304>This is only a short list of the good she has done, starting back in her early life.
You can pull it up by bringing her history BIO up online. There is much much more.
Early life
Raised in a politically conservative household,[11] at age thirteen she helped canvass South Side Chicago following the very close 1960 U.S. presidential election, finding evidence of electoral fraud against Republican candidate Richard Nixon,[12] and volunteered for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater in the U.S. presidential election of 1964.[13] Her early political development was shaped most strongly by her energizing high school history teacher, who got her to read Goldwater%26#039;s classic The Conscience of a Conservative[14] and who was, like her father, a fervent anti-communist, and by her Methodist youth minister, like her mother concerned with issues of social justice; with the minister she saw and met civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. in Chicago in 1962.
Rodham attended the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami, where she decided to leave the Republican Party for good; she was upset over how Richard Nixon%26#039;s campaign had portrayed Rockefeller and what Rodham perceived as the %26quot;veiled%26quot; racist messages of the convention
That summer, she worked her way across Alaska, washing dishes in Mount McKinley National Park and sliming salmon in a fish processing cannery in Valdez (which fired her and shut down overnight when she complained about unhealthy conditions).
Law school
During her second year, she worked at the Yale Child Study Center,[34] learning about new research on early childhood brain development and working as a research assistant on the seminal work, Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (1973).[35][36] She also took on cases of child abuse at Yale-New Haven Hospital,[35] and volunteered at New Haven Legal Services to provide free advice for the poor.[
and volunteered at New Haven Legal Services to provide free advice for the poor.[34] In the summer of 1970, she was awarded a grant to work at Marian Wright Edelman%26#039;s Washington Research Project, where she was assigned to Senator Walter Mondale%26#039;s Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, researching migrant workers%26#039; problems in housing, sanitation, health and education;[37][38] Edelman would become a significant mentor to her.[38]
In the late spring of 1971, she began dating Bill Clinton, who was also a law student at Yale.
Early Arkansas years
Rodham co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a state-level alliance with the Children%26#039;s Defense Fund, in 1977.
For much of that time[81] she served as the chair of that board, the first woman to do so.[82] During her time as chair, funding for the Corporation was expanded from $90 million to $300 million,[70] and she successfully battled against President Ronald Reagan%26#039;s initial attempts to reduce the funding and change the nature of the organization.
Clinton appointed her chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee the same year,[83] where she successfully obtained federal funds to expand medical facilities in Arkansas%26#039; poorest areas without affecting doctors%26#039; fees.
In one of the most important initiatives of the entire Clinton governorship,[92] she fought a prolonged but ultimately successful battle against the Arkansas Education Association[92] to put mandatory teacher testing as well as state standards for curriculum and classroom size in place.[92] She introduced Arkansas%26#039; Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth in 1985, a program that helps parents work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy.[94] She was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984.
First Lady of the United States
When Bill Clinton took office as president in January 1993, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the First Lady of the United States, and announced that she would be using that form of her name.[116] She was the first First Lady to hold a post-graduate degree[117] and to have her own professional career up to the time of entering the White House.[118] She was also the first to take up an office in the West Wing of the White House:[48] the First Lady usually stays in the East Wing. She is regarded as the most openly empowered presidential wife in American history, save for Eleanor Roosevelt.[119]
Along with Senator Ted Kennedy, she was the major force behind the State Children%26#039;s Health Insurance Program in 1997, a federal effort that provided state support for children whose parents were unable to provide them with health coverage.
She promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses and encouraged older women to seek a mammogram to detect breast cancer, with coverage provided by Medicare.[140] She successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health.
The First Lady worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War, which became known as the Gulf War syndrome.[48] Together with Attorney General Janet Reno, Clinton helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice.
In 1997, she initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which she regarded as her greatest accomplishment as First Lady.[48] As First Lady, Clinton hosted numerous White House Conferences, including ones on Child Care (1997),[141] Early Childhood Development and Learning (1997),[142] and Children and Adolescents (2000),[143] and the first-ever White House Conferences on Teenagers (2000)[144] and Philanthropy (1999).
Hillary Clinton traveled to 79 countries during this time,[146] breaking the mark for most-travelled First Lady held by Pat Nixon.[147] In a September 1995 speech before the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, Clinton argued very forcefully against practices that abused women around the world and in China itself,[148] declaring %26quot;that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women%26#039;s rights as separate from human rights%26quot;[148] and resisting Chinese pressure to soften her remarks.[146] She was one of the most prominent international figures at the time to speak out against the treatment of Afghan women by the Islamist fundamentalist Taliban that had seized control of Afghanistan.[149][150] She helped create Vital Voices, an international initiative sponsored by the United States to promote the participation of women in the political processes of their countries.
