Mrs. Robinson

MARY Robinson has just left the presidency of Ireland behind to take up in Geneva the post of human-rights commissioner with the United Nations. She is in many ways another clone of Hillary Clinton. Roughly the same age, she is a lawyer, and went to an American Ivy League university (in her case, Harvard). She is a feminist. Upon returning to Ireland she became embroiled in sundry liberal/left causes. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Robinson has always enjoyed sky-high popularity ratings. She is to the people of Ireland, and to liberals in particular, political perfection on legs.

Clearly she is well liked also by American liberals. A favorable editorial about her appeared in the New York Times of October 20, and that most self-congratulatory of all magazines, Vanity Fair, named her among the 65 most influential people in the world.

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MARY Robinson has just left the presidency of Ireland behind to take up in Geneva the post of human-rights commissioner with the United Nations. She is in many ways another clone of Hillary Clinton. Roughly the same age, she is a lawyer, and went to an American Ivy League university (in her case, Harvard). She is a feminist. Upon returning to Ireland she became embroiled in sundry liberal/left causes. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Robinson has always enjoyed sky-high popularity ratings. She is to the people of Ireland, and to liberals in particular, political perfection on legs.

Clearly she is well liked also by American liberals. A favorable editorial about her appeared in the New York Times of October 20, and that most self-congratulatory of all magazines, Vanity Fair, named her among the 65 most influential people in the world.