Hillary Clinton Runs for President Supporting Non Traditional Careers for Women

This is a bit off topic for Ask Patty, however the news of a Hillary Clinton running for President in 2008 was just irresistible to post about.

Interesting to me is that Hillary Clinton supports programs for non-traditional careers for women. She has worked to expand opportunities for women to enter non-traditional occupations, such as automotive technician, carpenter, electrician, or police officer. Women are still significantly underrepresented in these fields, yet these jobs often pay very well and include benefits like health insurance and pensions.  She has worked to improve the federal vocational education program by providing incentives for states to help girls and women enter and succeed in non-traditional fields. She also introduced a Senate Resolution honoring women in the trades.

There is a woman chancellor in Germany, a woman president in Liberia and also in Chile, but when it comes to the United States, the only female Commander in Chief is the one Gina Davis played on television.

A 2006 CBS News/New York Times poll finds that 92 percent of all Americans say they would vote for a woman if she were qualified, up from just about half in the 1950s.

Is the American public ready for a woman president of the United States?

Hillary Clinton is not the first woman candidate to run for the office of President. This is the ninth attempt for a woman to run for President of the United States, beginning in 1872:

Women have always had a tough time in American politics. In 1872, when Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to run for president, women did not even have the right to vote in federal elections. They didn't get it until 1920.

Victoria Woodhull, a stockbroker, publisher, and protégé of Cornelius Vanderbilt, ran for president of the United States in 1872 on the Equal Rights Party ticket. Belva Lockwood, the first woman admitted to practice law before the U.S Supreme Court ran for president on the same party's ticket in 1884 and 1888.

Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (ME) became the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for president at a major party convention when Sen. George Aiken nominated her at the 1964 Republican
national convention. Smith – also the first woman to serve in both the House and Senate – had campaigned briefly for the post when the Senate was not in session.

In 1972, Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) ran for president in the Democratic primaries. At the party's national convention, she won 151.25 delegate votes before Sen. George McGovern clinched the nomination.

Frances (Sissy) Farenthold, a former Texas state legislator who twice ran for governor of that state, finished second in the balloting for the 1972 Democratic vice presidential nomination, receiving more than 400 votes.

Third-term Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-NY), secretary of the House Democratic Caucus, became the first woman ever to run on a major party's national ticket when she was selected by Walter F. Mondale as his Vice Presidential running mate in 1984.

Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder (D-CO) explored the idea of running for president in the 1988 election, but bowed out of the race after concluding that she could not overtake men who had been running and raising funds for months before her.

Elizabeth Dole, who had served as U.S. Secretary of Labor, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Federal Trade Commissioner, and president of the American Red Cross, ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. After failing to attract sufficient early support, she withdrew from the race. She now represents North Carolina in the U.S. Senate.

Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun (D-IL) is among ten Democrats seeking the 2004 presidential nomination. An attorney and one-term U.S. senator (1992-1998), Braun has also served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, Illinois state representative, and Cook County Recorder of Deeds.

2006 - Senator Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 26, 1947. She is the daughter of Dorothy Rodham and the late Hugh Rodham. Her father was a small businessman and her mother a homemaker. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School. She is married to former President William Jefferson Clinton. They have one daughter, Chelsea.

What are your thoughts on this topic?

Jody DeVere
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Electing Hillary as President is like putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop. When she was Co-President, President Bill Clinton force fed the passage of the unfair NAFTA and GATT trade agreements. He proclaimed a statistical prosperity while the USA was going through the most massive dislocation of jobs in history with literally millions losing their jobs. Reportedly one third of all those over 55 years old who lost their jobs, never found another. Some lost their entire life savings before reaching Social Security age.

The reporting of unemployment was changed with even a single mother making only a $100 a month considered employed. Only about 38% of all workers qualified for unemployment insurance. Much of the same things remain today with President Bush following in Clinton's footsteps. They are one and the same thing when it comes to Globalization, Free Trade and the degradation of workers dignity. Hillary Clinton has not demonstrated she will change any of this in the betrayal of workers not only in America but throughout the world. View the Pearl Harbor attack on Workers at http://www.graphicsforums.com/public/list.asp?id=1328 showing President Clinton leading the way and later joined by President Clinton riding shot gun as Doctor Strangelove of our times.
Only Representative Dennis Kucinich confronts the issues of the workday related to fair trade. However, he is too far left for many.
The main issue of our time is the dignity of labor. Workers have no real voice in Globalization and Free Trade and it does not look like Hillary will give them one either.
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