(I wouldn't be voting Obama, for what it's worth.)
"One of the most tragic things that happened yesterday, a beautiful day, was that I was talking to woman who said that she wouldn't want to be me for anything in the world. She wouldn't want to live today and look ahead to what it is she sees because she's afraid. Fear is always with us but we just don't have time for it. Not now."
Hillary D. Rodham
Wellesley College
1969 Student Commencement Speech
May 31, 1969
via "Goodbye To All That #2", Robin Morgan, The Women's Media Center. Read it to the end - it's worth it:
"I'd rather say a joyful Hello to all the glorious young women who do identify with Hillary, and all the brave, smart men-of all ethnicities and any age-who get that it’s in their self-interest, too. She's better qualified. (D'uh.) She's a high-profile candidate with an enormous grasp of foreign- and domestic-policy nuance, dedication to detail, ability to absorb staggering insult and personal pain while retaining dignity, resolve, even humor, and keep on keeping on. (Also, yes, dammit, let's hear it for her connections and funding and party-building background, too. Obama was awfully glad about those when she raised dough and campaigned for him to get to the Senate in the first place.)
"I'd rather look forward to what a good president he might make in eight years, when his vision and spirit are seasoned by practical know-how - and he'll be all of 54. Meanwhile, goodbye to turning him into a shining knight when actually he's an astute, smooth pol with speechwriters who've worked with the Kennedys' own speechwriter-courtier Ted Sorenson. If it's only about ringing rhetoric, let speechwriters run. But isn’t it about getting the policies we want enacted?"
Stanley Fish's column in the NYT today, "All You Need Is Hate", is about the irrational world of Hillary-hating.
Paul Krugman in his latest column lays out Clinton's and Obama's respective health plans.
Hillary D. Rodham
Wellesley College
1969 Student Commencement Speech
May 31, 1969
via "Goodbye To All That #2", Robin Morgan, The Women's Media Center. Read it to the end - it's worth it:
"I'd rather say a joyful Hello to all the glorious young women who do identify with Hillary, and all the brave, smart men-of all ethnicities and any age-who get that it’s in their self-interest, too. She's better qualified. (D'uh.) She's a high-profile candidate with an enormous grasp of foreign- and domestic-policy nuance, dedication to detail, ability to absorb staggering insult and personal pain while retaining dignity, resolve, even humor, and keep on keeping on. (Also, yes, dammit, let's hear it for her connections and funding and party-building background, too. Obama was awfully glad about those when she raised dough and campaigned for him to get to the Senate in the first place.)
"I'd rather look forward to what a good president he might make in eight years, when his vision and spirit are seasoned by practical know-how - and he'll be all of 54. Meanwhile, goodbye to turning him into a shining knight when actually he's an astute, smooth pol with speechwriters who've worked with the Kennedys' own speechwriter-courtier Ted Sorenson. If it's only about ringing rhetoric, let speechwriters run. But isn’t it about getting the policies we want enacted?"
Stanley Fish's column in the NYT today, "All You Need Is Hate", is about the irrational world of Hillary-hating.
Paul Krugman in his latest column lays out Clinton's and Obama's respective health plans.