Hillary Clinton: Progress Isn’t Easy

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Hillary Clinton: Progress Isn’t Easy

February 23, 2020 by still4hill

The hurricanes that have devastated the Caribbean region — including Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Dominica, and the Bahamas — serve as a stark reminder that climate change is real and makes all of us more vulnerable and interdependent.

When more than 3.4 million people were impacted by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the Clinton Foundation answered the call for assistance from local leaders and launched the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Action Network on Post-Disaster Recovery.

Now it’s your turn to answer the call. Contribute today and 100% of your gift will help the Foundation to sustain these critical recovery efforts.

When Bill and I were in Puerto Rico this week, we met with CGI partners and local residents who are committed to improving livelihoods for themselves and their neighbors. I was especially moved by the dedicated staff at a maternal health clinic which has been solarized by an equally amazing team of women solar technicians trained by one of our CGI partners. Their collaboration epitomizes what this work is all about and demonstrates what we can accomplish when we all work together.

Working with 700+ partners, the CGI Action Network is helping affected communities recover, rebuild, and become more resilient. And Network members were among the first to respond when Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas and recent earthquakes crippled Puerto Rico. Recovery takes time, and they still need our help.

Progress isn’t easy, and it’s up to all of us to make it happen. Give today and 100% of your generous gift will support the Action Network to help Puerto Rico and the region.

Despite of all the polarization in our country, we’re still in this together, and with your help, we can continue to bring hope, resources, and our shared humanity to our neighbors in need.

Sincerely,
Hillary

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on February 26, 2020 at 11:16 am | Reply Brassy Rebel

I will be voting in my first presidential primary next Tuesday. Previously, Minnesota was a caucus only state, but so many people were turned away or left because of ridiculously long lines in 2016 that both parties realized finally that caucuses were just sophisticated voter suppression tools. I give credit to the parties, legislature, and former Gov. Dayton for swiftly making this badly needed change.

Having said that, I wish I could enthusiastically cast my vote in this primary. Unfortunately, it hasn’t worked out that way. My early choices were all drummed from the field as elderly white dudes became the rage. The two women left are unacceptable even though Amy Klobuchar is my Senator. I had great hopes for her in the beginning, but her campaign has failed utterly to reach out to voters of color, and, as a Minnesotan I have been embarrassed by her rationale for her electability which basically is, “All those racist Minnesotans out in rural areas who voted for Trump in 2016 also voted for me in 2018!” I am surprised that more people haven’t noticed how perverse this is. And, as for Elizabeth Warren, I have several issues with her, but lately it’s been obvious that she is so devoted to Bernie she would rather take a ballpeen hammer to Mike Bloomberg than confront the front runner in any meaningful way. Hard pass on EW.

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- on February 29, 2020 at 2:24 am | Reply still4hill
  
  Congratulations on your first primary. I’m sorry you never got to vote for HRC in one, but I am happy your state finally emerged from the 19th century. As for candidates, I have been leaning Amy for a long time as has my Black American spouse who thinks she makes the most sense. (I have no influence whatsoever there.) I have not seen all of her events in the Carolinas or VA, so I don’t know what targeted outreach she may have made there. All that said, two things: 1 – I am older now and still exhausted from 2018 so I am glad not to be working on a primary this time around. 2 – I fully expect to be voting for Biden also. I am in NJ and we don’t go till June. I don’t expect Amy or Liz to be in it then, and the major reason I would go with Liz would be energy and streetfighter skills. I think HRC had that also but was held back. I’ve never said it publicly, but there were a lot of sharp elbows in her campaign. I always wonder whether things might have gone better had things not been so controlled. That’s all I will say about that.
  
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on February 26, 2020 at 11:31 am | Reply Brassy Rebel

So I am left with not very good options, but it is clear that only one candidate at this point is capable of stopping Bernie Sanders. And it sure as hell ain’t Mike Bloomberg. At least Warren has done us the service of exposing his mountains of baggage. Thanks for that, Liz.

To my great surprise, I will be voting for Joe Biden next Tuesday. Not at all happy about that and so far he has mostly phoned it in, resulting in very lackluster results in the first three contests. This must change! He is the only hope to stop Bernie who continues to be an existential threat to the Democratic party we love so much. I don’t know if he is up to this challenge, but he better be. Hopefully, this morning’s Jim Clyburn endorsement will energize him and his campaign because if Bernie isn’t brought back to earth starting Saturday in South Carolina, the Dem party may well cease to exist as we have known it. And Trump’s re-election and the loss of both houses of Congress will be all but assured. Still shocked by it, but I’m with Joe now.

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on February 26, 2020 at 11:35 am | Reply Brassy Rebel

One of my deepest regrets is that I never had the chance to vote for Hillary in a presidential primary.

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on February 26, 2020 at 11:47 am | Reply Brassy Rebel

Castro’s “literacy program” which Bernie can’t seem to stop praising was actually a propaganda-indoctrination program according to people who, unlike Sanders, have actual knowledge of it. This includes many Cuban refugees who participated in this “literacy program” as school children. Sometimes, Bernie is even more ridiculous than Trump. Do we really want a nominee capable of out-absurdimg Trump?

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on March 2, 2020 at 6:32 am | Reply wynne05

Brassy,

I remember like it was yesterday how the media always questioned Hillary’s likeability and her electability despite her extraordinary qualifications compared to her male counterparts. They are doing the same thing to Warren. In fact, they’ve done everything they can to erase her from the race. Sadly, the American people are still influenced greatly by the media’s views of the candidates and as always, they have raised up the white men no matter how incompetent, inexperienced, short on substance or specifics, while underestimating the women despite their having done the homework on their proposals. The misogyny is still front and center and impossible to miss. A replay of Hillary.

