Hillary Fights and Cares for Children, Except When She Doesn't
If you believe Hillary Clinton, humanitarian extraordinaire, she's been fighting for children all her life. Except for the occasional 12 year old rape victim, I suppose.
Or what about when the children in Iraq were dying thanks to the sanctions her husband imposed when he was President? Well, perhaps those were rare exceptions to a lifetime dedicated to helping the most vulnerable among us. Just like the time when she said children immigrating to the United States from the ruthless tyrannical regime in Honduras she helped install needed to be sent back to teach their parents a lesson.
Then again, maybe she really doesn't much care for kids. Remember how gleeful she sounded when America, at her insistence, overthrew the Qaddafi regime in Libya and turned the country into a failed state overrun with terrorists and warlords? I thought we invaded Libya and killed Gaddafi to save lives? Silly me.
And while Hillary may have no regrets about the Libyan intervention she championed, the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary of the United Nations for Children and Armed Conflict has a very different view of the state of children of Libya in the post-Hillary regime change era, as noted in this report issued April 16, 2016.
The recruitment and use of children by armed groups was reported. For example, groups affiliated with ISIL reportedly operated training camps south of Sirte, with a graduation ceremony for 85 children under 16 years of age reportedly held in December. It has been reported that children have been exposed to sexual violence during their association with armed groups.
At least 60 children were reportedly casualties of indiscriminate shelling of residential areas, air strikes, suicide bombings and crossfire, the majority in Benghazi. Summary executions of children were also reported, with groups affiliated with ISIL allegedly beheading a 17-year-old boy in Hawarah in May. [...]
In the context of the breakdown of law and order, there was a rise in the abduction of children by armed groups, militias and criminal organizations. For example, the body of a 16-year-old boy, reportedly abducted by militias affiliated with Operation Karamah, was found in Benghazi in December.
I keep trying to find the children Hillary says she has fought for all her life. I'm sure they are out there somewhere. Hillary wouldn't tell a lie about that, would she?
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. [...]
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.”
“Hillary Clinton is an old friend, but they are not friends in politics,” the CDF president told Democracy Now in a 2007 interview. At the time, CDF “profoundly disagreed with the forms of the welfare reform bill, and we said so,” Marian Wright Edelman explained.
Three senior officials on welfare policy resigned from the Clinton administration in response to Bill and Hillary’s scrapping of welfare.
Well, I'm sure it was all just a big misunderstanding. Hillary loves kids. She would never do anything to harm them. Right? Right? C'mon Hillary supporters, show me where I'm wrong.
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You nailed it. Again.
I think we can count on that.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Proof Hillary loves children.
On 9/11, while suffering from pneumonia, Hillary hugged a little girl who just happened to be on the sidewalk outside daughter Chelsea's medical clinic, er, apartment. It's impossible to love children more than inoculating them with pneumonia.
Psychopath and Resume Padding Liar
We might extend this to WOMEN and OLD PEOPLE.
Clinton's claim to "helping children" is a few months padding her Resume at Children's Defense Fund and the false claim that she was "instrumental" to the CHIPS program which Ted Kennedy and Orin Hatch were responsible for. If any of us padded our resume with such shit we'd get fired upon exposure.
I hate to cite WAPO as a valid source anymore, but:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/06/20/clintons-... gives the mainstream point of view of the Clinton's role.
The rest of Clintons' record is pure mayhem and murder as we have seen from Rwanda/Kosovo/ to Palestine/Syria/Yemen.
From the Light House.
But resume padding is the new honesty
I have an ex friend whose LinkedIn profile states her hobbies are family and politics. She literally abandoned her family (why she's an EX friend), and at the DK Texas meetup, she told Bastrop, "I hate politics."
As for all those positions she can't seem to hold onto for even a year each? She made the companies millions and saved millions too. But, she finds a new $100k+ job after a few months with no problem at all.
Apparently, lying is the new honesty, 1984 style.
