3/28 Time Mag: Hillary Is Our Very Own Kale and Quinoa Salad

[grasswire]

Time Magazine's Joe Klein (a long-time advocate for the Clintons) talks about Hillary's answer to the doctor/voter who said he and his family are thinking of moving out of the USA because they are afraid of Trump:

http://time.com/4262504/to-take-out-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-must-first-stop-acting-like-a-politician/

Clinton seems particularly ill equipped for the task [of taking out Trump]. She is our very own quinoa and kale salad, nutritious but bland. Worse, she’s the human embodiment of the Establishment that Trump has been running against. “I am not a natural politician,” she has admitted, and Tapper asked her what she means by that. She said she couldn’t speak “in poetry” the way her husband and Barack Obama can. True dat, but poetry is only the beginning of Clinton’s deficiencies. Indeed, her real problem is that she’s too much of a politician. She still speaks like politicians did 20 years ago, when her husband was President. This year, the candidates who have seemed the most appealing–Trump, Sanders, John Kasich–don’t use the oratorical switchbacks that have been beaten to death since John F. Kennedy: “We need a uniter, not a divider.” They also, sadly, don’t take carefully nuanced positions. Asked about fracking in her Flint, Mich., debate with Sanders, Clinton split hairs with a microlaser, leaving everyone confused. Sanders simply said, “I do not support fracking.”

Clinton no doubt assumes that Trump will come after her personally–and that her thick skin will protect her. But here’s an easy one: What if Trump raises her husband’s “deplorable”–Sanders’ description–exploitation of Monica Lewinsky directly in a debate? Will she have the jujitsu cool to respond, “Deplorable? Hell yeah. That’s why he slept on the couch for six months”?

There is an odd new law of U.S. politics: You can lie, as Trump does all the time, egregiously, but you can’t temporize. You can’t avoid a position on the XL pipeline or the Trans-Pacific trade deal, as Clinton tried to do in the campaign. You can’t try to please too many people too much of the time. Raising your voice to make a point–which Clinton does all the time, disastrously, because it seems such a conscious act–won’t get you anywhere unless you’re really angry.

In the end, I’m not at all certain that Clinton can beat Trump. He is free-form and anarchic and silly and devastating. She is rote. The answer to Dr. Majmudar’s question may involve a simplicity that eludes her. To beat Trump, she is going to have to be patient, dignified, self-deprecating, utterly factual and brutally honest (about herself). Poetry isn’t going to work this year.

Much more at the link. Constructive criticism.

[JaneyVee]

1. The easiest way to defeat Donald Trump?

Just keep asking him: How?

It will become blatantly obvious as you keep asking him that simple question what a complete dope he is. Over and over and over again.

[grasswire]

3. People have been doing that.

You keep thinking that will work, eh?

HIS VOTERS DON'T CARE.

[JaneyVee]

4. His voters are a tiny fraction of America.

Anyone who wants to pay attention will see a dope.

[Fast Walker 52]

8. yeah, I really can't see how he holds up under any sort of scrutiny... which is why the GOP

is freaked out right now.

[0rganism]

6. it didn't work in the primary, as you've observed

but in the general, assuming he actually wants to be president, Trump will have to go at least a little deeper into the "how", maybe one layer of "how" would be enough, hard to say. voters, his or otherwise, don't like lengthy explanations, so he'll have to be on-message when he does answer a "how" question.

[MisterP]

2. "if she were a spice she'd be flour"

[JoePhilly]

5. Try to make a cake without flour.

These attacks are getting pretty funny.

[bunnies]

9. Oh, thats easy.

And actually quite delicious.



http://allrecipes.com/recipe/52718/flourless-chocolate-cake-ii/

[Enrique]

7. she is not the one that's going to beat him

it's going to be her campaign, and I hope she has a good one.