Hillary Clinton Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Cultural and political image== {{main|Public image of Hillary Clinton}} [[File:RoseLawFirmRear2008.jpg|thumb|left|alt=A three-story, red brick building in Arkansas. The Rose Law Firm is located inside this building. Clinton worked at Rose Law Firm for fifteen years.|Clinton worked at [[Rose Law Firm]] for fifteen years. Her professional career and political involvement set the stage for public reaction to her as the first lady.]] [[Bibliography of Hillary Clinton|Over a hundred books and scholarly works have been written about Clinton]]. A 2006 survey by the ''[[New York Observer]]'' found "a virtual cottage industry" of "anti-Clinton literature" put out by [[Regnery Publishing]] and other conservative imprints. Some titles include ''[[Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House]]'', ''Hillary's Scheme: Inside the Next Clinton's Ruthless Agenda to Take the White House'' and ''Can She Be Stopped?: Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President of the United States Unless ...'' Books praising Clinton did not sell nearly as well<ref name="obs031206">{{cite web |url=http://observer.com/2006/03/da-hillary-code/ |title=Da Hillary Code |author=Smith, Ben |work=The [[New York Observer]] |date=March 12, 2006}}</ref> (other than her memoirs and those of her husband). When she ran for Senate in 2000, several fundraising groups such as Save Our Senate and the Emergency Committee to Stop Hillary Rodham Clinton sprang up to oppose her.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/27/nyregion/clinton-rivals-raise-little-besides-rage.html |author=Levy, Clifford J. |title=Clinton Rivals Raise Little Besides Rage |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 27, 2000}}</ref> Don Van Natta found that Republican and conservative groups viewed her as a reliable "[[bogeyman]]" to mention in fundraising letters, on a par with Ted Kennedy, and the equivalent of Democratic and liberal appeals mentioning [[Newt Gingrich]].<ref name="nyt071099">{{Cite news |author=Van Natta, Don Jr. |title=Hillary Clinton's Campaign Spurs A Wave of G.O.P. Fund-Raising |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 10, 1999 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/10/us/hillary-clinton-s-campaign-spurs-a-wave-of-gop-fund-raising.html |author-link=Don Van Natta Jr.}}</ref> Clinton has also been featured in the media and popular culture in a wide spectrum of perspectives. In 1995, writer [[Todd S. Purdum]] of ''The New York Times'' characterized Clinton as a [[Rorschach test]],<ref>{{Cite news |author=Purdum, Todd S |title=The First Lady's Newest Role: Newspaper Columnist |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 24, 1995 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/24/us/the-first-lady-s-newest-role-newspaper-columnist.html |author-link=Todd Purdum}}</ref> an assessment echoed at the time by feminist writer and activist [[Betty Friedan]], who said, "Coverage of Hillary Clinton is a massive Rorschach test of the evolution of women in our society."<ref name="khj1">{{Cite book |author=Jamieson, Kathleen Hall |title=Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership |year=1995 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-508940-0 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/beyonddoublebind00jami/page/22 22–25] |chapter=Hillary Clinton as Rorschach Test |author-link=Kathleen Hall Jamieson |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/beyonddoublebind00jami/page/22 }}</ref> She has been the subject of many [[Saturday Night Live parodies of Hillary Clinton|satirical impressions on ''Saturday Night Live'']], beginning with her time as the first lady. She has made guest appearances on the show herself, in 2008 and in 2015, to face-off with her [[doppelgänger]]s.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/snl-hillary-clinton-saturday-night-live-kate-mckinnon-amy-poehler/ |author=Raftery, Liz |title=Who Did the Best Hillary Clinton Impression on SNL? (Video) |work=[[TV Guide]] |date=April 30, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first1=Elizabeth |last1=Murray |title=Hillary Clinton tends bar on 'Saturday Night Live' in political season premiere (Video) |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/hillary-clinton-tends-bar-saturday-night-live-political-season-premiere-t48086 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012155655/http://www.today.com:80/popculture/hillary-clinton-tends-bar-saturday-night-live-political-season-premiere-t48086 |archive-date=October 12, 2016 |website=[[Today (American TV program)|Today Show]] |date=October 4, 2015 |access-date=January 24, 2024}}{{void|Fabrickator|comment|as of the date of this edit, both the original and the archive links have working videos of her appearance on SNL, but there are differences in the presentation}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[File:Hillary Clinton April 2015 (1).jpg|thumb|alt=Hillary Clinton dressed in a black suit and a green shirt, sitting in a café. She is smiling, and a red teacup is situated in front of her. The foreground is distorted due to the presence of various small objects.|Clinton in 2015]] She has often been described in the popular media as a [[Polarization (politics)|polarizing]] figure, though some argue otherwise.