Half the women I sent the link to cried when they watched the YouTube clip of Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent and I think I know why.

Given its nearly eight million hits thus far, you've probably seen her, the matronly lady all decked out in that mother-of-the-bride...

Though no longer First Lady, Hillary Clinton is still a wife and there's the rub. As have many other female politicians before her, Senator Clinton has discovered that a husband can be a political liability. The events of the last few weeks recall what one cynic told me months ago:...