After all, Hillary Clinton is, perhaps, the only politician who’s come of age as tenderly nurtured in the bosom of the liberal elite as Barack Obama. Of course, he won early attention for his election as the first black President of The Harvard Law Review – but she garnered glowing plaudits from the press (and the cover of TIME) for her rebuke of Senator Edward Brooke during her college commencement address. He may be a product of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, but Hillary claims Wellesley College and Yale Law School as her almae matres. He may have been too friendly with Reverend Jeremiah Wright – but as Tom Hayden recently noted, she hung out her shingle at a left-wing San Francisco law firm that defended Black Panthers and accused communists.