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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 05:54 PM Oct 2015

For Hillary Clinton, Strong Beats Soft




There is a bit of received wisdom in this presidential election cycle that Hillary Clinton needs to be softer, nicer, less intimidating — the list goes on. Journalists write about whether she missed or seized a “humanizing moment,” because of course she is not human.

Mrs. Clinton, who has been struggling with her image since she entered public life as the wife of the governor of Arkansas, feels obliged to play into this narrative. She is trying to be grandmotherly, to display her sense of humor on TV. Stories about how giggly and funny she is in private are making the rounds again.

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I’m just saying as one voter that Hillary Clinton does better when she’s not trying to disguise that she is a brilliant, talented and strong-minded person who has fought for her current position in the race and overcome some pretty astonishingly bad moments along the way (which I guess is what Representative Roby was trying to bring up in her maladroit questioning about who was in Mrs. Clinton’s bed that night).

The choice before us all is who will be the next president of the United States – a job for which warm and fuzzy is not really all that useful.


http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/for-hillary-clinton-strong-beats-soft/
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For Hillary Clinton, Strong Beats Soft (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 OP
I dont know of anyone on this board who has ever suggested she not fight these jerkwads w everything Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #1
That was Ed Henry from FOX DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #2
Doesnt matter. Her campaign suffered due to her handling of it. Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #4
I agree... She has handled things better... DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #5
Yeah, he's one of these sweaty, doughy guys who looks like his head is some sort of goo Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #6
He'a always perfectly coiffed with that stupid pocket square... DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #7
I love that gif BainsBane Oct 2015 #3
I suspect she knew it would be turned into one, when she did that move. Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #8

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
1. I dont know of anyone on this board who has ever suggested she not fight these jerkwads w everything
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:03 PM
Oct 2015

She's got.

I think you can graph her campaign's problems- and recovery- along with some pretty clear markers- to wit, her biggest problems started at the time of the vegas news conference and her non-answers about the server and "what, with a cloth"?

That wasnt strong fighting, that was acting annoyed and exasperated that she should even have to bother. That's not the same thing.

Conversely, she came into the Benghazi circus hearing ready and able to easily deflect GOP bullshit, not with lame jokes or evasions, but by displaying the seasoned political fighter we had been promised all along that she is.

She keeps it up, I'd give very good odds that she is our next President. And I say that as someone who is supporting Sanders in the primaries.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
2. That was Ed Henry from FOX
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:23 PM
Oct 2015

I will use a bunch of colloquialisms...


That clown is the reporter FOX News has assigned to her. Regardless of how well they treat him he is never going to write good thing about her consequently I would fuck with him every chance I got, in private of course.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
4. Doesnt matter. Her campaign suffered due to her handling of it.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:27 PM
Oct 2015

That is a simple, inescapable fact.

A lot of people here at the time played that game of "but but butbutbut fox news guy!"

The folks in her own camp, however, KNEW that her handling of it was bad. They know that she needs to be on her game even when she's dealing with partisan hack jobs. Especially then.

Which is what happened with Gowdy the pinhead. She handed his ass to him. Well done.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
5. I agree... She has handled things better...
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:30 PM
Oct 2015

But if I was on Team Hillary I would make Ed Henry miserable...

When they give out doughnuts he wouldn't get one...

If I were on her staff I would turn my back on him when I saw him..

I might even deliberately flatulate in his direction...

I can't stand his foppish countenance.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
6. Yeah, he's one of these sweaty, doughy guys who looks like his head is some sort of goo
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:33 PM
Oct 2015

That has been squeezed through the aperture of his constricted shirt neck.


Also see: Cruz, Ted.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
8. I suspect she knew it would be turned into one, when she did that move.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:35 PM
Oct 2015

Either way, it was perfectly executed.

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