Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumGene Lyons: Hillary's staff "ought to go...walk the plank" (HILLARY GROUP)
...its always been clear that no Democratic woman, and certainly not one named Clinton, can be elected President of the United States without being designated a brass-plated bitch. Having failed to entomb Bill Clinton and drive a wooden stake through his heart, wrecking Clintons candidacy has become the Washington press cliques overriding goal.
And yet the geniuses running her campaign act as if they dont know it. Consider reporter Amy Chozicks remarkable piece in the September 8 issue of The New York Times: Hillary Clinton to Show More Humor and Heart, Aides Say. According to extensive interviews with top strategists at the campaigns Brooklyn headquarters, Chozick wrote, Mrs. Clinton would be urged to exhibit empathy and humor on the campaign trail...
Well, it seems here that everybody in Clintons Brooklyn office involved in the Times exclusive ought to walk the plank. Voluntarily or otherwise. The Daily Callers sarcastic headline summed thing up perfectly: Hillary Plans To Be More Spontaneous.
The idea of Clinton as a kind of political Stepford Wife, calculating and inauthentic to use the cant term, is so deeply imprinted in the press cliques standard narrative that they reacted pretty much the way your dog does when you rattle his leash...
Esquires always understated Charles P. Pierce calls Clinton staffers a writhing ball of faithless snakes, more concerned with advancing themselves than electing her. Do they not grasp that wrecking her candidacy is Priority One at the New York Times?
Indeed, no sooner had Clinton made a rote apology for the manufactured email scandal than staffers who insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations, hurried to the same Times reporter to emphasize that theyd been urging her to kiss the news medias collective feet for weeks.
Supposedly, Bill had resisted the idea on the grounds that she hadnt done anything wrong. Supposedly too, he urged staffers to try harder to make that clear.
Based solely on her appearance on Chris Hayes MSNBC program, Id say the aforementioned Palmieri President Obamas former communications director couldnt explain how to pour sand out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel. Her speech mannerisms make her difficult to follow, and she talks in circles.
The Clinton campaign needs to send out more spokespeople like former governors Howard Dean and Jennifer Granholm, who are capable of clarity and forcefulness. Here we are months into this pointless debacle and its left to the Justice Department to state that Clintons email arrangements were legal, proper, and presumably known to everybody in the Obama administration who sent her a message.
And, oh yeah, that business about how Clintons obsessive secrecy caused her computers server to be wiped of all data? That was false also, as Bill Clinton apparently wanted the campaign to say all along....
via National Memo http://www.nationalmemo.com/the-never-ending-hillary-clinton-story/
msrizzo
(796 posts)Maybe she should hire Gene Lyons.
riversedge
(70,216 posts)with the humor and spontaneous crap. I agree that the staff should NOT had advertised that make over.
DeepModem Mom
(38,402 posts)I think given the choice, I'd go with Bill's political instincts.
msrizzo
(796 posts)Bill for campaign manager.
mcar
(42,329 posts)His political instincts are amazing.