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Hillary Clinton, in full Hillary Rodham Clinton, ne Hillary Diane Rodham, (born October 26, 1947, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. senator (200109) and secretary of state (200913) in the administration of Pres. Barack Obama. She had served as first lady (19932001) during the administration of her husband, Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States. As the Democratic Partys nominee for president in 2016, she became the first woman to top the presidential ticket of a major party in the United States.

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Hillary Clinton was born on October 26, 1947.

Hillary Clinton attended Wellesley College and Yale Law School.

Hillary Clinton was a U.S. senator from 2001 to 2009 and secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. She was the Democratic Partys presidential candidate in 2016 and first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, was president from 1993 to 2001.

Hillary Clinton was a U.S. senator, secretary of state, and first lady. She was the first woman to be the presidential nominee of a major American political party.

The first presidents wife born after World War II, Hillary was the eldest child of Hugh and Dorothy Rodham. She grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, where her fathers textile business provided the family with a comfortable income; her parents emphasis on hard work and academic excellence set high standards.

A student leader in public schools, she was active in youth programs at the First United Methodist Church. Although she later became associated with liberal causes, during this time she adhered to the Republican Party of her parents. She campaigned for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 and chaired the local chapter of the Young Republicans. A year later, after she enrolled at Wellesley College, her political views began to change. Influenced by the assassinations of Malcolm X, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., she joined the Democratic Party and volunteered in the presidential campaign of antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy.

After her graduation from Wellesley in 1969, Hillary entered Yale Law School, where she came under the influence of Yale alumna Marian Wright Edelman, a lawyer and childrens rights advocate. Through her work with Edelman, she developed a strong interest in family law and issues affecting children.

Although Hillary met Bill Clinton at Yale, they took separate paths after graduation in 1973. He returned to his native Arkansas, and she worked with Edelman in Massachusetts for the Childrens Defense Fund. In 1974 Hillary participated in the Watergate inquiry into the possible impeachment of Pres. Richard M. Nixon. When her assignment ended with Nixons resignation in August 1974, she made what some people consider the crucial decision of her lifeshe moved to Arkansas. She taught at the University of Arkansas School of Law, and, following her marriage to Bill Clinton on October 11, 1975, she joined the prominent Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she later became a partner.

After Bill was elected governor of Arkansas in 1978, she continued to pursue her career and retained her maiden name (until 1982), bringing considerable criticism from voters who felt that her failure to change her name indicated a lack of commitment to her husband. Their only child, Chelsea Victoria, was born in 1980.

Throughout Bills tenure as governor (197981, 198392), Hillary worked on programs that aided children and the disadvantaged; she also maintained a successful law practice. She served on the boards of several high-profile corporations and was twice named one of the nations 100 most influential lawyers (1988, 1991) by the National Law Journal. She also served as chair of the Arkansas Education Standards Committee and founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. She was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Young Mother of the Year in 1984.

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Hillary Clinton has swatted down the notion of serving as Michael Bloombergs running mate in the 2020 presidential race.

Oh no, the former first lady and 2016 runner-up said with a laugh when asked during an El Vocero de Puerto Rico interview Tuesday whether shed team up with Bloomberg for another run for the White House.

Im just waiting and watching as this plays out, continued Clinton, speaking at an event in Puerto Rico for her familys Clinton Global Initiative philanthropy group. I will support whoever the nominee is.

Bloomberg campaign sources told the Drudge Report last week that the hard-charging billionaire candidate was considering tapping Clinton as his vice presidential running mate.

Bloomberg, 78, served as mayor of New York from 2002 through 2013, overlapping with nearly all of Clintons run as an Empire State senator from 2001 to 2009.

Clinton, who lost a bitter presidential race to Donald Trump in 2016, had already publicly toyed with the idea of catching on as a 2020 candidates running mate or making another attempt of her own.

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Hillary Clinton shoots down rumors she'd be Bloomberg's 2020 running mate - New York Post

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a panel in Pasadena, California, January 17, 2020. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)Their excuses for Hillary Clintons loss are familiar and convenient but dont pass the smell test.

In an otherwise excellent Politico articleadvising Democrats how to avoid the fate of 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney, former Obama staffer Dan Pfeiffer offers his team some self-soothing revisionism regarding the 2016 election:

When all is said and done, the 2016 election might end up being a black-swan event. The combination of Russian interference, Comey intervention and multiple third-party candidates make that election a hard one to extract guidance from.

Guess what? Every election is conducted under a unique set of circumstances. Every election is a black-swan event. But that doesnt mean you should rewrite history to excuse your sides performance.

The so-called Comey intervention has become a security blanket for Democrats unable to acknowledge that Hillary Clinton was merely acting in the same reckless and corrupt manner she always had. In reality, Democrats were incensed that the FBI director didnt bury evidence pertaining to an ongoing congressional investigation of their preferred candidate. They had demanded Comey operate as a political actor even before Trump won.

Comey, a bureaucrat who likely had zero interest in angering the consensus front-runner for the presidency, had no choice but to inform Congress of this evidence. Not only because Department of Justice rules stipulate that relevant congressional committees should be apprised of new evidence when it appears, but because Comey had promised Congress after letting Clinton off the hook in July 2016 that he would notify it if new evidence emerged.

New evidence did emerge, and there was nothing Comey could do about it. A high-level Hillary staffer, Huma Abedin, was in possession of classified emails that should have been handed over to the FBI. Moreover, her high-profile husband, Anthony Weiner, then under investigation for carrying on with an underaged girl, had access to those emails. If Comey had kept silent and that story had leaked out in bits and pieces later, it surely would have destroyed his career (and badly damaged Clinton).

