -- i have worked for her campaign.

thanks to perry logan who compiled this.


Senator Clinton supported the interests of the NARAL Pro-Choice America 100 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the The Humane Society of the United States 100 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the National Trust for Historic Preservation 100 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 95 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights 100 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the National Education Association 100 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the American Wilderness Coalition 100 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund 100 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the League of Conservation Voters 95 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Children's Defense Fund 100 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the American Association of University Women 100 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the National Organization for Women 100 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group 91 percent in 2006.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group 100 percent in 2005
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence 100 percent from 1988-2003 (Senate) or 1991-2003 (House).
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the American Public Health Association 80 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers 100 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Service Employees International Union 100 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the United Auto Workers 93 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the AFL-CIO 93 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers 84 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Worker 100 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees 88 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the American Federation of Government Employees 83 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the National Committee for an Effective Congress 95 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Americans for Democratic Action 100 percent in 2005.
According to the National Journal - Composite Liberal Score's calculations, in 2005, Senator Clinton voted more liberal on economic, defense and foreign policy issues than 80 percent of the Senators.
According to the National Journal - Liberal on Social Policy's calculations, in 2005, Senator Clinton voted more liberal on social policy issues than 83 percent of the Senators.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Alliance for Retired Americans 100 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Disabled American Veterans 92 percent in 2005.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the Bread for the World 100 percent in 2003-2004.
Senator Clinton supported the interests of the The Partnership for the Homeless 100 percent in 2003-2004.
http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can ...
She was promoting universal coverage before it was cool. Furthermore she helped to create the SCHIP program. And most importantly she was dead on in the debate the other week where she said political will was the most important thing needed to push health care reform through and we know without a doubt she has that.
She has fougt unrelentingly for a woman's right to choose as well as women's rights both domestically and abroad
Create a Strategic Energy Fund - Hillary has proposed a Strategic Energy Fund that would inject $50 billion into research, development and deployment of renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean coal technology, ethanol and other homegrown biofuels. Hillary's proposal would give oil companies a choice: invest in renewable energy or pay into the fund. Hillary's proposal would also eliminate oil company tax breaks and make sure that oil companies pay their fair share for drilling on public lands. Instead of sending billions of dollars to the Middle East for their oil, Hillary's proposal will create a new clean energy industry in America and create tens of thousands of jobs here.
Champion a Market-Based "Cap and Trade" Approach - Hillary supports a market-based, cap and trade approach to reducing carbon emissions and fight global warming. This approach was used successfully to limit sulfur dioxide and reduce levels of acid rain in the 1990s. By capping the amount of emissions in the environment and allowing corporations to buy and sell permits, this approach offers corporations a flexible, cost-efficient method to do their share to reduce emissions and combat global warming. The program will reduce emissions, drive the development of clean technologies, and create a market for projects that store carbon dioxide.
20% Renewable Electricity Standard by 2020 - Hillary believes we need to shift our reliance on high carbon electricity sources to low-carbon electricity sources by investing in renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind. As President, she'll work to require power companies to obtain 20 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020.
Make Federal Buildings Carbon Neutral - Hillary believes that the federal government should lead the way in reducing carbon emissions from buildings. Buildings account for 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the federal government owns or leases more than 500,000. Hillary would require all federal buildings to steadily increase the use of green design principles, energy efficient technologies, and to generate energy on-site from solar and other renewable sources. By 2030, all new federal buildings and major renovations would be carbon neutral, helping to fight global warming and cutting the $5.6 billion that the federal government spends each year on heating, cooling and lighting.
Protecting Against Exposure to Toxic Chemicals - Hillary wants to make the products we use safer, especially for children. There are tens of thousands of chemicals used in the U.S. and hundreds of new chemicals introduced each year, but little health testing is conducted for many of them. Hillary would require chemical companies to prove that new chemicals are safe before they are put on the market, and would set more stringent exposure standards for kids. She would also create a "priority list" of existing chemicals and require testing to make sure they are safe. To improve our understanding of the links between chemicals and diseases like cancer, Hillary would create an "environmental health tracking network" that ties together information about pollution and chronic diseases.
Hillary's Record
In the White House, Hillary led efforts to make adoption easier, to expand early learning and child care, to increase funding for breast cancer research, and to help veterans suffering from Gulf War syndrome who had too often been ignored in the past. She helped launch a national campaign to prevent teen pregnancy and helped create the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, which moved children from foster care to adoption more quickly and the number of children who have moved out of foster care into adoption has increased dramatically.
She was instrumental in designing and championing the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which has provided millions of children with health insurance. She battled the big drug companies to force them to test their drugs for children and to make sure all kids get the immunizations they need through the Vaccines for Children Program. Immunization rates dramatically improved after the program launched.
