Letters to the Editor
madamfauntleroy
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How Hillary Clinton Betrayed the Children's Defense Fund for Political Gain
[Read the article: Carville wants resignation cease-fire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]AMY GOODMAN: Marian Wright Edelman, we just heard Hillary Rodham Clinton. She used to be the head of the board of the Children’s Defense Fund, of the organization that you founded. But you were extremely critical of the Clintons. I mean, when President Clinton signed off on the, well, so-called welfare reform bill, you said, “His signature on this pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to hurt children.” So what are your hopes right now for these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about Hillary Rodham Clinton?
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton is an old friend, but they are not friends in politics. We have to build a constituency, and you don’t—and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were for welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we need health care, we need transportation, we need to invest preventively in all of our children to prevent them ever having to be on welfare.
And yet, you know, many years after that, when many people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success, you know, we’ve got growing child poverty, we have more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over the last six years than we had earlier in the year. When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare reform is what happens to the poor when the economy is not booming. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap between rich and poor widening. We have what I consider one of—a growing national catastrophe of what we call the cradle-to-prison pipeline. A black boy today has a one-in-three chance of going to prison in his lifetime, a black girl a one-in-seventeen chance. A Latino boy who’s born in 2001 has a one-in-six chance of going to prison. We are seeing more and more children go into our child welfare systems, go dropping out of school, going into juvenile justice detention facilities. Many children are sitting up—15,000, according to a recent congressional GAO study—are sitting up in juvenile institutions solely because their parents could not get mental health and health care in their community. This is an abomination.
That is a staggering indictment, from the woman Hillary Clinton regularly mentions as her mentor, of a gap between Hillary Clinton's words and her record. It reflects upon a political decision that she and Bill made to leave many children behind in order to ensure a second term. (The "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act," as it was cynically called, was signed in August of 1996, just about three months before the '96 presidential election.)
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/034
So much for Hillary's qualifications that more often than not are analogous to those who like to shine in somebody else's limelight. Such is the woman, Hillary Rodham dropped Clinton.
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samantha1
[Read the article: Carville wants resignation cease-fire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please lead me to a website where all her so called accomplishments are enumerated. Just because she boasts so in her speeches is when she has been outed for her misleading claims. All her false claims have been exposed by former Clinton associates. So please, show me where she has worked relentlessly for families and children? Even Marian Edelman refutes that, and Marian Edelman is more trustworthy and credible than Hillary.
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Sugar
[Read the article: Carville wants resignation cease-fire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are quite a few of them on Salon. One of them had a live meltdown not too long ago, because she would not take her meds.
They all have one thing in common. When asked to comment on some real brazen Hillary issues, they disappear off the website. Here are some examples:
1. Hillary's foaming McCain's experience over Obama's. If this is not the most assinine way to destroy a member of your own party, how can we ever trust Hillary to be a bonafide member of her own party?
2. Hillary's qualifications and experience have been questioned by members of her own husband's cabinet, i.e. foreign policy, children's issues, etc.
3. Why is Hillary claiming MI and FL primaries when she clearly agreed with the DNC rules to begin with
4. Why does Hillary keep changing goal posts every time she loses a state
5. Why is Hillary claiming Texas, when clearly she lost the caucus delegates.
6. If Obama is winning on race (even while he is also carried by white votes as well) then Hillary is winning because she is a white woman, albeit women above a certain age.
7. If Obama got to where he is today because of race, Hillary got to where she is because she is a woman and because she is married to a former president of the US. At least Obama got to where he is on his own merit, of course with a lot of help from his friends and supporters but certainly NOT because of nepotism.
8. Why is she given a free pass on voting for the war in Iraq, voting for the ban on cluster bombs, on land mines, etc? These are very certainly women's issues.
So Sugar, I am doing my bit for Obama, as an unpaid and unrecognized debunker of Hillary myths. Those of us who have lived through the glazed media productions of the Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton manipulations, can smell a disingenious rat when we see one.
Good night and may a new day dawn. We live by hope.