Comments on: Hillary Clinton calls pro-choice voters lazy

By: my name is seventeen years old

my name is seventeen years old — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:12:11 +0000

Hilary clinton does not.. in my opinion… will not make a rightful president. i think her intentions of stepping up to the plate and trying to be president is fine, but this is going way to far. personally, has anyone really thought on how the other nations of the world is going to react to have her as our president? i mean seriously, things are only looking downhill. and i believe that if she is going to critize her own beliefs, in which she did in this interview because she is all about helping immagrants and letting them come here and live for free when have of this country is suffering and falling even farther into debt because of the outragous gas, and tax prices now. if anyone in their right mind thinks that she is making the right choice by allowing more immigrants into our country and helping them without even glancing at the american CILIVANS right underneath her nose and help them first, then she might get a few more people to actually look her way. but she is not a good candidate for presidency now or personally never. i don’t think that woman have the emotionally or psyhical capacity to run a country. and i am a woman, girl whatever you see me as, but i’m not being sexist but i truly and honestly believe that some jobs were really made for a man, and that a man can uphold our country better than a woman can. i’m seventeen and i can’t wait until i can stand and vote, and talk to people of higher rank and meet with them face to face because i want to make a difference and if i had the chance to talk ot hilary clinton then i would really tell her word ofr word what i said and this is not how my parents feel or anything. this is one individual woman that has her head put on her shoulders, believes in GOd, and stands for her country and it’s honor. I will not back down on how i feel about this because many of people that don’t get the chance to say how they feel, and this is me taking that stand for them and myself.

By: Identity politics, feminism, and the election « I am the Lizard Queen!

Identity politics, feminism, and the election « I am the Lizard Queen! — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:02:37 +0000

[...] what I’m thinking. When it comes down to it, I’m torn. I’m still bitter about Hillary Clinton’s Marie Claire interview (evidently I’m far more likely to hold a grudge when it comes to politics than I am in my [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:29:04 +0000

HIllary, or Bill which ever believes that they will be in charge,

NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO TELL ANYONE WHAT THEY CAN OR CAN NOT DO WITH THIER BODY.

Would you Haillary want us telling you what you CAN do? I hardly think so. You can not even keep a tight rein on Billary I mean Bill. It is no ones right to make that choice, but the one or two people involved. Thier choice and no one esle has a right to tell them or anyone else what they can do. with the bodies……

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:28:53 +0000

I think one of the biggest reasons Bush won, especially in 2004 (after he had pretty well proven to everyone that he was horrible at being president) was because of his strict pro-life stance. Bush won big amongst poor southern voters, and I think that the vast majority of them knew that there interests (aside from the pro-life agenda) would not be looked out for. I remember listening to analysis of the election on “This American Life” Where Ira glass was interviewing people throughout the voting process and asking them why they voted the way they did. A surprising number of Bush voters were very unhappy with Bush as president because of his economic, domestic, and foreign policies but voted for him solely because they couldn’t vote for a candidate that was pro choice and who, in their eyes, would allow murder to be legal. It’s my opinion that the Bush camp understood this very well and leveraged the Pro-choice and “Faith based” support to get whatever they wanted on other fronts.

I may be wrong, but I really don’t think that the average pro-choice supporter would vote so focused on one issue. With the economic fate, international standing, and human rights condition, of this country hanging by a thread; there are a lot of important decisions and innovative solutions that need to be made right away in order to avoid a very very bad economic and, consequently, human rights disaster in this Country. While, abortion rights are very important and are threatened more now than they have been since the seventies, I think that many pro-choice supporters are more aware that there are other issues that are just as pressing and important so they won’t strictly vote pro-choice like the pro-lifers did. Hillary Clinton may call this lazy, I really don’t think that’s the right word for it. At any rate, I think that she has identified correctly that, with the pro-life contingent being so strong and unified at the moment, this may not bode well for Roe Vs. Wade in the short term. It seems to me though, that this is a move by Clinton to gain support in moderate and conservative camps, more than it is to reassure her pro-choice voters.

By: It ain’t laziness, Senator Clinton, it’s the principle of the thing « Notes from Evil Bender

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:39:48 +0000

[...] Posted by Evil Bender in reproductive rights, News and politics. trackback The Lizard Queen has a must-read post exploring Hillary Clinton’s “reassurance” about her pro-choice cr…, assurance that basically calls for appeasement of those who want to ban abortion. Check it out, [...]