Shine Women of the Year (Love + Sex): Hillary Rodham Clinton

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  Posted by D Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:36pm PST

  Thank you for this article. As Angela stated earlier, many Shine users on other blogs have been misrepresenting Sanger to promote their own agenda. I hope those who still have doubts about Sanger will read the Time article.

  Clinton was a great choice, she really fought a long and hard campaign. I don't care that she stood by Bill throughout his scandals. Only she knows why she did it.

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  Posted by Angela Sat Dec 27, 2008 4:06pm PST

  I find it somewhat curious that those who have been writing so much about Planned Parenthood, abortion, birth control, and Margaret Sanger are ignoring this blog.

  I guess some people only bump their own blogs.

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  Posted by pwsgirl Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:29pm PST

  I don't support Margaret Sanger or Hillary Clinton. Both seem to see unborn children as "nonliving beings" and feel it's perfectly fine to kill them. If a woman doesn't want to be a mother, let her use multiple forms of birth control or become sterilized so there is no risk of pregnancy occurring. Abortion is NOT birth control, nor is it a "choice." It's an unborn child's life you are ending. If more women would learn how to be responsible instead of worrying about getting some, there wouldn't be a need for abortion.

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  Posted by springtime Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:51pm PST

  One in five teens in this country gets pregnant. 1,000,000 US teenagers become pregnant every year. 85% are unintentional and 2/3 of them are 18-19 year old women. Only 33% of adolescent mothers will graduate high school and only 1.5% will earn a college degree by age 30. ( Righthealth).

  Teens do not know about multiple forms of birth control and they certainly do not know anything about sterilization. Teen boys do not carry condoms.

  Any woman, including Sanger and Clinton, who work to keep women informed about health issues and contraception should be applauded.

  Hillary is one of America's foremost advocates for children and families; an attorney twice voted one of the most influential in America; a First Lady of Arkansas who helped transform the schools; a best selling author; a First Lady for America who helped transform that role, becoming a champion for health care and families at home and a champion of women's rights and human rights around the world. During Yale Law School, Hillary focused on questions about how the law affected children and began her decades of work as an advocate for children and families.

  Hillary ran a legal aid clinic for the poor when she first got to Arkansas and handled cases of foster care and child abuse. Years later, she organized a group called Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. When she was just 30, President Carter appointed her to the board of the United States Legal Services Corporation, a federal nonprofit program that funds legal assistance for the poor.

  For those of you who think the woman has no accomplishments other than being Bill's wife, may I suggest reading something other than the comics

  and the TV Guide.

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  Posted by JustSayNO Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:36pm PST

  ...and the only reason she is where she is today is because of William Jefferson Clinton, or better put - Clinton, Inc. She would not be a senator from NY. She would not be the soon-to-be Secretary of State. She grabbed onto Bill and rode him for all he was worth, and then, when she had the chance to dump him and regain some pride for being married to a b@st@rd like Bill, she "forgave" him for yet another bimbo.

  And to attribute a success to the transformation of the Arkansas school system - it was at #50 or at least #48 so the only thing it could do was improve. And it is not exactly a stellar school system today.

  If only liberals were in contention, then I would have preferred to have seen Hillary over Michelle Obama - Hillary did do some good things in her day, not all, some is the keyword. And she did get through the primary process as number "2", and that required Bill's help too.

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  Posted by Angela Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:18pm PST

  Max, you are sexist and ignorant. Again, you haven't done your research and you don't know what you're talking about. Hillary Rodham was independently accomplished BEFORE she married Bill Clinton, and continued to be successful on her own after she married him and before he became president. She was ALWAYS active in politics. She has many years left to work. Why would her husband's presidency be her crowning achievement in HER life?

  She did write, "It Takes A Village," you know? Who's to say that Bill Clinton would have gotten where he has without HER? Statistically, married men live longer, are healthier, and happier than non-married men. She helped design his campaigns as she had helped design several other campaigns before his.

  But, in the interest of educating you an others, here's some facts:

  http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9251306&page=2

  Rodham attended Wellesley College; she was active in student politics and was elected Senior Class president before she graduated in 1969. She then attended Yale Law School, where she met Bill Clinton. Graduating with honors in 1973, she also attended one post-graduate year of study on children and medicine at Yale Child Study Center.

  Hillary worked at various jobs during her summers as a college student. In 1971, she first came to Washington, D.C to work on U.S. Senator Walter Mondale's subcommittee on migrant workers. In the summer of 1972, she worked in the western states for the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern.

  In the spring of 1974, Rodham became a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry staff, advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives during the Watergate Scandal. After President Richard M. Nixon resigned in August, she became a faculty member of the University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville, where her Yale Law School classmate and boyfriend Bill Clinton was teaching as well.

