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Hillary Clinton: 'Extremists Want To Control Women' (Original Post) jefferson_dem Mar 2012 OP
I really hope our next President, after President Obama, is a strong, female lefty. glowing Mar 2012 #1
Hillary Nails it .... Bravo Ichingcarpenter Mar 2012 #2
 

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1. I really hope our next President, after President Obama, is a strong, female lefty.
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 05:33 PM
Mar 2012

Someone who won't callously give away our rights in order to seal a deal with the evil Republican neanderthals. I'm not sure if Hillary Clinton is thinking about running for President again in 2016? She may be ready to retire and enjoy being a private citizen, which she certainly has earned the right to sit back and relax a bit.

We are way over do for a Nation that has women and minorities that over run the political landscape. And to NOT have to be insane war mongering hawks to somehow prove they are not fickle, weak and apt to allow their "hormones" to take over sensibilities every month. I think women like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer have done a wonderful job of paving a path for the next generations of younger women to be taken seriously in a role of political power. We only need for more women to have the support and help to achieve political victories.

The righties created institutions, often through churches, to instruct and support political newbies. Sara Palin and Michelle Bachman achieved their status from these types of programs developed from the right-wing machine. They had the tutelage and the supporting partners that can help begin the process into the political arena, often they used smaller offices, such as town councils, mayor, and school boards, as a stepping stone for moving up the political ladder. These women used the progress from the women's movement to become a voice in political office, yet they are destructive to women, in general, because they rail against equality for women. Complete and udder hypocrisy and the reason most women find themselves wanting to throw up when they hear them speak and realize what they want to take from women. The only women who seem to be in support of these women are those from the fundie/ tea party mindset. Women who have been "kept in their place" mainly by men on a pulpit in small towns with little difference of opinion.

Women of liberal persuasion would do better by ourselves to take a page from their playbook and mold our own support system to allow for younger generations of women the tutelage, instruction, finances, and basic help from those who have achieved political offices. I'm not sure that we will see a wave of women candidates running for office this year, but I do believe that women will be very careful in vetting the candidate that is running, and that in the next few years, the numbers of women running for offices all the way down ticket will increase as we mobilize and create the support system we need to advance into the offices of the House and the Senate and maybe even the White House.

I'm really hoping for a couple more women nominated to the Supreme Court Bench. Perhaps its time to think about adding a few more seats to the court bench anyway. 9 judges, mostly older conservative men, deciding the constitutionality of the law for the entire country probably deserves an increase in numbers on the bench. I believe when the court first came to fruition, there were only 5 seats; the numbers increased to 9 over time. Perhaps its time to shake things up and add a few more numbers to the bench, and perhaps make some sort of rule that at least 40 or 50% of the court must be a minority member.... it would be awesome to one day see a gay, female, black woman judge on the court... Now, that would be awesome. However, we will never get judges of progressive, liberal natures unless we get rid of the old white men in the Senate who are in charge of vetting and confirming Judges that would help the country to step forward.

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