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"Reinventing Hillary"
November 17, 2007
Reinventing Hillary
From Yale Law activist to faith-talking front-runner, the Democratic candidate meets challenges by mastering the makeover | Lynn Vincent
Michael Medved hadn't seen Hillary Clinton in years when, in 1991, he tuned into C-SPAN to watch presidential hopeful Bill Clinton give a stump speech in Iowa.
Medved, now a conservative radio host and author, had been friends with Hillary Rodham when the two were classmates at Yale Law from 1969 to 1971. Another young law student named Bill Clinton began a year behind them.
Medved knew Bill had married Hillary after graduation, and that the two had been together when Bill became attorney general, then governor, in Arkansas. That's why Medved was surprised as a man on C-SPAN made the introduction: "Please welcome Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Mrs. Clinton!"
The Iowa crowd erupted into cheers. Medved stared in astonishment at the woman who appeared on the television screen.
Choice language
Hillary Clinton’s abortion rhetoric suddenly changed one day in November | Paul Kengor
To understand Hillary Clinton politically is to understand her on the abortion issue, an area which, for her, is sacred ground. Similarly, to understand Clinton politically in 2008 is to understand her on abortion. She realizes that in order to win in 2008, she will need some of those pro-life "values voters" who provided decisive religious rejections of pro-choice Democratic nominees Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004. Clinton is now engaged in a remarkable shift in her abortion rhetoric—but not abortion policy. To illustrate this striking turnabout, consider a very telling 12-month period from January 2004 to January 2005.
It began with Clinton giving the keynote address at a Jan. 22, 2004, NARAL event celebrating Roe v. Wade. "While the choice debate has changed little since Roe v. Wade was decided 31 years ago, the tactics employed by our opponents have changed," began Clinton. "They have realized it cannot be done quickly and in the light of day. . . . As we gather today, forces are aligned to change this country and strip away the rights we enjoy and have come to expect. Slowly, methodically, quietly . . . as the American public sleeps."
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COVER STORY ARTICLE |
"Reinventing Hillary"
November 17, 2007
