Hillary Clinton to Appear at Maryland Association of the Deaf Conference
By Shane Feldman on Tue 16 Oct 2007 |
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Want to meet Hillary? Here’s your chance! The Maryland Association of the Deaf (MDAD) announced that Hillary Clinton will make a brief appearance sometime during their Conference, at the Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville, Maryland from November 29 to December 2, 2007.
There has been some controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton in the deaf and hard of hearing community. Some bloggers/commenters have assumed that Hillary Clinton is an AGBell supporter because she serves on The Congressional Hearing Health Caucus which counts the Alexander Graham Bell Association of the Deaf, Auditory-Verbal International (AVI), Cochlear Americas among others as members of its Congressional Hearing Health Caucus Advisory Committee.
DeafDC.com can’t get enough of Hillary Clinton either. Julie Hochgesang noted the media’s ridiculous obsession with petty details such as her laughter and Liz Stone won’t just vote for her simply because she is a woman. Well, Hillary now has a chance to make an impression on those of us who are Democrats before we cast our votes in the 2008 primaries.
Where does Hillary stand on the issues affecting the deaf and hard of hearing community? She introduced an agenda to expand economic opportunity for individuals with disabilities on the eve of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) anniversary. Hillary also answered disability-related questions that the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) sent to every Presidential candidate.
Is this, in addition to her position on millions of other issues facing our country, enough for us to decide that she’s the right person to lead the United States of America? Probably not. Here’s our opportunity to share our concerns, make an impression, and hopefully she’ll remember us if and when she returns to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the next four years.
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Personally, I hope that she never makes it that far to the presidency. I don’t think that she’s qualified at all.
In addition, the description by Andrew Sullivan of her as being “Nixon in a pantsuit,” strikes me as being the correct description.
Still won’t identify my blog as the one who talked about Hillary’s CHHC — nothing new about you snubbing my blog from day one, Shane!
Get with the program, I’m here to stay!
R-
Never saw it on your blog, Ricky.
From what I recall, McConnell first put out the bait in this blog:
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.....inton.html
Then others jumped on the guilt by association. Subtle, yet effective.
Shane ..
Be gentle with the petulant child.
:o)
Paotie
Hillary . . . yuk.
I will not vote for Billary, period!
Rudy will not get my vote either.
Hey, let’s vote for RIDOR! What do we have to lose and his campaign is sponsored by PAYPAL backers that are making waves on deafdc.com.
Hillary for President!!!! USA will be comfortable financially with her because she will stop USA from spending billions and billions of dollars on Bush’s war. Hillary for President!!!!
whatever
I think war is likely no matter who will be the next president over the next 4 to 8 years. It may be Iran, Turkey, Tibet, North Korea, or even China with Taiwan stepping up on exerting her independence from China.
Bush is urging the outthrow of the Castro regime –most likely in 2008. That would cause a big stir up in Venezuela (Chavez), Russia (Putin), and Iran. I do not know how a newly-elected president and Democratically dominated Congress could handle
the additional burden.
We sent her campaign emails telling them that we could do closed caption for free and only got a letter back saying free bumper stickers are available. Could someone ask her about closed caption at the meeting?
For those of you who wants to watch the CNN/YouTube debate or Hillary’s campaign video with closed caption, here is the link
Will the DBC coalition send in its hired guns to protest HRC’s associations with AGBell?
Should we lump ourselves into the same category of “disabled people”? What about our own cultural and linguistic status?
Hillary Clinton will say ANYTHING!!! I personally do not TRUST Hillary at all. Look at her campaign and Senate staffers how she really hire. Obama have more impressive staff roster with real balance of ideology and competence.
I will go see Hillary what she will say about us, deaf people! I understand that Hillary have been a steadfast supporter of deaf people back in the state of Arkansas as the First Lady with Governor Clinton. She have been regularly visited the school of the deaf and demanded for the real accountability within deaf education.
Rumors back in the 90s that Hillary Clinton went to Gallaudet University from time to time for accounting purposes. I don’t know if that is totally true!
All the current presidential candidates are real sham anyway. I will choose the lesser evil of any presidential nominees.
I kinda admire Hillary Clinton for being a savvy political opporunitist so far.
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
Are you schizophrenic? You need to avoid hearsay and rumors. You’re very much like Karl Rove who started negative publicity against President Clinton during his first Presidency, accusing him of having a extra-marital baby with an African American prostitute. Ah, the good old days when the Republicans would stop at nothing to destroy a true leader.
