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Friday, June 15, 2007

What Women See When They See Hillary (The Nation)

The Nation recently wrote an opinion analysis on Hillary Clinton’s credibility/popularity as a presidential candidate, among women and women’s organizations. CFAW President Faye Wattleton spoke objectively and non-partisanly about the strength of Sen. Clinton as a viable candidate. Below are three of her highlighted quotes:

“It’s an important social progression. You can’t write these women off just because we highly disagree with them,” says former Planned Parenthood president Faye Wattleton, who now heads the Center for the Advancement of Women. “It moves us toward a time when we can attack someone like her because of what she stands for and not because she is black or a woman, because we already know that the country won’t go up in smoke because we had an African-American woman from Alabama as Secretary of State.”

But equally important, as Faye Wattleton points out, whatever her failings, Hillary Clinton is no Pat Schroeder, whose 1988 presidential bid ended early and ignominiously in a flood of tears. “This is not a candidate who is going to dissolve in the enormous heat of presidential politics,”

“Someone who can conduct herself with credibility under that kind of scrutiny and hold up to it is definitely opening the door for a future woman in the White House. She must be given credit for that,” says Wattleton.

Read the full article here.