article_snippet: (CNN)After spending much of Hillary Clinton de-
article_snippet: 2008 campaign seemingly running away from the fact that Hillary Clinton de- is a woman, Hillary Clinton
article_snippet: It seems that Hillary has found Hillary outer woman, which is to say, Hillary's found the person that Hillary wants to present on the campaign trail, and the person that she wants to present on the campaign trail is resolutely female.
article_snippet: This time Hillary seems to have decided to fully embrace Hillary womanhood as an asset in Hillary quest for the White House and to trust that the voters will do the same.
article_snippet: In 2008, Hillary seemed to think that Hillary had to reassure voters that a woman could be president, primarily by not accentuating the fact that a woman was a woman.
article_snippet: This time around, there seems to be a shared assumption that, of course, a woman would make an excellent president, in part simply by virtue of being a woman.
article_snippet: Of course, Hillary's message will have to resonate beyond female voters.
article_snippet: Among topics that are sometimes seen as more traditional women's issues such as family planning, access to birth control and the right to choose, Hillary has the advantage in that Hillary can make Hillary stance clear, based on Hillary life experiences as a woman.
article_snippet: If Hillary seems more comfortable running as a woman, it's partly because society at large seems more comfortable with a populist-tinged feminism than it was in 2008.
article_snippet: Women have been steadily making strides in the years since Hillary's 2008 campaign, and as Women did, Women smoothed the way for one of Women own to run for the highest office in the land without having to play down Hillary gender.
article_snippet: Hillary is now wisely embracing her gender as a way of capturing the same "hope and change" historical quality of Obama's presidency.
article_snippet: Voters always want change, and Hillary has been a constant on the political stage for decades now.
article_snippet: But electing Hillary president would still represent massive change on a fundamental level.
article_snippet: Hillary wants 2016 to be the Year of the Woman.
article_snippet: And Hillary wants to be the Woman.
highlights_snippet: In 2008, Hillary Clinton de-emphasized gender and ran on Hillary experience .
  
highlights_snippet: Now Hillary Clinton de- is positioning Hillary Clinton de- potential campaign to focus on history-making election of a woman president .