At the sight and sounds of the first woman in the history of America accepting the nomination of the Democratic Party for President of the United States.
But I really lost it when Hillary Clinton recalled that it was on the very day in 1919 that her late mother was born and Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote. Amendment XIX : ” The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State because of sex.”
If elected, she will be in office to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the amendment on August 18, 2020.
She lamented how she wished her Mom, who was abandoned as a child, could have lived to see this day. And I thought of Lincoln : ” All that I am or ever hope to be I owe to my mother.”
And then I knew we were going to be all right.
Fred Rich LaRiccia
See link for full article from 1919
http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1920womensvote.html
The Vote in Detail.
The roll call on the amendment follows:
FOR ADOPTION – 56.
Republicans – 36.
Capper, Cummins, Curtis, Edge, Elkins, Fall, Fernald, France, Frelinghuysen, Gronna, Hale, Harding, Johnson, (Cal.,) Jones, (Wash.,) Kellogg, Kenyon, Kayes, La Follette, Lenroot, McCormick, McCumber, McNaty, Nelson, New, Newberry, Norris, Page, Phipps, Poindexter, Sherman, Smoot, Spencer, Sterling, Sutherland, Warren, Watson.
Democrats – 20.
Ashurst, Chamberlain, Culberson, Harris, Henderson, Jones, (N. M.,) Kenrick, Kirby, McKellar, Myers, Nugent, Phelan, Pittman, Ransdell, Shepard, Smith, (Ariz.,) Stanley, Thomas, Walsh, (Mass.,) Walsh, (Mon.)
AGAINST ADOPTION – 25.
Republicans – 8.
Borah, Brandegee, Dillingham, Knox, Lodge, McLean, Moses, Wadsworth.
Democrats – 17.
Bankhead, Beckham, Dial, Fletcher, Gay, Harrison, Hitchcock, Overman, Reed, Simmons, Smith, (Md.,) Smith, (S. C.,) Swanson, Trammell, Underwood, Williams, Wolcott.
Paired.
Ball and King, for, with Shields, against: Calder and Townsend, for, with Penrose, against; Gerry and Johnson of South Dakota, for, with Martin, against; Gore and Colt, for, with Pomerone, against.
Absent and Not Paired.
Owen, Robinson, and Smith of Georgia.
The vote came after four hours of debate, during which Democratic Senators opposed to the amendment filibustered to prevent a roll call until their absent Senators could be protected by pairs. They gave up the effort finally as futile
Would you be reaching for the Kleenex if instead of Hillary Clinton, it was Michelle Bachman, Joni Ernst, or Sarah Palin accepting the nomination of a major party for the office of the presidency? If not, why not?
don’t be a troll. That’s not who you want to be.
for what it’s worth
if any one of those neo-Fascist idiots were nominated.
HILLARY FIGHTS FOR US !
You go, girl !
Fred Rich LaRiccia
Your words “At the sight and sounds of the first woman in the history” but now you say you wept because “she fights for us”. (how and with what results is something yet unanswered)….so if another woman was first, you would not weep?
The first black Supreme Court nominee was Thurgood Marshall. He was an icon of jurisprudence, especially in stark contrast to Clarence Thomas — the GOP nominee who replaced him. The women you mention are, like Clarence Thomas, utterly incompetent or worse.
Your transparent effort to stir up shit by again suggesting that there is no difference between the GOP and Democrats meets my definition of trolling, and apparently at least a few others. Your open hostility towards Hillary Clinton seems to remain your top priority.
The fact that you seem unable to see a difference between Ms. Clinton and the incompetent clowns you mention makes it difficult or impossible for me to take your other commentary seriously.
…though to be fair I might be crying for a different reason if any of them were elected/nominated.
I’ve heard on WBUR that the arch of history bent today. That was quick. Let’s hope the bend does not have 18 million cracks.
Seriously, now. When Barack Obama won the office, what a great symbolic victory it was. The first time in history, a black man elected President. And yet, at the bottom of the stack, race relations did not improve. Arguably, they got worse, with the less affluent (many of them minority) making little headway economically . The justice system stil unequal; policing still unequal; more race riots than we can remember since a long time.
What would be historic is that these economic conditions improved; that justice was meted equally, and so on.
Also, Barack never boasted his blackness as argument in his election. Bernie never boasted his jewishness. Hillary is happy to speak about her gender as many times as she can. She’s happy to make that even ‘the comment of the day’, played in endless loops on TV. No matter that it’s something she’s born with, instead of something achieved though wits and sweat.
During his campaign, Mr. Obama did not need to say ANYTHING more about his race — his detractors did plenty of that on their own. The result was an overwhelming turnout in his favor from minority communities across America. Perhaps if Barack Obama had boasted his blackness in his first month in office, instead of his last year, he might have made a greater impact on race relations. My biggest issue with Barack Obama is that the actual policies pursued by his administration are best characterized as “moderate Republican”, in stark contrast to his campaign. If the policies advocated by candidate Barack Obama had been the policies of President Barack Obama, I suggest we would in fact have made great progress in race relations.
It seems to me that candidate Hillary Clinton has learned from Barack Obama’s mistakes in this regard, and I’m glad of it. Would any male front-runner of either party be attacked because of alleged infidelity of his wife? Would any male candidate of either party be attacked because of the the price of his suit?
The latent and explicit sexism of America is, if anything, far more primal than our other prejudices. It is worth noting that the civil rights movement battled sexism among its ranks and leaders even as it championed the rights of blacks. It is no accident that we read news of a Million MAN March.
It is worth nothing that the Fifteenth Amendment, guaranteeing the right of black Americans to vote, was ratified in 1870. American WOMEN were DENIED the right to vote for another two generations, until the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920, a full FIFTY YEARS later.
It is true that Hillary Clinton was born with her gender. It is also true that hundreds of millions of Americans have been born with that same gender for several hundred years, and she is still the VERY FIRST woman to be nominated by a major party.
We can only hope that she will go on to be elected as our first woman president.
Thurgood Marshall was a GREAT jurist. Hillary Clinton will be a GREAT president. He was also our first Supreme Court Justice. She will also be our first woman President.
Like it or not, this IS historic.
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She might be a great president. Obama is recent proof that winning candidates often fall short in office.
Fair enough.
I am reflecting my own flagrant bias — I think Hillary Clinton will be a GREAT president.
While I find their views and aspects of their records personally off putting, I’m glad to see so many women make serious runs at the nominations of either party. I’d even add that Jill Stein is the nominee of the Green Party, so half the major parties added women and even a troll like Ted Cruz saw fit to balance his ticket with a woman.
In the last gubernatorial race in Massachusetts both major parties had women on the ticket. A majority of our statewide offices are held by women. Even Nikki Haley conceded she wouldn’t be in government of it weren’t for seeing Hillary Clinton give a speech when she was in college. This is absolutely an achievement and would be if an other winged woman, even a loathsome conservative, had beaten the Democrats to the punch. It’s conceivable we could have two credible women of color run against each other in 2024 as he major party nominees, and I look forward to that contest.