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HRC takes credit for Treaty of Tordesillas
Submitted by metulj on Sat, 2008/03/08 - 9:48am.
Despite being born over 450 years after the signing of the treaty between King John II of Portugal and Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, Clinton cited her vast experience in land deals and bloodline connections to a here-to-fore unknown Spanish explorer, Manuel De La Salchicha, who discovered Coney Island. She cited her key role in brokering the Treaty of Tordesillas as an example of this experience.
The Treaty of Tordesillas fixed problems between the Spanish and Portuguese over how the New World would be divided between them. In the Western Hemisphere, a line of demarcation was drawn that gave a majority of holdings in to the Spanish, who ceded claims to India. The Portuguese gained the easternmost part of South America, which later was expanded as the colony of Brazil. The disputes arose from unclear demarcations in a papal bull handed down by Alexander VI. The treaty was amended several times in to the 16th Century.
A press release from the Clinton camp offered this connection to the Treaty of Tordesillas as further proof of Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experience. "Hillary has consistently shown that despite all logic, she is the better foreign policy expert in this campaign. Tied to her pivotal role in brokering the Northern Irish peace, she thinks that the American people will see her claims of experience as unassailable."
An advisor to Barack Obama was quick to respond. "To claim an intellectual heritage bound to the horror of colonialism is monstrous," said Gomi Slabha, professor of gender and post-colonial discourses at Middlebury College. Professor Slabha was immediately sacked. Obama released a statement distancing himself from Slabha. "I find that we do not need to tell the truth at this point of the campaign and I repudiate such behavior."
"So in a classic woman politicky sort of way I think she was active...She was certainly investing some time, no doubt about it. Whether she was involved on the issue side I think probably not." Some of the people Mrs Clinton met went on to help found the Women’s Coalition, which took part in the Good Friday talks. Lord Trimble said: "The Women’s Coalition will think they were important. Other people beg to differ."
What the heck does Lord Trimble mean? What is "classic woman politicky" anyway?
Submitted by Bbeanster on Sat, 2008/03/08 - 5:24pm.
This is the part that seemed most significant to me:
"Central to Mrs Clinton’s claim of an important Northern Ireland role is a meeting she attended in Belfast in with a group of women from cross-community groups. "I actually went to Northern Ireland more than my husband did," she said in Nashua, New Hampshire on January 6th.
"I remember a meeting that I pulled together in Belfast, in the town hall there, bringing together for the first time Catholics and Protestants from both traditions, having them sitting a room where they had never been before with each other because they don’t go to school together, they don’t live together and it was only in large measure because I really asked them to come that they were there.
"And I wasn’t sure it was going to be very successful and finally a Catholic woman on one side of the table said, ’You know, every time my husband leaves for work in the morning I worry he won’t come home at night.
"And then a Protestant woman on the other side said, ’Every time my son tries to go out at night I worry he won’t come home again’. And suddenly instead of seeing each other as caricatures and stereotypes they saw each other as human beings and the slow, hard work of peace-making could move forward."
There is no record of a meeting at Belfast City Hall, though Mrs Clinton attended a ceremony there when her husband turned on the Christmas tree lights in November 1995. The former First Lady appears to be referring a 50-minute event the same day, arranged by the US Consulate, the same day at the Lamp Lighter Café on the city’s Ormeau Road.
The "Belfast Telegraph" reported the next day that the café meeting was crammed with reporters, cameramen and Secret Service agents. Conversation "seemed a little bit stilted, a little prepared at times" and Mrs Clinton admired a stainless steel tea pot, which was duly given to her, for keeping the brew "so nice and hot"."
Yeah. I bet she's never been to Portugal or Spain.
Actually, if I were betting, I would do a very thorough search of her travel records before I said she had never been there.
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What the heck does Lord Trimble mean? What is "classic woman politicky" anyway?
This is the part that seemed most significant to me:
"Central to Mrs Clinton’s claim of an important Northern Ireland role is a meeting she attended in Belfast in with a group of women from cross-community groups. "I actually went to Northern Ireland more than my husband did," she said in Nashua, New Hampshire on January 6th.
"I remember a meeting that I pulled together in Belfast, in the town hall there, bringing together for the first time Catholics and Protestants from both traditions, having them sitting a room where they had never been before with each other because they don’t go to school together, they don’t live together and it was only in large measure because I really asked them to come that they were there.
"And I wasn’t sure it was going to be very successful and finally a Catholic woman on one side of the table said, ’You know, every time my husband leaves for work in the morning I worry he won’t come home at night.
"And then a Protestant woman on the other side said, ’Every time my son tries to go out at night I worry he won’t come home again’. And suddenly instead of seeing each other as caricatures and stereotypes they saw each other as human beings and the slow, hard work of peace-making could move forward."
There is no record of a meeting at Belfast City Hall, though Mrs Clinton attended a ceremony there when her husband turned on the Christmas tree lights in November 1995. The former First Lady appears to be referring a 50-minute event the same day, arranged by the US Consulate, the same day at the Lamp Lighter Café on the city’s Ormeau Road.
The "Belfast Telegraph" reported the next day that the café meeting was crammed with reporters, cameramen and Secret Service agents. Conversation "seemed a little bit stilted, a little prepared at times" and Mrs Clinton admired a stainless steel tea pot, which was duly given to her, for keeping the brew "so nice and hot"."
Kumbaya, my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya, my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya, my Lord, kumbaya
O Lord, kumbaya
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