Monday, October 29, 2007
Neither Hillary Nor Evita
The citizens of Argentina just elected a female president. A female president who is the current first lady. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is married to President Nestor Kirchner. However, she is a successful politician in her own right. She is a senator and a lawyer and she just beat out all the other candidates without having to take the voters into a run-off election.
As our own election cycle ramps up, Cristina is denying that she is anything like Hillary Clinton and refusing comparisons to Eva Peron. She is her own person, she said in a news story, and there is nothing better than being yourself.
She takes office in December.
