Hillary Clinton’s Speech Tonight
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on Aug 26, 2008 in Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton gave an electrifying speech tonight at Day 2 of the Democratic Convention which put the idea of any serious disunity in the Democratic party to rest. She explains step by step how little sense it would make for anyone to support her in the primary and then vote for John McCain in the general election when McCain is against everything that she believes in.
Watch the speech in it’s entirety below.
Some of the great quotes from the speech:
“No way. No how. No McCain.”
“I haven’t spent the past 35 years in the trenches advocating for children, campaigning for universal health care, helping parents balance work and family, and fighting for women’s rights at home and around the world . . . to see another Republican in the White House squander the promise of our country and the hopes of our people.
“I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me? Or were you in it for that young Marine and others like him? Were you in it for that mom struggling with cancer while raising her kids? Were you in it for that boy and his mom surviving on the minimum wage? Were you in it for all the people in this country who feel invisible?”
“It makes a lot of sense that next week John McCain and George Bush will be together in the Twin Cities, because these days they’re awfully hard to tell apart.”
“We don’t need four more years of the last eight years: More economic stagnation and less affordable health care, More high gas prices and less alternative energy, More jobs getting shipped over seas and fewer jobs created here at home, More skyrocketing debt and home foreclosures and mounting bills that are crushing middle class families, More war and less diplomacy, More of a government where the privileged few come first and everyone else comes last… well John McCain says the economy is fundamentally sound, John McCain doesn’t think 47 million people without health insurance is a crisis, John McCain wants to privatize social security, and in 2008 John McCain he still thinks it’s OK when women don’t receive equal pay for equal work.”
“We have to get going by electing Barack Obama the next President of the United States. We don’t have a moment to lose or a vote to spare. Nothing less than the fate of our nation and the future of our children hangs in the balance. I want you to think about your children and your grandchildren come election day.”
Sarah Palin strongly believes that Men must be paid MORE than women! Sarah Palin also wants to force women/girls that are victims of rape/incest to carry such fetuses resulting from the said rape/incest to full term, then deliver the baby, and raise the child – irrespective of the will of the victim or even her age. And to think that women are cheering Sarah Palin from the rooftops as the poster girl of womens rights who will spectacularly smash through that presidential/Vice presidential glass ceiling.
Some folks wrongly think that being a woman she will moderate or help turn McCain around from his opposition to equal pay to women. Like this statement one Dave from Baltimore, posted on another site:”I hope Palin breaks with McCain on equal pay for equal work – it would pave the way to a better future for her four children and grandson.”
Are you kidding me?!!! Gov. Palin is even more hardcore in her opposition to equal pay for WOMEN, than is McCain. Sarah Palin believes that women must be paid LESS than men – no ifs and buts about it. Period.
McCain, when pushed about his vote AGAINST giving women equal pay as men, has tried to flip-flop saying that ‘if women are to aspire to equal pay, they must first aspire to achieve college eduction”.
In other words, in McCain’s world, only college educated women shall be extended equality with men in terms of pay/wages. Sarah Palin’s views about (rather against) equal pay for women are very straightforward, and cast in stone: Women must get paid LESS than men. College educated or not, when it comes to pay parity, women are less than men. Coming from a Woman herself, its ironic, but true!
Kind of like an Afro-American person advocating slavery and segregation of the black population!! Wierd isn’t it?
Strangely, Sarah Palin is being trumpeted as the symbol of a woman smashing through the glass ceiling!
(We are not even going into her strident opposition to abortion even if the pregnancy is a result of rape/incest, and the victim wants to abort the fetus. Sarah Palin believes that such rape/incest survivors must be forced to carry the fetus resulting from rape/incest to term, then deliver the baby, and raise the child. NO exceptions, no termination. If such a woman chooses to abort the baby, she commits a crime, and must be tried as a criminal and punished for opting to abort the fetus. Even if the pregnant female is a MINOR child, she would still have to deliver the baby.
Just so you know, several courts in the country have allowed visitation/parental rights to rapists and the parents or rapists to meet and bond with children born due to the said rape.
I shudder to even imagine what happens when victims of rape/incest are forced to bear the children resulting from the rape (one Sarah Palin’s wishes becomes the law), and then having to drop off the child at the rapists (child’s father) door for court sanctioned visits to dad. What would go through the mother’s mind? Would such rapists not molest these children all over again. What if this rapist rapes this child/daughter all over again…repeating this unbelievably grotesque cycle!!!!!!
Is this American women we are talking about or some burqa clad subjugated women from some Taliban country?!
Sam
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