35 Years Of Public Service?
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in 2008 | Hillary Clinton | Resume Inflation — Comments (12) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Er . . . maybe not:
To hear Hillary Clinton talk, she's spent her entire career putting her Yale Law School degree to work for the common good.
She routinely tells voters that she's "been working to bring positive change to people's lives for 35 years." She told a voter in New Hampshire: "I've spent so much of my life in the nonprofit sector." Speaking in South Carolina, Bill Clinton said his wife "could have taken a job with a firm ... Instead she went to work with Marian Wright Edelman at the Children's Defense Fund."
The overall portrait is of a lifelong, selfless do-gooder. The whole story is more complicated -- and less flattering.
Read on . . .
Clinton worked at the Children's Defense Fund for less than a year, and that's the only full-time job in the nonprofit sector she's ever had. She also worked briefly as a law professor.
Clinton spent the bulk of her career -- 15 of those 35 years -- at one of Arkansas' most prestigious corporate law firms, where she represented big companies and served on corporate boards.
Neither she nor her surrogates, however, ever mention that on the campaign trail. Her campaign Web site biography devotes six paragraphs to her pro bono legal work for the poor but sums up the bulk of her experience in one sentence: "She also continued her legal career as a partner in a law firm."
The full truth doesn't fit into the carefully crafted narrative the campaign has developed about Clinton, said Sally Bedell Smith, the author of "For Love of Politics," a study of the Clintons' partnership.
"She wants to be seen as someone who has devoted her life to public service," Smith said. "I suppose if you say it enough, maybe you can get people to believe it."
I am not saying this to indicate that I blame Hillary Clinton for working in the private sector. Quite the contrary; I think that work in the private sector is laudable. Additionally, given the fact that Bill Clinton was being paid peanuts as Governor of Arkansas, I really can't attack his wife for wanting to make sure that someone put food on the table. And I won't.
But "35 years of public service"? I think that the public record tells a different story.
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The story about the Wal-Mart union thing. The story about Bill's Kazakhstan nuke deal. This story (McClatchy going after a Dem?!?!?!). On and on.
At least she's getting a taste for what it feels like to be opposed by the media. But they've decided that she's a problem for the Democrats and the left in general and they're taking preemptive action.
What'll be priceless to see is if she still ends up with the nomination. For starters, you won't see any of these kinds of stories anymore. We all know that. But it'll be interesting to see how HRC and WJC treat those who wronged them in the primary...not just press people, but Dems who endorsed Obama.
I'm thinking they become persona non grata.
The stories will have had the effect of tossing out the trash.
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If and when Hillary does secure the nomination, you will the most dramatic reversal on the part of the media that has been bashing her throughout the primary. It'll be circle the wagons time for Hillary.
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”
"Time and the bell have buried the day, the black cloud carries the sun away."
T.S Eliot, Four Quartets.
her college years would reveal much much more than they have already viewed and put in a neat little file in case they need it later.
If she really wanted to provide a public service, she'd sell her secrets in an Infomercial. That way everyone could afford their own health insurance.
You can't afford the price of free corn.
As the saying goes, Democrats adore jobs but hate employers.
Only the true socialists will admit it outright, but it's a pillar of "progressive" thinking that profits are a form exploitation, and anyone who works for a profit-maker is morally tarnished. These people worship non-profits (unless they're affiliated with a Chrisitan organization), and view government "charities" as the source of moral authority.
In order to have credibility among the True Faithful, Hillary has to pretend that she's never made more than minimum wage handing out soup to widows and orphans. Too bad she can't figure out a way to claim that she's spent the last 35 years caring for penguins in Antarctica for Greenpeace.
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"You can't save the Earth unless you're willing to make other people sacrifice" - Scott Adams (speaking through Dogbert)
By "35 years of public service", she means it as Bob Byrd would mean it: 35 years of her nose in the government trough.
Kill the terrorists
Protect the borders
Punch the hippies -- Frank J
That's how she comes up with that number I believe.
Unless she's counted up all of her billable hours and it equals years. ;)
Yes, nobody has called her on it.
--CG--
When Hillary says she's "been working to bring positive change to people's lives for 35 years." what she means is that she's been working for 3 people in particular- me, myself, and I.
A simple follow up on that statement would have cleared this whole thing up.
So, you see, she really was telling the truth.
...Glad I was hear to help you all out on that. Peace.
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just because it can, if it likes, shout louder and longer than truth.”
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I wonder how her experience working for a law firm representing communists out in CA as a college intern will work for us.
The only one of several bar exams she passed was AR. She worked for the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, but much of the time she was out campaigning for her husband. She was either hired or made partner (I can't remember which) after it was clear her husband was going to be A.G.
It could just be idle gossip, but I read where several of her partners stated she worked like 4 cases the entire time she was at Rose.
As I have said before, I did not realize being married to someone meant his/her experience became your own. I guess in a few years I can practice medicine since my husband is almost a doctor.... I am so tired of her claiming "experience".
MelZ
...that the MSM has turned on Hillary and are in the business now of propping up Obama. The media sees, as I do too, that Hillary will not only lose the White House, but will drag down a bunch of redstate Democrats in congress. The media is DESPERATE for a Democrat to win the White House and to maintain majorities in Congress. Obama is their guy to deliver on that. They have thrown in with him completely. The MSM, liberals, and Democrats are slowly realizing that conservatives have been right all along about the Clintons.
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”