How qualified is Hillary?

[Bob]

In a news conference Deanna Favre announced she will be the starting QB for
the Packers next season.

Deanna asserts that she is qualified to be the starting QB because she has
spent the past 16 years married to Brett while he played QB for the
Packers.

During this period of time, she became familiar with the definition of a
corner blitz, the nickel package, and man-to-man coverage,

So she is now completely comfortable with all the other terminology
involving the Packers offense.

A survey of Packers fans shows that 50% of those polled supported the move.

Does this sounds idiotic and unbelievable or familiar to you?

Hillary Clinton makes the same claims as to why she is qualified to be
President and 50% of Democrats polled agreed.

She has never run a City, County, or State during her “career” of being Bill
Clinton’s wife.

When told Hillary Clinton has experience because she has 8 years in the
White House, my immediate thought was “So has the pastry chef”.

When it comes to running the state department, her biggest achievement was
getting a US Ambassador and 3 other Americans killed by pretending terrorism
had been defeated.





On the other hand, she has more experience than Obama had.

[darroll]

How qualified is Hillary?It don't matter anymore.
They just vote their party.

[momsapplepie]

Maybe this will answer her question if she thinks she's qualified, it's obvious someone doesn't think she is.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireS...peech-23280934 (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/object-thrown-hillary-clinton-speech-23280934)

[Adelaide]

She's more qualified than majority of the yahoos who will try to get a nomination from either of the parties. She has a degree in law, served as a senator, she was secretary of state, and yeah she probably did get a really good education on the role of the president from being the first lady even though that wouldn't and shouldn't go on the "resume".

[Bob]

She's more qualified than majority of the yahoos who will try to get a nomination from either of the parties. She has a degree in law, served as a senator, she was secretary of state, and yeah she probably did get a really good education on the role of the president from being the first lady even though that wouldn't and shouldn't go on the "resume".

Oh right. Like Brett's wife, she is well qualified to take things over.

LMAO

I suppose to some, even airline pilots only need to be passengers and have never piloted the airplane. LOL

[junie]

bill would have been nothing without hillary...



Long before Yale Law, before Arkansas, before marriage to Bill, the Senate, the White House, her own (first?) run for the White House, the State Department and the ubiquitous “texts from” meme that just keeps on giving, she was Hillary Diane Rodham, the older sister of two brothers and the over-achieving daughter of loving, politically conservative parents from suburban Park Ridge, Illinois.


Intelligent, intensely curious and, from a young age, driven to find a way to somehow contribute to the world around her, Hillary Rodham enrolled at Wellesley College (http://www.wellesley.edu/) in the fall of 1965. It was there, in Massachusetts, that the moderate Republican underwent her transformation (she might characterize it as “an evolution”) to committed Democrat.


By the time she graduated from Wellesley in May 1969, Hillary Rodham was already such a notable figure that she was featured, along with four other speakers from four other schools — and excerpts from their commencement addresses — in the June 20, 1969, issue of LIFE, in an article titled, simply, “The Class of ’69.”


Her speech was, perhaps not surprisingly, less strident and confrontational than those of the other student speakers quoted in the issue; as early as 1969, Hillary was showing signs of that phenomenal ability to modulate her message — without diluting or compromising it — that helps explain so much of her success in public life.

http://life.time.com/history/hillary-clinton-in-1969-photos-of-a-recent-college-grad/

[junie]

Remarks of Hillary D. Rodham, President of the Wellesley College Government Association and member of the Class of 1969, on the occasion of Wellesley's 91st Commencement, May 31, 1969:


I am very glad that Miss Adams made it clear that what I am speaking for today is all of us -- the 400 of us -- and I find myself in a familiar position, that of reacting, something that our generation has been doing for quite a while now. We're not in the positions yet of leadership and power, but we do have that indispensable task of criticizing and constructive protest and I find myself reacting just briefly to some of the things that Senator Brooke said. This has to be brief because I do have a little speech to give. Part of the problem with empathy with professed goals is that empathy doesn't do us anything. We've had lots of empathy; we've had lots of sympathy, but we feel that for too long our leaders have used politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. What does it mean to hear that 13.3% of the people in this country are below the poverty line? That's a percentage. We're not interested in social reconstruction; it's human reconstruction. How can we talk about percentages and trends? The complexities are not lost in our analyses, but perhaps they're just put into what we consider a more human and eventually a more progressive perspective.

