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    Give Hill a Chance

    Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:42 PM | By Hanna Rosin
    Dana, welcome. I accept your scolding. In every way it is petty to want to deny Hillary this opportunity. It's right-minded, in a feminist way, not just because of her fabulous speech in Beijing but also because Hillary could rewrite the job to her own qualifications. For long it's been a job that, if not quite symbolic, was awarded to women who would be loyal seconds (Condi, Madeline Albright). Hillary is a person with stronger, surer instincts on foreign policy than her boss (see Jeff Goldberg's analysis in The New Yorker). And Obama is a person who, one imagines, would allow her to shine. Rethinking my earlier complaint: The Clintonites would do the most damage on domestic policy, where the country has moved far past 1992. So let's just feed the beast and give them this one, and then maybe they'll stop angling for everything else.
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