If People Believe You're On Their Side,

Women Have To Be The Biggest Champions In The World Of Other Women's Choices.

You As The Press Secretary Have To Protect The President's Interests And The White House's Interests More Broadly. And A Lot Of People Inside The White House, As You Learned, Sometimes With Painful Experience, Have Competing Agendas, Have Differing Points Of View, Have Priorities They're Trying To Protect.

And Clinton Was Like That - He Saw The Whole Playing Field. He Didn't Just See The Event That He Was At Or The Circumstances Of That Week Or That Month. He Saw The Whole Playing Field All The Time.

'not Again!' I Thought To Myself This Morning, As News Trickled Out That John Mccain Was Set To Pick Alaska Governor Sarah Palin As His Running Mate. Not Again, Because Too Often Women Are Promoted For The Wrong Reasons, And Then Blamed When Things Don't Go Right.

That's Not To Say That Women's Priorities Are Better Than Men's. Rather, When Women Are Empowered, When They Can Speak From The Experience Of Their Own Lives, They Often Address Different, Previously Neglected Issues. And Families And Whole Communities Benefit.