When Deaf People Choose Hillary Clinton

Of those who voted in last month approximately 36% of Kokonut Pundits readers that participated in my survey poll choose Hillary Clinton to be their candidate for president of the United States. But there’s an interesting twist to what Hillary has done.

Firstly, in DeafDC there were a lot of people who were against the idea of having Hillary Clinton for president because she was not viewed as having "presidential material" because she's riding on the coattails of former president (or would that be "former" husband?) Bill Clinton.

Let's list some interesting twists about Hillary Clinton.

Remember when Democrats refused to partake any of the Foxnews debate, including Hillary Clinton? And yet she enthusiastically invested some $250,000 worth of News Corp stocks over the years. If you don’t know what News Corporation is, they own Foxnews. If that’s not enough, Hillary Clinton helped raise $850,000 at an event at the home of Peter Chernin, News Corp. president and COO. She even appeared at a Fox News anniversary bash along with Fox News anchor Chris Wallace.

Now, remember a story in 'The Weekly Standard' a few months back with the title “Identity Politics Gone Wild” that discussed the Gallaudet protest? News Corp also owns 'The Weekly Standard,' too. This was an article piece that many Deaf people didn’t like as seen in DeafDC and Miska Zena.

Yet still, from many people perspective there seems like a good number of Deaf people who do not like Foxnews which is owned by News Corp. A company that Hillary Clinton invested a great deal of money over the years and hobnobbed along other Fox News people. Interesting seeing that from a Democratic Senator who is running for president.

Hillary and Bill Clinton also invested in other assets including BP Amoco," Big Oil," Chevron Corp., " Big Oil, " Exxon Mobil Corp.," Big Oil, " Raytheon," Big Defense contracts, "and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.," capitalistic anti-union. Those things do not bode well for those who didn't know better and people would swear that those investments would've been the mark of a Republican who invest in big oil and big defense contracts.

Ok, with that aside I suspect many Deaf/deaf/hh people are not even sure where Hillary Clinton stand on deafness and disability issues. Including me which is why I’m doing this blog. A little research on my part for you to have.

In one disability issue, Autism, Hillary Clinton was viewed as being “hostile” toward this Autism disability group claiming that Hillary was advocating a cure in the form of genocide seen in “Hillary Clinton’s Final Solution” (and no, I’m not the one who committed Godwin’s Law, it was that blogsite, mind you).

However, in the 2000 Senate race for New York Hillary Clinton “appeared” to advocate the support and enforcement of ADA laws and such:

Clinton paints herself as an activist politician ready to wield the big-government stick. "As New York's senator, I will work to toughen the enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and the Fair Housing Act. I will oppose congressional attempts to weaken disability laws," she proclaimed at one rally.

The question is, did she get tougher on enforcement after winning the Senate seat? Even though she, among other Democrat and Republican senators have worked on to pass a legislation to help improve access to 9-1-1 for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing a few months ago in March.

And so go these questions I have. Is she strong on disability and deafness issues? I bet she is. But then again Senator Hillary Clinton is a caucus member of The Congressional Hearing Health Caucus where you have a group belonging to the 'Congressional Hearing Health Caucus Advisory Committee' that consists of 11 advisory members:

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
American Academy of Audiology
American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Auditory-Verbal International
Cochlear Americas
Hearing Industries Association
International Hearing Society
National Court Reporters Association
Self Help for Hard of Hearing People
Siemens Corporation (a well known hearing aid company)

Maybe we could encourage Senator Clinton to help speed up stem cell research and help find a way to restore hearing loss once and for all?

And finally, all along Gallaudet University had a liberal president with his spouse Mrs. Jordan being an avowed Clintonite. So, I guess Gallaudet University had always been the, ahem, liberal campus it was and still is.

Mystery solved.