The A Word

So the Washington Post reports that Secretary of State Clinton seems “torn” between being a leader and being a team player.

Putting aside the fact that male politicians’ ability to do both is never publicly questioned in this way, the article reads alright…until:

[Clinton] and her aides say she is deeply involved in policymaking and has inserted herself at important moments. But the impression of many foreign policy experts is that she has her own agenda, such as her focus on women’s rights.

It was going so well.

I am so sick of the A Word.  Of course, Hillary must have an agenda because she’s doing something other than posturing. And I love the whispered-in-your-ear, anonymous-sources quality of that paragraph – “the impression of many foreign policy experts is….”  The reporter used to work for the National Inquirer.

Curiously, the article doesn’t mention the dreaded “women’s rights” again. I guess it’s like Voldemort’s name; if you don’t speak it, it won’t come true.