Whats more, it takes some chutzpah to claim Comey doomed Clinton by revealing that story when he had previously intervened in the campaign to save her from becoming the first major-party presidential candidate to have to run under an indictment. The mass of evidence in the broader Clinton email scandal showed, at the very least, that her staff had engaged in lawlessness and obstructed justice in ways that make the actions of George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn look piddling in contrast.

What about the Russians? Well, they did not meddle or interfere in the presidential election as Pfeiffer claims. Theytriedbut failed to interfere in the election, and probably could have changed votes, but didnt. Such an attack by a foreign power is a serious issue, but there is absolutely no evidence that a few Facebook ads or John Podestas hacked emails changed voters minds about the election.

Nor is there any evidence that Clinton was uniquely hurt by third parties. Democrats might hate Jill Stein, but she won 1,457,218 votes, or around 1 percent of the vote. The Libertarian Party ticket of Gary Johnson and Bill Weld pulled in 4,489,341 votes, a better-than-usual performance for the party driven by antagonism toward the decidedly non-libertarian Trump. The Never Trump McMullin/Finn ticket won 731,991 votes from, one assumes, mostly disgruntled Republicans. Another 203,090 votes went to the Constitution Party, which definitely doesnt sound like a group that would appeal to most Democrats. In short, if anyone was hurt by third-party candidacies, it was probably Trump.

In reality, there is plenty of guidance we can extract from 2016. How did the party lose one of the most winnable elections in recent history? Pfeiffer asks. Well, Trumps populism connected with voters in places such as Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, voters who had been throwing Democrats out of office for almost the entirety of Obamas two terms. Clinton was a uniquely terrible candidate undone by her own grating personality, her insincerity, and her policy positions, all of which the party was aware of when it nominated her.

Pfeiffer offers three really good pieces of advice to Democrats for winning in 2020: do not make this election solely about Donald Trump, find ways to frame this economy on your own terms, and get out of the liberal Twitter bubble. But like most members of his tribe, he still hasnt come to terms with the reality of 2016.

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Democrats Still Havent Come to Terms with 2016 - National Review

WACO, TX - FEBRUARY 29: Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks during a rally at the Waco Convention Center February 29, 2008 in Waco, Texas. With less than a week before the Texas and Ohio primaries, Clinton is campaigning throughout Texas. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Regarding the letter, Bidens, Hillary Clinton really need to be investigated (Feb. 11): The Republicans pathological need to investigate Hillary Clinton will go on ad infinitum.

The letter writer may recall that Republicans started to investigate Clinton in 1992 in connection with the Whitewater investigation, which found her innocent of any criminal wrongdoing. Then came 1993 and Travelgate, in which no criminal charges were filed. That year also found her embroiled in the Vince Foster investigation, in which Fosters death was ruled a suicide, but true Republicans still arent buying it.

The year 1996 also gave us Travelgate, in which Clinton was again exonerated. Some Republicans probably believe she had her fingerprints removed with acid so they couldnt be detected on the files. In 2012, the Benghazi investigations started and came to the conclusion that there was no intentional misconduct on her part. In 2015, the Republicans wanted the Clinton Foundation investigated, but nothing illegal was found. And from 2015 to 2019, the Clinton email investigation concluded there was no intentional mishandling of classified information.

The Republicans have wasted precious time and untold millions of dollars with their quixotic and twisted anti-Hillary crusades, but I fear its not over yet. President Donald Trump has probably convinced himself that "Evil Hillary" should be prosecuted for removing the do not remove labels from her bed pillows, followed by Fox News demanding that the Senate investigate her heinous and wanton disregard of the pillow laws. Pillowgate is sure to follow. She cannot go unpunished.

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Letter: GOP obsessed with investigating Hillary Clinton - STLtoday.com

Say so long to the West and live out your days in tropical splendour.

You got a retirement plan?

You ever worked out how the harvest years are going to play out?

You going to be the old man who sits in the front room of his rendered brick townhouse in the heart of suburbia, an unresponsive wife ignoring your pawing at night, every dream you ever had so crushed you pray for the local teen hoodlums to break in and end your suffering with an iron bar?

A common retirement among the gung-ho, of course, is to take your First World money into the tropics, where your dollars buys palaces and endless indulgence.

It aint such a bad idea if you can take the suffocating heat and the feeling youre just another in a long line of damn colonialists, spraying your cash, stomping over local culture, buggering the coolies etc.

Earlier today, I saw, and was rather taken by a beachfront site, with a development plan, onSimeulue Island, the next island up from Nias in North Sumatra.

The joint, which still has to be built, costs $US295,000, a number youll negotiate down by at least ten per cent, so lets call it $US270,000.

It comes with five bungalows, an open air restaurant, a couple of beachfront gazebos, a boat, a van, a couple of scooters and enough land, or so they say, to build four or five more bungalows.

The only downside is itll only be sold as a land-and-building contract only, and must be sold toa private owner or syndicate.

Which means, you cant run it as a commercial surf resort.

But who needs kooks and guests weeping about sunburn and the wind direction and too much and not enough swell when youre the master of your little piece of surf heaven, anyway?

Important a few lovers of various stripes from Medan, bring your friends from the west and away you go,

Buy here.

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Thumb your nose at Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Hillary Clinton and all other "surf hating" Presidential hopefuls! - BeachGrit