Lois Romano has an interesting profile of Hillary Clinton’s staff in today’s Washington Post. It’s good reading. The key staff is all female and they call themselves, collectively, ‘Hillaryland’. The piece is flattering to Ms. Clinton, showing that she reached out to middle class and lower middle class women to fill keys jobs. It demonstrates a remarkable reciprocal loyalty which can be seen by the stability of her staff.
The staying power of this group can be seen as remarkable in light of what they’ve been through: the health-care debacle, dragged before a Whitewater grand jury at their own legal expense, pushed to take lie-detector tests, crying at their desks during a humiliating sex scandal and impeachment. But it is also what binds them together.
One upside of a Hillary presidency would be the totally unprecedented amount of women that would move into positions of real power. This can’t be discounted when considered the merits of Clinton’s campaign.
On the other hand, this group seems a little too loyal…kind of like they’re all in a foxhole together. It’s understandable, considering all the trying times they’ve gone through together. But it can have some drawbacks. If they are too much of a club it will be hard for them to integrate new people into their clique. Nevertheless, the article is a good piece of fluff journalism and it does help humanize Ms. Clinton a little bit, which is what they wanted.
