June 23, 2008
Hillary Clinton at Bronx High School Graduation
Photograph of Hillary Clinton at Pelham Preparatory Academy's commencement by Tina Fineberg/AP
Senator Hillary Clinton made good on a promise to a supporter and girl she considers her "goddaughter" and spoke at her high school graduation from Pelham Preparatory Academy, in a ceremony at Fordham University. Aleatha Williams and her mother have volunteered for Clinton's presidential campaign, plus her 2000 (when Alethea was 10!) and 2006 Senate campaigns. When she graduated middle school, Alethea had asked Clinton if she would speak when she graduated high school.
Williams introduced Clinton, saying, "During her historic bid to become the Democratic nominee for president, she taught us all that no glass ceiling is high enough to limit the will of a person who is committed to living up to their true potential." For Clinton, it was her first appearance since withdrawing from the race, and Clinton told the crowd:
"I have just finished the most extraordinary experience that anybody could possibly have: being able to travel around our country, this great, sprawling, diverse country from one end to the other, meeting thousands and thousands of people who want a better life for themselves and their families, who believe in all their heart in the American Dream.Schools Chancellor Joel Klein was on hand for the graduation and he said of the junior Senator from New York, "She changed America's view of women. Someday soon, very soon in America, we will have a woman as president. And you know what that woman will say? 'I would not be here had it not been for Hillary Rodham Clinton."'"No one five years ago, no one four years ago when I attended Aleatha's graduation lunch, could have predicted that an African-American and a woman would have been competing for the presidency of the United States in 2008."
Later this week, Clinton will appear publicly with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama for a campaign event on Friday. They will also be meeting to discuss fund-raising on Thursday.
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an African-American and a woman would have been competing for the presidency of the United States in 2008.
No, Mrs. Clinton. An African-American and a woman were competing for the Democratic nomination. It would be an awesome story to tell the grandkids that the GOP was diverse enough to run a woman or African-American, but we all know that's just crazy talk.
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"No, Mrs. Clinton. An African-American and a woman were competing for the Democratic nomination. "
They were all competing for the presidency. Not everyone advanced to the final stage.
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Good for HRC. It was the right thing to do, and classy.
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#2, Really? Then so was I!
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"No one five years ago, no one four years ago ... could have predicted that an African-American and a woman would have been competing for the presidency of the United States in 2008."
no one, most especially her own bad self. Did not see the tsunami coming, now didja Mrs. Clinton?
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Hillary proudly shows the working folk that being up to your ears in debt is perfectly acceptable. The role model she is, she's like a addicted Atlantic City gambler huddled at the craps table at 4:am, hoping to emerge from from a string of bad luck, slowly losing her friend's and family's funds.
Yet she knows her supporters are like ignorant and naive lemmings unknowingly and unwittingly heading to the precipice.
Having not officially bowed out, she still thinks she has a chance to win the only way she knows how - waiting in the wings for something terrible to happen to Obama. She gave herself away with the Freudian slip when she stupidly spoke of Kennedy.
It feels dirty having her as my Senator. May she follow her husband down the slow spiral path to her much deserved final destruction. (I mean destination....)
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ugh scheming bitches comments are still relavent?
yes girls the only way to break glass celings is to use the same cut throat politics the boys have used. You too can become president if you lie as well as I can.
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obama 08.