And Uncle Ted backed ole Slick willy, when he ran. This politic thing is bullcrap, we should go back to no media, and make the canidates travel in their V.W. bus to get the message out !!!!
Wow-Another (Big Name) Woman Goes Barrack
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I can't link it yet, but if you come across a Rolling Stone this week, check out the Taibbi essay on Hillary/Barry.........its funny, scary, and enlightening. This kid is a snide, angry, but perceptive little bastid........no one is safe. I'm sure he leans left politically, but he doesn't play favorites with the razor. I'll post it when available on-line.
How 'bout that little bitch pulling a Belichek at the speech last nite? Shook Teddy's hand and flat ignored Barry standing next to him. She's pissing me off now. I used to think she was reasonably qualified; that, as a woman, she would possibly bring a more benign, maternal quality to the ring backed by some intellect. She is petty, shady -n- shifty, merciless...........you would think a woman with her physical "gifts" would make up for it instinctually over the course of her life developing some semblance of a personality. Instead, she is a North Shore-bred, haughty lil' beeeeoch who married for status, and has not grown out of her sense of a "birthright." The Crying Game put my vote in jeopardy.........The Belichek sealed the deal. Dunno where its gonna go, but as for Shillery, I vote NO.
Ok women wear Burkas but discount all the below--YOU have another "sip"
Under the Taliban, women weren't allowed to go to school or to work - they couldn't even leave their homes by themselves. They couldn't go to the doctor if they were sick and faced having their fingernails pulled out if they wore nail polish. Even small displays of joy were outlawed - children weren't allowed to fly kites, and their mothers faced beatings for laughing out loud.
Today, the world is helping Afghan women return to the lives they once knew. Women were once important contributors to Afghan society, and they had the right to vote as early as the 1920s. Now, once again, women are participating in their country's civic and political life. More than two hundred women voted in the Loya Jirga that established Afghanistan's current government. And next year, all Afghan women will have the opportunity to vote in the presidential election.
As they've regained the right to vote, women are gaining the confidence to take charge of their own destinies. Before the Taliban, many women were professionals - they were teachers, doctors, and lawyers. Today women are working again - and for the first time, some are running their own businesses and becoming part of the global economy. At the Maimana's Women's Association in Faryab Province, women are sewing traditional embroidered cloth and carpets. At the Market Garden in Herat, they are growing almond trees and vegetables and selling their harvest. USAID has built Women's Resource Centers across Afghanistan where women are receiving vital job and literacy training. At the center in Logar Province, women are learning how to run a poultry business starting with their own flock of thirty chickens. In Gardez Province, sixty women are training to become tailors.
And women across Afghanistan are learning from and working with some of America's most talented women. Teachers in Nebraska are training Afghan teachers, who go home and train others. And you may not know that the University of Nebraska at Omaha helped to edit and print five million textbooks in the Afghan languages of Pashto and Dari. The curriculum for the new textbooks was developed by Afghans. And through video conferencing technology, women in Washington and New York are discussing business ideas with women in Kabul. Pat Mitchell, president of PBS, mentored two Afghan journalists this past summer at the Lehrer News Hour. These women contributed to "Afghanistan Unveiled," an oral history project - and they went home with new information and a renewed appreciation for the freedom of speech.
As a former teacher and librarian, I'm proud that today, nearly four million Afghan children are in school, many for the first time, including more than one million girls. At the newly opened Sultana Razia School, girls now talk about their future, about becoming doctors and teachers, and about rebuilding their country. One young girl said, "I want to become a lawyer, because I want to bring justice and freedom to Afghanistan, especially for women." At a girls' school in Northern Afghanistan, the principal, a man named Diwana Qol said, "These girls are part of our future...We will need all of our children, boys and girls, to be well educated if we are to rebuild our country from all this war."
