Hillary Clinton is the (Nigeria) Guardian's Person of the Year 2016.

[pnwmom]

http://guardian.ng/news/person-of-the-year/

Cerebral, hardworking and hugely versed in the workings of government, not many people were as prepared to lead America as she was. Dignified in carriage, humble in spite of her great guts, thoughtful and very wise, she was the inevitable philosopher-queen. Her tenacity in public and in private lives is the stuff of legends. She withstood haranguing by the leading lights of the opposition party who did their best to cast her as corrupt and dishonest. She endured the humiliation of a troubled marriage and steeled her heart to save it. In the campaigns, she was held to standards sometimes humanly, but certainly manly impossible to meet. She not only discharged herself creditably, she captured the imagination of the world. That she lost to a man who is as comprehensive in his ignorance as he is relentless in his arrogance to put it on display underlines a certain rot in the heart of their society.

With her life-long fight for women, children and families, with her incredibly brilliant run for the American presidency, Hillary Clinton sent a message of hope and dignity to the world, especially to the girl-child, from China to Chibok, that there is no limit to the heights she can reach; that the world pollutes its joy, tames its own flight and shackles its progress by keeping girls or women in poverty or in captivity; that the world can be made more wholesome in happiness by women in leadership.

Baskets on their heads or babies on their backs, the crushing burden women carry with so much stoicism is the hallmark of their natural leadership. It is no accident that the McKenzie Institute has come up with the finding that 26% of today’s global GDP, meaning more than 24trillion dollars, could be added to the world economy by 2025 if women played exactly the same role as men in leadership and in the economy around the world. With her life of service, Clinton shines with glittering accomplishments that the 2016 electoral loss cannot darken.

For making history as the first woman to get that close to the American presidency, for standing out among men and women, for standing up for her beliefs and standing against the dark forces of discrimination and oppression, for being a banner of hope to all women of all races or colour around the world and an inspirational force for the girl-child, Hillary Rodham Clinton is The Guardian’s PERSON OF THE YEAR 2016.

[sheshe2]

1. I hope this burns trumps ass.

For making history as the first woman to get that close to the American presidency, for standing out among men and women, for standing up for her beliefs and standing against the dark forces of discrimination and oppression, for being a banner of hope to all women of all races or colour around the world and an inspirational force for the girl-child, Hillary Rodham Clinton is The Guardian’s PERSON OF THE YEAR 2016.

Person of the year in the UK! Hillary 2016. Brava Hillary.

Thank you pnwmom.

[oasis]

2. Telling it like it is. (eom)

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. That's Nigeria's The Guardian, not the UK's

About Us

WHAT THE GUARDIAN STANDS FOR

The Guardian is an independent newspaper, established in 1983 for the purpose of presenting balanced coverage of events, and of promoting the best interests of Nigeria.

http://guardian.ng/about-us/

[pnwmom]

4. Thank you! Even more interesting, actually. I knew they liked her in the UK and Europe. n/t

[ffr]

5. People that are admired win these kinds of awards. She's no stranger to admiration.

It's too bad we couldn't trick enough red-state dummies into believing she was actually a man and therefore okay in their book.