Hillary Clinton to Unveil Talk-About-Her-Mom Strategy at First Campaign Rally

[Purveyor]

Hillary Clinton spent the opening weeks of her campaign addressing policy issues like criminal justice reform, voting rights, and equal pay for women.

But as Clinton transitions to a new, more intense phase of her campaign, expect her to get personal.

At Clinton’s first official campaign rally this Saturday in New York City, aides say the Democratic presidential candidate will make her most extensive pitch yet on why she should be president. And her late mother, Dorothy Rodham, will play a central role.

Clinton has said her mother, who passed away in 2011, is her biggest role model and the woman from whom she learned valuable lessons about resilience.

Over the years Clinton has often shared her mother’s life story, which was full of trauma and abuse. In Clinton's telling, Dorothy Rodham was abandoned by her parents as a young girl and sent to live with her unloving paternal grandparents in California. At the age of 14 she left home and found work as a housekeeper.

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[JayhawkSD]

1. Using her as a campaign ploy does not honor her mother.

On the low key all these years, and then making her mother a plank in her campaign. How many people will recognize the, "Well, being raised by a single mother worked for Barack, maybe I should use the bit about my mother having had a tough life thing, too," ploy? No one who is all gaga over Hillary will spot that ploy, even as transparent as it is, nor will all of those who are on the "we need a woman in the White House" bandwagon. The latter will see this as evidence that Hillary is "ready for the 3AM phone call" because her mother "raised her to be strong," and was a "powerful role model."

[geek tragedy]

2. Just because this is the first you've read about her mother doesn't mean

she hasn't talked about her before . . .

[JayhawkSD]

3. I said "on the low key"

And the original post was headlined with her to "Unveil Talk-About-Her-Mom Strategy."

It is a campaign ploy, and a transparent emulation of the "single mom" strategy that Obama's team has pimped for eight plus years, including his initial campaign.

[geek tragedy]

4. So Obama has been 'pimping' single moms? Nice rhetoric.

Single women are citizens, and human beings, too.

[JayhawkSD]

8. Don't put words in my mouth that I didn't say.

The "single mom" was an adjectibe, a modifier of what I said he was pimping. The noun, the article I said he was pimping was a strategy.

[geek tragedy]

9. How does one "pimp" a strategy?

You clearly resent Obama trying to speak to the concerns of single women.

That is . . . curious.

I remind you they are human beings and voters whose concerns are as valid as yours.

[karynnj]

5. I remember reading it -- I think in her first autobiography that was written shortly after she left

the White House. Ignoring HRC for a moment, my response then and now, was respect for how her mother, with the help of her husband, was able to go from that background to creating a healthy, normal family life for her own children.

I have seen that occasionally in my own life where people were able to survive abuse and NOT repeat it in there own parenting. It is a huge testament to them that they can.

[Beacool]

6. Bullcrap.

Her mother appeared with her at many events and even shot an ad for her in 2008. She has spoken about her mother innumerable amounts of time, the fact that you are not aware of it is your problem not hers.

[JayhawkSD]

10. Um. did you read the headline of the original post?

I am aware of it. I am referring to the headine, which touted Hillary's opening move to "Unveil Talk-About-Her-Mom Strategy" in her campaign.

Using her mother's story as a campaign strategy is cynical and phoney.

[quadrature]

7. excellent decision!

her late mom is important.

other things, not so much.
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