WASHINGTON (AP) – During an elegant awards luncheon in Washington, Hillary Rodham Clinton heralded the importance of women having a say at the highest levels of power.
Yet she made no mention of the landmark achievement she would score for women if she becomes the first female president.
The omission was purposeful as she navigates a White House campaign that both embraces, in subtle ways, her historic candidacy and emphasizes, in explicit ways, the voters instead of herself.
In her first two weeks as a candidate for the Democratic nomination, she’s let her choice of events and campaign themes do the talking on the subject of a woman attaining the presidency. She’s focused on issues that traditionally resonate with women, and talked about the women, and granddaughter, in her family.