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Reason
by Steve Chapman

01/10/08

Like the tears, her victory speech suggested that Clinton is resolved to inhabit a new persona, at least as long as she needs to. Instead of her usual power suit, she wore a flowery brocade jacket that oozed femininity. She gushed about her ‘full heart,’ and how she had ‘found my own voice.’ Sixty years old, with all that massive experience in the work of transforming the nation, and she’s just now finding her voice? More likely, she’s just found a new way to disguise her essential self. This is not her first conspicuous change of convenience. … Maybe this evolution is just one of the special complications that face women in politics. But it also suggests a willingness to use any false front that can be helpful. It betrays the calculating inauthenticity that makes so many people wary or hostile toward her...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/124316.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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