Hillary Clinton - The Write-in Candidate?

Granted I have a new respect for Hillary Clinton since Sarah Palin arrived on the scene, it would not garner enough support to undermine the candidacy of Obama. I can't believe that Hillary Clinton would want to him to lose the election just to make headlines.

Hey Septic Tank,
So you think Hillary has no chance? I beg to differ with you..If everyone writes her in and MANY MANY will. she has a very good chance of winning..Remember, she won the popular vote, she won all the large states, so i'd be quiet if i were you Mc Cain lover.

Frank,
Are you serious or are you just having fun? There is no write in candidate that has a chance. As a Ron Paul fan I wish there was a chance but there is no chance for Hillary to be elected through a write in campaign. (BTW, I am writing in Ron Paul since I don't like any of the party candidates)

I am a Hillary supporter and there is no possible way I would ever ever ever vote for Obama. I will say he is doing a great job of tricking Americans into thinking he could possibly lead the country with his measly experience in the Senate. Obama belongs on the cover of US magazine not in the Oval Office...And, lets be honest, you think Hillary really wants people to vote for him, yeah right. I think we all know that Hillary is going to privately laugh and think "I told you so" when McCain wins the election.

t-433346,
What exactly has Hillary accomplished in the Senate that would make her experience better than Obama's? It seems to me that Obama has accomplished much more than Hillary in his lifetime. I will say that most of his accomplishments are on the state level which is not as good as national experience but at least he has accomplishments. Hillary has goals, talks, relationships but few accomplishments that I know of. Feel free to educate me if I'm wrong about that.

LIST:

H. Clinton accomplishments:

1. Her first cause was children, fighting abuse, and chairing the Children's Defense Fund.
2. She began her career as a lawyer after graduating from Yale Law School in 1973.
3. following her career as a Congressional legal counsel; she was named the first female partner at Rose Law Firm in 1979 and was listed as one of the one hundred most influential lawyers in America in 1988 and 1991.
4. During 1974 she was a member of the Nixon impeachment inquiry staff in Washington D.C., advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal. She helped research procedures of impeachment and the historical grounds and standards for impeachment.
5. Hillary co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a state-level alliance with the Children's Defense Fund, in 1977.
6. In late 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation.7. She was the First Lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, and was active in a number of organizations concerned with the welfare of children, and was on the board of Wal-Mart and several other corporate boards.
8. Bill Clinton appointed her chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee where she successfully obtained federal funds to expand medical facilities in Arkansas' poorest areas without affecting doctors' fees.
9. One of the most important initiatives of the entire Clinton governorship, she fought a prolonged but ultimately successful battle against the Arkansas Education Association to put mandatory teacher testing as well as state standards for curriculum and classroom size in place.
10. She introduced Arkansas' Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth in 1985, a program that helps parents work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy.
11. As First Lady of the United States she took a very prominent role in public policy.
12. She was the initial first lady to hold a post-graduate degree and to have her own professional career up to the time of entering the White House. She was also the initial first lady to take up an office in the West Wing of the White House.
13. She fought hard for Universal Health Care as First Lady, although it wasn't successful, it's something she learned from.

14. She visited over 80 countries as First Lady giving important speeches, about such controversial topics as human rights/women's rights in China.

15. Her major initiative, the Clinton Health Care Plan, failed to gain approval by the Congress in 1994, but in 1997 she helped establish the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the Adoption and Safe Families Act.
16. As a Senator and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Hillary worked with her colleagues to secure the funds New York needed to recover and rebuild.
17. 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.
18. She is the first New Yorker ever to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
19. She has visited troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in countless other locations, truly understanding the challenges facing our troops.
20. Hillary passed legislation to track the health status of our troops so that conditions like Gulf War Syndrome would no longer be misdiagnosed.
21. She is an original sponsor of legislation that expanded health benefits to members of the National Guard and Reserves and has been a strong critic of the Administration's handling of Iraq.
22. She has introduced legislation to tie Congressional salary increases to an increase in the minimum wage.
23. She has supported a variety of middle-class tax cuts, including marriage penalty relief, property tax relief, and reduction in the Alternative Minimum Tax, and supports fiscally responsible pay-as-you-go budget rules.
24. She helped pass legislation that encouraged investment to create jobs in struggling communities through the Renewal Communities program.
25. She authored legislation that has been enacted to improve quality and lower the cost of prescription drugs and to protect our food supply from bioterrorism.
26. She sponsored legislation to increase America's commitment to fighting the global HIV/AIDS crisis.
27. She has lead the fight for the expanded use of information technology in the health care system to decrease administrative costs, lower premiums, and reduce medical errors.
28. Clinton has successfully worked to ensure the safety of prescription drugs for children, with legislation now included in the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act.

