Hillary Clinton - an Ambitious Woman - For President

Hillary and I after the MsMoney.com launch at the WTC.

I know, I know ... this is my 3rd post about the Debra's Ambitious book, but it really affected me. I always say - change your thinking and you can change your life. Well this book helped me change my thinking and my life has really improved the last few days because of it.

This time the topic is about Hillary. Chris Rock did a Saturday Night Live skit on the Presidential Campaign in which is said that white women don't like white women. That really struck a chord with me and it supports some of the theories Debra has in her book that women do NOT like ambitious women.

Who is more ambitious than Hillary Clinton? Carly Fiorina (HP's former CEO) and Martha Stewart probably rank in the top 5 and look how the public treated them. Not good.

You can't deny that Hillary is ambitious, so what kind of campaign should her managers put together to downplay her ambition (because women don't want to think about that) and instead focus on improving individual lives.

Chris also said, what kind of plight has a white women ever suffered, compared to a black man. He jokes that women were never burned at the stake like a black men. I guess he is forgetting about the tens of thousands of women persecuted and "burned at the stake" by the Inquisition during the Middle Ages. And just because a woman might have been a little less ordinary than the gal next door. It wasn't just the men that were "turning" these innocent women in, women were also persecuting their neighbors if they broke out of the norm ... anyone who - let's say was a little bit ... "ambitious".

Thank goodness that era has ended. Or has it completely? In India it is estimated that about 7,000 women a year die by being doused with gasoline and set on fire by their husbands because their family didn't provide a large enough dowry (in other words for money). It is even a Wikipedia entry called Bride Burning.

I am sorry for writing that, I don't like be confronted with the "inconvenient truth" anymore than the next person. And this one makes my stomach turn. Especially since I don't know how to contribute to fixing that problem. I didn't know about this when I spent a month in India visiting over a dozen cities. I loved the country and the spirituality and who knew there was a dark side?

So what is the moral of these stories?

Ladies ... let's start playing nice and support each other. Hillary is a woman that needs not just our vote, but our attention. She isn't perfect, nor are we. Though she has the courage to take on the world and make a difference. How many of us would stand up there at the podium and take the criticism she faces if we didn't feel we could make the world a better place.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, I applaud you and will support your ambitious ways any way that I can. Even if it means talking to one woman at a time until they understand why having a woman President is just what this country needs right now. And that ambition is not a dirty word.

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