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Why Hillary Clinton Will Win in 2016
RealClearPolitics ^ | June 22, 2014 | Carl M. Cannon

Posted on 06/22/2014 3:45:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

At the end of the Civil War, but before the pernicious reach of Jim Crow undermined the Union Army’s battlefield victory, former slaves and free blacks found themselves in possession of a most precious right -- the right to vote.

It didn’t matter if a man had been a war hero in the famed, all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment or a house servant on a Southern plantation. All that mattered was that he was a man.

To say that this development didn’t sit well with the progressive-minded women of this country is an understatement. Before the war, the abolitionist movement and the suffragist movement had been fused at the hip -- or so women believed. They weren’t allied causes so much as they were the same cause, demanded in the same lecture halls by the same people in the same speeches.

After four years of burying their husbands, fathers, and sons -- the Union men who’d donned their country’s blue uniforms and sang John Brown’s Hymn as they marched to the killing fields -- American women thought they had earned some consideration. They thought they had earned the right to be heard, the right to vote, and the right to hold political office.

When this assumption was proven wrong -- when Frederick Douglass, of all people -- figuratively patted them on their heads and said in essence, “Not now, little lady, not yet. Your time will come,” they couldn’t have felt more disillusioned.

Betrayal by the men who had made “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” the unofficial national song -- its lyrics written by a woman -- had lasting repercussions in the nation’s collective female consciousness. One of them was the idea that war is rarely the answer....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014election; 2016election; demagogicparty; election2014; election2016; feminism; hillary; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; voting; women
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So Hillary Clinton is the only woman, in a nation of 330 million people, who is eligible to run for the presidency?
1 posted on 06/22/2014 3:45:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Drudge headline...

BOOK CLAIMS HILLARY HEALTH PROBLEMS MORE SERIOUS... DEVELOPING...

2 posted on 06/22/2014 3:46:32 PM PDT by newfreep
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To: newfreep

Hillary’s nomination will galvanize the Democrat base, while Jeb’s nomination will demoralize the Republican base.


3 posted on 06/22/2014 3:48:23 PM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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To: newfreep

Bump.

Just a headline at the moment...


4 posted on 06/22/2014 3:48:59 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

well she will win if the Republicans run Romney again - which I’ve heard at least some of them want to do.


5 posted on 06/22/2014 3:49:11 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: newfreep

Chelsea’s not old enough to run, is she? What to do, what to do?


6 posted on 06/22/2014 3:49:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: newfreep

Conclusion: Hillary is only going to serve 1 day over 1/2 of a term, and the mayor of San Antonio will take over and serve 10 years.


7 posted on 06/22/2014 3:50:00 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I've said it many times and *nobody* can change my mind:

SECESSION IS THE ONLY ANSWER


8 posted on 06/22/2014 3:50:51 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Our culture dictates our politics, and we’re screwed. Blame it on what you will...media and schools for me, but regardless...it is a good time to be old.


9 posted on 06/22/2014 3:50:58 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m going to paraphrase a very telling statement made by another writer:

The danger to America is not Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man or woman like him or her with the Presidency.

It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama or Hillary Clinton presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such persons for their president.

The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton, who are mere symptoms of what ails America. Blaming the prince or princess of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that will make them their prince or princess.

The Republic can survive a Barack Obama or Hillary, who are, after all, merely fools. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who will make him or her their president.


10 posted on 06/22/2014 3:51:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Delusional.


11 posted on 06/22/2014 3:51:37 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: Spirochete

Oh pulllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeze.............

Hillary is NOT going to be the DEM ‘16b nominee and Jebbie shan’t be the GOP ‘16 nominee !

This is just utter garbage and a replay of ‘06 & ‘07 when it was going to be Hillary V.Rudy.....PERIOD!


12 posted on 06/22/2014 3:51:40 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Thunder90

Presidente Castro? Has a certain ring to it, like a death knell for the Republic.


13 posted on 06/22/2014 3:53:33 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Th Chels will be 35+, come ‘16,so yes,she will be old enough to run,but she won’t.


14 posted on 06/22/2014 3:53:38 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: gigster

Still no article linked.

Just that headline...


15 posted on 06/22/2014 3:54:20 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: Thunder90

No,Julian Castro will probably be the ‘16 DEM nominee.


16 posted on 06/22/2014 3:54:27 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Allow me to opine on two points

“the Obama mystique has faded somewhat”

The ‘Obama mystique’, to put it nicely, is in the crapper. Has this beta male turd-shuffler looked at the polls? He’s imploding. Even personally, people think the man is a jackass.

“More than a century later, Nancy Pelosi had those words — and the words of others — in her mind when she became the first female House speaker.”

Yes, the first female House Speaker... more collagen implants and polyurethane parts than female, but I take the point. What of course is not mentioned is that Pelosi went on to lose the House majority in the biggest shellacking since 1938. She now has no prospect of ever being the speaker again, period. What a loser.


17 posted on 06/22/2014 3:57:09 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The writer is an idiot. It’s another one of those America must purge it’s collective conscience by voting for the first female president spin pieces. Women are owed the presidency according to the idiot Mr. Cannon. No mention of Hillary’s political contributions. No surprise there. I have no problem voting for a female president. I just don’t want to vote for this particular female. Simply voting for someone due to their race and gender should never be the first consideration in deciding on a particular political candidate, but that’s all that matters to the Democrats, and unfortunately we’re finding that out the hard way.


18 posted on 06/22/2014 3:57:18 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: SeekAndFind

Really great point!


19 posted on 06/22/2014 3:58:23 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: newfreep

wishful thinking.

However, I think this sort of speculation is part of her being canonized in the church of the left. Her ego will allow nothing as trivial is POTUS.


20 posted on 06/22/2014 3:59:18 PM PDT by llevrok (Straight. Since 1950.)
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