Can you name an achievement of Hillary Clinton?

[G4Hillary]

We all recall Obama supporter, Kirk Watson, the Democrat legislature from Texas who was asked to name one Obama accomplishment but couldn't name anything.


I bet we grass roots supporters of Hillary who don't have any governmental positions can name more than him.

So, name something Hillary has accomplished??????

[joeysky18]

My best one is the education reform in Arkansas 1985.

She held public hearing of teachers and parents of every counties in the state about 75 in total. She fought over 5 years to improve the standard of education in Arkansas. After the implementation, Arkansas education become the role model of many other states.

[RayinAR]

Not only that but as first lady after she failed at Universal healthcare she didn't just stop and bury her head in the sand she fought for and got insurance for millions of Kids. I think that is an awesome achievement. She also publicly denounced china's treatment of women and brought the issue of women's rights being human rights to the forefront.

[CGP]

In the mid 1960s she invited her African-American classmates to her, at the time, all-white church to promote inclusion & to challenge practices of segregation.

[diane]

Well, here's the few reasons I give to people who ask why I support Hillary...

Hillary stood up to Bush and forced him and the FDA to put science over religion when dealing with women's medical access and health! Hillary, along with two other Women Senators, said they would fillibuster the latest, at that time, FDA appointee that Bush was trying to foster onto the system. And Hillary made it happen. And that's in real life, real time, and it affects millions of women as we now have access to EC over the counter (the fact that some religous idiot can refuse to give it to me is another fight altogether), but the fact remains that it was Hillary who stood up and fought for my rights.

Hillary not only WANTED TO VOTE AGAINST ROBERTS but DID VOTE AGAINST ROBERTS confirmation to the Supreme Court. Hillary also voted against Alito.

Hillary also came out strongly and did what she could to stop the Supreme Court from making that non-medical pro-religious bs decision about the pseudo-medical termed "partial birth" abortion. Unfortuantly, the Supreme Court outlawed this sometimes necessary medical proceedure. Agan though, it was Hillary fighting for women's rights to the best in medical reproductive care!

Hillary has visited over 80 nations and has worked tirelessly throughout her career in supporting the peace process and people who have suffered... such as the women survivors of the rape camps in Bosnia, the "troubles" in Northern Ireland, working against Apartheid in S. Africa... the refugee camps.., anywhere there are human rights being violated, and people are suffering Hillary has been on the side of progress and peace and especially for the education and participation of Women in these Societies. As she so truthfully and eloquently said at the UN Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 "Women's Rights are Human Rights".

Hillary tried, albeit unsuccessfuly up against the full might of a Republican Congress, to bring about change in our broken for-profit Health Care system. Hillary has always been for Universal Health Care.

Well, there's lot's more, but as I said, those are just the things I actually say to people and I have personally said even to a died-in-the-wool Republican who asked who I was supporting and why. Apparently, she wasn't used to people acutually being able to articulate and have specific answers and information. It also helps that one of them, as I said, was in real life, in real time, and not just a passage of some law that doesn't affect many people. Also, I said for her to not just take my word for it, but to go and verifiy and see the information for herself. That's pretty much what I always tell people to do anyway.

[freethinker]

Hillary went to Wellesley College, where she was chosen by her classmates to be the first-ever student commencement speaker. She talked about the tumultuous times that her generation was living through and said, "The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."

[CGP]

Hillary went to Wellesley College, where she was chosen by her classmates to be the first-ever student commencement speaker. She talked about the tumultuous times that her generation was living through and said, "The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."

Wow, how appropriate that comment is today given the huge obstacles Hillary faces with a biased media and a highly unethical opponent!

[freethinker]

As a law student, Hillary represented foster children and parents in family court and worked on some of the earliest studies creating legal standards for identifying and protecting abused children.

[freethinker]

Following graduation, Hillary became a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund.

[freethinker]

Served as only one of two women lawyers on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee considering the impeachment of Richard Nixon.

