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[tblue37]

149. Oh, and as for black voters, the Clinton administration included a number of

extraordinarily talented black people (not to mention other minorities, including hispanics--Cisneros, Mineta, Richardson, Pena, Alvarez--and even Lebanese--i.e., Donna Shala) in highly visible positions, like Marian Wright Edelman, Ron Brown, Jesse Brown, Togo D. West, etc.

He also included a lot more women, both white and minority, in important positions--Edelman, Shalala, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and the first female SoS, Attorney General, etc.

Clinton made a real effort to open up high government office to women and minorities, thus "normalizing" the idea by making it so common. I think those efforts really made a difference for minorities and women in terms of opening up opportunities for such positions even beyond his time in office.

I am a Bernie supporter, but I will gladly support HRC if she is nominated. I do dislike her corporate/bankster ties, her involvement with the Family, and her hawkishness, but I rather suspect she figures those things are necessary to position herself so she can get into office in order to promote the more beneficial policies she has been promoting for decades.

I fear that she underestimates how constrained she will be as a result of such compromises and deal-making. You can't lie down with dogs without rising up with fleas. But I think (HOPE) that her intention is to use the office for good, not Ill, and despite her politically expedient actions and votes for policies that I recoil from, her career on the whole has done a lot to promote issues that benefit women and children both in the US and around the world.

Furthermore, like Obama Unchained, the badass president who doesn't have to worry about getting elected any more, a President Hillary would be at the end of her political career, so she wouldn't need to worry about protecting her own future political options, so she might well do a lot of good.