Misogyny showed it’s ugly head in how the media immediately fell in love with buttigieg, despite his very young age and total lack of real experience. They reported on him as if none of that mattered and even gave the impression that he was actually qualified to be president. Or, no matter how badly biden did in Iowa, new Hampshire and Nevada, the media NEVER counted him out but just simply lowered the standards and made him look better than he was. They never told him to get out of the race but instead immediately started pushing the women out almost from the beginning. I also don’t trust biden. He’s too quick to appease the boys (like he did during the Anita Hill hearings when he literally threw her under the bus). Because of his past history on taking a stand or standing up for women when it mattered the most, I don’t think he would fight for the middle class like Warren or Klobuchar would. Worse, he won’t make any transitional changes America so desperately needs. It will be so incremental that it will be hardly noticed by the middle class. His advanced age is showing by the way he comes across as rambling and not making sense, or doesn’t appear to have the energy or commitment to be able to stand up for the kind of change that will benefit the majority of America and will be easily swayed to give in to the powers that be rather than fight for change.

I don’t care what the media or the polls say, I will continue to support Warren through the entire primary process. I believe in her and agree with her ideas. She’s done the work and given us the specifics on how much her plans will cost, how they will be paid for and who will benefit. No one else has been as long on specifics as she has and she has a record of walking the walk and not just talking the talk. More importantly, I believe she will fight for us and because of that quality, I believe she is worth fighting for.

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- on March 2, 2020 at 11:45 am | Reply Brassy Rebel
  
  Every one is certainly entitled to support which ever candidate they choose. My opinion is that media and too many white women were much more unfair to Kamala than EW. And I will never forget how Warren almost laughed in Harris’ face when she asked her to join her in the call to ban Trump from twitter. She didn’t have to agree, but she didn’t have to sneer and dismiss another woman. And the way she carries Bernie’s water is disqualifying for me. But I would never tell you not to vote for her if you believe in her. It’s just that I don’t happen to believe in her.
  
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  - on March 2, 2020 at 11:51 am | Reply Brassy Rebel
    
    I didn’t vote early in the primary because this has not been an easy decision. A lot of thought has gone into voting Biden to block Bernie. The bottom line for me is Bernie cannot be the nominee for a party he clearly loathes. He will destroy it because that’s his goal. And if he is elected president, we will never recover from Trump.
    
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    - on March 2, 2020 at 6:51 pm | Reply still4hill
      
      The past two days have been surprising. We expected people to suspend after Saturday, but not before tomorrow. To me, this demonstrated why voting early in primaries can be disappointing. What I saw happen today was something we have not seen in a long time – Democrats – real Democrats came together for the greater good. We are in a crisis this regime is not fit to handle. Recognizing that, Pete and Amy not only suspended but threw their weight behind Joe. You are right. Bernie loathes this party. We cannot let him have the nomination. In his own odd way, Bernie has provided us with true party unity. We are unified against him.
      
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on March 2, 2020 at 12:55 pm | Reply wynne05

Brassy,

I don’t view Warren as “carrying Bernie’s water”, it’s simply that she and sanders agree on a lot of the same things, so, she would be, in essence, attacking herself. The BIG difference between them is that she dug in and did her homework and he didn’t. In fact, she did say at the last debate (and has been saying it since but the media doesn’t cover her) that she would be a better president than sanders because she is the progressive who would get things done. She went on further to say that progressives have one shot and need to spend it with the one who has a proven record that she gets things done and that candidate is her, not sanders.

Besides, there is no “guarantee” that biden will win. He simply has the advantage of being a white man, which, besides Obama, is all we’ve seen in the oval office and is why the male run media has been pushing him down our throats from day one. I cannot and will not support joe during the primary. I don’t think he’s the best candidate and I don’t think he is the only one who can beat trump.

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- on March 2, 2020 at 1:50 pm | Reply Brassy Rebel
  
  I didn’t say Biden would beat Trump. Without a recession, I am not convinced anyone will. I am voting Biden to block Bernie period. Pretty sure I made it clear I am no Biden fan. But if he does beat Trump, I will be happy. On the other hand, I see very little difference between Trump and Bernie in terms of personality and character. Bernie must be stopped.
  
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  - on March 2, 2020 at 2:29 pm | Reply Brassy Rebel
    
    Breaking news! Amy Klobuchar is dropping out later today and endorsing Joe Biden. I’m an idealist who tries to be realistic. The reality is that this is now a 2 person race between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. The correct choice between these two is obvious to me. Not even close.
    
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on March 2, 2020 at 6:57 pm | Reply still4hill

I don’t see our trajectory in 2020 as being one of progress. What I will be voting for is restoration. We cannot make progress without restoring all that has eroded under the Trump regime. We need to stop the bleeding before we can get back on our progressive mounts and go charging up San Juan Hill.

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- on March 2, 2020 at 11:14 pm | Reply Brassy Rebel
  
  Well said, Still. I am also hearing rumors that President Obama gave the bat signal Saturday night for Dems to get behind Biden.
  
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on March 4, 2020 at 11:27 am | Reply still4hill

I believe Obama and the Clintons are playing deep background roles, but do not want to get out in front and steal the limelight.

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