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April 30, 2005
Why I WANT Hillary! to Run for President
If Hillary! runs for president all of this will be reviewed. The woman is deeply embedded in a political culture in which it seems that people around her -- and maybe she herself -- believe that the ends (her election) justify all means.
Further: Not that we should be surprised! I have a bad opinion of all politicians, really; anyone who would do that for a living is probably not a nice person. But you see, whoever is the first female nominee of a party (whether Hillary! or someone else) will benefit enormously from the stooopid commonplace that women are somehow nicer, better, more nuturing than men and should be rewarded in politics for that. More women are nuturing than men, but far from all -- and I think that to get where Hillary! is she had either to be or become what she is today. Nothing I've seen in the early life as lavishly massaged and presented during the WJC presidency convinced me that it wasn't be rather than become. So far I'm reasonably pleased with her behavior as my senator; when she's not engaging in a roll-call partisan activity she's smart and engaged. Because she has ambitions beyond Chappaqua she's executing a move to the right (and it wouldn't be hard to move to the right of Schumer), which means that I would tend to like her more as the march to the right goes on, even if I see it as strategic rather than "growth".
Posted by CrankyProfessor at April 30, 2005 1:09 PM