I was there when Hillary Clinton helped lead the bipartisan effort to create the Children’s Health I

[Her Sister]

I was there when Hillary Clinton helped lead the bipartisan effort to create the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
David Nexon
Senator Ted Kennedy’s former health care staff director

As Senator Ted Kennedy’s health care staff director, I had a front-row seat to the decades-long battle he fought to give every American access to quality, affordable health care. And thanks to his passion and his leadership, we were able to achieve some great things — even in the face of staunch Republican opposition — including health care reform and the creation of the Child Health Insurance Program. But Senator Kennedy didn’t wage this fight alone; he had a key ally inside the Clinton administration.

Hillary Clinton was there when it counted. As Senator Kennedy said, “The children’s health program wouldn’t be in existence today if we didn’t have Hillary pushing for it from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.”

It’s well known that as first lady, Hillary worked hard in pursuit of something that progressives had been seeking for generations: universal health care.

But you might not remember that after Republicans and special interests defeated the Clinton administration’s effort to pass national health insurance in 1994, Hillary refused to give up — and she turned her attention to other ways to help expand health care for American families.

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[DemonGoddess]

1. Thank you!

It's good to see someone posting what she's actually DONE, instead of all the fecking innuendo we're being subjected to!

[Cha]

2. Thank you, Her Sister.. this tries to get buried. It happened!

[BlueMTexpat]

3. Hillary's record =

actual accomplishments, both IN and OUT of office.

She's been working for social justice in one way or another ever since she was in high school. Unlike the shouters or the grandstanders, she works quietly and constantly - with others - to make change happen and her way has actually worked.

In that way, she very much resembles Prez O. We are SO lucky to have both.

[Her Sister]

4. Sometimes I can't describe all the accomplishments of HRC, for there are so many

Small and big. Some are minor details, but made a big difference to many! I also believe that she doesn't go around listing them because she takes them for granted plus there are so many, hard to remember. It's just the way life is - in her mind. Doesn't realize that not everyone is like her.

Am a FAN!
HRC #45

[BlueMTexpat]

5. You are so right.

I believe that it is also that she recognizes that "her" accomplishments also required lots of time, effort and actions on the part of others and that she truly deserves only part of the credit, even where she was the guiding force. She wants those others to be recognized too.

That is just another reason that I am so thoroughly in her corner. It's not ALL about HER.

[Her Sister]

6. Ah yes you're so right there! She really gets the idea of "team player!

and she is totally a team player. Likes to elevate others. Doesn't need to put others down to elevate herself!
She knows it takes a village for everything! At the same time she is a leader if that's what the role asks for!

[mercuryblues]

7. The RW

repetitions of lies have permeated the brains of people so much that they can not think objectively where H. Clinton is concerned.

This is an excerpt what she wrote in 1973, during her post grad year at Yale. The article, itself was written in 1992.

It was framed by the Rabid right as calling marriage slavery. Unfortunately this type of thinking has seeped into the minds of some on the left. If this was posted as something she recently said in a speech, many would call it pandering at best. At worst they will agree with this:

Hillary believes that 12-year-olds have a right to sue their parents, and she has compared marriage as an institution to slavery - and life on an Indian reservation."

Pat Buchanan

The basic rationale for depriving people of rights in a dependency relationship is that certain individuals are incapable undeserving of the right to take care of themselves and consequently need social institutions specifically designed to safeguard their position. It is presumed that under the circumstances society is doing what is best for the individuals. Along with the family, past and present examples of such arrangements include marriage, slavery, and the Indian reservation system. The relative powerlessness of children makes them uniquely vulnerable to this rationale. Except for the institutionalized, who live in a state of enforced childishness, no other group is so totally dependent for its well-being on choices made by others. Obviously, this dependency can be explained to a significant degree by the physical, intellectual, and psychological capacities of (some) children which render them weaker than (some) older persons. But the phenomenon must also be seen as part of the organization and ideology of the political system itself. Lacking even the basic power to vote, children are not able to exercise normal constituency powers, articulating self-interests to politicians and working toward specific goals. Young children in particular are probably not capable of organizing themselves into a political group; they must always be represented either by their parents or by established governmental or community groups organized to lobby, litigate, and exhort on their behalf. The causes of younger children have not fared well, partly because these representatives have loyalties diluted by conflicts between children's rights and their own institutional and professional goals. Older children have organized themselves politically with some success, especially on the issues of the eighteeen-year-old vote, civil liberties of school students, and anti-war activities, but they too have relied heavily on the suppoprt of adults. "Successful" reforms on behalf of children -- the establishment of juvenile courts, the institution of public schooling, the passage of child labor laws -- were effected only after vigorous political struggles.