Also, I'm adding Honduras, Berta, and all the returned children to your list of Killary mayhem and murder.
lol, I love your icon
what the hell is it? a goat wearing glasses?
Love is my religion.
Disgusting
Unanswered, Why did that prosecutor want a "personal favor"? Because the victim was "white trash"?
I can see that that is what a defense attorney is supposed to do. But laughing about it afterwards?
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
It's all so much self-serving flummery on her part
Given her persona, I very much doubt that she's 'child friendly'.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Not to get mean-down and nasty, but they only had one.
If she were singing Zero Population growth she would be an example of negative. But she did not, and the only is making up for it. [mother of two]
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I suspect that what they're
I suspect that what they're relying on is Hillary's involvement with education reform and other children-related issues in her early law career and as First Lady of Arkansas. Here's a 2015 HuffPost article that I think sums up their point of view:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7258956
There is a record of things Hillary did. The assumption people are making is that she did those things because those issues were important to her, that she cared deeply about the issues and the people involved. But that assumption is not necessarily (or even likely) true.
I don't personally know the Clintons, so I can't say for sure what her motivation was. But I was in the first wave of women lawyers back in the 1970s. We got a lot of resistance, because we were engaging in a career -- a whole aspect of societal life, really -- that had traditionally been deemed unsuitable for women. At the time, many people still saw it as unsuitable. The prevailing cultural view was that women were the nurturers and caregivers, not legal fighters and lawmakers.
One of few areas of law that was deemed acceptable -- or, at least, less inacceptable -- for women was (no surprise) family law, which involved children's issues. That was a field of law that many young women lawyers entered, because they believed it would be more receptive to them. They felt it would be a way of advancing in their legal career more effectively and easily than they would in, say, banking law. Of course, there were many who practiced family law because they cared about the issues. And there were many of us who pushed forward into the more "unsuitable" areas of business law, criminal law, etc.
I would not find it at all surprising that an up-and-coming female politician in the late 1970s and early '80s, especially in a Southern state, would choose family and children's law as her path to success.
(As a side note, interestingly, some of the people who were involved with Clinton in the '80s in the Arkansas education reform projects are now members of the Democratic National Committee and have had other wheelings and dealings in Washington DC.)
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The "Clinton is pro children" trope
has been coming at me all week long in attempts to turn my vote away from Stein to "make sure Trump isn't elected". My response, after "why are you so worried, she has it in the bag, right?" is that Hillary bombing kids isn't really nurturing. These people, like my dogs, suddenly get hearing problems when they don't like the response.
Cluster bombs
And don't forget the time that Hillary, as Senator, joined with Republicans in voting down U.S. endorsement of an international agreement banning the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas. How many thousands of children have been killed or maimed for life when they picked up cluster bomblets?
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/03/13/cluster-bombs-are-not-good-...
Mark F. McCarty
Wonderful link, thank you NT
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
Hillary loves her some landmines
"The worldwide movement to ban landmines burgeoned in the Clinton years. It was a visionary U.S. citizen, Jody Williams of Vermont, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to end the ignominy of landmines. And it was primarily in defense of children that Princess Diana, speaking from a minefield in Angola, raised international awareness about devastation caused by weapons from the West.
In December 1997, 137 nations, more than two-thirds of the world, signed the Ottawa treaty, an agreement to ban the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of anti-personnel landmines. How did the Clintons respond to world opinion, to the humanitarian movement against landmines?
President Clinton flat out refused to become party to the Ottawa convention. As he put it, "I could not sign in good conscience the treaty banning landmines." In "good conscience"?! Are landmines good for children?" ~ commondreams link supplied in above comment.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
She was against the ban on cluster bombs, too.
Same dangers, same objections.
Oops, I should have scrolled up to see what preceded it.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Is there anything good that Hillary has done?
It would be nice to see a list of the good things that Hillary has done alongside a list of the bad things that she/Bill have done to rub in the face of $hillary supporters.
Love is my religion.