Reply #6: Hillary and the Rat [View All]

[IndianaGreen]

Published on Wednesday, November 7, 2007 by CommonDreams.org

Hillary and the Rat

by Joyce Marcel

Now we have a candidate who is a Democrat, and she’s acting like the worst Republican on the block.

Of course, the myth of the “nurturing” female leader exploded almost instantly, or doesn’t the name Margaret Thatcher mean anything to you? We had the dynasty-building Indira Gandhi in India, the corrupt Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan (and welcome home, Benazir!) and a host of others. We’ve also had wonderful female leaders, especially in Asia and Africa.

To no one’s great surprise, good leadership turned out to be a trait defined by character, not by gender.

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“The first jury trial Mrs. Clinton handled on her own, for instance, concerned the rear end of a rat in a can of pork and beans,” Liptak wrote - and if here you’re thinking, “Go get ‘em, Hillary! Evil corporations are trying to poison us!” you are sadly misled. She represented the corporation, and “she argued that there had been no real harm, as the plaintiff did not actually eat the rat. ‘Besides,’ she wrote in her autobiography, describing her client’s position, ‘the rodent parts which had been sterilized might be considered edible in certain parts of the world.’”

So there’s your warm, caring, nurturing female political leader for you. Hungry? Eat a rat!

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/07/5071/