I don’t trust a holier than thou, I am better than you type of president like President Bush. Adolf Hitler was the same type of leader as President Bush and he did some outright evil and unethical things. Thank God our country has checks and balances… well, some of them left.
Many people COMPLAINED about Bill Clinton keep campaigning during his presidency, not really governed on difficult issues.
Hillary definitely do the same thing! We need someone really govern our country from GWB and Dicky’s real messes for generations!
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
Maybe President Clinton wouldn’t have needed to campaign his own presidency if he didn’t have a bunch of Republican vultures, including Kenneth Starr and others trying to tear him down.
President Clinton did a good job as President and tried to do the right thing. All President Bush did was ignore the threat of terrorism, entered America in several wars, and setting the stage for a World War III disaster. Maybe thanks to him, he will fulfill the Conservatives’ prophecy of the end of the world when we have a nuclear holocaust.
Not to mention screwing up the economy and blowing the surplus, weakening the Constitution and giving federal dollars to religious groups (which is illegal under the Constitution).
I’ll just ignore all of them except the last one, giving federal dollars to religious groups. Please explain to me how that is illegal. I mean, I went to law school and took Constitutional Law I and II, but I’m sure your legal mastery of the Constitution is far more vast than mine. And probably more vast than the Supreme Court’s (see http://www.supremecourtus.gov/.....06-157.pdf)
I’m sure you’re referring to the First Amendment, so here’s the text:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
How is giving federal funds to religious groups illegal here, in light of the text of the 1st Amendment above and the recent Supreme Court decision (Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc.)?
Can you please clarify? Thanks!
Oh boy. I’m not a lawyer, but I understand that Thomas Jefferson, when writing the Constitution, fully intended the separation of state and church in all state matters.
I’ll have to dig it up, but his intent was that federal government would not give money to any religious group or fund their activities in any way at all, and that has held true until George W. Bush.
Christian– Law student or not, you walk a fine line by attempting to interpret the Constitution the way you did. First of all, funding a religion or religious organizations is in its act establishing or supporting the growth of a religion. Next, if one religion is being funded more than other religions or groups with pro-choice or pro-gay beliefs are being denied access to these funds, then it is in a sense prohibiting the free practice of that religion.
You may disagree, which I know you will Christian, but whether it’s unconstitutional or not, our country must look at this from a moral point of view. Do we really want the United States, which is diverse and home to many religions, to have a government that favors one religion over others and to use the taxpayer dollars from the same diverse population to support it?
So, Bush is ruining the economy? How so? I guess that means Bush takes credit for the low unemployment rate then?
http://money.cnn.com/pf/featur.....mployment/
Yeah, McConnell. You must be really proud that President Bush and the GOP is funding our wonderful economy and creating low unemployment rate while racking up over 9 trillion in national debt, or close to $30,000 for every U.S. citizen: http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/.
Wow, that’s like being unemployed and using credit cards to pay for all of your bills and telling people everything’s going great!
Incorrect, Bush did not rack up 9 trillion dollars during his administration. Yet, didn’t the Senate (a Democratic controlled congress) upped the ceiling debt to $9.8 trillion?
Your credit card anology is bit way off. Look at GDP and debt ratio to understand.
I agree. We need to pay down the debt. But with Hillary’s idea on socialized entitlements and health programs will actually put us all in the hole a lot quicker than anything else.
Next, I’d rather look at pure data such as the Congressional Budget Office. You can see the chart when Medicare/Medicaid, social security, etc. continue to outstrip GDP at a more faster rate. Our deficit continued to drop since 2004 while our revenues continue to grow.
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?.....amp;type=0
And here.
http://www.cbo.gov/budget/data/historical.pdf
McConnell, Did you hear what ABC reported this evening? $2 trillion+ will have been spent on Iraq and
Afghanistan by 2017. I disagree. It will have been more than that, for Cowboy Cheney and his neo-con cohorts willl tell Bush to declare the World War III against Iran before 2009!
Personally, I think any Presidential candidate who takes an interest in the Deaf community and is willing to make a stop along a very busy campaign is right in my book. I can’t remember the last time a Presidential candidate made an appearance or showed support to our community. Can anyone with more years of experience comment on this?
Same here, Dim Sum. In last two elections, the candidates for Prez just answered questions given to them by disability organizations (I seem to remember this was done via websites and media), and there were no actual visits to specific sites patronized by the deaf/Deaf community.
