New York: Sitting on the leather couch in the living room sofa is not something that I am inclined to do very frequently, thanks to being cursed by what experts on human nature will tell you is the classic A type personality which makes me too restless to stay rooted anywhere.
But from 6pm on Tuesday evening , I have more or less been the sole occupant of the the sofa , eyes rivetted on news telecasts that continously built up the excitement as the American people inch slowly and torturously towards possibly electing the country’s first ever African-American President .
As the democratic party in the United States makes its most audacious attempt to get the white house back into its fold, it is also set to shatter what has been a kind of the political version of the famed glass ceiling. Americans never dreamt that someday they would have a black man as its leader And Americans certainly have come nowhere close to having a power woman in the hot seat either.Women in the white house have been by and large been playing the perfect companion to the perfect first man of this country- the gorgeous, incredibly glamorous Jacquiline Kennedy to Hillary who played the articulate, tremendously attractive and intelligent mate to her husband Bill Clinton, two times president of the United States.
By 8pm Tuesday it was all over for Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first woman in this country’s history who even came within dreaming distance of making it to the white house as the first woman President of this country. By that time Obama had already got much more super delegates on his side than he needed and all he needed to do was to go out there on stage at Minnesotta where he was to address a gathering , to mark the formal end of the democratic primary season. Media pundits had already spent the day predicting that Clinton would finally hang up her boots and concede the race to her much younger and lesser experienced democratic co-contestant.
But that was before Clinton arrived , flanked by her husband Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea and took center stage at South Dakota, in her home state. So much has been said about women and their ability to keep the flock together and their sensitivity to everybody around them and the kindness and their graciousness. All these were completely, glaringly , tragically absent from Senator Clinton’s speech Tuesday evening.
The speech began on a positive enough note with Clinton thanking Obama for his acheivments and the fine way in which he ran his campaign. But that was the sum total of all the graciousness the lady showed during her last address to her voters at the end of what was possibly the longest ever primary season this country has seen.
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