Asked what she would have said if someone had suggested a female president when she was young, she stared blankly for a few seconds. “Tonight, we’ve reached a milestone in our nation’s march toward a more perfect union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president,” Clinton said Thursday night. “The Republican convention was my first inside look at big-time politics, and I found the week unreal and unsettling,” Clinton wrote in her 2003 memoir. The view wasn’t the best, but she said she’s overjoyed that “this is finally happening.” “I’m a little bit older. Her supporters consider this another damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t moment: Would the country choose a woman to be president if she weren’t this qualified?
Source: Huffington Post July 29, 2016 03:10 UTC