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"I can't stand whining. I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made. You live in a time when there are endless choices...Money certainly helps, and having that kind of financial privilege goes a long way, but you don't have to have money for it. But you have to work on yourself. ...Do something!"

Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton

What do you think of this statement?


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To a certain extent it is really not possible to disagree with what she says. And the choices she has made in her own life illustrate that she really lives by this maxim herself. Personally I admire her not only as a human being but for what she stands politically in an international sense.

For many in Europe she would have been an ideal candidate for the 2008 presidential elections.

However when she says they're not happy with the choices they've made, she is showing that she is not aware, or chooses to ignore for the moment, that many, if not the majority, are often having to live with the choices others have made. Not only living with but having to adapt to, make allowances for and more often than not clearing up the colleteral damage those decisions/choices have brought about.

Hilary Clinton is right never �whine�, what purpose does it serve? What does it change, improve, influence. However for many reasons she had endless choices the majority do not, never have, and at least for the foreseeable future never will have, so is the statement correct?

Yes, without doubt. But unfortunately sometimes life gets in the way, and for those without her advantages the road is very difficult indeed. Not insurmountable but definitely difficult.



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Hey Francine! Thanks for chiming in with such thoughtfulness.

The 2008 Democratic Presidential Election was tough for many of us. That said, I am extremely pleased with Hilary's service as Secretary of State. Sometimes, I think turned tables (Hilary as President and Barack as Secretary of State) could have afforded us something better, but with the Republican lock down plan, I think Hilary's first term would have ended with similar results.

I agree with Hilary's statement on whining. In fact, I am almost willing to go as far as saying, even when we are cleaning up behind other people's choices/decisions, we still have a choice. We have to decide what we think is going to put us in the best predicament. We have to create focus on where we want to be/to go.

I have whined before about my decisions before I realized that I was choosing to whine instead of doing something.

Sometimes it is hard to see that we have a choice. But we always do.


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I don't understand why people tolerate Hillary.


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