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by top DIGG newsPREZ RACE: Hillary Clinton compared to Indira Gandhi
Way back in January 2007, Manish Vij of Ultrabrown compared Hillary Clinton to Indira Gandhi.
Hillary’s purported namesake was Sir Edmund, Himalayan strider. But her true predecessor had socialist and authoritarian streaks wider than the silver swirl in her coiffure.
The burning Bush has spoken: America is about new blood, not blue blood; innovation, not repetition. America is the kind of place that ought to have no room for dynasties.
In her Wall Street Journal column this week, former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan brings up Indira Gandhi again:
She was born in a family at war with itself and the reigning power outside. As a child she carried word from her important father to his fellow revolutionaries, smuggling the papers in her school bag. War and rumors of war, arrests, eight months in jail. A rise in politics — administering refugee camps, government minister. When war came, she refused to flee an insecure border area; her stubbornness helped rally a nation. Her rivals sometimes called her “Dumb Doll,” and an American president is said to have referred to her in private as “the old witch.” But the prime minister of India preferred grounding her foes to dust to complaining about gender bias. In the end, and in the way of things, she was ground up too. Proud woman, Indira Gandhi.
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