Hillary Clinton
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....Hillary Clinton is different.
Since the early 1990s she's continually been one of the most famous and most covered people on the planet. Even before that, she was at least somewhat in the public eye as first lady of Arkansas, a pioneering woman lawyer, and even a noteworthy commencement speaker.
The world knows a lot about Hillary Clinton. Almost too much to process. And she's been famous for so long and inhabited so many roles that depending on when you first started following politics you may have a very different impression of her than someone who tuned in years before or later does.
To help everyone get on the same page, we've assembled the 10 beats that have defined Clinton in the public eye from student radical to centrist senator, from Southern first lady to feminist icon, and from a 2008 candidate who struggled to win the youth vote to one now dominating the Democratic primary. They show that a single person, driven by an enduring set of commitments, nonetheless looks very different to different people at different times as she inhabits diverse roles and the country's circumstances and politics shift around her.
Table of contents:
*Before there was Hillary Clinton, there was Hillary Rodham
*Playing politics as a Southern first lady
*How the fight over Hillarycare set the framework for Obamacare
*"Women's rights are human rights": the speech they still remember in Beijing
*To understand the Clintons' reputation of secrecy, you need to understand Whitewater
*"There's something in today's paper": How Clinton weathered the Lewinsky scandal
*The centrist, "workhorse" senator from New York
*"I got it wrong": Clinton on Iraq
*How Clinton lost in 2008
*Clinton's political rebirth at State
*From runner-up to front-runner....
http://www.vox.com/2015/4/11/8383593/hillary-clinton-2016-campaign via Vox
(THIS POST IS POSTED FOR THE HILLARY GROUP.)
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(42,020 posts)I'm saving it--I really like it
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(38,402 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)"Thus, rather than serving as a counter to the "vast right-wing conspiracy" that tormented the Clintons in the late 1990s, the resurgent left came to be another source of anti-Clinton attacks."
We see this over and over again right here at DU.