(Apologies to Aretha Franklin)

I do not agree with many of Senator Clinton’s positions. I’ve never met her, so I shall reserve thoughts on her personality. But she has my respect. She is a woman in the most manish of manish professions, she has worked her way into the halls of male privilege, and I’d like to follow in her footsteps. She is both a lawyer and a politician. Props to her for that. She accepts the slings of media attention in stride (after all she’s been through, a vague-but-over-analyzed sniffle is proof of her ability to let most stuff just flow over her like water off a duck). And she does not tolerate having her daughter dragged through the same mud. (If you only visit one link, make it the first.)

I have not changed my opinion about whether I would vote for her, but my respect for her has definitely grown.