This is how you bring about change over 35 years

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2606963, This is how you bring about change over 35 years
Posted by journalist3072 on Sat Jan-05-08 10:14 PM

I see a lot of disingenuous DUers tonight asking isn't it an oxymoron to say you've brought about change over 35 years.

So allow me to break it down to you. THIS is how you bring about change over 35 years:

- Working on children's issues as a member of the Children's Defense Fund

- Reforming education in Arkansas

- Listening to ill veterans, and working to get Gulf War Syndrome recognized as a very real and serious disease

- Promoting democracy by staring down the Chinese in their own backyard and saying "Women's rights are human rights, and human rights are women's rights, once and for all."

- Empowering people to take control of their destiny by going to different parts of the world and championing issues like "microcredit," which allows people to receive microcredit loans, which many use to start their own businesses

- Being a champion for the first-responders to Ground Zero, and being one of the first people to recognize the health issues they would face from the toxic air they breathed, and working tirelessly on their behalf

- Forcing the Pentagon to reverse course and helping sponsor legislation which tells the Pentagon no way will we allow you get try to get back the signing bonuses of injured troops

- Demanding a closed-door session with the Pentagon so that you can learn what, if anything, they are doing to prepare for withdrawal from Iraq

- Preventing George W. Bush from privatizing social security


These are only but some of the ways that Sen. Clinton has worked to right wrongs and bring about change over 35 years. It is NOT some oxymoron. It's called WORK.