So the clip linked here cannot wait until Monday. Seriously, tell me this person is not the next President.
- I see no reason to muddy this post up with a bunch of links for monday morning. Take the time to click the link above and watch Hillary talk. She is, to put it mildly, a national treasure. Thank goodness this person is doing the work she’s doing.
Gee, no teleprompter.
Love TED, but did not know Hillary spoke at the Women’s Conference…thanks John.
From your lips to God’s ears, John. If only.
John, thanks for this story. Hillary is so energetic and passionate about women’s rights and women’s equality – it is something she has never wavered from in all her years in the spotlight. She is a force of nature!
I love how she says that women’s rights are not a separate agenda — they are in every agenda. Powerful, smart lady.
No, she can’t. Because as much as America hates queers, they hate women. Bernie Sanders talked his heart out. Hillary was hands down the best candidate in the primary. Look where we are. I don’t understand it and I don’t know where it comes from. Homophobic, misogynist people are following the republican agenda and we are doomed. Until Dems stand up, get the real message out and fight, I don’t think we have a chance.
For the record, no — America does not hate queers and women. A made up, extremist, bitter, victim based version of America in your head probably does. This, from a queer who loves women.
Our country is in trouble. You are not helping.
You live in a bubble Jay. You need to get out more.
Can you substantiate the claim that AMERICA HATES QUEERS AND WOMEN?
Please do.
Not ‘some people in America’, which is true. AMERICA… you know, the exact thing that was said that I responded to and you condescended to me about.
Women and gays are NOT defeated in this country. There’s a difference between getting everything that you want right this second and being ‘hated’.
Victims are the very easiest people to oppress.
(Ooops — and grinningidiot is me, Jay Floyd. I tinkered with my Avatar earlier and must’ve changed my screen name in the process. It’s important to me to appear in comment sections like this as who I really am. If I’m willing to say what I think, I should be willing to sign my name to it.)
The elites hate queers, women, and most working folks because we are not a potential members of their club (Not as easy to control and manipulate). And there are indeed misguided, ignorant, and bigoted citizens in our country, but they are NOT in the majority. I say this from my experience as a female gay southerner.
Generic “Americans” are portrayed to us in the media as ultra-conservative because that portrayal serves an agenda. If we instead base our perceptions only on our own personal experiences and the experiences of those that we personally know, evidence of this supposedly hateful America is much harder to come by.
Word, Jay. Yours is a much needed positive attitude.
The results from DoD survey/report about ending DADT were very encouraging in this respect. Sure there are still some people in the military who object, but most thought it would either be positive or not make a difference.
Most of the time I think it is not so much that any substantial number of people are anti-gay as it is that those who are anti-gay put a lot of resources into the optics that make it seem that way.
From Wikipedia:
As of 2010, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and New Hampshire are the only U.S. states to allow same-sex marriage. The District of Columbia also allows same-sex marriages.
Thirty defense of marriage amendments have been adopted. Of these, ten make only same-sex marriage unconstitutional, seventeen make both same-sex marriage and civil unions unconstitutional, two make same-sex marriage, civil unions, and other contracts unconstitutional, and one is unique. Hawaii’s amendment is unique in that it does not make same-sex marriage unconstitutional; rather, it allows the state to limit marriage to opposite-sex couples.
Maybe hate is a strong word. I think Americans like gays, they just don’t think they’re equal.
“A made up, extremist, bitter, victim based version of America in your head”…
Jay, that is not is what is in my head. I’m unsure where your wrath is coming from, but I want you to know I am on your side. I am merely posting what I see. And, if you want to argue samantics, call it what you want – America or Americans, it really does’t matter. We have waited far too long for equality and I don’t see it being advanced at all. If you think we have made strides, I would love to hear where.
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/12/18/us-soaring-rates-rape-and-violence-against-women
Yes, I feel the love in America!
“If you think we have made strides, I would love to hear where.”
In the last 20 minutes I’m not aware of any strides… but I am on the phone with a friend.
The last ten years are a different matter. The last thirty, a much bigger different matter. The last fifty? Well… congratulations!
America has done a lot for queers and they should be damn grateful. And bitches too. Got that Cyn? You’re the one with the problem! It’s all in your “made up, extremist, bitter, victim based version of America in your head.”
Whew. That’s a relief for me. I thought the shit was real!
Blogs are one few places places you can go to, express an opinion, be insulted, accused of horrible things, ranted at and then dismissed. Gotta love it.
Sorry, it is not the “elites” who oppose gay rights and women’ issues as much as it is the fundamentalist beliefs that have emerged loud and clear from the GOP who has made a home for their bigotry and intolerance and who basically drive the agenda.
Note how each candidate in the last general and midterm elections were proud to wear their bigotry on their sleeves by openly quoting bible tracts and religious references where once upon a time this stuff was verboten. The idea of the separation of church and state has all but disappeared as these “moral value” Americans continue to genuflect at the altar of Rick Warren who has no place in politics but has become the compass upon how we decide who is the most moral and religious of all to lead.
With the acceptance of these narrow minded views, discrimination is no longer something we only talked about in private but something that a candidate today needs to admit or be lost in the crowd of contenders eager to implant their form of “democracy” on the rest of us.
