Woman's World with Urleeza

I was doing my usual channel surfing recently when Headline Prime’s Glenn Beck flashed onto my screen. On that particular night the host of the show, that somehow reminds of Spoof News, was talking about the world’s VIWs (Very Important Women). Of course, as I’m always seeking fresh fodder for Woman’s World my right hand soon dropped onto my thigh as my index finger retreated from the remote buttons.

Beck was breathlessly berating the woman who would be president of the United States-Hillary Rodham Clinton. He called her a fake. A fraud; essentially an embarrassment to women everywhere parading as a  symbol of feminine strength. By Beck’s standards her actions after Ole Bill was forced to disclose the other uses he had discovered for cigars and who knows what else were disgraceful. And what was more, all those who were now holding her up as the role model were doing untold harm to girls and young women all over the world.

Was Beck right? Did Hillary take the singer’s advice to stand by her man and show the world how much she loved him a bit too far? Women have been doing this for ages. What was different about her? Perhaps it’s the fact that she had gone as far as dumping some smelly stuff onto her then president-husband’s “political enemies”, labeling the Monica Lewinsky allegations a baseless plot to discredit him when she knew, based on past deeds, there may have been some truth to the story. Of course it was not long before the First Lady was forced to eat her words when the president finally fessed up to getting up to no good (says whom?) with Lewinsky behind locked Oval office doors.

The way I see it is that it took more than strength for a woman who knew about Bill’s cheating ways long before the two had united their lives and ambitions in marriage to defend him so straight-faced, Hillary was not the first politician’s wife to put a false face on her marriage. (Check the local records and churches for proof) It seemed a matter of self-preservation. Humans take feelings of embarrassment and shame all too seriously. Hillary was able to look beyond the shame of public humiliation to the prize. What’s a little hurt to my pride when I can be the next president of the United States?

Granted that I’ve only read Joyce Milton’s account of the Clintons’ life, it’s clear  Hillary was not just concerned about her husband’s success. She had her own agenda. And she’d decided early on that no Monica, Linda, no Kathleen or Sheila or Paula or Gennifer .would get in her way.

Eventually Mrs Clinton’s aides would say that she had been misled by Mr  Clinton.  “The president said that and that’s true,” insisted Marsha Berry.  Yeah right! And everyone is fighting over Anna Nicole Smith’s baby because they feel sorry for the little tyke.

In an interview during the Gennifer Flowers issue Hillary would tell an interviewer who suggested she and Bill had come to some arrangement in their marriage: “Look, I’m not sitting here some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette. I’m sitting here because I love him and I honor what we’ve been through together. And, you know, if that’s not enough for people, then heck, don’t vote for him.”

Hillary’s decision to stay did not show any weakness on her part, except if you believe she was afraid of going the distance on her own.  I don’t know if she’s happy. I won’t and can’t judge. But ultimately I think she’s saying to the world as other women in her position are saying: Look at this man, don’t you know that if I leave him to his own devices he will self-destruct?

And it would appear that Clinton inadvertently gave his wife the touch of vulnerability that she needed to boost her present path.     And if her stick-to-it-iveness, for whatever reason, is not enough, they won’t vote for her! Word up!