Monday, December 01, 2008

Be Careful What You Wish For At 3:00 AM

"The Uncertain Tradition" (as Professor Norman A. Graebner charactized the lot of those who have served as U.S. Secretary of State) has become even less certain. Secretary-designate Hillary Rodham Clinton, if confirmed by the U.S. Senate, will become the third woman at the head of the Department of State. Madeleine Albright, Condoleeza Rice, and — if confirmed — Hillary Clinton: a monstrous regiment of women or a rightous sisterhood? If this is (fair & balanced) unpredictability, so be it.

[x Austin Fishwrap]
"That 3 AM Call"
By Ben Sargent



[Ben Sargent has been drawing editorial cartoons for the Austin American-Statesman since 1974. His cartoons are also distributed nationally by Universal Press Syndicate. Sargent was born in Amarillo, Texas, into a newspaper family. He learned the printing trade from age twelve and started working for the local daily as a proof runner at fourteen. He attended Amarillo College and received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970. Sargent won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1982. He has also received awards from Women in Communications, Inc., Common Cause of Texas, and Cox Newspapers. He is the author of Texas Statehouse Blues (1980) and Big Brother Blues (1984).]

Copyright © 2008 Ben Sargent/Austin American-Statesman

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