<ref>For sources describing her as a polarizing figure, see Purdum, "The First Lady's Newest Role", ''op. cit.''; {{Cite news |author=Dowd, Maureen |title=Hillary Clinton as Aspiring First Lady: Role Model, or a 'Hall Monitor' Type? |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 18, 1992 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/18/us/1992-campaign-candidate-s-wife-hillary-clinton-aspiring-first-lady-role-model.html |author-link=Maureen Dowd}}; {{Cite news |author=Sullivan, Amy |title=Hillary in 2008? |work=[[Washington Monthly]] |date=July–August 2005 |url=http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0507.sullivan1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050714033553/http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0507.sullivan1.html |archive-date=July 14, 2005}}; {{Cite AV media |title=Hillary Clinton's Polarizing Force as a Candidate |people=[[Daniel Schorr]] |medium=audio |date=July 16, 2006 |publisher=[[NPR]] |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5560786}}; {{Cite magazine |title=How Americans View Hillary: Popular but Polarizing |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1229053,00.html |author=Cox, Ana Marie |date=August 19, 2006 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |author-link=Ana Marie Cox}}; and those referenced in {{Cite news |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/29820-hillary-clinton-not-polarizing-and-highly-electable/ |title=Hillary Clinton: Not Polarizing and Highly Electable |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |date=October 10, 2007 |author=Davis, Lanny |author-link=Lanny Davis}}. For sources arguing against the notion, see the same Davis piece; and {{Cite book |author=Estrich, Susan |title=The Case for Hillary Clinton |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-06-083988-8 |author-link=Susan Estrich |pages=[https://archive.org/details/caseforhillarycl00susa_0/page/66 66–68] |url=https://archive.org/details/caseforhillarycl00susa_0/page/66 }}</ref> In the early stages of her 2008 presidential campaign, a ''Time'' magazine cover showed a large picture of her with two [[checkbox]]es labeled "Love Her", "Hate Her".<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20060828,00.html |title=The Presidential Ambitions of Hillary Clinton |date=August 26, 2006 |magazine= [[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=September 27, 2007}}</ref> ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' titled its profile of her "Harpy, Hero, Heretic: Hillary".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/01/harpy-hero-heretic-hillary |title=Harpy, Hero, Heretic: Hillary |author=Hitt, Jack |work=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |date=January–February 2007 |access-date=October 7, 2007 |author-link=Jack Hitt}}</ref> Following Clinton's "choked up moment" and related incidents in the run-up to the January 2008 New Hampshire primary, both ''The New York Times'' and ''[[Newsweek]]'' found that discussion of gender's role in the campaign had moved into the national political discourse.<ref name="nyt011008">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/us/politics/10women.html |title=Women's Support for Clinton Rises in Wake of Perceived Sexism |author=Kantor, Jodi |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 10, 2008 |author-link=Jodi Kantor}}</ref><ref name="nw012108">{{Cite news |url=http://www.newsweek.com/letting-hillary-be-hillary-86471 |title=Letting Hillary Be Hillary |author=Meacham, Jon |work=[[Newsweek]] |date=January 21, 2008 |author-link=Jon Meacham}}</ref> ''Newsweek'' editor [[Jon Meacham]] summed up the relationship between Clinton and the American public by saying the New Hampshire events, "brought an odd truth to light: though Hillary Rodham Clinton has been on the periphery or in the middle of national life for decades ... she is one of the most recognizable but least understood figures in American politics".<ref name="nw012108"/> Once she became secretary of state, Clinton's image seemed to improve dramatically among the American public and become one of a respected world figure.<ref name="elle-2012"/><ref name="pd-pop">{{cite news |url=http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/10/12/hillary-clinton-leads-the-pack-in-bloomberg-popularity-poll/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101014124653/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/10/12/hillary-clinton-leads-the-pack-in-bloomberg-popularity-poll/ |archive-date=October 14, 2010 |title=Hillary Clinton Leads the Pack in Bloomberg Popularity Poll |author=Torregrossa, Luisita Lopez |work=[[Politics Daily]] |date=October 12, 2010}}</ref> Her favorability ratings dropped, however, after she left office and began to be viewed in the context of partisan politics once more.<ref name=Gallup1214>{{cite press release |url=http://www.gallup.com/poll/180365/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-extend-run-admired.aspx |title=Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Extend Run as Most Admired |publisher=[[Gallup Organization]] |date=December 29, 2014}}</ref> By September 2015, with her 2016 presidential campaign underway and beset by continued reports regarding her private email usage at the State Department, her ratings had slumped to some of her lowest levels ever.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gallup.com/poll/185324/hillary-clinton-favorable-rating-one-worst.aspx |title=Hillary Clinton's Favorable Rating One of Her Worst |author=Dugan, Andrew |author2=McCarthy, Justin |publisher=[[Gallup Organization]] |date=September 4, 2015}}</ref> In March 2016, she acknowledged that: "I'm not a natural politician, in case you haven't noticed."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://theweek.com/speedreads/611770/hillary-clinton-not-natural-politician |title=Hillary Clinton: 'I am not a natural politician' |work=[[The Week]] |date=March 9, 2016}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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