Best Candidate for President of the United States 2008
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As early as college, she demonstrated leadership when she was selected to be the first student speaker at her commencement at Wellesley College. As a law student at Yale she represented foster children and parents in family court. She also worked on some of the earliest studies creating legal standards for identifying and protecting abused children. After graduating from Yale she became a staff attorney for the Children’s Defense Fund. She served as one of only two women lawyers on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee considering the Impeachment of Richard Nixon.
Upon marrying Bill Clinton and moving Arkansas, she ran a legal aid clinic that handled cases of foster care and child abuse. She organized a group called Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. At the age of 30 she was appointed by President Carter to the Board of the United States Legal Services Corporation to continue funding legal assistance to the poor. As First Lady of Arkansas she led a task force to improve education in Arkansas through higher standards for schools. She also served on the Board of the Arkansas Children’s’ Hospital and on National boards such as the Children’s’ Defense, the Child Care Action campaign and the Children’s’ Television Workshop.
She led the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession which played a pioneering role of raising awareness of issues like sexual harassment and equal pay. She was twice named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America.
As First Lady of the United States in 1992 she continued to work for women’s rights and traveled the globe speaking out against the degradation and abuse of women and standing up for the women’s rights as human rights. While in the White House, she led efforts to make adoption easier, to expand early learning and childcare, to increase funding for breast cancer research. She worked to help veterans who suffered from Gulf War Syndrome. She helped create the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. She also was influential in the design and creation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which has provided millions of children with health insurance. She battled the big drug companies to force them to better test their drugs and to make sure all children received the immunizations they need through the Vaccines for Children Program.
In 2000 she was elected to the United States Senate from New York and was reelected in 2006. She continued her advocacy for children and families and has been a national leader on homeland security and national security issues. After September 11, she worked with colleagues to secure funds for New York to recover and rebuild. She fought to provide health care for workers at “Ground Zero. She has continued to work for resources that help New York to grow and improve homeland security. She became the first New Yorker to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee. She has passed legislation to trace the health status of our troops so that conditions like Gulf War Syndrome would no longer be misdiagnosed. She was instrumental in passing other legislation too numerous to mention all to the benefit of the middle class, creating jobs, advancing health care, bringing more qualified teachers in to classrooms, principals to lead our schools, and many other major issues.
She introduced the Count Every Vote Act of 2005 to ensure better protection of votes and to ensure that every vote is counted.
Senator Clinton is for ending the war in Iraq as soon as possible. She has a 3-step plan including a phased redeployment, securing stability in Iraq as we bring troops home, and a new intensive diplomatic stabilization in the region. She believes the war in Afghanistan has been neglected because of the war in Iraq. Iraq has no links to terrorism. She believes the terrorists are in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that is where we should be fighting terrorism. Our legislatures were mislead by flawed intelligence about Iraq and terrorism supplied by the Bush administration
She believes in a strong defense for the United States, but also believes that diplomacy should be the first and consistent action to solve problems. Military forces should be the last resort. Terrorism has no place in the United States or the world.
Senator Clinton plans to have health coverage for every American with the American Health Choices Plan. The plan consists of four main parts:
Offer new coverage choices for the insured and uninsured.
Same choice of health plan options that members of congress receive.
A guarantee of quality coverage.
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