Monday, May 19, 2008
Quindlen: Hillary, Think of Your Legacy
Quindlen: Hillary, Think of Your Legacy
Newsweek Magazine "The Last Word"
May 26, 2008 Issue
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But policy is one thing and pandering is another, especially when your opponent has been sure-footed on the high road. When Senator Clinton started to style herself as a dab hand with guns in Pennsylvania and an enemy of the intellectual elites in Indiana, she began to validate the opinions of all those who believe the Clintons—no matter which—would do anything to win. Her candidacy has had special resonance for many women, no question, but that means she has special obligations, too. And one of those obligations is to see that the lesson learned is not that women running for office can be just as skeevy as their male counterparts.
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(Anna Quindlen is a fellow dragon lady, thirty-five days older than I am.)
posted by Sal Towse at 1:52 PM|
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Newsweek Magazine "The Last Word"
May 26, 2008 Issue
[...]
But policy is one thing and pandering is another, especially when your opponent has been sure-footed on the high road. When Senator Clinton started to style herself as a dab hand with guns in Pennsylvania and an enemy of the intellectual elites in Indiana, she began to validate the opinions of all those who believe the Clintons—no matter which—would do anything to win. Her candidacy has had special resonance for many women, no question, but that means she has special obligations, too. And one of those obligations is to see that the lesson learned is not that women running for office can be just as skeevy as their male counterparts.
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(Anna Quindlen is a fellow dragon lady, thirty-five days older than I am.)
Labels: politics
posted by Sal Towse at 1:52 PM|
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: views from the Hill
Bertold Brecht:
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