The question about possible and impossible was one that we brought with us to Wellesley four years ago. We arrived not yet knowing what was not possible. Consequently, we expected a lot. Our attitudes are easily understood having grown up, having come to consciousness in the first five years of this decade -- years dominated by men with dreams, men in the civil rights movement, the Peace Corps, the space program -- so we arrived at Wellesley and we found, as all of us have found, that there was a gap between expectation and realities. But it wasn't a discouraging gap and it didn't turn us into cynical, bitter old women at the age of 18. It just inspired us to do something about that gap. What we did is often difficult for some people to understand. They ask us quite often: "Why, if you're dissatisfied, do you stay in a place?" Well, if you didn't care a lot about it you wouldn't stay. It's almost as though my mother used to say, "I'll always love you but there are times when I certainly won't like you." Our love for this place, this particular place, Wellesley College, coupled with our freedom from the burden of an inauthentic reality allowed us to question basic assumptions underlying our education. Before the days of the media orchestrated demonstrations, we had our own gathering over in Founder's parking lot. We protested against the rigid academic distribution requirement. We worked for a pass-fail system. We worked for a say in some of the process of academic decision making. And luckily we were in a place where, when we questioned the meaning of a liberal arts education there were people with enough imagination to respond to that questioning. So we have made progress. We have achieved some of the things that initially saw as lacking in that gap between expectation and reality. Our concerns were not, of course, solely academic as all of us know. We worried about inside Wellesley questions of admissions, the kind of people that should be coming to Wellesley, the process for getting them here. We questioned about what responsibility we should have both for our lives as individuals and for our lives as members of a collective group.

Coupled with our concerns for the Wellesley inside here in the community were our concerns for what happened beyond Hathaway House. We wanted to know what relationship Wellesley was going to have to the outer world. We were lucky in that one of the first things Miss Adams did was to set up a cross-registration with MIT (http://new.wellesley.edu/USStudy/exchangecontentspage.html) because everyone knows that education just can't have any parochial bounds any more. One of the other things that we did was the Upward Bound program. There are so many other things that we could talk about; so many attempts, at least the way we saw it, to pull ourselves into the world outside. And I think we've succeeded. There will be an Upward Bound program, just for one example, on the campus this summer.
Many of the issues that I've mentioned -- those of sharing power and responsibility, those of assuming power and responsibility have been general concerns on campuses throughout the world. But underlying those concerns there is a theme, a theme which is so trite and so old because the words are so familiar. It talks about integrity and trust and respect. Words have a funny way of trapping our minds on the way to our tongues but there are necessary means even in this multi-media age for attempting to come to grasps with some of the inarticulate maybe even inarticulable things that we're feeling. We are, all of us, exploring a world that none of us even understands and attempting to create within that uncertainty. But there are some things we feel, feelings that our prevailing, acquisitive, and competitive corporate life, including tragically the universities, is not the way of life for us. We're searching for more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating mode of living. And so our questions, our questions about our institutions, about our colleges, about our churches, about our government continue. The questions about those institutions are familiar to all of us. We have seen heralded across the newspapers. Senator Brooke has suggested some of them this morning. But along with using these words -- integrity, trust, and respect -- in regard to institutions and leaders we're perhaps harshest with them in regard to ourselves.


Every protest, every dissent, whether it's an individual academic paper, Founder's parking lot demonstration, is unabashedly an attempt to forge an identity in this particular age. That attempt at forging for many of us over the past four years has meant coming to terms with our humanness. Within the context of a society that we perceive -- now we can talk about reality, and I would like to talk about reality sometime, authentic reality, inauthentic reality, and what we have to accept of what we see -- but our perception of it is that it hovers often between the possibility of disaster and the potentiality for imaginatively responding to men's needs. There's a very strange conservative strain that goes through a lot of New Left, collegiate protests that I find very intriguing because it harkens back to a lot of the old virtues, to the fulfillment of original ideas. And it's also a very unique American experience. It's such a great adventure. If the experiment in human living doesn't work in this country, in this age, it's not going to work anywhere.


But we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation. A liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves. To be educated to freedom must be evidenced in action, and here again is where we ask ourselves, as we have asked our parents and our teachers, questions about integrity, trust, and respect. Those three words mean different things to all of us. Some of the things they can mean, for instance: Integrity, the courage to be whole, to try to mold an entire person in this particular context, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. If the only tool we have ultimately to use is our lives, so we use it in the way we can by choosing a way to live that will demonstrate the way we feel and the way we know. Integrity -- a man like Paul Santmire. Trust. This is one word that when I asked the class at our rehearsal what it was they wanted me to say for them, everyone came up to me and said "Talk about trust, talk about the lack of trust both for us and the way we feel about others. Talk about the trust bust." What can you say about it? What can you say about a feeling that permeates a generation and that perhaps is not even understood by those who are distrusted? All they can do is keep trying again and again and again. There's that wonderful line in East Coker by Eliot about there's only the trying, again and again and again; to win again what we've lost before.


And then respect. There's that mutuality of respect between people where you don't see people as percentage points. Where you don't manipulate people. Where you're not interested in social engineering for people. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences. And the word "consequences" of course catapults us into the future. 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.



http://academics.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1969/053169hillary.html

[junie]

There are two people that I would like to thank before concluding. That's Ellie Acheson, who is the spearhead for this, and also Nancy Scheibner who wrote this poem which is the last thing that I would like to read:


My entrance into the world of so-called "social problems"
Must be with quiet laughter, or not at all.
The hollow men of anger and bitterness
The bountiful ladies of righteous degradation
All must be left to a bygone age.
And the purpose of history is to provide a receptacle
For all those myths and oddments
Which oddly we have acquired
And from which we would become unburdened
To create a newer world
To transform the future into the present.
We have no need of false revolutions
In a world where categories tend to tyrannize our minds
And hang our wills up on narrow pegs.
It is well at every given moment to seek the limits in our lives.
And once those limits are understood
To understand that limitations no longer exist.
Earth could be fair. And you and I must be free
Not to save the world in a glorious crusade
Not to kill ourselves with a nameless gnawing pain
But to practice with all the skill of our being
The art of making possible.

