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Hillary Clinton Ignores Email Controversy at Emily’s List Gala

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thinkstock 3.3.15 hillaryclinton?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1425441846777Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Speaking to one of the friendliest possible audiences — at an event Tuesday night sponsored by the pro-Democrat, pro-women PAC Emily’s List — the likely 2016 presidential candidate vowed to “beat this drum as long and as loud as it takes” to pass policies like paid family leave and equal pay for women.  

“We’ve heard Republicans try to sing out of the same hymnal, talking about income inequality – it’s like watching the end of Casablanca,” Clinton lamented.

The former first lady, who admitted she was “still kind of in the grandmother glow” following the birth of her granddaughter, Charlotte, addressed 2016 speculation only indirectly.

“Along life’s way, you get the chance to make millions of decisions. Some of them are big, like, do you run for office?” she said, to tumultuous applause.

“Others are even bigger,” she continued, “like the ones that Gabby Giffords and her husband, Mark, confronted, like, what do you do when a murderer attacks you and you survive?”

But, “don’t you someday want to see a woman president?” she asked the audience.

Clinton did weigh in on one important issue: the infamous white and gold/blue and black dress that recently created a firestorm on social media.

“Now, I want to answer one question right at the start before it stirs up Twitter. People have read a lot of different things into my pantsuits,” Clinton quipped. “Despite what you might think, this outfit is not actually white and gold.”

Some had speculated that the Clinton email controversy would cast a pall over the night’s festivities, but the other politicians who spoke at the event struck a positive, even defiant tone.

New mother and Iraq war veteran Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., recalled when her opponent slammed her for worrying too much about fashion.

“Yes, I do sometimes look at the clothes I wear…for most of my adult life, I’ve worn one color — it’s called camouflage,” she said.


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