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rbrnmw

(7,160 posts)
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 05:33 PM Feb 2016

South Carolina (one of the first jobs she ever had)

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/president-clintons-stories-explain-why-hillary-single-best-change-maker-hes-ever-met/

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As one of her first jobs out of law school, Hillary went to work for the Children’s Defense Fund. She traveled to prisons in South Carolina to investigate why African American teenagers were being jailed as adults—and her work helped to change federal law.
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South Carolina (one of the first jobs she ever had) (Original Post) rbrnmw Feb 2016 OP
<3 I Love Hillary So Much! <3 NurseJackie Feb 2016 #1
Probably just pandering... brooklynite Feb 2016 #2
+1! eom BlueMTexpat Feb 2016 #4
Good strategy! yardwork Feb 2016 #12
LOL - that must be it MaggieD Feb 2016 #17
You are very smart, brooklynite. brer cat Feb 2016 #22
K & R Iliyah Feb 2016 #3
No, some say that was actually her friend Rappaport who is now dead. nt thereismore Feb 2016 #5
And then she worked to change federal law back. jeff47 Feb 2016 #6
you mean the one she didn't vote for? rbrnmw Feb 2016 #7
Yes, the one she lobbied for, and then touted as her success in her Senate campaign. jeff47 Feb 2016 #8
no she didn't rbrnmw Feb 2016 #9
Uh, yeah. She lobbied for it, and that lobbying was one of the things she ran for Senate on. jeff47 Feb 2016 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author noamnety Feb 2016 #14
Yep - that one MaggieD Feb 2016 #18
I think she had some liberal and altruistic tendencies when she was young Doctor_J Feb 2016 #11
We're always being told that she was conservative when she was young. yardwork Feb 2016 #13
So hard to keep the smears straight! MaggieD Feb 2016 #19
Goldwater was as conservative as you could find in the early sixties. And Hillary herself said she Doctor_J Feb 2016 #20
I think that you misrepresent Hillary's work and positions. yardwork Feb 2016 #21
And went on to betray the principles of the CDF as First Lady. beac Feb 2016 #15
Yep MaggieD Feb 2016 #16

brooklynite

(94,742 posts)
2. Probably just pandering...
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 05:34 PM
Feb 2016

...she knew the children would grow up and wanted them to vote for her 40 years later...

brer cat

(24,615 posts)
22. You are very smart, brooklynite.
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 07:13 PM
Feb 2016

I missed that entirely, but it certainly has a ring of truth to it. I always thought she was a very forward thinker.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
8. Yes, the one she lobbied for, and then touted as her success in her Senate campaign.
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 05:51 PM
Feb 2016

She was especially proud of those "tough on crime" provisions in her Senate campaign...that reversed the changes you highlighted in that OP.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
10. Uh, yeah. She lobbied for it, and that lobbying was one of the things she ran for Senate on.
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 05:57 PM
Feb 2016

Heck, the "superpredator" speech was Clinton talking about her efforts to get the bill passed.

Response to rbrnmw (Reply #9)

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
11. I think she had some liberal and altruistic tendencies when she was young
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 05:58 PM
Feb 2016

Now there is a giant cavity where her soul used to be. That's what comes from planning for thirty five years to be the first female president, and from being part of the ruling class for forty five years.

yardwork

(61,712 posts)
13. We're always being told that she was conservative when she was young.
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 06:00 PM
Feb 2016

Which is it?

Maybe the truth is that she's not as bad as some say.

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
20. Goldwater was as conservative as you could find in the early sixties. And Hillary herself said she
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 06:41 PM
Feb 2016

was conservative. Maybe that's who told you. As a young lawyer she seems to have been altruistic to some extent. Then as a politician, she embraced welfare reform, the private prisons, TPP, for profit healthcare, charter schools, wall street deregulation, doma, dadt, the crime bill, the Iraq war, Syria, Honduras, Libya, Henry Kissinger, and social security cuts. Like I said - no soul.

beac

(9,992 posts)
15. And went on to betray the principles of the CDF as First Lady.
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 06:19 PM
Feb 2016
The problem with Clinton’s claims, however, is that she betrayed children as First Lady. Under the guise of welfare reform, the Clinton administration worked with Republicans to gut social services, ignoring their own senior officials’ warnings that, by doing so, they would be plunging over a million children into poverty.

Bill Clinton ran in 1992 on the campaign promise to “end welfare as we know it.” In 1996, he — with the wholehearted support of Hillary — succeeded, passing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PRWORA). PRWORA was based on legislation first proposed by Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. The act was opposed by the left-wing of the Democratic Party, but the Clinton administration joined hands with Republicans and conservative Democrats to push it through.

As part of PRWORA, the Clinton administration axed the Aid to Families with Dependent Children federal assistance program, which had been created 61 years before by the Social Security Act, in the New Deal. They replaced it with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, which was drastically weaker and — as the name stresses — temporary.

Hillary, as First Lady, advocated strongly for the restructuring of welfare. Her former co-workers at CDF, on the other hand, were infuriated. CDF founder and President Marian Wright Edelman declared that President Clinton’s “signature on this pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to hurt children.”


http://www.salon.com/2015/10/15/the_worst_thing_hillary_clinton_has_ever_done/
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