Hillary Clinton

I haven't read all of Hillary's book, but I think enough to get the general feel of what she is saying about herself, and today I was doing research on her on the internet. Her book had the very positive side, and the internet had the very negative side. I figure somewhere in the middle is probably the truth.

Hillary is someone who started out wanting to make a difference in the world. She cares about women's rights, and worked her life to effect change. She cares about the problems in the world - children without education, without advocates, about people without healthcare, about countries without democracy. I don't think this is just the view of herself that she sells to the nation - I believe it is the version of herself that she sells to herself. If that were not a part of her, I think it would be easy to see her as evil. She is willing to go to any lengths to be in power.

As a blog about leadership, the main fact that matters is that she is divisive. Some people love her - they see the side of her that wants to do all of that good, and they want to support that. I understand that point of view - there is a lot of good in the world that she desires to do, but that is not the only part of her. Many people dislike here, even go so strong to say that they hate her. It is because she is willing to do anything for power. She has no scruples about how to get power. That she wants to do good things with that power, there is no doubt, but it does not change her willingness to do anything to get the power.

She likes to play on fears, encourage divisiveness, and discount the electoral processes -- all for the sake of her campaign. She is not necessarily a bad person. She to me has this view of herself as the mother of America. She is the parent that will do anything to protect her child, whether it is legal, moral, ethical or not. With that attitude, she can do some good, but what is the cost in the example she will set for the nation?

She is divisive, and what we need is unity.

She has done some good in the world, and I think she will do more good in the world working not as a politician. The power is too much for her.