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still_one

(92,190 posts) Tue Sep 1, 2015, 08:08 PM Sep 2015

Hillary Clinton’s Emails Illustrate The Difficulties Of Achieving Work-Life Balance

WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton has long been a champion of policies to facilitate work-life balance, particularly for women. Yet as secretary of state, members of her staff reported feeling stressed and found it difficult to take time off.

Part of the trove of State Department emails released late Monday show staffers discussing the breakneck pace of their work and imploring each other to take days off.

In one 2009 email, Anne-Marie Slaughter urged top Clinton aide Huma Abedin to begin her Christmas vacation a few days early, on Dec. 21. "I would urge you to -- for your own sake. The pace is absolutely killing and you deserve it,” she told Abedin.

Slaughter added that if Abedin, then Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, decided to take that day off, other staffers “would feel much freer to do so.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-work-life-balance_55e6062de4b0c818f6198101

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Hillary Clinton’s Emails Illustrate The Difficulties Of Achieving Work-Life Balance (Original Post) still_one Sep 2015 OP

I think Hillary's emails (I don't really care about them, actually) illustrate why keeping work and djean111 Sep 2015 #1

What you say is true. However, I think not only is the so-called "email scandal", going to vanish, still_one Sep 2015 #2

I don't think any Democrats are basing their support or non-support on the emails. djean111 Sep 2015 #3

for Democrats it won't change anything, people who support Bernie will continue to do so, and people still_one Sep 2015 #4

djean111

(14,255 posts)

1. I think Hillary's emails (I don't really care about them, actually) illustrate why keeping work and

Reply to still_one (Original post)

Tue Sep 1, 2015, 08:15 PM

Sep 2015

personal emails separate is a good idea. Someone had to have an inkling that this was going to happen, I would have thought.

still_one

(92,190 posts)

2. What you say is true. However, I think not only is the so-called "email scandal", going to vanish,

Reply to djean111 (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 1, 2015, 08:21 PM

Sep 2015

but actually the content is going to turn in Hillary's favor

djean111

(14,255 posts)

3. I don't think any Democrats are basing their support or non-support on the emails.

Reply to still_one (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 1, 2015, 08:26 PM

Sep 2015

The GOP hates her anyway. So I don't see exactly "what" would turn in her favor, really. IMO it is just a waste of time, and then a wash. Only important to the GOP. And they are not really logical, so facts won't matter.

still_one

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4. for Democrats it won't change anything, people who support Bernie will continue to do so, and people

Reply to djean111 (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 1, 2015, 09:08 PM

Sep 2015

Who support Hillary will continue to do so. Those who are not political junkies, but have been hearing the constant barrage of negative news regarding them, those are the ones I am talking about. Baring emails of a real crime, this will turn in her favor

IMHO

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