Hillary's Experience As A First Lady MATTERS

[Danzo]

Why? Because she didn't just sit around doing nothing, she was ACTIVE in political and administrative fields. There's no doubt that she's learned a A LOT from eight years of that. She also demonstrates her energy, productivity and big heart. She is a proven leader.

Some highlights:

--Hillary Clinton was the only First Lady to keep an office in the West Wing


--The First Lady was also one of the few international figures at the time who spoke out against the treatment of Afghani women by Islamist fundamentalist Taliban that had seized control of Afghanistan

--One of the programs she helped create was Vital Voices, a U.S.-sponsored initiative to promote the participation of international women in their nation's political process. One result of the group's meetings, in Northern Ireland , was drawing together women leaders of various political factions that supported the Good Friday peace agreement that brought peace to that nation long at civil war.

Read more about her biography as first lady at

http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=43

[Captain_Nemo]

1. Thanks, so many people don't know much about her accomplishments with women in the world.

[jeff30997]

2. My experience with cleaning my alley...

Makes me a better candidate.

[kirby]

3. Obama didnt sit around either...

He was in the Illinois Senate for 8 years (1996-2004).

[Danzo]

4. Sorry, I Didn't Mean To Imply That

I'm just responding to the people I've heard say that Hillary's experience as first lady is meaningless. The fact that Hillary not only stood by Bill as he presided effectively for eight years; but that Hillary was also active in many presidental matters means that she probably had a lot of opprotunity to learn.

Not offense to Obama intended.

[mattclearing]

9. I don't think it's meaningless so much as overplayed.

It's not like she held an elective office or served constituents that she was directly accountable to. 35 years of President-worthy experience is a stretch.

[Danzo]

5. You Also Might Say....

...that Hillary has some diplomatic experience, more or less. She's been helping women and children all around the world for the past 35 years.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2007/12/18/the-rights-of-women-and-children-worldwide-the-candidates-differ/

[Beregond2]

6. 1st Lady

Oh, please. If a "First Husband" were to run for President and try to use that as part of his resume, every woman in America would be laughing her ass off at him.

[cali]

7. Some of it matters. Some doesn't

She shouldn't claim it as experience in the same way as she claims her Senate years.

[intaglio]

8. That is only "... as far as you know ..." n/t

[saltpoint]

10. Of course it matters. But it's not an argument that she'd make a better

president than someone else.

I don't see how what Hillary Clinton has done in her life would suggest that she'd be any better than Mike Gravel, for example.

[susankh4]

11. Of course it matters!

Anyone who suggests otherwise is either naive or malicious.

[Danzo]

12. Exactly

Vicarious learning is a scientific fact.

[Medusa]

13. So this means Laura will be qualified to run in 2012?

:rofl: For a self-proclaimed feminist, she certainly doesn't mind sucking off her hubby's resume does she?