Women State

In 1995, Clinton led the U.S. delegation to a UN conference on women's rights in Beijing. There, she electrified the delegates and challenged the hosts, saying, "If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights, once and for all."

International Herald Tribune

Goodman: Hillary's Eleanor Roosevelt moment By Ellen Goodman - Dec. 5, 2008

It was a moment bound to give anyone second thoughts about Hillary Clinton's nomination as secretary of state: Rush Limbaugh called it a "brilliant stroke." If Rush, who had famously said America wasn't ready to see Clinton age in the Oval Office, was ready to see her age at Foggy Bottom, what was I missing?
Of course, it turned out that Rush wasn't praising Hillary, but Obama's cunning at keeping his enemy close.
So it went with much of the analysis before and after Clinton was chosen for the premier Cabinet post. The political story line asked if she would be a "teammate" or a "rival" in the "team of rivals" metaphor du jour. And was she close enough to the president to be his international right hand?
The psychological story line asked, however, whether we were getting yet another new Hillary. A National Review blogger described her as an "enigma who is best seen in stages; as a series of parts, not a whole." A series of parts? Not a whole? Hillary, lawyer, wife, mother, first lady, senator, presidential candidate, secretary of state. Please continue reading here...