Who can forget the images?
Just over a year ago.
Hillary Clinton, defeated in her quest to become the first woman elected President of the U.S.— returning to the U.S. Senate for an agonizing and awkward reunion with her colleagues — and suffering the embrace of Sen. Ted Kennedy, who endorsed the young, inexperienced, junior Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama.
Two years earlier, Nancy Pelosi — triumphant in her quest to become the first woman Speaker of the House — smiled broadly, as she lifted the ceremonial gavel into the air, and surrounded herself with a podium full of Members’ children and grandchildren.
The Democratic House roared its approval for a woman who promised to “drain the swamp” of corruption and return “transparency” to the legislative process.
In fact, she promised to deliver the “most ethical Congress” in history.
Pelosi and Clinton: the iconic, and contrasting images of powerful women in victory and defeat.
That didn’t last long.
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