i can't choose one. i love (present tense, not past tense!) her sense of humor, her diplomatic skill, which doesn't include being soft; her intelligence; her ability to assess situations quickly based on real information and not speculation; her grace even in the face of an unfair defeat; the way she has dedicated her life to public service, including but not limited to her and bill's foundation, which is one of the most highly rated nonprofit foundations in the world despite the reputation the right wing has created for it; and the way she wrote to me encouragingly when i wrote to her about delta air's continuing to allow smoking on international flights (i wrote to the ceo of delta at the same time; he said too bad for me, he valued his smoking customers; hillary said she was working on it; within a couple months of those letters, delta went nonsmoking internationally!) that's just off the top of my head. there's more.

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