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Joe Chi Minh

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5. It's a ploy. That's all. It's perhaps Hillary's only way of affecting to distance herelf from
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 07:33 AM
Sep 2015

from the Usual Suspects in the 'business as usual' Beltway. Posing as an underdog, though we all must surely know by now that countries rather favour female leaders these days. If not numerically, in terms of national clout. Golda Meir in Israel set the stage, though Thatcher was an object lesson in the catastrophe that can ensue from permitting the media to steamroll their own choice into power; but now there is Angela Merkel in Germany and various other female heads of state in Europe I believe. Norway has a female PM.

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