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Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumHRC wants to talk with you about love & kindness
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In the early days of her husbands administration, Hillary Clinton tried to start a national conversation about basic human decency, only to be mocked. In the midst of the most mean-spirited presidential campaign in memory, she talks with BuzzFeed News about the unchanged way she sees herself and if shell ever be able to communicate it.
Here is Hillary Clinton as seen by many: calculating, lacking principle, lacking conviction, driven by power and ambition. After eight years in the White House, two Senate races, and a term as secretary of state, she is followed by the popular image of a candidate willing to do whatever or be whoever, so long as the polls say she should.
Here is how Hillary Clinton sees herself: radically consistent, motivated by a core philosophy voiced now through two words rarely associated with her. Love and kindness. If this sounds unlikely, she knows it. For 50 years, shes struggled to explain the values that motivate her in public life, as a candidate, as a person. The one time she really tried to, in the early 1990s, she was brutally mocked. In the view of some of her closest aides, Clinton never fully recovered from the critical backlash.
Now, Clinton doesnt talk about this much, not like she did then. On this particular day, after a routine campaign event at a college in Manchester, New Hampshire after taking photos and giving a speech, after getting a question from the audience about the women whove alleged they were sexually assaulted by her husband and answering it without hesitation or alarm, after moving onto the noise and chaos of a crowded rope line Clinton is shepherded away to the quiet of an available room: the buildings industrial-style kitchen. And its in this setting, seated in a fold-out chair at a small table, that Clinton seems almost surprised by the most basic line of questioning: why she runs.
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HRC wants to talk with you about love & kindness (Original Post)
Her Sister
Mar 2016
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Her Sister
(6,444 posts)1. there's a lot of exposition there. love this:
So when I get the zing, or the criticism, you know, I dont take it so much to heart, she says. I try to take criticism seriously, but not personally. Like if somebody writes something or says something that is critical, you know, I will kind of process it and think, Well maybe there is something to that. But I wont take it personally. Not anymore. Its not gonna get to me.
wise!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)2. K & R