[junie]

May 29, 1992 Wellesley College Commencement Address

Hillary Clinton, attorney, spouse of Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton and member of the Wellesley College class of 1969, delivered the commencement address for the graduating class of 1992. In her remarks, Ms. Clinton discussed the challenges facing the 1992 graduating class as well as current international affairs following the Cold War and the recent flap over family values started by Vice President Quayle’s condemnation of a television sitcom. Ms. Clinton had spoken at her commencement from Wellesley College in 1969, and referred to her education at Wellesley frequently during her remarks.


http://www.c-span.org/video/?26321-1/wellesley-college-commencement-address

[Peter1469]

Hillary today looks like my rug in front of my apartment door. Well used. :shocked:

[junie]

she looks a heck of a lot better than anything the GOP has to offer...

[Peter1469]

she looks a heck of a lot better than anything the GOP has to offer...

I mean well used by abusive men.

[junie]

anyone who acts like she's been riding bill's coattails in life has got it assbackwards...

[Peter1469]

anyone who acts like she's been riding bill's coattails in life has got it assbackwards...

Perhaps. She did run the house. Even with covering up Bills rapes and sexual crimes.

[momsapplepie]

she was nothing but a tea server who didn't bake cookies.

[darroll]

6727

This is our Tea Party pick

[ChoppedLiver]

6727

This is our Tea Party pick

A good caption for that pic. would be, "You wanna eat this?"

:cool:

[Peter1469]

I would get sick before I got to the good part. :smiley:

[darroll]

A good caption for that pic. would be, "You wanna eat this?"

:cool: Makes a guy hungry.

[hanger4]

she looks a heck of a lot better than anything the GOP has to offer...Please junie, what are her accomplishments ?? as first lady, as senator, as Sec. of State ??

[1751_Texan]

Oh right. Like Brett's wife, she is well qualified to take things over.

LMAO

I suppose to some, even airline pilots only need to be passengers and have never piloted the airplane. LOL

Don't vote for her. What the problem?

When Sen. John McCain picked Mrs. Palin as his running mate, I did not vote for him as I had planned.

You have the same right to choose someone other than Mrs Clinton.

[Peter1469]

Anyway, she is qualified in the technical sense of the word. But the deliberate actions she took while gaining this experience should give everyone pause before they vote for her. Unless of course they are only voting for her because she is a (D) and / or and woman. Our current president won based only on that (being a dem and his race).

[Libhater]

When Sen. John McCain picked Mrs. Palin as his running mate, I did not vote for him as I had planned.

Yeah, I hear ya, Palin made the RINO/APPEASER McCain look weak while she was the one wearing a complete set of balls.

[Peter1469]

Yeah, I hear ya, Palin made the RINO/APPEASER McCain look weak while she was the one wearing a complete set of balls.

Palin was proof positive that Americans by an large will only vote for the elite. No real people need apply.

That is how we got the clown Kerry as Sec of State destroying US foriegn policy and joking about it.

[1751_Texan]

Yeah, I hear ya, Palin made the RINO/APPEASER McCain look weak while she was the one wearing a complete set of balls.

Mrs. Palin "having balls" made her no more quilfied to be President. If Mrs. Palin had balls, she would have had balls enough to tell the RINO APPEASER McCain to go screw himself. It's one thing to have balls, it is a another thing have the balls and use them.

[Libhater]

Mrs. Palin "having balls" made her no more quilfied to be President. If Mrs. Palin had balls, she would have had balls enough to tell the RINO APPEASER McCain to go screw himself. It's one thing to have balls, it is a another thing have the balls and use them.

Pretty hard to to tell the guy who chose you to be his running mate for the top two political positions in our nation to go screw himself. While McCain did
give Palin her exposure to the national political system, he nonetheless was a weak candidate.

[nathanbforrest45]

Hilliary is probably as well qualified as any socialist candidate would be. Which is exactly why I will not vote for her. My wife won't vote for her because of the message she sent to young women that it was ok to be humiliated in public by a philandering husband.

Of course, like Obama, we will all be accused of being sexist because we won't vote for her.

[BB-35]

Hillary today looks like my rug in front of my apartment door. Well used. :shocked:

she's got tha Bea Arthur thing going....

[The Xl]

I don't agree with the premise of being "qualified" to be suited for the job, at least when it comes to your past service or lack thereof in government.

I don't care what you're past is, the most important attributes are being intelligent, honest, and not being bought by big money. Hilary fails on all three.