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Hillary Clinton: I'm No Marie Antoinette
2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said Monday that people who compare her to Marie Antoinette - the famous French royal who was beheaded, according to folklore, after telling her subjects, "Let them eat cake" - have got it all wrong. "Poor old Marie Antoinette lost her head, which is kind of a scary prospect," Clinton told the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. Responding to a question from the paper's editorial board about a recent column by Richard Cohen - who defended Clinton against the Antoinette comparison - the former first lady insisted that her predecessor had gotten a bad rap. "Some of the reasons [she was beheaded] are that she was accused of things she never did or never said," the top Democrat lamented.
Story Continues Below Cohen's column noted: "More than 30 books have been written about Clinton, some of them as vituperative and ugly as any written about the late Queen of France. Like Marie Antoinette, Hillary has emerged as the repository of so many fears, so much dread, such aspirations that we have to look past her office or her ambitions and suggest that something deeply Freudian is at work." He went on to note: "It was Freud who spoke for all men by asking, 'What do women want?' Now we may finally have the answer. The White House." Elaborating on Cohen's column, Mrs. Clinton explained: "I think Richard's point was - as I read his article - you know, some of it is personal to me. But a lot of it has to do with women in politics, in positions of power, in decision-making roles. "I have no control over any of that," she insisted. "I think if I sat around and worried about it, I'd probably go a little bit mad because it is frustrating." Clinton added that some of her critics "make a lot of money off of me."
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