Traditional duties
Clinton initiated and was Founding Chair of the Save America%26#039;s Treasures program, a national effort that matched federal funds to private donations for the purpose of preserving and restoring historic items and sites,[184] including the flag that inspired the Star Spangled Banner and the First Ladies Historic Site in Canton, Ohio.[48] She was head of the White House Millennium Council,[185] and initiated the Millennium Project with monthly lectures that discuss futures studies, one of which became the first live simultaneous webcast from the White House. Clinton also created the first Sculpture Garden there, which displayed large contemporary American works of art loaned from museums in the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden.[186]
Senate election of 2000
Clinton has served on five Senate committees: Committee on Budget (2001鈥?002),[203] Committee on Armed Services (since 2003),[204] Committee on Environment and Public Works (since 2001),[203] Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (since 2001)[203] and Special Committee on Aging.[205] She is also a Commissioner of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe[206] (since 2001).[207]
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Clinton sought to obtain funding for the recovery efforts in New York City and security improvements in her state. Working with New York%26#039;s senior senator, Charles Schumer, she was instrumental in quickly securing $21 billion in funding for the World Trade Center site%26#039;s redevelopment. She subsequently took a leading role in investigating the health issues faced by 9/11 first responders.[211] Clinton voted for the USA Patriot Act in October 2001, as did all but one senator. In 2005, when the act was up for renewal, she worked to address some of the civil liberties concerns with it,[212] before voting in favor of a compromise renewed act in March 2006 that gained large majority support.[213]
As a member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Clinton strongly supported military action in Afghanistan, saying it was a chance to combat terrorism while improving the lives of Afghan women who suffered under the Taliban government.
TAKE NOTE: %26quot;should such action be required%26quot;
Now those who go on about her vote can eat crow!!....
Clinton voted in favor of the October 2002 Iraq War Resolution, which authorized United States President George W. Bush to use military force against Iraq, should such action be required to enforce a United Nations Security Council Resolution after pursuing with diplomatic efforts.
In late 2005, Clinton said that while immediate withdrawal from Iraq would be a mistake, Bush%26#039;s pledge to stay %26quot;until the job is done%26quot; is also misguided, as it gives Iraqis %26quot;an open-ended invitation not to take care of themselves.
Clinton voted in 2005 against the confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States,[220] and in 2006 against the nomination of Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court;[221] both were confirmed. In 2005, Clinton called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate how hidden sex scenes showed up in the controversial video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.[222] Along with Senators Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh, she introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act, intended to protect children from inappropriate content found in video games.
In March 2007 she voted in favor of a war spending bill that required President Bush to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq within a certain deadline; it passed almost completely along party lines[234] but was subsequently vetoed by President Bush.
In May 2007 a compromise war funding bill that removed withdrawal deadlines but tied funding to progress benchmarks for the Iraqi government passed the Senate by a vote of 80-14 and would be signed by Bush; Clinton was one of those who voted against it.
Clinton has enjoyed high approval ratings for her job as senator within New York, reaching an all-time high of 72 to 74 percent approving (including half of Republicans).
Reply:I can, but if you%26#039;re voting for her then shouldn%26#039;t you have done your homework and figured who you would vote for based on your needs?..I%26#039;m voting for whom I%26#039;m voting for cause I have educated myself on ALL the candidates.
Reply:I really wish I had an equally long post for Obama%26#039;s accomplishments but admittedly I do not. I know that as state legislator he raised the Illinois minimum wage and he got health coverage for 20,000 un-insured children. I also know that he has co-sponsored the (with Feingold and McCain) campaign reform act preventing elected officials from becoming lobbyists and restricting the corrupt practices of elections.
I know that he also worked hard on a transparency bill that would open up all ear-marks, all government spending, and all supporters of pet projects to a searchable internet database cross referenced with the spendings supporters.
The fact that he is much younger and is only a junior senator would severely limit the list..... more time in washington = better resume. However, I think that the things that Obama accomplished are not only important but were worked on in a bi-partisan way and often got passed.
With Hillary%26#039;s long list of accomplishments are a long list of failures, as well as mistakes. She voted to authorize a war with a country whose leader tried to assasinate the presidents father (even my father knew that coocku bannannas wouldn%26#039;t stop till saddam was gone regardless of consequences). She also seems to have a long list of failures.... including health care reform (her big issue) which proves that she cannot get the job done (or at least that she couldn%26#039;t in the past) largely because she is unable to bring others with her on the issues. Sorry but you don%26#039;t get credit for a consistent record of NOT getting the job done..... Trying is not really a scorecard checkmark (though it is admirable).
I think she might make a decent president, however I also think that with her in the White House we have another 4-8 years of partisan BS that is getting really really tired. You just don%26#039;t get as much of that with Obama or even with McCain. A part of her record is that she was already in the White House..... but what has occurred through that time? We were handed off to George Bush and the mess we have today. I am not faulting her or her husband for that but I am saying that clearly we are worse off today than we were 16 years ago. This is a fundamental problem because after 8 (possibly good years) will we be at a political place to allow another Bush to take over? That is a risk I am unwilling to take.... sometimes you have to look at the big picture as well as the baggage that comes with a person regardless of whos fault it may be.
One main issue is that most Hillary supporters take Bills record and assign it to her. Some of that is perfectly just.... however if that is the case one must really ask if Bill was THAT good of a president to warrant 8 more years. I think he was a good president, but not THAT good. I think that people are setting the bar so low in politics that basic competence is being touted as amazing..... he left the country marginally better than he took it..... not much more. We could play it safe with Hillary, or we could take a bit of a chance with Barrack. When you are unafraid you take that chance on possible greatness..... even if the result bites you in the butt. I%26#039;m taking the chance, and admittedlly %26quot;rolling the dice%26quot; because I think it is worth it.
Reply:Gee, I could copy and paste Wikipedia as well.
What does that mean?
I%26#039;ve done my own research on both candidates for the past year.
I%26#039;ve been reading about Clinton %26quot;doings%26quot; in the news for years.
I will never be swayed by %26quot;opinion%26quot; over my own research.
I also don%26#039;t expect to change anyone%26#039;s mind because I say so.
You want facts on Obama, do your own research.
Try his website or some of the websites that lists all the candidates
Just a couple of sites I%26#039;ve visited.
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