We are currently in a ground breaking adventure. The adventure is, obviously, centered around political figures. And, we women can see a good cat fight and enjoy it because we have the leisure to do it when our work is done. The two kitties in the ring who are bearing their claws while being ostensibly on the same side, of course, are Hillary Rodham Clinton and Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro Pelosi.
At this moment, Hillary Clinton is running a weak second in first women categories. Nancy Pelosi is not only the first woman speaker of the house, but she is also the first Italian American speaker of the house and the first Californian speaker of the house. That’s a lot of firsts there for even Hillary Clinton to overcome. And, to add salt to the wound, Pelosi and her family own most of the real estate in San Francisco. That, together with her husband’s interest in Apple computers and a California vineyard, makes Nancy Pelosi one of the wealthiest members of Congress.
Now, you might say that Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi have never actually sparred in public. But, then you might only be looking at the couple’s suit feuds. If you are looking for the best dressed between the two, a daily rating can be given on whose suit is snappier and whose jewelry actually goes with the suit. Most women who are enjoying the cat fight would rate Nancy Pelosi as beating Hillary Clinton hands down in tastes in clothing, jewellery and accessories. Of course, Nancy Pelosi has a sophisticated, wealthy dress style probably due from her background of being the pampered pet of a doting political and real estate venture family.
Hillary Clinton comes off as needing to fire her seamstress. We are almost thinking that she has her clothes made from simplicity patterns and drawn on a graphic board.
What is really fun copy is to watch the facial expressions of both women who have crashed through the glass ceiling. Both Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi have frozen faces. When a smile breaks on one of their mirror trained masks, it is as if their was a crack in their make up. In that category of stony faced poker players, both women come out evenly matched.
But, in the cat arena of femininity and softness, Nancy Pelosi wins. She is naturally graceful and her reactions on screen ,at least, do not look contrived. When she talks to the cameras she does not look like she is running for office since she already has an office. Hillary Clinton looks like a female Nixon with arms straight up at the sides and basking in the adulation of the people because she’s a genius and works harder than all of them. Nancy Pelosi is a born leader who approaches her public appearances as part of her role in communicating with her followers who know that she is somebody who works in the public sector because of choice and not because her husband did not bring in a big enough pay check. We all really heard Hillary Clinton use that reasoning in letting us know why she was condescending to work so hard for all of us.
Seems that the cat fight between Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi is only a secret because no reporter wants to be clawed by getting caught like the monkey in the middle. But, politically speaking, when Hillary Clinton was going to use her new position to try and impeach, get it impeach (as in getting even with the Republicans and Ken Starr for trying to impeach her husband, Bill Clinton) George W. Bush for what trumped up charge we don’t know, Nancy Pelosi had the breeding to put a stop to it. Seems like Hillary Clinton has a get even attitude whereas Nancy Pelosi has a natural instinct to stop situations that are like the ridiculous becoming a farce.