  Rodham married Bill Clinton on October 11, 1975, at their home in Fayetteville. Before he proposed marriage, Clinton had secretly purchased a small house that she had remarked that she liked. When he proposed marriage to her and she accepted, he revealed that they owned the house. Their daughter, Chelsea Victoria, was born February 27, 1980.

  In 1976, she worked on Jimmy Carter’s successful campaign for president while husband Bill was elected Attorney General. He was elected governor in 1978 at age 32, lost re-election in 1980, but came back to win in 1982, 1984, 1986 (when the term of office was expanded from two to four years) and 1990.

  Hillary kept her maiden name, joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock and in 1977 was appointed to part-time chairman of the Legal Services Corporation by President Carter.

  As First Lady of Arkansas for a dozen years (1979-1981, 1983-1992), she chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families and served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital, Legal Services and the Children's Defense Fund.

  During this period, she and her husband invested in the Whitewater real estate project. The project's bank, Morgan Guaranty Savings and Loan failed, costing the federal government $73 million. Whitewater later became the subject of congressional hearings and an independent counsel investigation.

  She also served on the boards of TCBY and Wal-Mart. In 1988 and 1991, The National Law Journal named her one of the 100 most powerful lawyers in America.

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  Posted by JustSayNO Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:31pm PST

  "It Takes A Village" is the exact mentality that is destroying the country. The "village" is "government", not family. Once people realize that government is not the answer, and they learn to take care of themselves... Why do people want to come to America? For the chance at freedom and to do what they want, not what government wants. Massive government will be our downfall. The destruction of life (abortion) goes hand in hand with this destruction. National healthcare will bring down the greatest healthcare earth has ever seen. If you mean equal crappy healthcare for all is the goal, then sure, national the sh1t out it and enjoy misery for all. That is what liberalism is - misery loves company.

  There is no utopia, and a liberal government can't create it. The free nations on earth are lucky to have America as it's protector, and you can thank GWB for having the strength and resolve to take out Saddam Hussein's government that violate 16 UN resolutions, including WMDs as just one, as no one else would as the French, Germans and Russians were to busy selling Iraq banned items - someone had to. They don't have to invest in a strong military. The can institute any social program they want knowing full well that America is here to protect. That will change once we have one too many "cinder blocks", aka "entitlements", chained to our ankles. Social Security is the biggest ponzi scheme known to man. Medicare requires supplemental insurance.

  If had gotten HillaryCare as she proposed when she was NOT an elected official and had no GD business tinkering with 15% of our economy, we will all enjoy substandard medical care, we'll wait in line for procedures, only we won't have the same luxury Canada has to send their terminally ill to a great neighboring country as Hail Mary treatment program.

  People like Obama and Clinton would rather have the income range in this country be $10K to $100K rather than the open-ended system it is today.

  Clinton and Obama are the face of liberalism that smiles at all while taking everything away until the Rights the guaranteed in the Constitution are not more than just words. Obama has made it real clear during an NPR interview in Chicago in 2001 that the US Constitution should spell out what the country should do, not what it should not do. In his mind, the Founding Fathers were a bunch of bungling boobs.

  So Hillary: ask yourself why she didn't run for the senate from her home state of Illinois or even Arkansas. Why NY?

  I'll never agree that liberal is the answer. I've seen what liberals have done to this country, and it is only digging us deeper into a whole.

  Did liberalism protect us from the Axis powers in WWII? Did liberalism bring down the USSR? Did liberalism rebuild Germany and Japan post-WWII?

  The devil would not walk the earth with horns and a tail. It would walk the earth as a sweet smiling liberal baking cookies and crying at a diner.

  So worship at the alter of BHO with his lieutenants Reid, Pelosi and Clinton. Have at it, and try not to be smothered by their love and the promised land of "The Village" - more like "The Village of the Damned".

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  Posted by ♥Harley♥™ Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:20pm PST

  max, AWESOME!!!!

  And anyone can say what they want, Margaret Sanger was a racist hell bent on exterminating minorities. I've read one of her disgusting books and if you think an article in Time magazine will change my mind, you're nuts!

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  Posted by ♥Harley♥™ Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:58pm PST

  springtime you said, "Teens do not know about multiple forms of birth control and they certainly do not know anything about sterilization. Teen boys do not carry condoms."

  Where did you come up with that nonsense? Most teenagers could probably teach you a thing or two about sex and birth control. Whether they are smart enough to use it in the heat of the moment is another story, but this is not the stone age, and why make excuses for irresponsibility?

  Also, I hope the Village Idiot makes Clinton wear a condom to protect herself from STD's. She also needs to work harder, because according to your words, the entire teenage population hasn't got a clue.

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  Posted by mony1982 Mon Jan 5, 2009 2:51pm PST

  I feel like that she loved her husband cliton and sometimes in life even thoe things happen that should happen don't mean that they do not love one an other. I also feel that sometimes that it is in a man's nature to be nothing but a man.

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