Either Hillary or Obama is fine with me regardless of gender or race, it comes with experience as opposed to Rudi Guiliani who I hate the most.
I would love for Hillary and Obama to team up for the Democratic party, which undoubtedly is going to have their spouse contribute politically.
As much as I dislike the Republicans, especially what happened last 12 years or so, I have to admit Rudy Guiliani didn’t do too bad of a job as a Mayor of New York. Anyhow, I do not want him to run the country. Thanks, but no thanks! :)
Definitely, I would love to see either Obama as President and Hillary as Vice President or vice versa. That would be two firsts any way you see it and I would hope that they both would be sensitive to minorities and human rights issues, especially concerning people with disabilities.
I wonder if the Mayor of New York was a Democrat during 9/11, would he have received as much sympathy and respect as Rudy Guiliani. I am not sure he can serve our country as President. Maybe a Senator, but not as our President.
That could be a possibility about 9/11. I would LOVE to freely let my bias set in and believe that! :)
What exactly was President Clinton accomplishment? His signing of the welfare bill was the biggest blow to his left-wing liberals friends. he cut the defense budget by 60% and the troops deploy to Kosovo without UN approval and to Bosnia without a break. No middle east treaty either And Monicagate.
Isn’t MDAD hosting a political event against its tax-free status?
And at the same time I’m wondering what did Sen. Clinton accomplish, too. Other than to ride her hustband’s coattail which was her plan all along. Even through Monica-gate.
Thor, how much did President Bush spend on defense so far, and what did he accomplish from it? Have we forgotten why we went to war with Iraq in the first place?
I wonder why the UN meddled in the affairs, also, about Iraq by issuing worthless UN resolutions to Iraq? Iraq violated the 17 UN Resolutions since 1991 through 2003 basically thumb-nosing at the world and the UN which makes up the world body anyway. If the UN is not in the business of enforcing those UN Resolutions then they shouldn’t be in the business at all. What sense is it to produce UN Resolutions after UN Resolutions when they don’t have the political will, the guts, the money or the means to actually enforce despot dictators to comply? Had Iraq complied with the UN weapon inspection request per the numerous resolutions given out by the UN, we wouldn’t be in Iraq! And Saddam and his two sons as rapists would still be alive today.
Make up your mind, dim Sum.
Oh, you need a history lesson. lol
When America refuses to give money to the U.N. and refuses to participate in many of its treaties and programs, can you expect the world or U.N. to support America’s endeavors.
President Bush is flying in the face of every leader and country in the world by defying the U.N. and acting unilaterally. Just because America is a superpower doesn’t mean it can do whatever it wants.
Don’t you find it odd that many Iraqis don’t want America to be there and yet we’re sitll there after 4 years. While you sitting at home in your comfortable chair, countless Iraqis are dying being blown up by suicide bombers, executed or by gunfire. Since the war started in 2003, the number of Iraqis who died ranges between 75,000 to 82,000 or more. For statistics on Iraqi deaths, please visit this website: http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
You’re probably thinking right now, “Yeah, but who cares about the Iraqi body count when it cannot be verified.” If you only care about the official American casualties, then it’s only 3,834 dead with 28,276 wounded (http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/). That’s like half of the population in Frederick, MD wounded and about twice the Gallaudet student population dead. More American soldiers died and became maimed in Iraq than Americans did during the 9/11 attacks. Doesn’t that tell you something?
Ahem, he current operating budget for the United Nations is estimated at $4.19 billion. The US is the largest financial contributor to the United Nations where $3.8 billion is be paid for 2006-2007. Perhaps it’s time for the U.S. to pull out and let the UN be on its own? I’m in favor of that since the UN threatens the U.S.’s sovereignty. And prior to the food for oil program there were economic sanctions levied approved by all U.N voting members against Iraq but it had a disastrous consequence.
“The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported in December 1995, that more than one million Iraqis have died-567,000 of them children-as a direct consequence of economic sanctions. UNICEF reports that 4,500 children under the age of 5 are dying each month from hunger and disease. An April 1997 nutritional survey, carried out by UNICEF with the participation of the World Food Program (WFP) and Iraq’s Minister of Health, indicated that in Central/Southern Iraq, 27.5 percent of Iraq’s 3 million children are now at risk of acute malnutrition.
