MORE HILLARY HYPOCRISY – AT 9:31 A.M. ET: The New York Times again comes down hard on Slick Hilly. I doubt it's because The Times has gone pure in its journalism. More likely it's because the paper prefers a Democratic presidential candidate well to Hillary's left. Now The Times notes Clinton's phoniness on women's rights.
MIAMI — It was supposed to be a carefully planned anniversary to mark one of the most important and widely praised moments in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s political career — and to remind the country, ahead of a likely 2016 presidential campaign, about her long record as a champion for the rights of women and girls.
Instead, as Mrs. Clinton commemorates her 1995 women’s rights speech in Beijing in back-to-back events in New York, she finds herself under attack for her family foundation’s acceptance of millions of dollars in donations from Middle Eastern countries known for violence against women and for denying them many basic freedoms.
This was not how she intended to reintroduce herself to American voters.
Mrs. Clinton’s glide path to a likely April announcement that she will seek the presidency was built around women’s issues. Advancing women has been her central life’s work, as she and her admirers say proudly; she made it a priority as secretary of state and focused on it as a philanthropist. But that focus also allowed Mrs. Clinton, who played down her gender in 2008, to frame her second attempt at the White House in what could be one way to make it special and new: as a shot at history for her and for all women.
COMMENT: There have been reports for years of serious money paid to Bill Clinton or the Clinton Foundation by Arab countries with vast women's rights problems. Apparently Hillary doesn't believe that rights for Muslim women should be part of her agenda.
Saudi women, in prison because of some trumped-up religious offense, could not be reached for comment.
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