Quindlen: Hillary, Think of Your Legacy

Quindlen: Hillary, Think of Your Legacy

Newsweek Magazine "The Last Word"
May 26, 2008 Issue

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But policy is one thing and pandering is another, especially when your opponent has been sure-footed on the high road. When Senator Clinton started to style herself as a dab hand with guns in Pennsylvania and an enemy of the intellectual elites in Indiana, she began to validate the opinions of all those who believe the Clintons—no matter which—would do anything to win. Her candidacy has had special resonance for many women, no question, but that means she has special obligations, too. And one of those obligations is to see that the lesson learned is not that women running for office can be just as skeevy as their male counterparts.

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(Anna Quindlen is a fellow dragon lady, thirty-five days older than I am.)