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factfinder_77

(841 posts)
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 12:41 PM Apr 2016

Clinton: If elected, women would make up half my Cabinet

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/277613-clinton-if-elected-women-would-make-up-half-my-cabinet

Hillary Clinton said Monday said if she's elected president, women would make up half of her Cabinet.

“Well, I am going to have a Cabinet that looks like America, and 50 percent of America is women,” Clinton said during an MSNBC town hall.

Clinton has made issues pertaining to women — including pay equity and reproductive rights — a pinnacle of her campaign.
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Clinton: If elected, women would make up half my Cabinet (Original Post) factfinder_77 Apr 2016 OP
There aren't many female Wall street executives The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2016 #1
teds wife, mrs. Greenspan, DWS, hmmm who else elehhhhna Apr 2016 #2
I wonder how she will reward DWS The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2016 #4
How many of them will be corporate suits? R. Daneel Olivaw Apr 2016 #3
that would make Bill happy. ChairmanAgnostic Apr 2016 #5
Oooo... the bitterness is just oozing from every pore. NurseJackie Apr 2016 #9
You ain't seen nothing. ChairmanAgnostic Apr 2016 #15
We haven't seen pouting yet. Wait until tonight's results are in. oasis Apr 2016 #17
Is 'press secretary' a cabinet position? beedle Apr 2016 #6
Because that is all that women are qualified for in the WH? nt. NCTraveler Apr 2016 #10
That's all Network talking heads beedle Apr 2016 #14
When sexism rears it's ugly head I seem to go on about it. nt. NCTraveler Apr 2016 #19
I like that, unfortunately lot of people aren't quite ready to accept that many women in government. Hoyt Apr 2016 #7
The revolution we are witnessing is being led by women and minorities. NCTraveler Apr 2016 #8
So true! SharonClark Apr 2016 #20
Yes! ismnotwasm Apr 2016 #26
How many of them would be creatures of Wall St? TheDormouse Apr 2016 #11
All female Goldman-Sachs executives are waiting by the phone. n/t lumberjack_jeff Apr 2016 #12
Wow -- Susan Rice, Victoria Nuland nichomachus Apr 2016 #13
like Mrs Greenspan? or Mrs Saban who currently is on the BoD of the Clinton Foundation azurnoir Apr 2016 #16
good..about fucking time Sheepshank Apr 2016 #18
Kristina Schake would be a wonderful cabinet member. factfinder_77 Apr 2016 #21
CNN, Fox News for the Conservative Democrats. nm rhett o rick Apr 2016 #23
Does she tell Goldman-Sachs that they should do this also? rhett o rick Apr 2016 #22
I wish I could believe her. Vinca Apr 2016 #24
People's record, actions and ideologies felix_numinous Apr 2016 #25
I want the best person metroins Apr 2016 #27
That would kick ass. Orsino Apr 2016 #28

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
9. Oooo... the bitterness is just oozing from every pore.
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 12:52 PM
Apr 2016


That's making Hillary's victory all the more sweet and enjoyable.

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)
15. You ain't seen nothing.
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 01:03 PM
Apr 2016

Just wait if the inevitable one wins, and we point out how her policies are screwing you over. Unfortunately, her policies will be so bad, that everyone will suffer.

 

beedle

(1,235 posts)
6. Is 'press secretary' a cabinet position?
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 12:50 PM
Apr 2016

And can there be 100 of them?

If so she definitely can reach that goal ... of course, the cable news network will end up pretty short on talking heads.

 

beedle

(1,235 posts)
14. That's all Network talking heads
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 01:02 PM
Apr 2016

are qualified for, yes. And yes, that goes for the male talking heads there as well.

Those are the people she owes big time, so there's really no room left for actually experienced and qualified women once all the cable news talking heads are paid back for the spectacular job they did ignoring policy and repeating Hillary distortion points.

But please go on, make everything about sexism ... that word, coming from you, has lost all meaning.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
7. I like that, unfortunately lot of people aren't quite ready to accept that many women in government.
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 12:50 PM
Apr 2016

Very Sad.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
8. The revolution we are witnessing is being led by women and minorities.
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 12:52 PM
Apr 2016

We are demanding and relentlessly working for equal representation. Our oppressors are often all a part of the same group. We are fighting for equal representation in towns like Ferguson and at the highest levels of government.

That is the revolution we are witnessing.

nichomachus

(12,754 posts)
13. Wow -- Susan Rice, Victoria Nuland
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 12:59 PM
Apr 2016

The destroyers of nations. That will be a keen bunch of warmongers and corporatists.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
22. Does she tell Goldman-Sachs that they should do this also?
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 01:22 PM
Apr 2016

And I hope she isn't implying that she will select people based on their gender.

felix_numinous

(5,198 posts)
25. People's record, actions and ideologies
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 02:32 PM
Apr 2016

matter more than what body they come in. Though half women on a cabinet sounds good, who these people represent and their agenda is far more important.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
28. That would kick ass.
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 02:42 PM
Apr 2016

I hope her agenda, and those of her Cabinet members, will also come to resemble Americans'.

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