After her year at Yale, she went to work for the children's defense fund. I have heard it repeated, so what it was only a year. Not exactly correct. While at Yale she interned under Marian Wright Edelman, who founded the Children's Defense Fund in 1973. Hillary was hired for the CDF in 1973. <---- that was the year she "worked" for the CDF. From 1986 to 1992 she served on the board of CDF, including some years as it chair. Because at the same time she also worked at the Rose Law firm and on the Walmart board this is overlooked or propagandized as a cover for her evilyness and nefarious schemes in the future.

Hillary's work for the CDF mere "window dressing"

http://www.peterglenshaw.com/peter_glenshaw_weblog/2008/01/hillary-clinton.html

bio

https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/first-ladies/hillaryclinton

The story of Hillary Clinton’s ‘totally confusing’ relationship with her liberal mentor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-hillary-clintons-long-tense-relationship-with-her-liberal-mentor/2016/06/02/b204f6de-22af-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html

Children’s Defense Fund Honors Hillary Rodham Clinton at 40th Anniversary Celebration - See more at:

http://www.childrensdefense.org/newsroom/cdf-in-the-news/press-releases/2013/honoring-hillary-clinton.html#sthash.AS9FsKnz.dpuf

How Hillary Clinton Went Undercover to Examine Race in Education

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/us/politics/how-hillary-clinton-went-undercover-to-examine-race-in-education.html

[Her Sister]

8. Thank you ! Any links?

Fascinating human being! So much there! I imagine movies made in the future about her! All the details they will have to tell!

[mercuryblues]

9. The funny

thing is, I was searching for an article about her work in SC. She was part of a team that helped to stop housing juveniles in adult prisons.

What was said up thread is how I see a lot of her accomplishments. Team work.

oops forgot a few links.

Here's What Hillary Clinton Actually Wrote. . . .

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1992-08-23/news/1992236130_1_hillary-clinton-rights-of-children-children-best-interests


http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17388372/#.V3f2x4-cHIU

[Her Sister]

10. Her whole life she always finds a way to return to "children issues"

I make a joke that she is like obsessed with children and also women issues. it's like a quirk. I find it lovely! Wouldn't it be great to have a President like that for once, because why the heck not?

That passage you posted above shows her explaining what forms and is the basis for this preoccupation always in her mind with children: their being helpless because they cannot represent themselves.

[mercuryblues]

11. In bizarro world

It is evidence of her plotting and scheming her way to the WH 50 years later.

In reality it is evidence that she has worked and advocated for women and children since college. While at Yale she did legal work for abused women and kids. She has worked throughout her life in one capacity or another with that focus. Even on the Walmart board she tried to get them to hire and advance more women, while she was there, they did. When she left they reverted to their old pattern of discrimination and ended up being sued for it.

People use these examples to condemn her as being for the 1%, consciously omitting that they gave her a venue to promote and advocate for women and children.

My post also says something about me. I started out to find articles on her work in SC and ended up reading 7 + articles on a completely different. Easily sidetracked.

I make no joke when I tell people my entire life I have voted for who I thought would be the best for the country as a whole. I have seen my rights, along with women's rights be politically legislated away. No fucking more. I am now a single issue voter and will only vote for those who put equal rights over the religious bigotry in this country. If anyone doesn't like it, they can fuck off. My body and soul is not, I repeat is not a political compromise, nor is it a political toy.

[Lucinda]

12. It goes back to her mother's awful childhood.

She has been determined to make kids lives better. Her mom rose above it...she knows not everyone else is/was that lucky.