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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 12:38 AM
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Clinton's experience on the world stage:
Her historic speech at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 not only galvanized women around the world, it helped spawn a movement that led to advances politically, legally, economically, and socially for women in many countries over the next decade. Among other initiatives, she spearheaded the Clinton Administration's efforts to combat the global crisis of human trafficking. She persuaded the First Ladies of the Americas to use their collective power to eradicate measles and improve girls' education throughout the western Hemisphere. And she is widely credited with helping women in Kuwait finally win the right to vote.

As First Lady and now as a two-term senator who represents the most ethnically diverse state in the nation and who sits on the Armed Services Committee, Hillary Clinton has become a fixture on international issues over the past 15 years. She has traveled to more than 80 countries, going from barrios to rural villages to meetings with heads of state. She has consulted with dozens of world leaders - Nelson Mandela, King Abdullah, Tony Blair among them -- on matters as diverse as America and NATO's roles in Kosovo, eradicating poverty in the Third World, and the plight of women living under the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Today, she is one of the most influential voices in the world on human rights, democracy, and the promotion of a "new internationalism" in foreign affairs that calls for a balanced use of military force, diplomacy, and social development to strengthen American interests and security globally.

While American First Ladies historically have made great (and often overlooked) contributions to our nation, Hillary Clinton's wide-ranging experience on international issues as First Lady is unprecedented. Indeed, she is the only First Lady to have delivered foreign policy addresses at major gatherings of the United Nations, the World Bank, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the World Economic Forum.
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MagsDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 12:42 AM
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1. You mean she wasn't in the kitchen baking cookies?
That's what all the BO supporters want you to believe. They probably would have attacked Elenanor Roosevelt as well. Great post, and it only highlights her foreign policy experience. I don't agree with her on everything by anymeans, but it makes me sad to think that she has spent her entire career in service to this country only to be smeared here on a daily basis.
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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 12:44 AM
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2. nor having "tea" as Obama suggested in one of his more sexist moments
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ExtraGriz Donating Member (405 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 12:51 AM
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3. but try the snickerdoodle recipe on her website last night
delicious!!! :-)
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