First Madonna and now Sharon Stone. One would think the two liberal 80's sexpots would be firmly planted in Hillary Clinton's corner as the junior senator from New York gears up to run for president in 2008.
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But the forty-something gals say America is not ready.
"I think Hillary Clinton is fantastic. But I think it is too soon for her to run. This may sound odd, but a woman should be past her sexuality when she runs. Hillary still has sexual power, and I don't think people will accept that. It's too threatening," Stone says in the new issue of Hollywood Life magazine.
Hillary - sexual power? She couldn't even keep her own husband from straying.
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Liz Smith says its an interesting theory in her Monday column and points out that it echoes somewhat the view of another sexual icon, Madonna.
Liz dishes on what Madonna said to Out magazine, a snippet that did not make it to the final print cut of the current cover story:
"Hillary should go for it. I don't think now is necessarily her time, or the Democrats' time, but she should certainly go for it. You've got to start somewhere, in terms of a woman leading the U.S. In Europe and Asia and elsewhere, women have ruled over millions, it's not an abstract concept. But in America, men are still afraid. And I don't think women are too comfortable with the idea of a female in charge. I find that really amazing."
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Hillary may be a lot of things in the minds of the American voter, for both supporters and those that can't stand her.
Sexy is not one of them.
--CK Rairden
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