Hillary has been a leading member of the Environment and Public Works Committee since she was elected to the Senate. Today, she chairs the Superfund and Environmental Health Subcommittee and in that capacity has promoted legislation to evaluate and protect against the impact of environmental pollutants on people's health and clean up toxic waste.
Global warming and Clean Air
Spoken out forcefully about the need to tackle global warming in hearings, speeches, rallies and on the Senate floor and co-sponsored "cap and trade" legislation.
Worked to reduce air pollution that causes asthma and other respiratory diseases by writing and helping to pass new laws to clean up exhaust from school buses, and other diesel-powered equipment.
Supported legislation to reduce pollution from power plants, including harmful emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury, and carbon dioxide - emissions that contribute to poor air quality, smog, acid rain, global warming, and mercury contamination of fish.
Aggressively fought the Bush Administration's ill-advised attempts to weaken clean air laws.
Improving Water Quality and Protecting Drinking Water
Helped to overturn the Bush Administration's attempt to allow more arsenic in drinking water.
Cosponsored legislation to protect lakes, rivers and coastal waters by fighting the spread of destructive invasive species, such as the zebra mussel.
Helped ot pass new clean water laws, including measures to protect New York City's water supplies and clean up Long Island Sound.
Protecting Public Lands
Fought oil company efforts to pen the Artic Wildlife Refuge in Alask and Pacific and Atlantic coastal waters to drilling.
Cosponsored the Roadless Area Conservation Act, which prohibits road construction and logging in unspoiled, roadless areas of the National Forest System, and voted for additional funding and manpower to combat forest fires in the west.
Reducing Dangerous Chemicals and Cleaning Up Hazardous Waste
Supported legislation to restore the "polluter pays" principle by reinstating a chemical company fee to fund cleanups of highly contaminated "Superfund" waste sites.
Cosponsored the "kids-Safe Chemical Act," which requires chemical companies to provide health and safety before putting new chemicals in consumer products.
Proposed legislation to create an environmental health tracking network to enable us to better understand the impact of environmental hazards on human health and well-being.
Tackling the Toxic Legacy of 9/11
Pushed for health care benefits for first responders, residents and others whose health has been impacted from breathing the toxic dust and smoke in New York City after 9/11.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/8/20/134810/677
Hillary Clinton co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a state-level alliance with the Children's Defense Fund, in 1977. In late 1977, President Jimmy Carter (for whom she had done 1976 campaign coordination work in Indiana) appointed her to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation, and she served in that capacity from 1978 through the end of 1981. For much of that time she served as the chair of that board, the first woman to do so. During her time as chair, funding for the Corporation was expanded from $90 million to $300 million, and she successfully battled against President Ronald Reagan's initial attempts to reduce the funding and change the nature of the organization.
Following the November 1978 election of her husband as Governor of Arkansas, Clinton became First Lady of Arkansas in January 1979, her title for a total of twelve years. Bill appointed her chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee the same year, where she successfully obtained federal funds to expand medical facilities in Arkansas' poorest areas without affecting doctors' fees.
Hillary Clinton chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee from 1982 to 1992, where she sought to bring about reform in the state's court-sanctioned public education system. One of the most important initiatives of the entire Clinton governorship, she fought a prolonged but ultimately successful battle against the Arkansas Education Association to put mandatory teacher testing as well as state standards for curriculum and classroom size in place. She introduced Arkansas' Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth in 1985, a program that helps parents work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy.
And a bit of stuff from the White House :
The First Lady worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War, which became known as the Gulf War syndrome. Together with Attorney General Janet Reno, Clinton helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice. In 1997, she initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which she regarded as her greatest accomplishment as First Lady.
Along with Senator Ted Kennedy, she was the major force behind the State Children's Health Insurance Program in 1997, a federal effort that provided state support for children whose parents were unable to provide them with health coverage.<124> She promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses and encouraged older women to seek a mammogram to detect breast cancer, with coverage provided by Medicare.<125> She successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health.<43> The First Lady worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War, which became known as the Gulf War syndrome.<43> Together with Attorney General Janet Reno, Clinton helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice.<43> In 1997, she initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which she regarded as her greatest accomplishment as First Lady.<43> As First Lady, Clinton hosted numerous White House Conferences, including ones on Child Care (1997),<126> Early Childhood Development and Learning (1997),<127> and Children and Adolescents (2000),<128> and the first-ever White House Conferences on Teenagers (2000)<129> and Philanthropy (1999).<130>
Hillary Clinton traveled to over eighty countries during this time,<131> breaking the mark for most-travelled First Lady held by Pat Nixon.<132> In a September 1995 speech before the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, Clinton argued very forcefully against practices that abused women around the world and in China itself.<133> She was one of the most prominent international figures at the time to speak out against the treatment of Afghan women by the Islamist fundamentalist Taliban that had seized control of Afghanistan.<134><135> She helped create Vital Voices, an international initiative sponsored by the United States to promote the participation of women in the political processes of their countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton
More:
http://clinton.senate.gov/issues/nationalsecurity/israe ...
http://clinton.senate.gov/issues/nationalsecurity/darfu ...
