WP: Sen. Clinton. Moving on, and ready to become something bigger still.

[DeepModem Mom]

She's No Lady
Hillary Clinton is a senator first
By Joel Achenbach
Sunday, June 4, 2006; Page W07

....the person everyone's talking about right now is Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has $20 million in the bank, the great brand name and the iron will to crush every Russ Feingold who might stand in her way. She's running. You can tell by the hair, which has finally stopped changing styles, every strand frozen in place, as though she's ready to be on a coin.

Some folks in America still aren't sure a woman should be president, or even express political opinions when men are present. There are places in this country that are still adjusting to women's suffrage, and certain conservatives have made Hillary Hating a sport bigger even than yachting. In the same way that they argued that John Kerry was a coward in Vietnam, Republican strategists will claim that Hillary is secretly not actually a woman....

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The first sentence (of her official biography) -- "Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the United States Senate by the people of New York on November 7, 2000, after years of public service on behalf of children and families" -- prefigured a stunning omission. Of the roughly 1,000 words in the biography, two were nowhere to be found: "first lady."...I called her Senate office, and her press secretary, Philippe Reinnes, told me that the lack of a first lady reference was an oversight....The senator's office added one sentence:

"She is the first First Lady of the United States elected to public office and the first woman independently elected statewide in New York State."

Which is still not really about being first lady, but about becoming something else -- Sen. Clinton. Moving on, and ready to become something bigger still.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/30/AR2006053001019.html

[JHH]

1. The interest in Gore shows concern among the rank and file

as to whether Sen. Clinton is the best candidate for 2008. She should stay in the Senate we need every seat there