Posted on 10/09/2005 6:24:29 AM PDT by Stoat
U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks after being inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y., on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2005. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)
SENECA FALLS, N.Y. Oct 9, 2005 Inspired by Alan Shepard, the first American to journey into space, a 14-year-old from suburban Chicago wrote a letter to NASA in 1961 asking what she needed to do to become an astronaut. She got a curt reply: Girls are not being recruited by the nation's space program.
"It had never crossed my mind up until that point that there might be doors closed to me simply because I was a girl," recalled the letter writer, better known today as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as she was enshrined Saturday in the National Women's Hall of Fame, along with nine other inductees.
Honored with her were Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.; Dr. Rita Rossi Colwell, who became the first female director of the National Science Foundation in 1998; and Betty Bumpers, a crusader for childhood immunizations who was Clinton's predecessor as Arkansas' first lady.
"I don't think there has ever been a better time to be a woman than in the United States of America in the 21st century," Clinton said in an interview.
The first known women's rights convention was held in 1848 in this upstate New York village. The hall, which opened in 1969, acclaims women who have made valuable contributions to society and especially to the freedom of women. In all, 217 women have been chosen by a national committee of judges.
Six women honored posthumously this year included pilot Blanche Stuart Scott, a barnstormer in the early days of aviation; Ruth Fulton Benedict, an anthropologist whose 1934 book, "Patterns of Culture," became an American classic; and Florence Ellinwood Allen, who in 1934 became the first female judge appointed by a president to a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Abzug , Bella
Couldn't read any more names, what a crock!
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NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME STUNNED BY HILLARY CLINTON TIES TO PROSTITUTION KING NG LAP SENG
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I thought she was going to claim that she had been named after a famous astronaut. But that would have gotten in the way of her other lie about being named after a famous a mountain climber who was still an unknown pharmacist when she was born.
Janet Reno. bwhahahahaha!!! That one made me lol. WTH has she ever done, besides run defense behind both clintons? Gawd, I still despise them all. Time has not healed the wounds. But how can it, really, when they are continually being lauded, applauded, awarded and rewarded for the disaster that was the clinton administration.
The 1848 Treaty of Seneca Falls was a product of the work of women and men committed to women getting the right to vote and the right to hold property in their own names. Some were abolitionists. And some, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, were not.
They did as a group take the view that women could handle anything without special treatment. Women owned and ran their own businesses. I personally talked to women who got ahead long before affirmative action and they conceded that it was easier for women before that policy was enacted. They also said that the reason why they think they got ahead is that they were always held responsible for themselves.
While HRC lived a life of privilege, she also caused those around her to check the box "does not work well with others". She can blame this on sexism, but the reality is that a woman can go into an imperfect or even difficult work situation and turn everything around. Not all women require a perfect situation in order to succeed. But apparently HRC does. So I agree that it is ridiculous that she be associated with women who really did the heavy lifting, only to be undone by the efforts of the "I'm telling Mom" party.
Even though I went to a women's liberal arts college, I still have found that virtually everything the liberal feminists told me was wrong. The George Costanza approach works extremely well.
Hey, Hillary has done many good things for the advancement of women.
1) Married a successful man
2) Stood by him as he banged the secretary
3) Leveraged his success to obtain a job
4) ...
Well, I guess that is about it.
hillary actually became what she dreamt of! She did become an assholenaut! What also wasn't reported is that Bill was hanging out near the woman's bathroom trying to pick up one female passerby's. They also had to physically remove him from under the lecturn as they caught him there with a box of cigars.
:)... Oh, that BILL CLINTON... was he THAT GOOD???????? - LOL
:)... Oh, that BILL CLINTON... was he THAT GOOD???????? - LOL
Maybe we can still launch her into outer space.
I thought she wanted to be in the Marines and got turned down...Hmmmmm
Again, poor reporting by the MSM as Billy the rapist was not signing his autograph but writing to unsuspecting women "Meet in room 269 so I can add you to my payroll of honeys. Universal health care included (meaning he'll make sure they stay healthy as long as they don't rat on him).
Janet Reno didn't seem to think Bill Clinton was manly enough. She's still pissed that he stole her strap on that hillary had given her.
Must have been her National Health Plan Burp which propelled her into this Hall. Can't think of anything else other than having the power to make masses of people feel like hurling.
This bothers me a lot more than the idea of Harriet Miers being on the Supreme Court. At least Harriet Miers built a career on her own merits. Can Hillary really say that?
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