It is no surprise that the world's most prominent wronged wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is feeling underappreciated at home these days. But isn't this taking things a bit far? In a discussion with Russian women in Moscow last week, the first lady said that nothing ails the world's women that a good old-fashioned strike couldn't cure.
"If one day women stopped doing the work they do in the home," Mrs. Clinton said, "it wouldn't take an economist to understand how important women's contributions are to keeping society going. So if we don't get the changes that I think we need, sometime in the 21st century I hope we'll have a global work stoppage inside the home." Not for the first time, Mrs. Clinton seems to be confusing the personal with the political.
There's a further bizarre addendum to the president's Moscow sojourn: The governor of the Russian region of Saratov, a politician called Dmitry Ayatskov, got to meet the leader of the Free World and really, really liked him. How much? The Associated Press quoted a dizzy Ayatskov saying, "I envy Monica Lewinsky." Maybe Mrs. Ayatskov should start her work stoppage right away.