2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton's private emails reveal a time she schooled experts on an obscure scientific detail
The speech "focuses on a chronically overlooked issue (nutrition)," Rooney writes, adding: "This is a speech that only you could give and a number of constituencies will be delighted by it."
In her reply, Clinton appears happy with the speech: "It is so much better thank you," she writes. But then Clinton raises a number of questions. Most interesting, she catches what appears to be an error: "Is the Vitamin A research on p. 8 accurate given recent research that raised doubts about it [sic] efficacy?"
Hours later and only minutes before Clinton was scheduled to speak came a reply: "You were right about Vitamin A, no surprise (although a bit surprising that none of the experts noticed it)," Rooney writes. "I've changed it to oral rehydration therapy."
http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-private-emails-science-corrected-vitamin-a-speech-2016-8
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)with "Winnebago's of death" and 'This is anthrax"!
Wake up America!
She is qualified and I also doubt a PDB on bin Laden would have been allowed to get lightly brushed aside as Rice allowed Bush to do!
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)Powell is not to be trusted, he's a tool.
lewebley3
(3,412 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,681 posts)Interrogate! Waterboard! Pilliwinks!!!!! Trial by FIRE!!!!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,681 posts)Your laughter has made my day.
In their time, they were devices to be feared:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbscrew_(torture)
csziggy
(34,120 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,350 posts)pays attention! She will make an excellent President!
whistler162
(11,155 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,132 posts)criminality!
red dog 1
(27,648 posts)Although I backed Obama over Hillary in 2008, and I backed Bernie Sanders over her this year; I now find myself admiring her more & more every day; and this OP is just one more example of why.
(I still think she should have chosen Sen. Warren as her running mate)
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)Hekate
(90,202 posts)Love Hillary. Love her smarts. Love her heart.
riversedge
(69,731 posts)his teleprompter
Enrique
(27,461 posts)#NerdHillary reads her speeches. LOSER.
calimary
(80,700 posts)She's actually gotten down into the weeds of all these different topics and fine points and minutae that none of us have brushed up on or even know there's a subject or issue here to be talked about. Her familiarity AND expertise on topic after topic after topic, including some really obscure ones, is literally astounding.
I feel the same way, reading this, as I did after I read the L.A. Times interview with her during primary season. She got way down deep into details about a youngster with an ailment I'd never heard of - among many other topics about which she knew quite a bit. Not only did she know about the kid with the ailment, she knew all kinds of little details about it and its treatment. I had no idea. Had never even heard about it before. It was almost to the point of ridiculousness. I was quite incredulous. I thought "Shit - is there NOTHING this woman doesn't know?"
I want those brains in the Oval Office, dammit. Seated behind the Resolute Desk, dammit.
mercuryblues
(14,491 posts)early primary state. I had already voted by the time the first debate occurred. When I watched that debate I noticed Hillary had such a grasp on issues right down to the minute detail, with very specific plans. That debate made me feel comfortable to vote for whoever won that primary.
Free-Way-Fanny
(15 posts)... SECRETE SCIENTIST!!!! i'm pretty sure some of those so-called "pantsuits" are really LAB COATS!!!!!
renate
(13,776 posts)Wow!
zonkers
(5,865 posts)no science wonk. Is this really a big deal?