Comparison To Clinton Is Dismissed (Ségolène Royal) - French Counterpart Lacked Substance, Senator's Camp Says - Washington Post

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"There was a time when advisers to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) looked abroad for proof that women can get elected to a top leadership role in the modern world: Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister; Angela Merkel, the German chancellor; and Michelle Bachelet, the president of Chile.

But as presidential candidate Ségolène Royal was defeated by a conservative man who had been France's chief law enforcement officer, the Clinton campaign was quick to dismiss comparisons between their candidate and her Socialist counterpart across the Atlantic. "Other than the fact that they are both women, they don't have much in common," said Howard Wolfson, Clinton's communications director."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/07/AR2007050701677_pf.html

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