To date, more children have died in Iraq than the combined toll of two atomic bombs on Japan and the ethnic cleansing of former Yugoslavia. The UN’s Department of Humanitarian Affairs reports that Iraq’s public health services are nearing a total breakdown from a lack of basic medicines, life-saving drugs, and essential medical supplies. The lack of clean water-50 percent of all rural people have no access to potable water-and the collapse of waste water treatment facilities in most urban areas are contributing to the rapidly deteriorating state of public health.”
http://www.thirdworldtraveler......tions.html
And even before the economic sanctions, you’d have atrocities committed by Saddam during his 25 years of Ba’ath party rule where, according to Human Rights Watch, some 300,000 Iraqis were murdered or ‘disappeared.’
About the 75,000 Iraq civilians that died since 2003, there is no sure way on how many have died and why. In the United States 40,000 to 45,000 people are killed each year in auto accident along with some 3+ million injuries, many of them horrific. Where’s the rage? Other than that, many Iraqi civilians were killed because of suicide bombs rather than the war itself. What are the exact causes of deaths and injuries? Are we going to say that the Iraqis were better off with Saddam? Or with the economic sanctions?
The U.N.
Now, there are five permanent members with veto power on the UN Security Council. Guess who they are? France, Russia, China, United States and United Kingdom. And guess which three countries hand their hands sullied in the food for oil program? And, also, which of the three voted “No” on going into Iraq?
As for the wounded or dead, I pray for each one of them. And salute them for their bravery and dedication to help protect America. One of the dead was my cousin. I am proud of him. So is his fiance’ and two kids.
When one enters the Armed Forces they already know about the risk of being sent to fight a war. Just as a person who signs up to be a law enforcement knows the risk is high that one could get stabbed or shot at. Or signing up to fight fires do people know the inherent risks in fighting fires. And so on. In any war, the loss of life is inevitable.
The number of military deaths during the Clinton administration? 1,213 in 1993; 1,075 in 1994; 1,040 in 1995; 974 in 1996. That’s 4,302 deaths in peacetime over 4 years. No screaming about troops getting killed?
h t t p:// siadapp . dmdc .osd .mil / personnel / CASUALTY / Death_Rates.pdf
Of course, more have died during the Bush admin because we are at war against terrorism. Both the Democrats and Republicans voted to go into Iraq. They had access to the National Intelligence Estimate but many did read it, including Hillary Clinton, but went ahead and voted.
As for Iraqis not wanting us there, you’re reading too much of the MSM garbage. Most do want American troops there for obvious reasons until Iraqis are able to take over the role as military and police personnel. That has been coming along since. If the Iraqi govt does not want American troops there, all they have to do is tell the troops to leave. Bush has said he will honor that request since Iraq became a sovereign country 15 months after the start of the war in March 2003. Now, why hasn’t Iraq told the U.S. to leave?
Hmmm….”Dim”?
There are people thinking that United Nations is a model to prepare for One World order.
I know it sounds crazy and even bottled water prediction in the 1970’s also sounded crazy also.
Dim Sum,
12,000+ out of 28,276 wounded soldiers have mental breakdowns. This is an
invisible illness and Bush has avoided visiting to comfort them! This high
percentage the mental breakdowns is somethidng that Daddy had never seen during the World War II!
Also, out of all presidents Warren Harding and John F. Kennedy were the only two who won their presidential races as incumbent senators. Which means those who are running as senators for president have a slim chance, historically speaking, of becoming president.
Nice to know that.
And yet… many people LOVED John F. Kennedy and called him a GREAT president. He was also elected during a troubling, turbulent time in our history, very much like now. Every election is independent of each other and the candidate, whether a Senator or not, who truly believes in liberty and justice for all and convinces the people of it, can prevail.
Yet, historically most of the top candidates who were sitting senators gunning for the nomination felt the very same thing but never made it. Only two did. While some 15 ex-senators became US presidents. Why the low incidence rate of sitting senators who were elected for president? That’s what I want to know.
Maybe because people tend to vote for governors or vice presidents or the president instead of senators.
Still, that doesn’t explain why people do not vote for a sitting senator.
It does explain it, because governors, vice presidents and presidents have the training needed for the job (being able to manage a budget, coordinate needs of a state or more than one state, etc).
A senator just votes on proposed laws and listens to citizens’ complaints.
You people keep forgetting that Hillary Clinton had “training” by being First Lady with Bill Clinton. I’m sure she observed her husband while he performed his duties (well not all of them).
Haha, Dim Sum. ;-)
I didn’t forget Hillary’s unique training. I didn’t mention it because none of other First Ladies have ever tried to run for President.
But her White House experience is definitely one of several reasons I’m voting for her. :-)
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