Children in Afghanistan are eager to learn. And yet one-and-a-half million children cannot go to school because there are not enough buildings and teachers. The number of school-age children has outpaced the number of qualified teachers in many countries. And in Afghanistan, where many teachers themselves only have a primary education, additional training is critical to the success of the education system.
I'm pleased to announce that, beginning next fall, the United States will reestablish the American School in Kabul for Afghan children and for children of international families. Prior to the Taliban, the American School was an outstanding institute of culture and education. Our new ambassador designee to Afghanistan, Zal Khalizad, attended classes there as a young man. Because a large percentage of the student body will be Afghan, the school will help both international and Afghan children learn and work together in an environment of respect. The school is a symbol of America's ongoing commitment to Afghanistan and to the critical role of education in rebuilding a society.
In tandem with this project, I'm working with our government and the private sector to develop a teacher training institution that will help Afghanistan meet its educational needs by training Afghan teachers, especially women. Both of these projects - the American school and the teacher training institute - are being organized through the U.S.-Afghan Women's Council, inaugurated by Presidents Bush and Karzai.
The people of Afghanistan are making great progress in rebuilding their country and in advancing women's rights. And the women of Afghanistan are inspiring the women of Iraq. They too lived under an oppressive tyrant. Under Saddam, women who came under political suspicion were tortured, or raped, or beheaded. Some of Saddam's militiamen carried ID cards listing their official assignment as "violation of women's honor." Iraqi men were allowed to kill female relatives for supposed slights to the family name. One tragic legacy of Saddam's rule is an overall adult illiteracy rate of 61 percent. And a staggering 77 percent of women - three out of four - cannot read.
Today, I'm proud that this oppression has ended. Of course it will take time for Iraq to recover from three decades of dictatorship, but new hope is emerging and freedom is taking root. Already, Iraqi women are participating in the political and economic reconstruction of their country. Three women were chosen to serve on the Governing Council - including a woman who is leading the Ministry of Public Works. A group of Iraqi women are working with the U.S. State Department to develop programs that empower women to help reconstruct Iraq. These women tell chilling stories of their experiences under Saddam. But despite the terrors they recount, they are determined to build a foundation for democracy and women's rights.
Clearly, the women of Iraq bring knowledge and skills that will be vital to restoring their country. Our substantial direct assistance to Iraq includes significant resources to enhance the health and education of Iraqi women and girls. USAID is rebuilding maternal clinics and women's dormitories at Babylon University. We support the development of women's self-help and vocational organizations throughout Iraq, from Karbala to Kirkuk.
The presence of a peaceful, stable Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a powerful beacon for freedom, an example of hope in that vital region. A recent Gallup survey found that nearly two-thirds of Iraqis say ousting Saddam Hussein was worth the hardship they've experienced; an overwhelming majority feels that Iraq will be better off in five years than it was before. Nowhere is this more obvious than in education. Just last week, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children went back to school. Our coalition forces are working with 36,000 local Iraqi workers to refurbish 1,600 schools across Iraq. To rebuild that many schools over a five month period is a great indication of our determination.
Today, Iraqis are experiencing the freedom that education brings. Students and teachers are free to discuss topics that were once forbidden. They no longer fear the secret police are sitting in their classrooms to monitor their studies. Next month, five million textbooks free of Baathist propaganda will be given to Iraqi students. Today, children and adults are discovering Iraq's best writers and poets in books once banned. Professors, chosen through open staff elections, are teaching lessons in freedom and human rights.
I'm encouraged that Iraqi women are organizing their own advocacy groups. Our commitment to the women of Iraq is part of a broader effort to support women across the Middle East - from girls' literacy programs in Yemen, to micro-credit initiatives for women entrepreneurs in Jordan, to legal workshops sponsored by your colleague Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in Bahrain.
These examples of progress and freedom inspire us. And so do compassionate Americans who are committed to helping their neighbor - even when they're a world away. Soldiers who are helping to rebuild schools in Iraq are calling in help from back home. Major Greg Softy of a Cavalry Regiment in the 1st Armored Division sent an e-mail to friends and family to request school supplies and other items for Iraqi children. And a group of citizens in St. Paul, Minnesota, has sent dozens of packages and set up a website to encourage others to contribute.