The following are polls from progressive groups, rating Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, on how often they vote for progressive issues. For each group, http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/011142.php
Clinton Vs. Barack Obama (progressivepunch)
Overall Progressive Score: 92% 90%
Aid to Less Advantaged People at Home and Abroad: 98% 97%
Corporate Subsidies 100% N/A
Education, Humanities and the Arts 88% 100%
Environment 92% 100%
Fair Taxation 97% 100%
Family Planning 88% 80%
Government Checks on Corporate Power 95% 97%
Healthcare 98% 94%
Housing 100% 100%
Human Rights & Civil Liberties 82% 77%
Justice for All: Civil and Criminal 94% 91%
Labor Rights 91% 91%
Making Government Work for Everyone, Not Just the Rich or Powerful 94% 90%
War and Peace 80% 86%
easures to protect New York City's water supplies and clean up Long Island Sound.
HILLARY'S EXPERIENCE ON THE WORLD STAGE:
Her historic speech at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 not only galvanized women around the world, it helped spawn a movement that led to advances politically, legally, economically, and socially for women in many countries over the next decade. Among other initiatives, she spearheaded the Clinton Administration's efforts to combat the global crisis of human trafficking. She persuaded the First Ladies of the Americas to use their collective power to eradicate measles and improve girls' education throughout the western Hemisphere. And she is widely credited with helping women in Kuwait finally win the right to vote.
As First Lady and now as a two-term senator who represents the most ethnically diverse state in the nation and who sits on the Armed Services Committee, Hillary Clinton has become a fixture on international issues over the past 15 years. She has traveled to more than 80 countries, going from barrios to rural villages to meetings with heads of state. She has consulted with dozens of world leaders - Nelson Mandela, King Abdullah, Tony Blair among them -- on matters as diverse as America and NATO's roles in Kosovo, eradicating poverty in the Third World, and the plight of women living under the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Today, she is one of the most influential voices in the world on human rights, democracy, and the promotion of a "new internationalism" in foreign affairs that calls for a balanced use of military force, diplomacy, and social development to strengthen American interests and security globally.
While American First Ladies historically have made great (and often overlooked) contributions to our nation, Hillary Clinton's wide-ranging experience on international issues as First Lady is unprecedented. Indeed, she is the only First Lady to have delivered foreign policy addresses at major gatherings of the United Nations, the World Bank, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the World Economic Forum.
Hillary Clinton has been fighting for the rights of children for special needs for decades. In her first job out of law school working for the Children's Defense Fund, she conducted research that led to Congress passing the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, the landmark bill mandating that all children with disabilities be educated in the public school system. later, she helped improve the education of children with special needs by working to reauthorize the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act. In 2005, she sponsored an amendment to increase funding for the act by $4 billion dollars. She also cosponsored the Personal Excellence for Children with Disabilities Act, a bill that promised to help schools recruit and retain new special education teachers, and better prepare general education teachers and staff to work with children with special needs.
Most recently, she has called for greatly expanded funding to the National Institute for Health to investigate treatments for children with disabilities. And she has put forth a comprehensive and detailed plan to help children and families affected by autism, with numerous elements that correspond very closely to what families in the autism community have been demanding for years.
some points on her legal career:
1969 Truehaft, Walker and Bernstein in Oakland, one of the most liberal law firms in the country. They defended the Panthers.
1970 Yale University - city legal services, provided free legal advice for the poor.
1971 Staff attorney, Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1971 Carnegie Council on Children, legal consultant.
1974 Impeachment Inquiry staff in Washington, D.C., advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal.
1974 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville School of Law - One of only two female faculty members.
1976 Worked pro bono on child advocacy.
1978 Jimmy Carter appoints Clinton to the board of the Legal Services Corporation.

Education
Wellesley College where she majored in political science.
Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action.
Political Activist Experience
Pragmatic Liberal
Always fascinated by radicalism, she wrote her senior thesis on a great radical organizer of poor people, Saul Alinsky of Chicago. Though when she was offered a job by Alinsky, after she wrote about him, and she turned him down--because she didn't think he was effective enough. She said to her boyfriend at that timebe in politics you have to win. And it didn't look to her like Alinsky was winning enough of his battles. She came to question his methodology and concluded in her thesis that larger government programs and funding were needed, not just community action at the grass roots.
