NEWSWEEK Poll

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• Posted By: Realbill @ 04/30/2008 10:08:36 PM

  Comment: Hillary Clinton: helped establish the State Children's Health Insurance Program and the Adoption and Safe Families Act; attorney for the newly founded Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge; a consultant to the Carnegie Council on Children; published the scholarly articles "Children's Policies: Abandonment and Neglect" in 1977 and "Children's Rights: A Legal Perspective" in 1979;co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a state-level alliance with the Children's Defense Fund, in 1977, and served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital, and the Children's Defense Fund (as chair, 1986???1992); (1979???1981, 1983???1992), she served as the chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee, where she successfully obtained federal funds to expand medical facilities in Arkansas' poorest areas without affecting doctors' fees; introduced Arkansas' Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth in 1985, a program that helps parents work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy; Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984; from 1987 to 1991 she chaired the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, which addressed gender bias in the law profession and induced the association to adopt measures to combat it and was twice named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America, in 1988 and in 1991; helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice; 1997, she initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act; in her 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 the People's Republic of China itself, declaring "that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights" and resisting Chinese pressure to soften her remarks; 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; 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;from 1995 to 2004, she brought together women from communities, Catholic & Protestant, to meet & work together toward a common goal of peace in N. Ireland.

• Posted By: gggillhead @ 04/30/2008 8:30:11 PM

  Comment: mOST OF AMERICA BELIEVED OUR LYING IGNORANT PERSON IN THE WHITE HOUSE NOW..
  dO YOU THINK HILLARY HAD A MAJIC BALL OR WHAT? WE WENT TO WAR FOR THE MONEY INVOLVED. WE KNEW THAT IF A REPUBLICAN WAS ELECTED WE WOULD GO TO WAR.

• Posted By: gggillhead @ 04/30/2008 8:23:21 PM

  Comment: ALL DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED FOR HILLARY CLINTON WILL SWITCH THEIR VOTE TO JOHN MCCAIN IF OBAMA IS DECIDED AS THE WINNER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY. THE U.S. CANNOT AFFORD ANOTHER TRAIN ON THE JOB PRESIDENT. REVERSE DISCRIMINATION IS ALREADY OUT OF HAND AND AN AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESIDENT WILL ONLY MAKE IT WORSE.