Hillary Clinton’s campaign hopes to finally crack the glass ceiling

IT IS wonderful news that Hillary Clinton has announced she is running for the US Presidency and that this time she is doing it as a woman.

Clearly she has not had gender re-assignment, but on the previous occasion she ran Hillary made the decision not to bring attention to her femaleness, or to the idea of positioning herself as making history as a woman, believing she should just run on her record.

Ironically it was when she shed a tear in a cafe in New Hampshire during the 2008 campaign, showing what people felt was a softer, more female side, that she made a big connection with the voters. She was having coffee with a bunch of local women, undecided about who they would vote for, when one of them asked the candidate how she managed to keep going on the campaign trail.