| 女儿从Washington DC公干回来，说在国务院大楼里办事时候，适逢新年Party，幸而咫尺之间与国务卿希拉里照面。女儿说这是内部活动，各部门精英楚翘云集，当希氏作主人现身时，众人有玉树临风之感，震慑全场，莫不服膺。 若说这种领袖气质从何而来，靠野心依傍？不太靠谱吧？男人有三六九等，观之女流，凤毛者何皮可将焉附？ 过去，希拉里名位第一夫人，夫荣妻贵，若得知她学生时代在Wellesley的演讲及循迹后面的政治生涯，她的人生练历虽并不完美，但不可胡乱圈点。现在，希氏权重在一人之下万人之上，受责于国务卿一职，掌控全美外交政策干系，在国际风云里出手无一疵漏。何谓强人之强，强中强手，绝不是花瓶胭脂粉脸之辈可作类比的。 做人难，曾有明星女士不忿世道，说：做女人难，做名女人更难。做名人难？我嗤之：何难之有？不出名不就是了吗？——男女都一样，何分彼此？但希拉里不行，她是要出人头地，出风头，出名，在任何困难面前，都不曾听过她说难。因为她热衷政治，追崇权力，为之出名，付出了生命的全部；她在任何时候，都不会放弃名人地位，这种执着，更尤甚于爱她的克林顿。 做名人难之所谓难，是千夫指也；做女名人难之所为难，是她字女也。因此，希拉里不仅要承受社会对女性的世俗偏见，还要接受男人的过错，为克林顿所累。在陆文斯基丑闻开始的时候，希拉里是深信克林顿的那根手指说法(I do not have any relationship with that woman)，一直为他辩解(From my perspective, this is part of the continuing political campaign against my husband)，但最终证实克林顿说谎。至今，我还记得她在国会讨论是否弹劾总统时的表情，当时群情汹涌，希拉里哀求人们不要忘记她丈夫所做过的好事。 依我看，如果克林顿不是身穿黄袍，以希拉里的刚强性格是绝对不会原谅他的。她在婚姻问题上早说过：I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life. 也就是说，在希拉里的生命里，上帝注定了她要强出头，她说：You know, I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man. 然而这件丑闻的深远影响，对希拉里来说是致命的，连同怀疑她的野心，美国人没让她当上总统。 话说得不错：做人难，做女人很难，做名女人更难，做女总统难上加难。在2009年，希拉里就已经说了“I have absolutely no interest in running for president again.” ——或许她厌倦了，也或许她满足了。不过几天前，Bill Keller，NYT的执行编辑分析2012年的选情时，认为奥巴马和希拉里绝配： Hillary Clinton is 64 years old, with a Calvinist work ethic, the stamina of an Olympian, an E.Q. to match her I.Q., and the political instincts of a Clinton. She has an impressive empathic ability — invaluable in politics or statecraft — to imagine how the world looks to an ally or adversary. She listens, and she learns from her mistakes. She was a perfectly plausible president four years ago, and that was before she demonstrated her gifts as a diplomatic snake-charmer. (Never mind Pakistan and Libya, I’m talking about the Obama White House.) She is, says Gallup, the most admired woman in America for the 10th year in a row, laps ahead of, in order, Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin and Condoleezza Rice; her approval rating of 64 percent is the highest of any political figure in the country. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/0 ... 20Ticket&st=cse) 若然大家都认为如此，如果希拉里要想做个美国女副总统，说难实也不难了。呵呵。 |
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