29. She has also proposed expanding access to child care.

30. She has passed legislation that will bring more qualified teachers into classrooms and more outstanding principals to lead our schools.
31. Hillary is one of the original cosponsors of the Prevention First Act to increase access to family planning.
32. She fought with the Bush Administration and ensured that Plan B, an emergency contraceptive, will be available to millions of American women and will reduce the need for abortions.
33. She introduced the Count Every Vote Act of 2005 to ensure better protection of votes and to ensure that every vote is counted.

....all of this while Barack was doing coke or listening to his preacher talk about the evils of white people

Almost all of what you listed are appointments and goals not accomplishments. Anything that starts with "she led the fight" or "she proposed", etc... are not accomplishments. She has led a life full of appointments, speeches, and fights but has few accomplishments to show for it. We all work. I've had many jobs in my life. What I'm looking for are significant accomplishments. Chairing a committee is not an accomplishment. Chairing a committee and making change for the better that is measurable is an accomplishment. Sponsoring a bill and getting it passed is an accomplishment (to her credit she does appear to have passed some bills).

Chairing a committee is an accomplishment. To be named the chairman is an accomplishment is itself...If I was named the chairman of a committee in a professional enviroment you bet that would be listed on my resume as an accomplishment.

What do you define as an accomplishment? If introducing many bills onto the senate floor, getting a number of them passed and sitting as a committee chairman are not accomplishments for a Senator, what are? How do you make "change for the better that is measurable" - what does that mean? what are your terms for measure? so, if a bill passes its sucessful? there is no way objective way to measure success based on your terms as stated thus far.

"getting a number of them passed " That is an accomplishment. Submitting a bill is not an accomplishment. As far as political appointments, she is the wife of Bill Clinton. Of course she will have many opportunities. What I'm interested in is what she did with her opportunities.

When it comes to measurements you can say things like the following.

"Chaired a committee that was tasked with increasing the employment levels of a major city. This committee helped reduce the unemployment rate from 8% to 4%." - That would be an accomplishment. Just being a political appointee is not enough. Your appointment needs show results. Even on your resume a line like this would look much better than "appointed to such and such committee"

difference of opinion on this one....

getting elected class president, chairman of a committee, president of the united states are all accomplishments in their own right. "helped reduce the unemployment rate from 8% to 4%" is just another accomplishment to list on the resume that stemmed from the success of their inital efforts and first accomplishment of putting themselves in the driver's seat.

Not fair to say hillary has accomplished what she has (or had the "opportunity") because she is bill's wife - unless you also want to talk about how far obama has gotten in this election simply because of the color of his skin. which i think both should be dropped and neither cited.

you just contradicted yourself....you say getting a bill passed in the senate is an accomplishment. what if the bill is completely ineffective - still an accomplishment? according to your logic, no. if the bill was meant to "reduce the unemployment rate from 8% to 4%." just because its passes dosnt mean its done its job.

unlike, my logic. where a bill being introduced and talked about is an accomplishment in itself. lets say gun control is a big problem in LA. the senator from CA who at least gets the senate to discuss gun control on the floor and consider a bill - an ACCOMPLISHMENT. gets the right people talking about and raising awareness of an issue important to the people of LA. whereas, if they can also pass a bill that is effective, that is yet another ACCOMPLISHMENT to ADD to the list.

No, getting a bill passed is an accomplishment. Reasonable people can debate whether it is a positive or negative accomplishment but it is an accomplishment.

It looks like we just disagree on this. That's OK. Thanks for answering my original question with a lot of good data to think about. I don't often see that on the vine.

nice debating with you

Interesting. I didn't know that. I just assumed you could do it anywhere.

I am voting my conscience, not letting a party tell me who I should vote for.

Good for you. I wouldn't vote for Hillary but I applaud your convictions. I wish there were more people like you.