Hopeless Hillary’s latest whinge airs on US TV
Hillary Clinton on NBC’s Today show, yesterday:
The more professionally successful a woman becomes, the less likeable she is.
There’s actually a lot of female politicians doing well internationally at the moment. Reuters, yesterday:
Halimah Yacob has been elected as Singapore’s first woman President after the returning officer announced she was the sole candidate to qualify for the contest.
Norway’s second female prime minister won a second term this week. Reuters, Wednesday:
Norway’s tax-cutting Prime Minister Erna Solberg is on track to keep power after an election on Monday, closely defeating a Labour-led opposition in a campaign over how to manage the oil-dependent economy, official projections showed.
And over the ditch, Jacinda Ardern is reviving the Labour party’s fortunes ahead of the forthcoming election. The Australian, September 9:
She exudes confidence and why not? Against all expectation this election campaign in the Shaky Isles has turned into a genuine contest between an opposition that seemed out for the count and a well-performing National Party government that was supposed to romp home under PM Bill English.
But nah, Hillary knows people hate women politicians. Especially other women … Clinton on National Public Radio, yesterday:
Sheryl (Sandberg) ended this really sobering conversation by saying that women will have no empathy for you, because they will be under tremendous pressure — and I’m talking principally about white women — they will be under tremendous pressure from fathers and husbands and boyfriends and male employers not to vote for “the girl”.
Never mind all the women, and horrible men, who are about to re-elect Angela Merkel. Yascha Mounk in Slate magazine, Wednesday:
With less than two weeks to go, it is very likely that Chancellor Angela Merkel will be re-elected for a fourth term in office. And at a time when politics seems to be downright histrionic in many parts of the world, Germany’s election campaign has felt surprisingly soporific.
Remember all those men and women who made possible Margaret Thatcher’s three huge landslides? Encyclopaedia Britannica:
The only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms and, at the time of her resignation, Britain’s longest continuously serving prime minister since 1827.
And the world’s biggest democracy elected a female leader many times … Encyclopaedia Britannica:
Indira Gandhi, politician who served as prime minister of India for three consecutive terms (1966-77) and a fourth term from 1980 ...
OK, things didn’t turn out well there … Encyclopaedia Britannica, continued:
Gandhi was killed in her garden in New Delhi in a fusillade of bullets fired by two of her own Sikh bodyguards ...
Voters like strong women, Hillary. Just not you … Janet Albrechtsen in The Australian, May 3:
As defeat dawned on Clinton on November 8, she was so busy blaming the Russians, FBI director James Comey, KKK misogynists and even Obama, she refused to address supporters waiting all night under the Javits Centre glass ceiling.
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