Hillary Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton was born on October 26, 2007. After getting her undergrad degree at Wellesley, in 1969, she entered Yale Law School. While at Yale, she was on the Board of Editors for the Yale Law Review. Yale was also where Hillary met Bill Clinton.
After graduating from Yale Law, Hillary Rodham joined the Nixon impeachment inquiry staff and married Bill Clinton in 1975. They moved to Arkansas, where she taught at the University of Arkansas Law School and joined the Rose Law Firm, eventually becoming partner. During her legal career, Hillary was twice listed as one of the 100 most influential attorneys in America by the National Law Review.
Bill Clinton was elected Governor of the State of Arkansas, serving a total of three terms. During the 12 years Hillary spent as Arkansas First Lady, she chaired the boards of many children s groups while managing to maintain her law career, raise her daughter, and perform the official duties of supporting her husband.
In 1993, Bill Clinton became the 42nd President of the United States. Hillary was active in both his campaign and in his administration, being asked to chair the Task Force on National Health Care Reform by her husband early in his Administration. She was not successful in passing the reform, but she was implemental in passing the State s Children s Healthcare Initiative Plan (CHIP). These were unprecedented moves for a First Lady and it engendered a great deal of criticism from the conservative press and the public. It was the beginning for a barrage of negative publicity for the First Lady, who many felt was taking too active of a role in her husband s presidency. Sympathy and public opinion swung her way, however, with her handling of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
In 2000, Hillary Rodham Clinton ran for, and won, a seat as a US Senator from New York, making her the first former First Lady to ever win national elected office. In the Senate, she initially supported the Bush Administration on some foreign policy issues, which included voting for the Iraq War. Hillary subsequently opposed the administration on its conduct of the war, and on most domestic issues. She was re-elected by a wide margin in 2006.
In 2008, Hillary ran for President of the United States, winning more primaries and delegates than any other female candidate in American history. After a very close run, in the end she narrowly lost the Democratic primary to Senator Barack Obama. After Obama s win in the general election, she was asked by him to become his Secretary of State and is the first former First Lady to serve in a president’s cabinet. She is becoming known on the world stage as a tough, but fair, diplomat.
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It’s May 18 2010 and I’m thinking was it only just 2 years ago around this time when we had the DNC and the problems with Forida which Hillary won by double digits and the popular vote and that Obama took his name of the Michigan ballot. It was all 2 years ago and now I’m thinking as SOS Hillary said she would only be a one term SOS . It had gotten ugly when then Senator Hillary Clinton had to share her true winnings with Obama because Florida voted to early. I think back and how she endured all the bashing from unpopular media networks and people like Kieth Olberman and Chris Matthews and that lesbian Rachel Maddow. They use to make me sick. I began to watch Fox because I was and still am a staunch supporter of the Clintons and never felt the Clinton machine was shut down by the first 1/2 African American President and 1/2 white. You see I knew she wouldn’t go away and I watch her on her job as SOS and how brilliant and seemingly Presidential she come off in interviews and ponder and hope that she will run in 2012 . I dream of this brilliant and very smart woman who withstood with the tenacity of a bull the mockery and the sexism and she stood and fought and stood and fought and almost won. I think now of all or President Obama’s promises and how he broke just about all of them and how he did a 2nd stimulus that had no affect but we just borrowed more money from China. I think of how he was not transparent about HR on C span and I think about how he boasted he would have the most ethical cabinet and about 5 of 6 people could not take cabinet posts because they did not pay their taxes,umm let’s see there was Gov. Bill Richardson ( a Clinton traitor) and and Tom Daschel and others. I think of how he said he would be partisan and walk across the aisle and then he shoves a very unpopular HR down the American people’s throats even after Senator Scott Brown of shocked the WH and won the special election and gaining the Senate seat formerly held by Senator Ted Kennedy and even though Senator Brown became the 41 vote President Obama still found a way to pass the unpopular version of HR and it is still unpopular. I watched a 1 1/2 year Presidency of Barrack Obama as the Gays and Lesbians became increasingly frustrated and angry because he seemed to for get about the promises he made to them on the campaign trail and put them on the back burner while “Don’t Ask ,Don’t Tell still ” still is there while the young gay men and woman serve in the 2 wars going on. I thought to myself “why is President Obama focusing on HR for over a year while millions of Americans are unemployed and the 99 weeks have run out for millions of Americans and no more talk of a tier 5 for all that are now struggling and losing their homes and can’t feed the families because somebody in Congress thinks the unemployed are lazy and don’t start to look for work until the end of their benefits when in reality there are stipulations for the benefit that most of these hard working Americans must fulfill such as job search work sheets and showing proof they they are seeking work and the audacity of hope has run out for them and they have to endure the insults of their intelligence by some accusations that the unemployment has become somewhat of a lifestyle and congresspeople and even Nancy Pelosi “It’s got to stop sometime” even after treasurer Timothy Guithner said ” The unemployment is still unacceptably high and 2010 will be difficult for the unemployed” While most Americans would much rather have a job and get a paycheck it has now become a job to find a job and there just aren’t any jobs out there and they know it and we know it. I almost get amused mockingly the White House comes out every month with their jobs report and tells us as though we are stupid there has been improvement because 11.000 jobs have been created mostly government jobs and new claims of unemployment are like 400,000 just down a little from the last month and that is the hope and change that we dreamed of. I have watched a new grassroots movement rise up in a year by the millions and they are people of all ethnic backgrounds,religions and different party affiliations and many voted for Obama and the Tea Party Movement has been created and now I ask myself “What the hell happened” and then my thoughts go back to my former Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and I remember her words on the trail “Experience Matters” and it runs through my mind everyday now as Obama’s popularity is at an all time low. I wonder about the big oil spill if he hadn’t said a few weeks back that he now supports drilling offshore and then I see him angrily on t.v. blaming others for this catastrophe and wonder if he never said he would support off shore drilling would he have blamed the Republicans and Bush too? I begin to think and ponder if just maybe Hillary Clinton would think of running again in 2012 and all of the 18 million supporters and then some are just waiting for her to say the word and we would jump on her train and we would back her up with a vengeance to see that she would get what she should have gotten in the first place. I think of all the independents and some Democrats that have now abandoned Obama and we see the Republicans winning in states like N.J ,VA and Massachusetts and I get the feeling there is a rumbling going on and I can only wonder what is going to come of all this and I ask was it really just 2 years ago.