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Actress Sharon Stone has warned Hillary Rodham Clinton to stay out of the 2008 US presidential race, saying the New York senator and former first lady is too sexy to win back the keys to the White House.
Stone said Senator Clinton had an intimidating sexuality that would cost her votes."I think Hillary Clinton is fantastic, but I think it is too soon for her to run (for president)," Stone said in the latest edition of Hollywood Life magazine.
"A woman should be past her sexuality when she runs. Hillary still has sexual power and I don't think people will accept that. It's too threatening."
But while Stone wants the 58-year-old Senator Clinton to wait untilher sexualitysubsides, singer Madonna is urging her to "go for it" in 2008, even though thetimingmight not be right for Americans to put their trust in a woman president.
"I don't think now is necessarily her time, or the Democrats' time, but she should certainlygo for it," Madonna reportedly told Out magazine.
"You've got to start somewhere in terms of a woman leading the US. In Europe and Asia and elsewhere, women have ruled over millions. It's not an abstract concept.
"But in America, men are still afraid. And I don't think women are too comfortable with the idea of a female in charge."
The Stone-Madonna comments come less than a year after the controversial biographyThe Truth About Hillary, in which journalist Ed Klein, a former editor of The New York Times magazine, claimed Senator Clinton's politics were shaped by a culture ofradical feminism and lesbianismat Wellesley College in Massachusetts in the 1960s.
Klein's book also canvassed White House gossip suggesting that Senator Clinton and husband Bill Clinton did not have sex when he was president and she was first lady.
(Agencies)
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