17 April 2015

Hillary Clinton and the Road Ahead

April 15, 2015 

"No one knows the blood sport American politics has become better than Hillary Clinton..."

Our capacity to judge national leaders fairly and objectively disappeared with the rise of partisan media and politics and the erosion of moderation. About no one is this truer than about Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Senator Clinton (pardon the obvious preference for that particular title) is responsible for breaking more glass ceilings than any other modern leader, and in doing so has incurred the disdain, if not also the wrath, of more than her fair share of critics. Much of this wrath is irrational, intemperate and, needless to say, grossly unfair.

Looked at in full, Senator Clinton is more than ordinarily intelligent (one of the early, and thin, glass ceilings was at the Yale Law School), articulate, engaging, self-controlled and self-confident—in short, a threat to Cro-Magnon masculinity. Her success in emerging at the top of the fraught New York political pyramid as a newcomer demonstrated extraordinary political skills. And, representing the United States in a bewildering array of venues as its top diplomat, she proved at ease with world leaders.

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