Tonight: Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton -- First woman nominated for President by a major U.S. Party

[TreeStarsForever]

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton — First woman nominated for President by a major U.S. party — First woman to win the popular vote by 3 million votes — and the most innocent investigated person in America to ever live:

WATERGATE:

Youngest lawyer ever appointed to an impeachment trial. 26-year-old Yale Law graduate Hillary Rodham.

CHILDREN’S DEFENSE FUND:

Investigated African American juveniles being placed in South Carolina adult prisons, and posed as a racist housewife to expose segregation throughout schools in the South.

FIRST LADY OF ARKANSAS:

Hillary successfully reformed the entire K-12 Arkansas educational system, expanded healthcare for those in rural Arkansas, worked at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Legal Services, and co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. First female partner of the Rose Law Firm.

The joke in Arkansas was that they “hired the wrong Clinton.”

FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES:

Hillary spearheaded the Adoption and Safe Families Act, the Foster Care Independence Act, Office on Violence Against Women, the Campaign Against Teenage Pregnancy (lowering abortion and teenage pregnancy rates), and the Children’s Health Insurance Program — providing 8.9 million low-income children with healthcare access.

In 1995, at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China — Hillary proclaimed on the world stage:

“If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all.”

TWO-TIME NEW YORK SENATOR:

Hillary secured 20 billion in federal funds to rebuild downtown New York City after 9/11. She also secured healthcare for 9/11 First Responders and expanded access to care for the National Guard, Reservists, and their families.

U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE:

Passed the first-ever U.N. Resolution on gay rights (proclaiming: “human rights are gay rights and gay rights are human rights” on the world stage), and made it so transgender Americans can legally change their gender on their passport.

Hillary rebuilt relations with every nation after the disastrous Bush Administration, traveling to 112 countries — more than any other Secretary of State. Our worldwide favorability rose 20% during Hillary’s tenure. Her primary focus was on women’s rights and health, bringing up issues such as forced abortion and maternal mortality rates. Hillary re-opened relations with Burma, enacted a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and killed Osama Bin Laden. She also was instrumental in putting together the Paris Climate Agreement, something Trump has since removed us from.

2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION:

First woman nominated for President by a major U.S. party — First woman to win the popular vote by 3 million votes.

INSPIRATIONAL HILLARY QUOTES:

“I’m not going to mislead anybody. Politics is really hard. And it is harder for women. There’s a double standard, and you can’t complain about it. You just have to accept it, and be smart enough to navigate it. And you have to have a pretty tough skin. To paraphrase a favorite quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: If a woman wants to be in politics, she has to have the skin of a rhinoceros. So occasionally I’ll be sitting somewhere and I’ll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me. And I’ll look down at my hand and I’ll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.”
~Hillary Rodham Clinton

“When you stumble, keep faith. And when you’re knocked down, get right back up, and never listen to anyone who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on.”
~Hillary Rodham Clinton

“I really don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what people think about me…I would be totally paralyzed. How could you get up in the morning if you worried about some poll or what somebody said about you? That’s giving up power over your life to somebody else, and I don’t intend to do that.”
~Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Every moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward. Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been.”
~Hillary Rodham Clinton

[northoftheborder]

1. Thank you for listing this tribute to Hillary.

[TreeStarsForever]

2. You are most welcome!!

I'm sure Hillary will be a class-act yet again tonight!!!!

[whttevrr]

3. I wonder if the Watergate connection is why

She gets so much hate from Republicans.

Or is it the “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas” statement. Which I've always mis-remembered as "what am I supposed to do, stay home and bake cookies?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/us/politics/hillary-clinton-cookies.html

Hillary Clinton and the Return of the (Unbaked) Cookies

By Amy Chozick
Nov. 5, 2016

CLEVELAND — With a single response in 1992 to a question about her legal career, Hillary Clinton became a radical feminist in her critics’ imagination, the Lady Macbeth who was an affront to the choices so many other women had made.

“I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession,” she said during Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign.

The blowback was intense and she spent weeks apologizing, saying that she respected women who chose to stay at home and raise children. Family Circle magazine invited her to and Barbara Bush to submit recipes for a chocolate-chip cookie bake-off, and she obliged.

I wish she never felt she had to apologize. She was robbed then, and in 2016. Can you imagine the world we'd be in if she won instead of the malignant narcissist?

[TreeStarsForever]

4. Hillary Clinton is an icon that people refuse to defend.

Hillary changed the role of women in America.

A trailblazer.

[whttevrr]

5. yup

totally agree

[betsuni]

6. For too many people her whole career was erased because of emails and a couple of speeches.

She became a cartoon villain. Thanks for posting this.

Maya Angelou: "I had watched her when she was first lady of Arkansas. I thought this white girl would come to Arkansas and play croquet on the lawn and throw tea parties. And she was just the opposite. She worked on public health and education ... even prisons."

[TreeStarsForever]

7. ::sigh:: people really truly don't know the REAL Hillary.

[betsuni]

8. On "The View" Abby Huntsman and Meghan McCain said their fathers loved

traveling with Hillary because she was a lot of fun. Meghan: "There was vodka involved."

As a new senator, Al Franken decided to follow the "Hillary Model":

"Simply put, it's: Be a workhorse, not a showhorse. Go to all your hearings. Come early, stay late. Do your homework. Don't do national press. Be accessible to your state media and to your constituents. That sounded smart to me. I'd be available to Minnesota press and Minnesota constituents. I'd be knowledgable about Minnesota issues. I'd be Minnesota's senator and nobody else's."

She earned admiration from those who worked, and drank, with her.

[StevieM]

10. Excellent point.

It is amazing how much history has been erased.

When the media says that 2016 was the year of the reality show candidate they are right. But what they don't understand is that the reality show candidate was Hillary Clinton. By the end of that election she had been redefined as a reality show villain, courtesy of some unbelievable editing and careful production efforts.

[TreeStarsForever]

12. Sad people have such an inaccurate view of Hillary... ;(

[bdamomma]

9. We have

the greatest line up tonight, will not miss anyone.

[TreeStarsForever]

11. Me either!!! Triple threat!!!

[Cha]

13. Mahalo, TSF!

[ecstatic]

14. She looks and sounds amazing. That should have been our president right now.

[TreeStarsForever]

15. Hillary truly did look amazing and sound great.

Like fine wine.