Only one candidate can bring change in male-female relationships
An article in the NY Times, February 13, 2008, “Limbo for U.S. Women Reporting Iraq Assaults, points to what I think is an important reason to elect Hillary Clinton. Women around the world are abused horribly and this includes, of course, the United States with its plethora of pornography and sexually oriented advertising. Having a woman president could be important to raise the aspirations of women everywhere, but particularly women in in countries where the position of women is almost too much for them to bear. In the United States, it could have symbolic value for young girls, the women of the future. This is not to say that rape and abuse would end by electing Senator Clinton, but her history is certainly indicative of her desire to raise the status of women around the world, as shown by her leadership at the International Women’s Conference at Beijing in 1995.
Around the world today there are wars caused by men. Women and the children women protect and try to keep safe are most often the victims. Often women give their lives to protect their children from the horrors cause by men. Women are in the forefront of anti-war demonstrations and are often abused, imprisoned, or worse for their convictions. Women have always been in the forefront of human rights activities and have suffered abuse there, also. All of this takes courage.
Isn’t it now time to give a competent woman the opportunity to bring about change in the relations between men and women, and to raise the hopes of the women of the world, many of whom hold Hillary Clinton in high esteem.
Harry E. Berndt
Webster Groves
Hillary for women’s rights? Yeah, right, except for the women who came forward to expose her political partner as a serial sexual abuser, she didnt care much for them.
I realize with all the bathroom toe-tapping, page harassing, and pastor escort services that Republicans may be a bit confused about these issues, but there’s a difference between a philanderer and a rapist.
But by all means, keep spouting off these ridiculous Clinton conspiracy theories. Throw in your looney ones about Vince Foster or Waco too. The more crazy you GOPers sound, the better the Democratic Party will do in 2008.
Number 2, Bob:
“there’s a difference between a philanderer and a rapist.”
Except for the statutes of limitations in Arkansas, that philanderer would be a convicted rapist.
You better put some ice on that!
The only thing the Bush idolaters know they dislike more than McCain is of course the Clintons,
and it is said the very mention of the latter pair of politicos will bring forth coarse hair from their
palms and the sign of the pentagram on their foreheads. Or something such as that. For the rest of us, most of us have a reaction called Clinton Fatigue, marked by a weariness and unease at the prospect of the predictable deja-vu. Of course, in their hairy-palmed and right-wing stigmata-state,
the Cheney/Bush acolytes are incapable of understanding much of what has happened while they
carried those torches the past 7 years….
I’m all for electing a competent, experienced, principled woman as president. Unfortunately, there aren’t any running.
In most cases it was your mother that put the band-aid on and kiss that bo-bo and made it all better, ……… we’re good like that …the time is NOW!
I vote for Connie Rice !!!!
Ah…instead of elevating the discussion the usual gang of GOP kool-aid drinkers further cover it mud. Way to go, ladies. You make Rush look like William F. Buckley.
…as for the letter writer’s argument. I will disagree. While Hilary would make a fine President, can’t do any worse then Bush, just having a woman leading the country is not going to prevent violence against women the world over. Pakistan, a Islamic country, had Bhutto and that did nothing to curb violence against women. Notably, she was assinated. India had Ghandi and that didn’t do anything. Even Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the Prez of te Phillipines is the target of Muslim groups for assination…just discovered this month…
So to say that Hilary will deter violence against women in third world and Muslim countries, I don’t think is realistic.
Hillary is a bafoon! and so is Osama.
I would vote for a black and I would vote for a woman, just not Obama or Hillary. I just wish Condoleezza Rice was running, but then I think about how the left would savage her and I am glad that she is not in the race.