Posted on 06/22/2013 3:48:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Hillary Rodham Clinton mused aloud about the significance of America electing its first female president. Left unsaid: whether she might try again to be the one.
In a video of a private Clinton speech posted to YouTube on Friday, Clinton told a Canadian audience that she hoped the U.S. would elect a woman to the White House because it would send “exactly the right historical signal” to men, women and children. She said women in politics need to “dare to compete” and the nation needs to “take that leap of faith.”
“Let me say this, hypothetically speaking, I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime,” Clinton said at a women’s conference in Toronto on Thursday night. “And whether it’s next time or the next time after that, it really depends on women stepping up and subjecting themselves to the political process, which is very difficult.”
The former secretary of state told the cheering audience that she would “certainly vote for the right woman to be president.” …
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We don’t need “historic.” We need Constitutionally eligible, qualified, patriotic, and competent.
Suggest that the woman be Sarah Palin or someone with the conservative leadership qualities of a Margret Thatcher and the clowns as Ass Press as well as Hillary and her daughter would SHRIEK like banshees.
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