About Hillary's Town Hall last night...

No one doubts Hillary's confidence and intelligence - that were on full display when Hillary met with Rachel Maddow at a Philadelphia Town Hall on Monday night. Confidence and intelligence are her strengths! Unfortunately they also can be some of her most glaring weaknesses as a Presidential candidate. She comes off too often as one of those "can't do wrong", lawyerly types who will argue anything at the drop of a hat! I watched the entire Town Hall exchange live and was viscerally repulsed by her attitude of disdain for Bernie Sanders and his supporters. But like so much of what we've seen on Facebook, at DU and other sites - Hillary and her supporters don't respect Bernie or his legion of backers.

All the confidence in Hillary's strength of character and intelligence mean little in the electoral process of impressions and feelings. If a voter just doesn't like Hillary, for whatever reason - voting for her in November may not just be hard, it could be downright impossible for too many good Democrats/Progressives and of course Democratic Socialists. Hillary is blowing an opportunity to grow the party, expand the electorate to her advantage, and to improve her favorability ratings. Instead of moving to the left for the primaries - like all Democratic candidates in history - she's taken a few small steps to the left and several lurches to the right. Why is she doing this? Maybe instead of being cocksure of herself all of the time, with this 2.7 million vote/900 pledged delegate lead she likes to talk about all of the time - she can try being a little more Obama-like and open her heart to the 8+ million progressives supporting Bernie Sanders this election cycle.

To use the Game of Thrones reference from the title, "It's time to kill the lawyer, Hillary Clinton! Kill the lawyer and let the President come out". The only way Hillary can win the primary and general election is to earn the support of Bernie's Democratic voters, attract new people to the party (to include Bernie's millennial voters), and to win a majority of Independents as well. Being the know-it-all lawyer is not the way that is going to happen! She needs to become not just the Democratic woman who wants to be President, but the women WE want to become President of the U.S.A. Her performance on last night's Town Hall may have enthused her supporters - but I'm confident she didn't win over any new voters! Kill the lawyer Hillary Clinton! Kill the lawyer and let the President come out!