Auntie Charo's Soapbox

I'm no great expert on attorney generals...legal types or the like, but know that when a person has heart and mind in the right place that it can cause that person to be anything he or she wants to be. Alicia Limtiaco (in my humble opinion) is that person. In the few weeks that she's been the island's second elected AG.(the island's first elected woman AG) I've listened to interviews with her on the radio and thought her responses well thought out and put into a language that could be understood by most of the listeners.
This last Sunday, I watched Ms. Limtiaco on t.v. and found that she was not stiff nor stuffy. She was relaxed and comfortable and wasn't a know-it-all....nor did she try to outsmart or outtalk the t.v. host. She was quite the lady.....almost Madeline Z.B.-like.
Hubby made a comment about Ms. Limtiaco. He said that she was comfortable in her skin.
An odd description, I thought.....and I've thought about this for the two days or so. What would make this new AG comfortable in her skin....on radio and on t.v.? This afternoon, I heard her talking to the same radio/t.v. host, Ray Gibson who asked about her opinion about her choice not to get involved in the government's borrowing money to pay off debts until the case was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. She spoke slowly and clearly, describing why she came to make the decision. Stuck in traffic long after the show ended and hearing more about her decision on a simulcast, hubby again reminded me how she was comfortable in her skin.
Since we were in bumper to bumper traffic anyway, I decided to ask just what he meant by the odd description. "She's comfortable being the AG because she knows her stuff. She doesn't have to prove how smart she is because she knows how smart she is and doesn't have to prove it to anyone. She's comfortable talking on the radio and on t.v. because she doesn't have an agenda other than doing what an AG does. She knows she has authority but doesn't need to show it off to feel powerful because she isn't ego-driven. She's got guts and class and she's nice at the same time, you know, like-she's comfortable in her skin."
"Wow, and she's pretty to boot!" He'd forgotten to include the beauty part in describing our new AG.
"Yeah, Nen, she's pretty but even that comes from inside.!" Hubby replies.
The light had turned to green and the car ahead of us didn't move, causing all sorts of horns to sound.....I was figuring that these horn-honkers weren't a bit comfortable in their skin, not comfortable in their vehicle, surely not happy to be on Marine Drive heading to Agana....."You don't suppose the AG would honk her horn to get traffic moving, do you?"
"Naw, she's smarter than that, besides, I think she's patient, don't you?"
"Yup, she's everything he said she was/is and I'm thinking we're pretty lucky to have her for the next four years and best of all, lucky to have her as a role model for young women on this island to emulate. She's a career woman, a wife,a mother and a great AG....what more can one ask for than for one that's comfortable in her skin.