She was the commencement speaker at Wellesley in 1969, chosen by her fellow students--there had never been a student commencement speaker there before. The scheduled speaker was Sen. Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, who Hillary had campaigned for, a Republican, the first black to be a member of the U.S. Senate in a hundred years. In his remarks he was patronizing, Hillary thought. He seemed to defend the Nixon administration's conduct of the war, and didn't mention the wrenching events of 68. When he finished, Hillary got up and extemporaneously excoriated him. As a result of that speech, she was featured in Life magazine as exemplary of this new generation of student leaders. They ran a picture of her in pedal pushers and her Coke-bottle glasses. That article made her well known in the student movement in the U.S.
She monitored the Black Panther trial in New Haven. She monitored the trial to see if there were any abuses of the rights of the Panthers on trial, and helped schedule the monitors. Her reports were turned over to the ACLU.
1971 Senator Walter Mondale's subcommittee on migrant workers, researching migrant problems in housing, sanitation, health and education.
Political Campaign Experience
1964 In high school, volunteered for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater.
1968 New Hampshire, Eugene McCarthy primary challenge to LBJ.
1972 Campaigned in the western states for 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern
1976 Jimmy Carter Presidential race, served as an Indiana campaign coordinator.
The Clinton Campaigns (Bill Clinton has stated Hillary played pivotal roles in his campaigns)
1974 Bill Clinton's Congressional race (L)
1976 Bill Clinton's Attorney General race (W)
1978 Bill Clinton's Governor's Race (W)
1980 Bill Clinton's Governor's Race (L)
1982 Bill Clinton's Governor's Race (W)
1992 Bill Clinton's Presidential Race (W)
1996 Bill Clinton's Presidential Race (W)
2000 Hillary Clinton's Senate Campaign (W)
2006 Hillary Clinton's Senate Campaign (W)
Legal Experience
1969 Truehaft, Walker and Bernstein in Oakland, one of the most liberal law firms in the country. They defended the Panthers.
1970 Yale University - city legal services, provided free legal advice for the poor.
1971 Staff attorney, Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1971 Carnegie Council on Children, legal consultant.
1974 Impeachment Inquiry staff in Washington, D.C., advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal.
1974 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville School of Law - One of only two female faculty members.
1976 Rose Law Firm. In 1979, she became the first woman to be made a full partner.
1976 Worked pro bono on child advocacy.
1978 Jimmy Carter appoints Clinton to the board of the Legal Services Corporation.
She was twice named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America, in 1988 and in 1991.
First Lady of Arkansas
1979 Chaired the Rural Health Advisory Committee
1979 Introduced the Arkansas' Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth, a program that helps parents work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy.
1982 - 1992 Chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee
She was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984.
Clinton had co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families in 1977.
Served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital Legal Services (1988-1992)and the Children's Defense Fund (as chair, 1986-1992)
Corporate board of directors of TCBY (1985-1992),Wal-Mart Stores (1986-1992), and Lafarge (1990-1992)
First Lady of the United States of America
"She's very smart ... people rightly give her credit for having been a participant in the Clinton administration and for doing some heavy lifting on issues." Barack Obama, speaking of Hillary Clinton's White House experience and contradicting Obama supporters - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 8/22/07
When asked about his wife's role in his administration in August of 2000, President Bill Clinton said "She basically had an unprecedented level of activity in her present position over the last eight years.''
1993 First to bring a serious universal healthcare plan to be considered by the US Congress
1997 Helped develop the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997
The First Lady led the effor on the Foster Care Independence bill, to help older, unadopted children transition to adulthood. She also hosted numerous White House conferences that related to children's health, including early childhood development (1997) and school violence (1999). She lent her support to programs ranging from "Prescription for Reading," in which pediatricians provided free books for new mothers to read to their infants as their brains were rapidly developing, to nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses. She also supported an annual drive to encourage older women to seek a mammography to prevent breast cancer, coverage of the cost being provided by Medicare.
Hillary Clinton was the only First Lady to keep an office in the West Wing among those of the president's senior staff. While her familiarity with the intricate political issues and decisions faced by the President, she openly discussed his work with him, yet stated that ultimately she was but one of several individuals he consulted before making a decision. They were known to disagree. Regarding his 1993 passage of welfare reform, the First Lady had reservations about federally supported childcare and Medicaid. When issues that she was working on were under discussion at the morning senior staff meetings, the First Lady often attended. Aides kept her informed of all pending legislation and oftentimes sought her reaction to issues as a way of gauging the President's potential response. Weighing in on his Cabinet appointments and knowing many of the individuals he named, she had working relationships with many of them.
She persuaded Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to convene a meeting of corporate CEOs for their advice on how companies could be persuaded to adopt better child care measures for working families.
With Attorney General Janet Reno, the First Lady helped to create the Department of Justice's Violence Against Women office. One of her closest Cabinet allies was Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Following her international trips, Hillary Clinton wrote a report of her observations for Albright. A primary effort they shared was globally advocating gender equity in economics, employment, health care and education.
