2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumGloria Steinem: Why the White House needs Hillary Clinton
I know Hillary Clinton mostly in the way we all do, as a public figure in good times and bad, one who became part of our lives and even our dreams. I once introduced her to a thousand women in a hotel ballroom. Standing behind her as she spoke, I could see the binder on the lectern with her speech carefully laid out and also that she wasnt reading from it. Instead, she was responding to people who had spoken before her, addressing activists and leaders she saw in the audience, and putting their work in a national and global context all in such clear and graceful sentences that no one would have guessed she hadnt written them in advance. It was an on-the-spot tour de force, perhaps the best Ive ever heard.
But what clinched it for me was listening to her speak after a performance of Eve Enslers play Necessary Targets, based on interviews with women in one of the camps set up to treat women who had endured unspeakable suffering, humiliation, and torture in the ethnic wars within the former Yugoslavia. To speak to an audience that had just heard these heartbreaking horrors seemed impossible for anyone, and Hillary had the added burden of representing the Clinton administration, which had been criticised for slowness in stopping this genocide. Nonetheless, she rose in the silence, with no possibility of preparing, and began to speak quietly about suffering, about the importance of serving as witnesses to suffering. Most crucial of all, she admitted this countrys slowness in intervening. By the time she sat down, she had brought the audience together and given us all a shared meeting place: the simple truth.
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As my own part of her senate campaign, I began to invite Hillary Haters to the living room events where Hillary herself was fundraising. To my surprise, all but a few turned around once they had spent time in her presence. This woman they had imagined as smart, cold, and calculating turned out to be smart, warm, and responsive. Instead of someone who excused a husbands behaviour, she was potentially, as one said, a great girlfriend who had their backs.
They also saw her expertise. For instance, George Soros, the Hungarian-born financier and philanthropist, introduced her in his Manhattan living room by saying, Hillary knows more about eastern Europe than any other American.
Long, GOOD READ. Enjoy: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/gloria-steinem-hillary-clinton-white-house?CMP=share_btn_tw
riversedge
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Steinem with Hillary Clinton at a Girls Learn International event in 2006. Photograph: Jemal Countess/WireImage for Glamour Magazine
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There was enthusiasm for these two new faces who stood for a shared worldview ... senators Obama and Clinton in 2008. Photograph: © Jim Young/Reuters/Corbis
oh crap.. I am not able to transfer the photos but here is the link
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/gloria-steinem-hillary-clinton-white-house?CMP=share_btn_tw
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Stop at jpg.
riversedge
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riversedge
(69,727 posts)riversedge
(69,727 posts)photos. but thank you for the tip.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Of course Hillary is looking out for Gloria's best interests, they share membership in the 1%.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)That's really not so much. Certainly a lot more than mine, but she's much more successful in her career than I ever was. Seems to me to be about right, if a little low, for someone whose name is a household word in many places.
She earned every penny of it, too, through her intellect and skills. I can't say I begrudge her a net worth of just $3 million. I'm surprised it isn't more.
By the way, the article in full was worth reading, too.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)dsc
(52,130 posts)shame on her. She should have stayed home, barefoot and pregnant and served you sandwiches.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)What I don't get is, are you claiming Sen Sanders is against the interests of Gloria Steinem and feminism?
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)DURHAM D
(32,596 posts)comes out at the end of October. I can't wait for the book tour that hopefully will include several television appearances. Great timing.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15451058-my-life-on-the-road
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Thanks for info.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)I was very impressed with her, which is not unusual for someone in college lol, but I am still impressed with her. I love that Gloria is in her corner because Gloria is nobody's fool.
Hillary has her warts as any politician does, but she is my choice. I think she will be a great president if elected.
If for any reason she is not the nominee, I will vote for whomever it might be. I am proud of our candidates.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)Juicy_Bellows
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