Did Senator Clinton really stand-up for Diversity at Wal-Mart?

Presidential Candidate Hilary Clinton claims she took a very active role in promoting diversity and involvement of women during her time on the Board of Wal-Mart, but this the truth?

Did Senator Clinton bring real ‘Change’ to Wal-Mart?

No.

Wal-Mart critics say her presence brought little lasting change to the firm. And former executives say she was not a voice for bold reform.

'She was not a dissenter,' said Donald G. Soderquist, Wal-Mart's former chief operating officer and the board's vice chairman during Clinton's tenure. 'She was a part of those decisions.'

Was Senator Clinton a ‘Champion Change Agent’?

No.

'There was no change for the better during that period for women at Wal-Mart,' Sellers said. 'If there was change, it was minimal. Nobody knew about it or else it was just too subtle to recognize.'

Did Senator Clinton use her ’35 years of Experience’ to help Unions?

No.

Clinton 'clearly knew the company's reputation.' Tate said that when he 'made presentations on what we were doing' during board meetings, Clinton did not raise objections. [Former Wal-Mart COO] Soderquist agreed, saying there was 'no sign that she had any criticism.'

Senator Clinton ‘found her Voice’ during the 2008 New Hampshire primary, too bad she could not find her voice sooner.

Mrs. Clinton largely sat on the sidelines when it came to Wal-Mart and unions, board members said. Since its founding in 1962, Wal-Mart has fought unionization efforts at its stores and warehouses, employing hard-nosed tactics — like allegedly firing union supporters and spying on employees — that have become the subject of legal complaints against the company.

A special team at Wal-Mart handled those activities, but Mr. Walton was vocal in his opposition to unions. Indeed, he appointed the lawyer who oversaw the company’s union monitoring, Mr. Tate, to the board, where he served with Mrs. Clinton.

During their meetings and private conversations, Mrs. Clinton never voiced objections to Wal-Mart’s stance on unions, said Mr. Tate and John A. Cooper, another board member.

Did Senator Clinton show any 'emotion' for the plight of the working women at her time at Wal-Mart?

No.

'There's no evidence she did anything to improve the status of women or make it a very different place in ways Mrs. Clinton's Democratic base would care about,' said Liza Featherstone, author of 'Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker's Rights at Wal-Mart.

Does Hilary Clinton six-year tenure as a director of Wal-Mart count towards her 35 years of experience of bring real change for the American people?

All the facts point towards NO.

Who is actually running for President?

It is Senator Clinton or Bill Clinton?

Along the way, he often sounds as if he's campaigning for a third term. Here in Aiken, he tried mightily to talk about Hillary, but he kept lapsing into the first person: "My position on that is simple. . . . When I was in law school. . . . When I was president. . . . When I was governor of Arkansas. . . . When I started this schools program. . . . I made the governor of South Carolina secretary of education. . . . I got a Mercury mini-SUV."

Quote of the Day

Maureen Dowd:

If Bill Clinton has to trash his legacy to protect his legacy, so be it. If he has to put a dagger through the heart of hope to give Hillary hope, so be it.

Photo of the Day

(Photo via My.Barack Obama.com)

Top Five

A quick rundown of the posts I have read during my travels around the series of tubes.

- The American Prospect: If you are running a campaign like the Republicans, then you are going to govern like the Republicans.

Three weeks ago, I wrote that Clinton was working to make voters uneasy, utilizing just enough fear to encourage them to stick with the known quantity in the race. But in the time since, her campaign has begun to appear more and more as though it's being run by Karl Rove or Lee Atwater. Pick your tired metaphor -- take-no-prisoners, brass knuckles, no-holds-barred, playing for keeps -- however you describe it, the Clinton campaign is not only not going easy on Obama, they're doing so in awfully familiar ways. So many of the ingredients of a typical GOP campaign are there, in addition to fear. We have the efforts to make it harder for the opponent’s voters to get to the polls (the Nevada lawsuit seeking to shut down at-large caucus sites in Las Vegas, to which the Clinton campaign gave its tacit support). We have, depending on how you interpret the events of the last couple of weeks, the exploitation of racial divisions and suspicions (including multiple Clinton surrogates criticizing Obama for his admitted teenage drug use). And most of all, we have an utterly shameless dishonesty.

- Think Progress: Why does Chris Matthews of MSNBC still have a job?

- Talking Points Memo: Lies, Lies and more lies.

The Bush Administration's 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq are finally cataloged.

- Election Central: Oh second thought, Florida is not really that important to Rudy ’08.

- The Fan House: Life is good when you are Shaquille O'Neal, really good.