During her trips to Africa (1997), Asia (1995), South America (1995, 1997) and the Central European former Soviet satellite nations (1997, 1998), Hillary Clinton emphasized "a civil society," of human rights as a road to democracy and capitalism.
The First Lady was also one of the few international figures at the time who spoke out against the treatment of Afghani women by Islamist fundamentalist Taliban that had seized control of Afghanistan.
One of the programs she helped create was Vital Voices, a U.S.-sponsored initiative to promote the participation of international women in their nation's political process. One result of the group's meetings, in Northern Ireland, was drawing together women leaders of various political factions that supported the Good Friday peace agreement that brought peace to that nation long at civil war.
Hillary Clinton was also an active supporter of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), often awarding its micro-loans to small enterprises begun by women in developing nations that aided the economic growth in their impoverished communities. Certainly one of her more important speeches as First Lady addressing the need for equal rights for women was international in scope and created controversy in the nation where it was made: the September 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.
Senator From New York
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Hillary worked with her colleagues to secure the funds New York needed to recover and rebuild. She fought to provide compensation to the families of the victims, grants for hard-hit small businesses, and health care for front line workers at Ground Zero.
She is the first New Yorker ever to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
She has introduced legislation to tie Congressional salary increases to an increase in the minimum wage.
She helped pass legislation that encouraged investment to create jobs in struggling communities through the Renewal Communities program.
She has championed legislation to bring broadband Internet access to rural America.
She worked to strengthen the Children's Health Insurance Program, which increased coverage for children in low income and working families.
She authored legislation that has been enacted to improve quality and lower the cost of prescription drugs and to protect our food supply from bioterrorism.
She sponsored legislation to increase America's commitment to fighting the global HIV/AIDS crisis.
She's working for expanded use of information technology in the health care system to decrease administrative costs, lower premiums, and reduce medical errors.
She's worked to ensure the safety of prescription drugs for children, with legislation now included in the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act, and her legislation to help schools address environmental hazards. She has also proposed expanding access to child care.
She has passed legislation that will bring more qualified teachers into classrooms and more outstanding principals to lead our schools.
Hillary is one of the original cosponsors of the Prevention First Act to increase access to family planning. Her fight with the Bush Administration ensured that Plan B, an emergency contraceptive, will be available to millions of American women and will reduce the need for abortions.
She introduced the Count Every Vote Act of 2005 to ensure better protection of votes and to ensure that every vote is counted.
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  -Women are Minorities in a COMPROMISE to Appease Black Men?? THIS is as sexist as it gets Mezzo  May-08-08 09:22 AM   #0 
  - Some of us don't hang out on DU 24/7. No clue what you are talking about  beachmom   May-08-08 09:24 AM   #1 
  - You don't have to respond to the link...but it is indicative of what is going on, and how we're bein  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:26 AM   #4 
  - Well, standing and fighting means more people will read it. Now a thought  beachmom   May-08-08 09:29 AM   #9 
  - Even reading this very thread...look at the divide...there are people who REALLY see nothing wrong  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:32 AM   #13 
     - cbs and abc do tout how Obama gets the Black vote and Hillary  rodeodance   May-08-08 10:21 AM   #106 
        - The difference is I don't hear Obama discounting women and wondering aloud how  beachmom   May-08-08 12:33 PM   #153 
  - who gives a shit about one post on a message board. this is not  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:24 PM   #146 
  - Why respond to a thread if you have not a clue what it is for  dogday   May-08-08 09:42 AM   #28 
     - Just pointing out how the O'Reilly cherrypicking is going on here.  beachmom   May-08-08 12:32 PM   #152 
  - that's pretty disgusting  ElsewheresDaughter   May-08-08 09:24 AM   #2 
  - Black people  Jake3463   May-08-08 09:26 AM   #3 
  - what does that have to do with the OP? Women have been pretty loyal as well.  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:27 AM   #5 
  - That white women benefited the most from  Jake3463   May-08-08 09:29 AM   #8 
     - oh bullshit. And are you saying "white" women, specifically? really? Kinda racist, dontcha think?  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:31 AM   #11 
     - Damn you outed me  Jake3463   May-08-08 09:33 AM   #14 
     - Crickets  Jake3463   May-08-08 09:40 AM   #24 
