Hillary’s Greatest Legacy

 

As I see it by BettyJean Kling

 

Hillary’s greatest legacy remains unrealized and until and unless we grasp it before this election – it will be too late to use it to its highest and greatest use when it will benefit us most- right now!

 

I have run the gamut of emotions about Hillary since the 90’s. This woman has got to be the most misunderstood lady in all of History. The books about her range from angel to devil or should I say bitch to dish. She has done remarkably well under the most daunting of circumstances and yet she remains so difficult to understand. I can get so angry with her one minute and so proud of her the next – to call her an enigma is an understatement but to say she has left women the greatest legacy is also an understatement no one has yet to realize.

 

If I were in Hillary’s place – I would not quit- I would die first but I would not quit. I wrote on June 4- ‘Even Rosa Parks risked her life but would not give up her seat at the front of the bus’.

 

I thought what if my child’s life was threatened? Well I have a child on a deathbed and yet she and I send me out to do this work instead of my spending more quality time together because it is a greater thing we do to save the country.

 

So, for the greater good why would she do what she is doing? Is there any reason for her – being the woman she is- to seemingly cave this way? And wouldn’t you know it – I actually came up with a good reason. I have listened very carefully to every speech she has given since she suspended hoping for a few words to cling to and I have always found them. 

 

On June 3, she seemed to urge us to continue on without her.

 

“Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. When you stumble, keep faith. When
you’re knocked down, get right back up. And never listen to anyone who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on.” 

 

On August 26, she seemed to urge us to continue on without her.

 

“America is still around after 232 years because we have risen to the challenge of every new time, changing to be faithful to our values of equal opportunity for all and the common good.

And I know what that can mean for every man, woman and child in America. I’m a United States senator because in 1848 a group of courageous women and a few brave men gathered in Seneca Falls, New York, many traveling for days and nights, to participate in the first convention on women’s rights in our history.

And so dawned a struggle for the right to vote that would last 72 years, handed down by mother to daughter to granddaughter – and a few sons and grandsons along the way.

These women and men looked into their daughters’ eyes, imagined a fairer and freer world, and found the strength to fight. To rally and picket. To endure ridicule and harassment. To brave violence and jail.

And after so many decades – 88 years ago on this very day – the 19th amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote would be forever enshrined in our Constitution.

My mother was born before women could vote. But in this election my daughter got to vote for her mother for president.

This is the story of America. Of women and men who defy the odds and never give up.

How do we give this country back to them?

By following the example of a brave New Yorker , a woman who risked her life to shepherd slaves along the Underground Railroad.

And on that path to freedom, Harriett Tubman had one piece of advice.

If you hear the dogs, keep going.

If you see the torches in the woods, keep going.

If they’re shouting after you, keep going.

Don’t ever stop. Keep going.

If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

Even in the darkest of moments, ordinary Americans have found the faith to keep going.

I’ve seen it in you. I’ve seen it in our teachers and firefighters, nurses and police officers, small business owners and union workers, the men and women of our military – you always keep going.

We are Americans. We’re not big on quitting. …

 

We don’t have a moment to lose or a vote to spare.

Nothing less than the fate of our nation and the future of our children hang in the balance.

I want you to think about your children and grandchildren come election day. And think about the choices your parents and grandparents made that had such a big impact on your life and on the life of our nation.

We’ve got to ensure that the choice we make in this election honors the sacrifices of all who came before us, and will fill the lives of our children with possibility and hope.

That is our duty, to build that bright future, and to teach our children that in America there is no chasm too deep, no barrier too great – and no ceiling too high – for all who work hard, never back down, always keep going, have faith in God, in our country and in each other.

Thank you so much. God bless America and Godspeed to you all.”

 

 

There was one line in there that I left out and I show it with … it is the line where she mentions we should vote for Barack Obama and we know she had to say that – she was after all at his coronation and that is was leads me to the rest of my story.

 

 Now call me Pollyanna but I would like to believe that Hillary was sacrificing herself for us that night. Clearly she laid out a resounding call to us not to stop the fight she began. Before she suspended what did she and all her supporters think of Barack Obama? Why should we believe they feel any different now?

 

They don’t! Unless you believe she and her supporters were lying  we have no other choice but to believe that she and others including  Joe Bidden the VP candidate standing at Obama’s side right now told us the truth before they were forced to fall in line.

 

I believe that Hillary has given the speech of her life in telling us to go on and she has  indeed urged Americans to step up and fight for our country as those before us fought to give us the freedom to do so now. It is our country and she has clearly reminded us that we must fight for it NOW!

 

What better way to move women to fight than to show us why we must? Only by showing us the reality of what happens to women who try to run for office could she prove the sexism that exists. Prove how in a country that boasts equality and civil rights to the world – a country that does not tolerate racism in any way- tolerates blatant sexism which can be nothing less than a violation of civil rights that exists in this nation against women.

 

What Hillary has in fact done by supporting Obama, is given us an example of  how the United States preaches Women Rights around the world but  tolerates the abuse of women. Right here at home and then forces them to be subservient to their abusers. Yes Hillary’ Greatest Legacy is the uncovering of America’s dirtiest secret!

 

Hillary’s greatest legacy remains unrealized and until and unless we grasp it before this election – it will be too late to use it to its highest and greatest use when it will benefit us most- right now!