Hillary Flattered By Haters
January 30, 2007
Sen. Hillary Clinton knows some people hate her, but considers it a “perverse form of flattery” by opponents who see her as a “worthy adversary.”Talking at length to a rapt crowd in a comfortable house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, last weekend, Clinton (D-N.Y.) said she knew she had that effect on people, even before she married former President Bill Clinton, because she believes in “standing your ground.”
“In part because I’m a woman doing it,” she said, “and part because I was part of a political couple that was very much committed to Democratic progressive politics.”
“In a perverse form of flattery, people who opposed us took us seriously and decided it was important to go after us,” she said.
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