Hillary has claimed her husband's accomplishments for her own, while disavowing his mistakes (like Nafta), and it got me thinking about the complexities of marriage, and how there truly can be some of these back and forth sorts of dynamics going on. Or at least, they can really go on the minds of both partners.
In the traditional American family, the wife pushed the husband forward in his career, and certainly was often a partner in it. The traditional role of First Lady was similar. HRC initially pushed the boundaries of the first lady thing, and then was slapped down hard after the health care thing, and after she made some remarks about not knowing how to make cookies. She came up with a cookie recipe, avoided any controversy after that.
And subsequently she played the Tammy Wynette role to perfection when Bill got caught with 'that woman'.
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