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Since she won the Peace Prize, Iranian authorities have tried three times to build a case against her.  Currently, Ebadi is accused of having taken money from the U.S. to give to Akbar Ganji, an international award-winning journalist who calls for a replacement of Iran's theocratic system with “a secular democracy.”  She regularly receives death threats for working against Islam and Iran.

As a young lawyer Clinton worked with the House Judiciary Committee’s Watergate investigation.  When her husband was governor of Arkansas, she promoted education reform.  When her husband was president, she tried to advance universal health care.  She ran for senator of New York and won twice.

Clinton has endured marital infidelity, public embarrassment, right-wing assaults on her character, and some losses in the presidential primaries.  She is constantly asked the first question in the presidential debates.  However, no matter what is dished out to her, she always gets up, brushes herself off, re-makes her image and presses onward.  Through all of this, she remains a good mother and a faithful wife.

So how does each woman continue in the maelstrom of political and ideological crossfire?

Ebadi describes herself as stubborn.  Others perceive her as courageous, tough, and possessing a sense of humor.  However, there is no mistaking her seriousness of purpose or her willingness to put herself on the line to fight for those unjustly persecuted by the powerful.

Clinton survives the hits by hitting back, maintaining her position, and resolving to win.  Principle sometimes fails her in the process perhaps because she believes she has something to offer the world, so the ends justify the means.  Consequently, she uses race baiting, social class slurs and her love of guns and God to defeat her opponents.  Party unity apparently means nothing to her and she would rather bludgeon her primary opponents and risk losing the general election than give up the possibility of the presidency, an office she deems is entitled to her. 

While I would like to see a woman president in my lifetime, I want a woman whose leadership offers just and peaceful solutions for resolving conflict rather than one who would imitate the aggressive and violent tactics of men.

Maybe Americans could swap Clinton for Ebadi. 

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Olga Bonfiglio is a professor at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and author of Heroes of a Different Stripe: How One Town Responded to the War in Iraq. She has written for several national magazines on the subjects of social justice and (more...)
 

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Alice Walker by Ann Muir on Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:24:05 PM
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