Posted on 08/20/2016 8:06:59 PM PDT by rickmichaels
There are some who see the prospect of Hillary Clinton winning the U.S. presidency as a milestone for modern feminism and women in general. Yet Clinton’s decades-long march to the White House owes much of its success to her rapscallion, silver-tongued husband, Bill Clinton. She did not storm the citadel of male power and privilege from the outside; she was escorted in under the banner of one of its most flamboyant high achievers. She came into politics by the back door of her mate’s male prowess. She may be the first female presidential nominee for a major party, but it’s hard to say she shattered glass ceilings. She has always had Bill’s key to the penthouse.
Bill Clinton was everywhere before her — always in front, opening every door, setting up the machinery for her advance and enabling her to reach a standing that she could never have achieved without him. The Hillary Clinton story is, in this case, A Handmaid’s Tale.
The true feminist icons were not enabled by men — they rose to the top on their merits and prowess alone. Consider the example of Golda Meir, who was elected prime minister of Israel nearly 50 years ago — before the advances of progressive thinking, before the societal push to get more women into public life. Meir was a pioneer, at a time when female heads of government were virtually unheard of.
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She was the first lesbian First Lady, though ladybird Johnson might have been, but def hillery
What about Eleanor Roosevelt?
a big crack in fact!
Do we know for sure that Bill was not BLACKMAILED? Foreign
representatives were touring our nuclear facilities back
before the Monica scandal broke.
Hillary & Bill will not go away. They’re well past retire-
ment condition & have had their go at it - and FAILED and
know it. Now doubling down on corrupt.
Hitler-y is determined to exact “her” pound of flesh from
Bill; and he must deliver even if it kills him to do it.
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