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Clinton Inducted Into Women's Hall of Fame (Hill, not Bill)
ABC News / AP ^ | October 9, 2005 | BEN DOBBIN

Posted on 10/09/2005 6:24:29 AM PDT by Stoat

Clinton Inducted Into Women's Hall of Fame

 

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Maya Lin, Eight Others Inducted Into National Women's Hall of Fame

 

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)

By BEN DOBBIN Associated Press Writer

The Associated PressThe Associated Press

 

 

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillary
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To: Stoat

Abzug , Bella

Couldn't read any more names, what a crock!


21 posted on 10/09/2005 6:39:33 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Was Dick Cheney your 1st choice for V P in 2000?)
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To: maggief

Another Related Link. The Freep.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497865/posts
NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME STUNNED BY HILLARY CLINTON TIES TO PROSTITUTION KING NG LAP SENG


22 posted on 10/09/2005 6:41:24 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

BTTT


23 posted on 10/09/2005 6:47:46 AM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: Stoat
"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."

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.

24 posted on 10/09/2005 6:52:28 AM PDT by hometoroost (TSA = Thousands Standing Around)
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To: Stoat

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.


25 posted on 10/09/2005 6:53:38 AM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Behold the Riderless Pony. Bringing doom and destruction on a smaller scale.)
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To: Stoat

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.


26 posted on 10/09/2005 6:55:07 AM PDT by saveliberty (I did not break the feed. I may have lost it, but I did not break the feed)
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To: Stoat

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.


27 posted on 10/09/2005 7:07:18 AM PDT by Paloma_55 (Which part of "Common Sense" do you not understand???)
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To: Stoat

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1499112/posts


28 posted on 10/09/2005 7:30:18 AM PDT by upchuck (A fireman running up the stairs at the WTC as the towers began to collapse: HERO defined ~ Ben Stein)
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To: maggief

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.


29 posted on 10/09/2005 7:46:15 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Put a mirror to the face of the republican party and all you'll see is a Donkey.)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

:)... Oh, that BILL CLINTON... was he THAT GOOD???????? - LOL


30 posted on 10/09/2005 7:47:45 AM PDT by ElPatriota (Let's not forget, we are all still friends despite our differences)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

:)... Oh, that BILL CLINTON... was he THAT GOOD???????? - LOL


31 posted on 10/09/2005 7:47:45 AM PDT by ElPatriota (Let's not forget, we are all still friends despite our differences)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL
Which way to the ladies room?



Former president Bill Clinton signs autographs before the start of the National Women's Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Seneca Falls, N.Y., Saturday, Oct. 8, 2005. His wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, is one of ten inductees. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)
32 posted on 10/09/2005 7:51:20 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

Maybe we can still launch her into outer space.


33 posted on 10/09/2005 7:52:52 AM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (Undocumented border patrol agent.)
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
Mission Old Crusty


34 posted on 10/09/2005 7:59:11 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Stoat

I thought she wanted to be in the Marines and got turned down...Hmmmmm


35 posted on 10/09/2005 8:01:15 AM PDT by GRRRRR (America is a better place because of people like us...)
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To: maggief

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).


36 posted on 10/09/2005 8:04:14 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Put a mirror to the face of the republican party and all you'll see is a Donkey.)
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To: ElPatriota

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.


37 posted on 10/09/2005 8:06:41 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Put a mirror to the face of the republican party and all you'll see is a Donkey.)
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To: Stoat

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.


38 posted on 10/09/2005 8:07:23 AM PDT by daybreakcoming (May God bless those who enter the valley of the shadow of death so that we may see the light of day.)
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To: Stoat

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?


39 posted on 10/09/2005 8:10:08 AM PDT by RichInOC ("The coffee is strong at Cafe du Monde, the doughnuts are too hot to touch..." Save the Big Greasy!)
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To: Stoat
They left out Snow White, Cinderella, Minnie Mouse and a bunch of other ones.
40 posted on 10/09/2005 8:13:38 AM PDT by oldbrowser (A living, breathing constitution is a usurpation of the people's sovereignty)
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