     - This has nothing to do with Hillary or Barack. Show me where I said it did.  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:43 AM   #30 
        - You just called me a Racist and a Sexist  Jake3463   May-08-08 09:45 AM   #39 
           - and I told you I was responding to others here, you're not the only person  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:48 AM   #45 
              - Sexist and Racist comments?  Jake3463   May-08-08 09:52 AM   #50 
                 - yep.  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:59 AM   #62 
     - oh god.  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:26 PM   #149 
     - delete  dogday   May-08-08 09:44 AM   #36 
     - and in turn white men because many put their businesses in their wifes' name to game the AA system  Doityourself   May-08-08 09:55 AM   #54 
  - Does that include Black women, and I wonder if this  dogday   May-08-08 09:43 AM   #32 
  - What are you talking about?  Katzenkavalier   May-08-08 09:27 AM   #6 
  - sexism. read the post. Others understood it perfectly, so what are you talking about?  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:30 AM   #10 
     - Where was the offense?  ellacott   May-08-08 09:31 AM   #12 
        - The problem seem to be more deep seeded than I thought.  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:34 AM   #16 
        - Sort of  Jake3463   May-08-08 09:37 AM   #19 
        - no, they just got raped and beaten to death by their abusive husbands...  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:53 AM   #52 
        - When they went to the polling places?  Jake3463   May-08-08 09:55 AM   #55 
        - No- they didn't even have to leave home  Marrah_G   May-08-08 12:26 PM   #148 
        - you are now off the rails. abusive husbands and voting? This is  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:31 PM   #151 
        - Women are punished differently  Marrah_G   May-08-08 12:24 PM   #147 
        - No, I don't have to figure it out  ellacott   May-08-08 09:41 AM   #26 
        - ok. suit yourself. But I do hope that you spend some time with your conscience anyway.  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:47 AM   #41 
           - I was trying to get you to explain what was offensive  ellacott   May-08-08 09:56 AM   #57 
           - It was and it did take away...why hire a black man, when you could hire a woman and fill the quota..  Doityourself   May-08-08 09:57 AM   #59 
           - why hire a woman, when you can hire a black man and fill a quota  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:00 AM   #66 
              - Because many times a White woman was counted as a double minority  ellacott   May-08-08 10:04 AM   #74 
                 - that's not true.  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:06 AM   #77 
                    - Ok,if you say so  ellacott   May-08-08 10:07 AM   #81 
                    - I do. The internet can be your friend.  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:16 AM   #99 
                       - Poor Mezzo, so angry  ellacott   May-08-08 10:23 AM   #109 
                          - Reality  Jake3463   May-08-08 10:24 AM   #111 
                          - That does appear what they want to do  ellacott   May-08-08 10:32 AM   #118 
                          - It would blow Mezzo's mind to even fold in the truth of how white men benefited from AA because they  Doityourself   May-08-08 12:21 PM   #143 
                             - That's exactly what they did  ellacott   May-08-08 12:36 PM   #158 
                    - It is very true. Do some research, especially in the 70's and early 80's  Doityourself   May-08-08 12:20 PM   #142 
                    - google it. your anger is blinding your reason. truly.  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:34 PM   #155 
           - no you aren't reaching out. you are spewing invective. your arguments  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:34 PM   #154 
        - then again, you could be seeing crap that isn't there.  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:30 PM   #150 
        - You really don't see it? Honestly?  Marrah_G   May-08-08 12:23 PM   #144 
  - I don't understand what was offensive  ellacott   May-08-08 09:27 AM   #7 
  - you're going to have to spend some time with your conscience and figure this out for yourself.  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:38 AM   #20 
     - your insults end your argument before it started. if you want to be  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:36 PM   #157 
  - That's quite a reach you are trying to pull off, shame you didn't qutie make it  nomad1776   May-08-08 09:34 AM   #15 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   May-08-08 09:38 AM   #21 
     - here;  dionysus   May-08-08 09:49 AM   #48 
     - no thanks. Learn to talk, we can talk, start biting, I bite back.  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:07 AM   #80 
        - ooooh big tuff guy shillbot!!!  dionysus   May-08-08 10:14 AM   #92 
        - again, it's not really necessary  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:15 AM   #97 
        - sad  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:37 PM   #160 
     - i like the away you don't get angry..  gabby garcia   May-08-08 10:09 AM   #83 
     - Thanks!  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:17 AM   #100 
