Hillary Clinton is surprisingly kinder dumb.

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Will Hillary Clinton Make History?

 
February 17, 2016 5:00 am by Jonathan Van Meter|photographed by Mario Testino

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Hillary Clinton, photographed in December 2015.
Photographed by Mario Testino, Vogue, March 2016

In another up-and-down, anything-can-happen primary season, Hillary Clinton has shown herself to be a formidable candidate—and a much happier one. Will she finally, at long last, make history?

It was another Sunday morning in New Hampshire, a few days into the new year, at another town-hall meeting in a middle school in front of another boisterous crowd. After the Red Star Twirlers nailed their baton routine to the Donna Summer song “She Works Hard for the Money”—with no apparent sense of irony—Hillary Clinton, in brown slacks, a gray sweater, and kitten heels, appeared to a standing ovation. She spent the next hour moving through the applause lines of her stump speech, and then listening intently to voters’ questions and answering them with candor. She was connecting. You could feel it. At one point, she launched into a story about how difficult it was for people in developing nations to comprehend how she could lose to President Obama and then wind up becoming his Secretary of State. “They were confused,” she said. “In their countries, even in burgeoning democracies, if you oppose somebody, you run against somebody, you end up being exiled or imprisoned, not Secretary of State!” The audience laughed. “When they first asked me, I was on my very first trip, in February 2009. This was in Indonesia and I was in front of a big audience on their very popular morning TV show, which translated into ‘The Awesome Show!’ ” More laughter. “And I was so worried they were going to ask me to dance or sing. I think that would be a disaster for my country.” She dropped her voice into its lower register and got serious. “We ran a hard campaign against each other. He said things that hurt my feelings, I said things that hurt his feelings. It was tough! But he won and I lost. And I said, ‘I want to do everything I can to get you elected,’ and I did. I did everything I could think of to do.” More applause. “And then he asked me to be Secretary of State, and I said yes for the same reason. And you know what that reason is? We both love our country. And we in this country not only have to make our democracy work, we’ve got to make it work for the rest of the world, who will look at us and say, ‘This is what a democracy is.’
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