Hillary the Mom Candidate

"We've never had a mother who ever ran or was elected president." – Hillary Clinton as a guest on the television show The View on December 20, 2006

With this one quote Hillary Clinton has done it again. She’s rewritten history. It’s unlikely that any living person today remembers Victoria Woodhull. Do an internet search on her name and you’ll see that she ran for president in 1872. There are no indications that she was a mother, but in 1884 Belva Ann Bennet McNall Lockwood ran for the presidency of the United States and she was a mother. Not only was she a mother, but she was also a single mother having been widowed and left to raise her daughter alone after just 7 years of marriage.

Woodhull has several credits in American history. She was a champion of the American suffrage movement, she and her sister, Tennessee Celeste Claflin, became the first female Wall Street brokers on the New York Stock Exchange, she was a newspaper owner & editor, a free love advocate, but above all she was a mother. Not only was she the first woman and mother to run for president, but she ran with Frederick Douglass as her vice-presidential candidate.

Belva Ann Bennet McNall Lockwood was a lawyer, activist and teacher. Unlike Hillary Rodham Clinton, McNall didn’t ride her husband’s coat tails to success. She married a farmer and sawmill operator. After her husband’s death she ended up being one of the first women to graduate from law school, the first woman admitted to the Supreme Court bar and the first woman to argue before the Supreme Court.

One week after John Kerry’s defeat in the presidential election Hillary Clinton delivered this bit of wisdom during a speech at Tufts University on November 12, 2004.

“And now just such a short period of time later, there was a woman on the ballot, running for the presidency in the recent Afghanistan election. A remarkable feat, considering the history, especially the recent past in that country. And one, I might add, that puts Afghanistan’s women ahead of America’s women.”

Again she has ignored the accomplishments of other significant trailblazers to build support for her own ambitions.

Hillary’s infractions against fact and history are nothing new. Recall how she claimed to be named after Sir Edmund Hillary who climbed Mount Everest more than 5 years AFTER Hillary’s mother had already named her. In October 2006 Hillary Clinton’s re-election campaign acknowledged the story was a lie.

Now Hillary Clinton’s previously written book It Takes A Village has been re-released. Is this anything more than an attempt to compete with her closest competitor Barack Obama who has been touring the nation to promote his own recently released book. Hillary’s book was largely written bya ghost-writer. Hillary’s next book Living History reportedly used 3 ghost writers. Neither of Hillary’s books listed any of the ghost writers on the cover and only the second one listed them by name.

It has been suggested by several authors that Hillary Clinton has always had her eye on the Presidency. Indeed she has always been interested in politics beginning with her involvement with drawing up the articles of impeachment against then president Richard Nixon. Her marriage to a future governor and eventual president is well-known.

There are also rumors that Hillary’s pregnancy was not consensual and it has been suggested that “rape” may actually be a better description of the conception. It has long been public knowledge that Hillary announced her pregnancy to local newspapers before sharing the news with her husband who was first informed by reading one of the newspapers.

It has been reported that Bill & Hillary‘s daughter Chelsea was a daddy’s girl that appeared isolated from her mother. In The Truth About Hillary the author, Edward Klein, relays story after story about the coldness of Hillary Clinton towards her own daughter.

Hillary Clinton ran for the U.S. Senate claiming to support single mothers. After she was elected in 2000 she spent the next 6 years avoiding controversial legislation in order to build a respectable record on which to base her presidential run. Hillary Clinton only sponsored legislation that was considered a safe topic. She concentrated on building amicable relationships with other legislators by co-sponsoring “safe “ legislation. She never sponsored any legislation that could eventually come back to haunt her. When she backed off from supporting the Child Care Bill a delegation of New York women rushed to meet with Hillary. When pressed about her reason for no longer supporting a bill that she had initially supported Hillary’s response was “I’m not going to spend my political capital on something that’s doomed before it starts”. Hillary not only turned her back on the single mothers, but also on their children in favor of her own political ambitions.

Folks, know the candidates. Don’t buy into the media hype. Hillary Clinton has long been a darling of the left-wind media and she’s sure to receive more than her share of publicity. What the mainstream media isn’t willingly going to report is more important and usually more factual than what they do tell us. Despite Senator Clinton’s celebrity she is has very little experience as a politician responsible to the voters. She was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000. She has only completed one term in the Senate and she’ll have less than 8 years as a Senator when we vote for our next president. Her voice is only 1 of 100 in the Senate and 1 of over 535 in Congress. Her political career has been too short and calculated to reveal her true character. She lacks any experience heading any branch of government and on-the-job training is not a good program when considering the President is the leader of the world’s only remaining superpower.

For those that are inclined to vote for Hillary Clinton merely because they think we need a female president then I encourage you to get involved in politics and encourage your party of choice to support a female candidate that would not be a setback for women’s rights. I fear that a Hillary presidency would turn American voters away from female candidates for decades to come. As a father of two daughters I think a woman president would be wonderful for young women. When I see a female candidate that I want my daughters to emulate then I’ll vote for her. Until that time I will continue to vote for the candidate that I think will damage our country the least.