How do you do it? Marianne Pernold Young said.
It felt at first like a friendly throwaway. It wasnt. It cut to the core for Clinton. Her eyes got teary. Her voice got shaky. Her answer, uncharacteristically emotional, made news, but the trigger was the question. It was the key question back then. It is the key question still now.
I wanted to know her, Young said Monday afternoon at her house, as a woman.
It was Jan. 7, 2008, the day before the primary. What happened at the Clinton campaign event at Café Espresso would be seen as a moment when Clintons candidacy grew briefly stronger because the candidate seemed momentarily more vulnerable. But it also was a revealing interaction between two working women, from the same generation, both of them complex mixtures of ambition and concession....
Young continued. How do you, how do you
keep upbeat, and so wonderful?.....
........Women have strengths beyond money and political consultants. Attacking a woman can be tricky, especially if she is sympathetic and popular.......