Well that’s what Hillary Clinton would’ve said if she could’ve. During a recent press conference in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mrs. Clinton got a little upset when a Congolese student in the crowd asked for her husband’s opinion. It was later found out the the translator mixed things up and they actually wanted to know Obama’s thoughts. Hillary’s camp blamed her attitude on jet lag, riiiiiggghhttt.
In a way I feel kind of bad for Hillary Clinton, because she chose the path that so many women from the past have chosen, to follow in her husband’s footsteps, and live her life in his shadow. But that path is out of step in this century, and the first woman president should be a person who achieves on their own merits, not on the back of their husbands name and his accomplishments.
She was caught in the vacuum between two centuries, in the period between women’s desire to achieve the equality and the reality of finally reaching its fruition. The women of this century may be the first to achieve full equity in human society. Let’s hope they like it.
The first woman to become president should rise through the ranks in politics on their own merits and achieve that office based on their character and individual accomplishments alone.
Obviously it has a bitter taste for Hillary, but she made her decisions, and she is responsible for those choices, just as we all are. I hope she is able to genuinely make peace with it some day.
I think incidents like these may help her face these difficulties.
Perhaps she will run for president again, and perhaps she will win, but I think this will happen only if she can overcome her own self-doubt.
Regardless of politics, I totally get where Hillary was coming from. And sometimes, you gotta get snippy. Humans have an intrinsic need to group people by last name, color, family, etc., even though we’re the same beings that hate having the same thing done to us personally. Who cares if Bill was president first? If she genuinely has political aspirations (which I believe she does) then she should aim to achieve those ambitions. The shadow is only there because people choose to create one. She’s over it, everyone else should be too. And on the whole parameters for the first female president created above by AaronABrown, blah. That’s like someone denying you a job and/or questioning your skill and level of dedication because you have a rich dad or trust fund of some sort. Some Black ppl (which I’m assuming you are Aaron) have such a problem with nepotism, which is why we’re standing in the same place. Jews do it, whites do it, Asians do it. Get on board.