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Hillary Rodham Clinton will receive the 2013 Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Jeb Bush, the chairman of the Constitution Center, will present the award to Clinton at a ceremony scheduled for Sept. 10.
Both Clinton and Bush are potential contenders in the 2016 presidential elections, for opposing parties. But in a statement, the GOP's Bush only accentuated the positive.
Former Secretary Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy, said Bush, the Republican former Governor of Florida, son of a former president and brother of another. These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this years Liberty Medal.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/Jeb_Bush_to_present_.html#xLioMlHK9sH3v1oG.99
makes me what to say
mmmmmmm...interesting.
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)...strung together like that, I have no fucking idea what's going on.
PB
Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)Is that an on-site position? Is he actually involved? Or just a figurehead?
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)George H W Bush to Bill Clinton and now Jeb Bush.
I think the center is OK but its just an odd story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Constitution_Center
Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)and the audience knows, but of course, the movie has to run its course.
Jeb will be the Presidential choice of the republicans(possibly with his psynchophant Rand Paul).
Hillary will kick his rear, and the whole BushPaulReaganNixonFordfamilyinc out of relevance and into obscurity forever.
Hillary45.
It's happening, and its going to be big.
Every other issue pales, when put into context with the other days rulings.
When they took away the voting rights act,
they made 2014 winnable for the dems, and in 2016 the single biggest landslide of all time
and 1/17/2017- President Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I think someday when they tally the top 45 presidents
#1 LBJ
#2 Barack Obama
#3 Lincoln
#4 Hillary Rodham Clinton
#5 FDR
#6 Jimmy Carter
#7 Bill Clinton
IMHO
Barack Obama and LBJ are the two biggest populist liberals ever to be in office.
(remember when they told us a Community organizer was a bad thing???
Hillary45 is also.
Life is going to be great once the 80-20 is in.
(though 73-27 would be great too...that is the count when LBJ rammed through the Voting Rights Acts,
and he had to withstand opposition from his own side by the Dixieracistcrats of George Wallace.
Congratulations Hillary (Superwoman)
and remember it is Lex Luther Bush who is giving you that award.
RandiFan1290
(6,261 posts)JHB
(37,166 posts)2012 - Muhammad Ali
2011 - Robert Gates
2010 - Tony Blair
2009 - Steven Spielberg
2008 - Mikhail Gorbachev
2007 - Bono & DATA
2006 - George H.W. Bush & William J. Clinton
2005 - Viktor Yushchenko
2004 - Hamid Karzai
2003 - Sandra Day O'Connor
2002 - Colin Powell
2001 - Kofi Annan
2000 - James Watson & Francis Crick
1999 - Kim Dae-jung
1998 - George Mitchell
1997 - CNN International
1996 - King Hussein & Shimon Peres
1995 - Sadako Ogata
1994- Vaclav Havel
1993 - Nelson Mandela & F.W. de Klerk
1992 - Thurgood Marshall
1991 - Médecins Sans Frontières & Oscar Arias
1990 - Jimmy Carter
1989 - Lech Walesa
Not to detract from the accomplishments of any of the recipients, but the award strikes me as simply the annual headline event for a nonprofit to get them talked about and "build relationships" (read: cajole wealthy donors into sending a hunk of tax-deductible dollars in the nonprofit's direction).