lancelva
Friend of Hillary
And he's spent two of those three years running for President, so that leaves about a year in the Senate.
You leave out some parts...(and it's very, very sad--and telling--that you try to resurrect a personal matter between President and Senator Clinton in your criticism, especially given what she went through during that period).
How how one can say Senator Clinton and Obama have similar experience is ridiculous. As an undergrad, she led student strikes and fought for Civil Rights as America was confronting the problem of racism. She was removed from a job one summer during her undergrad career as at a fish processing plant for speaking out against unhealthy conditions at the company. After graduating from on of the best law schools in the country, she could have gone anywhere. She chose to go to work for the relatively low-paying Children's Defense Fund that provided free legal aide to poor children and families. She was appointed chairman of the Board of the National Legal Services Corporation by President Carter when she was just 29 years old. She was appointed by the American Bar Association to chair on committee on the status of women in the profession.
As Arkansas' First Lady, she worked successfully to fund rural health programs that expanded free, quality health care to Arkansas' poorest regions. She fough and successfully attained changes in Arkansas' educational system to provide standards for class size and teacher qualifications and therefore improve the education in Arkansas' public schools.
As America's First Lady, she fought--as we all know--for universal health care coverage. She brought the idea of universal health care to the attention of the American public and had she not at least accomplished the task against difficult odds, we probably wouldn't be talking about it today. Although she wasn't able to achieve universal health care then, she didn't stop working. She helped craft the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which today expands health care coverage to nearly 7 million children in America--the largest expansion since the 1960s. She also successfully fought for legislation to include mammograms and other cancer screenings in Medicare coverage and to expand childhood immunizations.
Also as First Lady, she was instrumental in the passage of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which ensured that children in adoption and foster home services receive the adequate care and attention they deserve.
She represented America abroad in 82 countries around the world, serving as the face of America and a strong and passionate champion of women's rights and human right's. Her memorable speech at the Women's Conference in Beijing and putting those words into action sent shockwaves throughout the human rights community and helped lead the effort in China toward better gender equality. A close friend of Benazir Bhutto, she worked to improve the democratic participation of women in politics around the world.
When she went to the Senate, she went to work immediately at solving the problems facing the people of New York. She reached across the aisle to expand health care coverage to Army and National Guard forces. She also worked to expand coverage FMLA to cover miitary families. She worked in 2002 to draft comprehensive immigration reform and improve voter security and rights in American elections, mandating a paper trail for all ballots. She was one of the first to raise concerns about the health effects of 9/11 and pushed through legislation to provide aide to victims of the poor air quality on 9/11. She helped bring businesses and high-skill, high-wage jobs to upstate New York. As New York's first Senator to serve on the Armed Services Committee, she has gained the respect of ranking foreign and military experts. She proposed a coprehensive, three-point plan to withdraw our troops from Iraq safely and effectively. She stood up to the Pentagon when they refused to at least begin the process of planning a withdrawal. Senator Clinton sponsored legislation to tie Congressional salary increases to an increase in the minimum wage. She has co-sponsored legislation to allow Medicare to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices, over the objections of the drug lobby. This list goes on.
It isn't any wonder that she earned the support of voters in all but 4 of New York's 62 counties.
Now...what is your candidate's curriculum vitae. And see if you can provide it, as I did, without mentioning the other candidate.
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