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Hate Her or Love Her…
March 17, 2008 · No Comments
This is an article I published in the school paper, thought I’d post it for anyone who didn’t see it yet.
Hate Her or Love Her, Hillary Clinton Embodies America
By Michael Lawler
Staff Writer
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Let me start by saying, I disagree with Hillary Rodham Clinton on almost every political position she has. I would have voted for Ronald Reagan twice, George H.W. Bush twice, and George W. Bush twice. However, over the course of the last 14 months, I have watched Hillary Clinton battle for the nomination of her party and along the way my disdain and distrust of her has slowly washed away.
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Women were first granted the right to vote under the 19th Amendment in 1920, 50 years after African American men were “granted” the right to vote. Does anyone else find it disturbing that it took 80 years after women were granted the right to vote to elect a woman statewide in New York? I wonder how many of you know that Manhattan College used to be exclusively attended by males until 1973. Women now make up for roughly 49% of the undergraduate student body. While we have come a long way in both race and gender relations over the course of the 20th century, we obviously have not come far enough.
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[JR: I don't interject politics into Jottings. I know I am in a minority -- FOWGs tired of getting robbed. But, this maybe a Jasper? If he is, he conceals it well. The school paper may well be the Quadrangle. (Which it appears has gone to dead tree only mode.) The citation of the gender change of Manhattan College is probably more indicative of the feminization of gooferment skools than some "enlightened policy" of the College's leadership. In case he hasn't noticed, "boys and girls are different". The good Nuns and Brothers, either by science or prejudice, "discovered" that segregation by sex may have benefits. Girls learn math better. Boys aren't showing off. And, everyone is less "involved" in image. But that's for another day. As far as the author's assertion that "Hillary embodies America", please don't make me laff. Politicians are politicians. Depending on what particular values you think of as "american", I assure you that no politician shares them. They are all about feathering their nest, while rewarding their fiends, and punishing their enemies. Think Machiavelli; not Mother Theresa! If this fellow is a Jaspers and still in school, one can only hope he wises up before graduation. Else he's got a lot of surprise problem in his future. America hasn't had a "good" President since George ... ... Washington that is. And, even that I have doubts about.]
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