     - obviously, you need a time out. nice argument you are trying there.  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:37 PM   #159 
  - I reject and denounce.  DarienComp   May-08-08 09:34 AM   #17 
  - Please try and understand that this isn't about Obama or Hillary.  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:41 AM   #27 
     - Bang on Mezzo. The DP needs to wise up or a 3rd party ..the WP will emerge/nt  Iceburg   May-08-08 09:47 AM   #43 
     - I honestly thought it was about Obama's supporters...  DarienComp   May-08-08 09:48 AM   #44 
        - I can see where you could think, I should have been less ambiguous, so let me clarify  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:52 AM   #51 
           - That's fair enough.  DarienComp   May-08-08 10:03 AM   #70 
              - Thanks.  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:18 AM   #102 
  - OMG OMG OMG!  hokies4ever   May-08-08 09:37 AM   #18 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   May-08-08 09:40 AM   #22 
     - How much money did you flush down the drain donating to Hillary?  hokies4ever   May-08-08 09:43 AM   #31 
        - Deleted message  Name removed   May-08-08 09:54 AM   #53 
           - you're the one who started the curse-fest in your original post  hokies4ever   May-08-08 10:00 AM   #63 
           - My original post has no curse words, but your snide response deserved them  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:05 AM   #76 
              - 'bullshit' is in the first line  hokies4ever   May-08-08 10:09 AM   #84 
           - Obama will win and you can be a martyr. both will be happy.  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:39 PM   #161 
  - Honestly? I don't really understand where you're going with this. One person sees  Occam Bandage   May-08-08 09:40 AM   #23 
  - Don't you understand  Jake3463   May-08-08 09:42 AM   #29 
     - Good one!  hokies4ever   May-08-08 09:45 AM   #37 
     - Many minority interests (and I'm going to include feminists here, as  Occam Bandage   May-08-08 09:46 AM   #40 
     - you might be stupid. Rev Wright is racist, and unconscionable,  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:58 AM   #60 
     - The point of bringing up Wright  Jake3463   May-08-08 10:03 AM   #72 
     - the point of bringing up Wright was to change the subject from sexism to racism  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:33 AM   #119 
        - Show me  Jake3463   May-08-08 10:37 AM   #125 
     - and you might be a fool. Check out Hillary's remarks today.  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:41 PM   #164 
     - of course, Hillary can say and imply racist things because as a  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:41 PM   #163 
  - it was a ridiculous and sexist OP.  xchrom   May-08-08 09:41 AM   #25 
  - I'd support  Jake3463   May-08-08 09:44 AM   #35 
     - ok first of all that wasn't the initial hit on the  xchrom   May-08-08 09:58 AM   #61 
        - So I have to support  Jake3463   May-08-08 10:08 AM   #82 
        - so you can dish it, but you can't take it. She shares a ninety five percent voting record with your  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:37 AM   #126 
        - I like him better  Jake3463   May-08-08 10:39 AM   #128 
        - get over it yourself. her record doesn't matter if no one buys it.  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:43 PM   #165 
        - you can do whatever you want -- just understand --  xchrom   May-08-08 11:07 AM   #135 
           - Thank God Edwards dropped out  Jake3463   May-08-08 11:27 AM   #140 
              - typical. nt  xchrom   May-08-08 12:40 PM   #162 
        - Give up. She's not Obama. Case Closed.  Tyler Durden   May-08-08 10:11 AM   #88 
        - that you can't see the problem proves you're part of it  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:37 AM   #124 
        - Hey, I'm on YOUR side.  Tyler Durden   May-08-08 10:48 AM   #133 
        - tyler is one who has absolutely seen the weirdness  xchrom   May-08-08 11:24 AM   #139 
        - yeah. we're all part of the great conspiracy, even us who were  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:46 PM   #167 
        - sigh -- i know. --  xchrom   May-08-08 11:01 AM   #134 
           - Anti-woman, anti-Gay, Pro-God knows what.  Tyler Durden   May-08-08 11:20 AM   #137 
              - tyler -- it's pretty hard for me to say what i feel about this --  xchrom   May-08-08 11:22 AM   #138 
                 - The Dean Supporters in 2004 were similar, but not this bad.  Tyler Durden   May-08-08 11:38 AM   #141 
                    - you nailed it. nt  xchrom   May-08-08 12:45 PM   #166 
        - THIS IS AN AMAZING POST, thank you for it.  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:36 AM   #122 
  - please take a valium. you really need to stop getting so crazed about what ppl say on the internet  nomorewhopper   May-08-08 09:43 AM   #33 
  - Yes, I specifically remember one Obama poster a few weeks back  Freedom Train   May-08-08 09:43 AM   #34 
  - I remember that well.  Tyler Durden   May-08-08 09:50 AM   #49 
  - wow, i am pretty horrified... and yes, black people can be racists  Texas Hill Country   May-08-08 09:45 AM   #38 
  - The guy is saying that he's not going to shed crocodile tears for Hillary  Truth Hurts A Lot   May-08-08 09:47 AM   #42 
  - no sale shillbot, it's over..  dionysus   May-08-08 09:49 AM   #46 