[freethinker]

Hillary ran a legal aid clinic for the poor when she first got to Arkansas and handled cases of foster care and child abuse. Years later, she organized a group called Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families.

[B positive]

When I was working in the pediatric clinics in upstate NYState... one day the kids weren't getting the healthcare they needed and then the next day....

Every kid who came in got: ALL of their vaccinations, their well-child checks, lead poison screenings, prescriptions and social-work connections PAID FOR!!!

One day kids were invisible... and the next... THEY WEREN'T!!!

Thanks, Hillary for caring about children!!!

[freethinker]

When she was just 30, President Carter appointed her to the board of the United States Legal Services Corporation, a federal nonprofit program that funds legal assistance for the poor.

[freethinker]

When Bill was elected Governor of Arkansas, Hillary continued to advocate for children, leading a task force to improve education in Arkansas through higher standards for schools and serving on the board of the Arkansas Children's Hospital, helping them expand and improve their services. She also served on national boards for the Children's Defense Fund, the Child Care Action Campaign, and the Children's Television Workshop.

[freethinker]

She also continued her legal career as a partner in a law firm. She led the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, which played a pioneering role in raising awareness of issues like sexual harassment and equal pay.

[freethinker]

Hillary worked as a champion for women. She traveled the globe speaking out against the degradation and abuse of women and standing up for the powerful idea that women's rights are human rights.

Hillary led efforts to make adoption easier.

Worked to expand early learning and child care.

Worked to increase funding for breast cancer research.

[freethinker]

She helped launch a national campaign to prevent teen pregnancy and helped create the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, which moved children from foster care to adoption more quickly. Thanks in part to her efforts, the number of children who have moved out of foster care into adoption has increased dramatically.

She was instrumental in designing and championing 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 test their drugs for children and to make sure all kids get the immunizations they need through the Vaccines for Children Program. Immunization rates dramatically improved after the program launched.

[freethinker]

Advocated to give aid to veterans suffering from Gulf War syndrome who had too often been ignored in the past.

[freethinker]

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Hillary worked with her colleagues to secure the funds New York needed to recover and rebuild.

She fought to provide compensation to the families of the victims, grants for hard-hit small businesses, and health care for front line workers at Ground Zero.

And she continues to work for resources that enable New York to grow, to improve homeland security for New York and other communities, and to protect all Americans from future attacks.

[freethinker]

She is the first New Yorker ever to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee, working to see that America's military has the necessary resources to protect our national security.

[freethinker]

Hillary passed legislation to track the health status of our troops so that conditions like Gulf War Syndrome would no longer be misdiagnosed.

She is an original sponsor of legislation that expanded health benefits to members of the National Guard and Reserves.

[freethinker]

She introduced legislation to tie Congressional salary increases to an increase in the minimum wage, because she believes if America's working people don't deserve a raise, neither does Congress.

[freethinker]

She has supported a variety of middle-class tax cuts:

Marriage Penalty Relief

Property Tax Relief

Reduction in the Alternative Minimum Tax

[freethinker]

She helped pass legislation that encouraged investment to create jobs in struggling communities through the Renewal Communities program.
She has championed legislation to bring broadband Internet access, which is so important in today's information economy, to rural America.

[floorrunner]

She helped defeat the federal marriage amendment that woould have made it constitutionally legal for the first time in our country's history to disrcriminate. Of course that would have been on the basis of sexual orientation.

[BloodDAnna]

Hillary was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America, not once but twice.

While doing all of the things in her professional career she has raised a very stable and intelligent daughter.

[Sincere]

I know she was a part of the staff that worked on the Watergate investigation that should have given her much experience.
As some already mentioned she has always seemed to be a champion of women and recognized the limitations many have had and still have in the present world structure.

She sponsered legislation that concerned me personally in 2003 that helped home care givers of ill family members. The bill helped provide respite care for family who were doing 24/7 care of very ill family members. Sometimes faimly was not able to shop for groceries or keep a dental appointment as there was no one to stay with the ill family member. Sometimes they just wanted to go to the public library. The legislation was a good thing.