Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices

By Emeka Oparah . . .
How many of you watched the 11-hour Congressional Hearing on Benghazi featuring former FLOTUS, former senator representing New York and immediate past Foreign Secretary of the United States? I did. Need I say it was not only engaging and illuminating, it was a providential opportunity for Clinton admirers to gauge her chances in the tasking, daunting US presidential nomination, especially with Pa Joe Biden throwing in the towel. She gave an awesome account of herself, didn’t she.
Two things, quickly, before I get to my point:
1. My reference to Biden as Pa is pure mischief because Hillary is equally old…she will be 69+ by the time she is inaugurated, if she wins the DNC nomination and goes ahead to win the election. And to me, age has nothing to do with it.
2. I wish Biden threw his hat rather than a towel in the ring, because that would have provided Democrats with another hard choice, like they had 7 years ago with this same mercurial woman up against Obama. It would have been more exacting than this ride on Easy Street.
Back to the matter now. As I watched and made copious notes from the Benghazi “inquest”, a thought kept coming through: “Who says women are not more intelligent than men?” Yes. I think they are.
Without raising any unnecessary dust over gender equality cum superiority, I would like to put it on record that Hillary Clinton is a remarkable, mercurial, chivalrous, sagacious, intelligent and accomplished woman. All these came through during the Hearing, for those who didn’t know before or who haven’t read her two books, one of which influenced the caption of this post.
Wherever he was throughout the hearing, Bill Clinton must have been absolutely enthralled, a situation that must now be normal for him given his wife’s unflagging knack for stunning performances. Who wouldn’t be!

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What am I rambling about? Hillary is a million human beings in one, a woman bigger, better and stronger than most men. She was born strong (amushiri ya Ike!) Indeed she’s made some hard choices in her life including applying herself to her studies, marrying Bill, forgiving him for the Monica Lewinsky mistake and giving her all to anything and everything she chooses to do. And all these hard choices have paid off, one way or the other, and might just take her to her ultimate dream of becoming the president of the United States.
If Hillary becomes president, she would not only make history as the first FLOTUS to contest and win the presidency of the US as well as the first woman so to do, she would also lend eternal credence to an important proverb from my village: Ehi mezie mpi ya mezikwaa odu ya; ewere mpi ya nuo mmanyi, ewere odu ya chuo iji (meaning, a cow should have a good horn and a good tail such that if the horn is used to drink palmwine, the tail is used to chase away flies). She’s not just beauty, but beauty and brains. Always a great combination. Always, always. Read my lips.
I wish she defeats the chauvinistic American culture to become the POTUS next year. I wish her the best of luck-because hers is a clear case of when opportunity is met with preparation.
I hope Nigerian women are watching. Women are made better, tougher, deeper, smarter and meaner than men. Amushiri ha ike! If you do not know this, and you are a woman, you are DEADLY. If you’re a man, you’re DEADED!

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