According to the old adage, a good man is hard to find, especially when it comes to politics. However, the solution may not be a man. Perhaps Hillary Clinton is what this country has been waiting for – it’s up to you to decide.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the wife of the infamous Bill, has always had a keen interest in politics.
According to her Web site, www.hillaryclinton.com, she began her successful career in politics at Wellesley Collage when “she was elected the first-ever student commencement speaker.”
She then went on to Yale law school, where she began to fight for women’s and children’s rights. At age 30 she was elected to the board of the United States Legal Services Corporation by President Jimmy Carter. She was also balancing a career as a law partner, board member on The Arkansas Children’s Hospital Board, and leading the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession. All of this came on top of being a wife and mother.
As the first lady she maintained her efforts in championing women’s rights and helped increase funding for breast cancer research. In 2000, she was elected as a New York senator. According to her Web site, after Sept. 11, 2001, Clinton “fought to provide compensation to the families of the victims, grants for hard-hit small businesses, and health care for front line workers at Ground Zero.”
Now, in 2008, Clinton is a strong contender for the executive office. Barack Obama and Clinton are competing in a tight race that seems to constrict more every day.
The Wall Street Journal reported on March 11, “the combined delegate count gives Obama a 1,579-1,473 lead over Clinton.”
However, the race isn’t over and Clinton remains optimistic in her campaigning efforts.
She is a true Democrat when it concerns the prominent issues in the 2008 election.
Universal health care is one of these issues. Clinton has prepared a plan that will supposedly cover everyone and be more affordable than other plans previously mentioned.
She also wants to pull the troops out of Iraq immediately, give economic relief to America’s middle class and halt a salary increase for congressmen.
Clinton has always supported abortion rights, and wants the ban on stem-cell research to be lifted in order to find cures for terminal diseases.
All of this information and more, including her complete voting record, can be found at http://www.ontheissues.org/Hillary_Clinton.htm.
This is just a brief look at Clinton’s life and political career. In upcoming issues of the East Tennessean, I will be profiling Barack Obama and John McCain.

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