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    No, Hillary, No

    Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:00 PM | By Emily Yoffe
    Dana, I second Hanna's welcome, but I can't agree with either of you on Hillary. There's a lot to admire about her, but can't we just all admire Sen. Clinton? The two times she has run large organizations—health care reform and her campaign—she has shown herself to be a execrable administrator. And I can't see how having the Clintons back (How do you separate out his foreign activities from hers?) will do anything but create drama and distraction. Talk about As the World Turns! I agree with both of you about Obama making international women's rights a priority, but he doesn't need Hillary to do that. I listened to the campaign interview you linked to Dana, in which Hillary goes on and on about her unfair treatment. You quote her remark, "Oppression of women and discrimination against women is universal." It sounded more to me like what she really meant was, "Oppression of woman and discrimination against woman is universal." What a bunch of Clintonian self-pity for her to compare her experience in what I think was a surprisingly unsexist presidential campaign to the lives of women who in some parts of the world can't show their faces or choose who they marry.
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