  - how lovely for you to understand. Your response is telling.  Mezzo   May-08-08 09:56 AM   #58 
     - i understand completely that you are pouting like a spoiled baby because hillary has lost...  dionysus   May-08-08 10:00 AM   #65 
     - still can't show me where my post was about Hillary? sad for you.  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:20 AM   #103 
     - maybe he needs to put some swear words with the blankey and  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:47 PM   #168 
  - I think you may have some internal issues to work out within yourself.  sparosnare   May-08-08 09:49 AM   #47 
  - its about men beating and raping women at the polling place. I  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:48 PM   #169 
  - Its not the original post that scares me as much as the comments here  frickaline   May-08-08 09:56 AM   #56 
  - Its how he worded the original post  Jake3463   May-08-08 10:00 AM   #64 
  - Oh bullshit. You just want  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:02 AM   #68 
  - This doesn't hurt  Jake3463   May-08-08 10:15 AM   #96 
  - Maybe he didn't present his case well but  frickaline   May-08-08 10:03 AM   #69 
     - So why wasn't he on the OP  Jake3463   May-08-08 10:21 AM   #107 
  - Welcome to coalition politics. If you intend to spend much time  Occam Bandage   May-08-08 10:01 AM   #67 
  - You won't ever find me taking up such a defeatest tone, and I'd hope you'd stand up against divisive  frickaline   May-08-08 10:09 AM   #85 
     - And you won't ever find me pretending to be shocked or horrified about something  Occam Bandage   May-08-08 10:14 AM   #91 
        - You dont get it  frickaline   May-08-08 10:15 AM   #98 
           - And I'm saying that divide is nothing new. If you think  Occam Bandage   May-08-08 11:10 AM   #136 
  - T H A N K Y O U  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:10 AM   #86 
  - you're welcome, thanks for shedding light on this nt  frickaline   May-08-08 10:18 AM   #101 
  - Affirmative action is meant to ameliorate pariah status, and should applied narrowly.  NorthernSpy   May-08-08 10:10 AM   #87 
     - Not True  frickaline   May-08-08 10:13 AM   #90 
        - Hell, the Irish were discriminated against. But they were not a pariah population...  NorthernSpy   May-08-08 10:25 AM   #113 
           - we're getting off point. if you cannot see the divisive, sexist attitude expressed  frickaline   May-08-08 10:30 AM   #115 
              - no one asked you to. and, since you don't know the life and  roguevalley   May-08-08 12:50 PM   #170 
                 - reading is an art  frickaline   May-08-08 12:55 PM   #171 
  - You're calling out all Obama supporters on the basis of one guy  Chulanowa   May-08-08 10:03 AM   #71 
  - so then where is your voice of denunciation? I'm not hearing it. nt  frickaline   May-08-08 10:06 AM   #78 
  - Am i supposed to spend my day scouring...  marlo   May-08-08 10:13 AM   #89 
  - No but when someone shows you sexism, you defend why you DIDNT post?  frickaline   May-08-08 10:14 AM   #93 
     - I view that post as "sexist,"  marlo   May-08-08 10:23 AM   #110 
        - Thats the whole point of this, its NOT a competition. The other thread says it should be. nt  frickaline   May-08-08 10:25 AM   #112 
           - Well, that I agree with.  marlo   May-08-08 10:34 AM   #121 
              - Then we are in partial agreement at least  frickaline   May-08-08 10:41 AM   #130 
  - I'm not going to denounce him. Affirmative action DID get applied awfully broadly.  NorthernSpy   May-08-08 10:20 AM   #104 
     - Thank you for proving the point. nt  frickaline   May-08-08 10:22 AM   #108 
        - The point being what exactly?  marlo   May-08-08 10:27 AM   #114 
        - no, anyone that asserts women did not deserve affirmative action because their employment was not  frickaline   May-08-08 10:32 AM   #117 
           - women needed anti-discrimination laws...  NorthernSpy   May-08-08 10:40 AM   #129 
           - I don't think that the post quoted in the OP,  marlo   May-08-08 10:42 AM   #131 
              - I find this my strife was greater than your strife attitude the very problem  frickaline   May-08-08 10:47 AM   #132 
        - Which point -- the point that you like to carp?  NorthernSpy   May-08-08 10:38 AM   #127 
  - I think this is the heart of most of the silly stuff happening here  JerseygirlCT   May-08-08 10:15 AM   #95 
  - My post in that thread FWIW  TragedyandHope   May-08-08 10:03 AM   #73 
  - Many of us have her offensive supporters on IGNORE!  mod mom   May-08-08 10:04 AM   #75 
  - You are generalizing way, way too much.  izzybeans   May-08-08 10:06 AM   #79 
  - I truly hope you're right, but look at the thread.  Mezzo   May-08-08 10:14 AM   #94 
     - It is a horrible thread. The double standard is a two way street.  izzybeans   May-08-08 10:30 AM   #116 
  - Oh Mezzo...  YOY   May-08-08 10:20 AM   #105 
  - You're clearly very angry. About something.  smoogatz   May-08-08 10:33 AM   #120 
  - Didn't you get the memo? Whites are the new Blacks  zbdent   May-08-08 10:36 AM   #123 
  - as i have said, this race is both about sexism and racism..... IF  seabeyond   May-08-08 12:23 PM   #145 
  - Stick a fork in the "ism" baiting; the race is over.  AtomicKitten   May-08-08 12:35 PM   #156 
  - Locking  The Magistrate   May-08-08 12:57 PM   #172 
 

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