Yep Agree Doc--Networks were having some time focusing on the 2.
While the Billiary duo are certainly making waves--I can't help think that Bills move on black issue won't inevitably be a positive for wife. He planted the seed for remainder of primary--now will probaly go into diff mode after damage done--and what better state to do it in than SC that they had no chance of winning--I think recent "misjudgements"
have been calculated rather than fck-ups.
Irony??
Irony??
Renowned author Toni Morrison endorses Obama, citing his vision
BY NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press
WASHINGTON--? The woman who famously labeled Bill Clinton as the ??first black president?? is backing Barack Obama to be the second.
Author Toni Morrison said her endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate has little to do with Obama?s race ? he is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas ? but rather his personal gifts.
Writing with the touch of a poet in a letter to the Illinois senator, Morrison explained why she chose Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton for her first public presidential endorsement.
Morrison, whose acclaimed novels usually concentrate of the lives of black women, said she has admired Clinton for years because of her knowledge and mastery of politics, but then dismissed that experience in favor of Obama?s vision.
??In addition to keen intelligence, integrity and a rare authenticity, you exhibit something that has nothing to do with age, experience, race or gender and something I don?t see in other candidates,?? Morrison wrote. ??That something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom. It is too bad if we associate it only with gray hair and old age. Or if we call searing vision naivete. Or if we believe cunning is insight. Or if we settle for finessing cures tailored for each ravaged tree in the forest while ignoring the poisonous landscape that feeds and surrounds it.
??Wisdom is a gift; you can?t train for it, inherit it, learn it in a class, or earn it in the workplace ? that access can foster the acquisition of knowledge, but not wisdom,?? Morrison wrote.
In 1998, Morrison wrote a column for the New Yorker magazine in which she wrote of Bill Clinton: ??White skin notwithstanding, this is our first black president. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children?s lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald?s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.??
Obama responded to Morrison?s endorsement with a written statement: ??Toni Morrison has touched a nation with the grace and beauty of her words, and I was deeply moved and honored by the letter she wrote and the support she is giving our campaign.??
Irony??
Renowned author Toni Morrison endorses Obama, citing his vision
BY NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press
WASHINGTON--? The woman who famously labeled Bill Clinton as the ??first black president?? is backing Barack Obama to be the second.
Author Toni Morrison said her endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate has little to do with Obama?s race ? he is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas ? but rather his personal gifts.
Writing with the touch of a poet in a letter to the Illinois senator, Morrison explained why she chose Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton for her first public presidential endorsement.
Morrison, whose acclaimed novels usually concentrate of the lives of black women, said she has admired Clinton for years because of her knowledge and mastery of politics, but then dismissed that experience in favor of Obama?s vision.
??In addition to keen intelligence, integrity and a rare authenticity, you exhibit something that has nothing to do with age, experience, race or gender and something I don?t see in other candidates,?? Morrison wrote. ??That something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom. It is too bad if we associate it only with gray hair and old age. Or if we call searing vision naivete. Or if we believe cunning is insight. Or if we settle for finessing cures tailored for each ravaged tree in the forest while ignoring the poisonous landscape that feeds and surrounds it.
??Wisdom is a gift; you can?t train for it, inherit it, learn it in a class, or earn it in the workplace ? that access can foster the acquisition of knowledge, but not wisdom,?? Morrison wrote.
In 1998, Morrison wrote a column for the New Yorker magazine in which she wrote of Bill Clinton: ??White skin notwithstanding, this is our first black president. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children?s lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald?s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.??
Obama responded to Morrison?s endorsement with a written statement: ??Toni Morrison has touched a nation with the grace and beauty of her words, and I was deeply moved and honored by the letter she wrote and the support she is giving our campaign.??
