Hillary
Clinton is not familiar. She is revolutionary. Not radical, but
revolutionary: the distinction is crucial. She is one of America’s
greatest modern creations. Her decades in our public life must not blind
us to the fact that she represents new realities and possibilities.
Indeed, those same decades have conferred upon her what newness usually
lacks: judgment, and even wisdom.
Women who advocate for other
women are often pigeonholed and pushed to the margins. That hasn’t
happened to Hillary, because when she’s standing up for the rights of
women and girls, she is speaking not only of gender but also of justice
and liberty.
It
was always going to take a special kind of leader to pick up Ted
Kennedy’s mantle as senior Senator from Massachusetts—champion of
working families and scourge of special interests. Elizabeth Warren
never lets us forget that the work of taming Wall Street’s irresponsible
risk taking and reforming our financial system is far from finished.
And she never hesitates to hold powerful people’s feet to the fire:
bankers, lobbyists, senior government officials and, yes, even
presidential aspirants.
Elizabeth Warren’s journey from janitor’s
daughter to Harvard professor to public watchdog to U.S. Senator has
been driven by an unflagging determination to level the playing field
for hardworking American families like the one she grew up with in
Oklahoma. She fights so hard for others to share in the American Dream
because she lived it herself. Read more >>>>