John, thanks for this. Had the U.S. empowered this woman in 2008, we would not be where we are. As much as Hillary rightfully talks about the scourge of global sexism, all of us know how much of it she endured locally at the hands of a woman-hating press, a frat boy prog cult, and a sneering pretender. “Oh, you’re likable enough, Hillary.”
How’d that work out? Draft. Hillary. Now.
Thank you so much for the link John. She is simply amazing and inspiring.
In writing the Dec. of Independence Jefferson studied and ‘borrowed’ from John Locke, the phrase of Locke’s which I desperately wish he had included was the ‘citizens right to dissolve the gov’t.’
We seem to be stuck with paranoid, snotty, Captain Queeg Obama on the one hand, and a perpetually orange John Boehner on the other. Throw in the charmless Mitch McConnell and you’ve got yourself quite a cocktail..
None of the above hold a candle to Hillary. I’m even starting to miss Bush, in a twisted kind of way, at least he didn’t seem to hate us.
“Give women equal rights and entire nations are more stable and secure.”
–Hillary Clinton
So true. Yet with the upcoming surge of the GOP over the next two years, not to mention the GOP candidates we believe may very well be declaring their own candidacies within the next few months, this statement rings hollow right here in the US.
One cannot justify the endorsement of Hillary Clinton then “ring the bell” on behalf of GOP candidates who believe just the opposite of what she is promoting, male or female.
This woman is a national treasure and her work should not be abandoned by condoning the policies and attitudes of any political figure who believes otherwise.
“Give women equal rights and entire nations are more stable and secure.”
–Hillary Clinton
Let me add to this:
“If we educate a boy, we educate an individual; but if we educate a girl, we educate a community.”
–Greg Mortenson
(Author of “Three Cups of Tea”.)
I assume Mortensen’s comment is limited to the culture of Pakistan & Afghanistan, and not to boys in general.
And I assume that it goes for any and all countries/societies where education isn’t a given.
Besides, the quote is of African origin – as is Mr. Mortenson.
Contrast this superb oratory for the primary importance of equal rights for women with the disgusting speech Obama gave in Cairo equating women’s equality with the right to accept subservience under the hiqab.
I first saw Hilary speak in 1994 when I worked at the state department and she also spoke about equality for women. She was pretty green still as a public speaker at the time and tho her words were powerful, her delivery was stilted and didn’t inspire. It’s been incredible to see her grow as a powerful leader AND an inspirational orator over the years. Her evident maturation is what led me to not only pick her in the primaries but realize fully how critical it was to have a seasoned leader at the helm during tough times. Makes one weep over what could have been.
I agree – her brilliant words didn’t always get the delivery they deserved. Now she is a wonderful speaker indeed.
Did you notice that she hasn’t said a word about the tax cut deal Obama made with the Repubs?
Yes, I noticed that too.
It’s not the role of the SoS to comment in domestic policy.
Did you also notice that she referred to herself as representing the country and not this administration? I’m forgetting the quote, but it was toward the beginning. There was also an odd moment when she said that the President ‘cares’ about women’s rights. It was a soft sell at best.
TL – Yes, I know. And isn’t it interesting that she finds herself in the enviable position of being a high-profile Dem who doesn’t have to endorse Obama’s toxic domestic policies? And that she still has the power to push the agenda she believes in despite Obama being her boss?
One might almost think she planned it that way.
I agree, B. (But please, no emoticon-hakas! You be scarin’ me!)
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BREAKING NEWS: Federal Judge Rules Against Mandatory Insurance Coverage Clause of New Health Care Law
Here is a bit of his reasoning in striking it down
“Hudson rejected the government’s argument that it has the power under the Constitution to require individuals to buy health insurance, a provision that was set to take effect in 2014.
“Of course, the same reasoning could apply to transportation, housing or nutritional decisions,” Hudson wrote. “This broad definition of the economic activity subject to congressional regulation lacks logical limitation” and is unsupported by previous legal cases around the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101213/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul_virginia
The crux of the ruling is its finding that the Commerce Clause cannot be extended to individuals to force involuntary purchase of a product or service from a private entity. The ruling also specifically mentions the utter lack of precedent.
The judge’s further comments, which PMM quotes above, went beyond his scope of review in this case, and could be labeled “activist.”
“Seriously, tell me this person is not the next President.”
This person is not the next President. Nobody will be allowed to run who is not on board with the agenda of aristocracy, rent extraction, and widespread immiseration.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/13/federal-judge-rules-favor-virginia-challenge-health-care-law/
Let’s encourage both Sen. Sherrod Brown and Sen. Bernie Sanders to take Obama on in a primary fight for the 2012 nomination.
Let’s encourage every Democrat we can to enter the fight to deprive Obama of another term.
Then, and only then might Hillary jump in.
Sounds good to me Duck!
Me, too. I’m still gripping that skinny thread!
And anyone who might have doubts about HRC [they're out there] should take a gander at the TED vid. She’s at perfect ease speaking about a subject close to her heart. And I remember when she first stepped into State, she said that women and girl’s issues would be folded into all diplomatic programs.
Gadzooks! Someone who lives up to their word. She was great to listen to.
BTW, some sad news. CNN is reporting Richard Holbrooke has died. When I heard he had a torn aorta, I knew it was bad.