Excellent note, afype. I think your use of sarcastic hyperbole really underscores how silly most of the fears of the right are. Who really thinks anyone would be dumb enough to do some of those things, let alone all of them? I feel a lot more comfortable with her in the White House with your perspective. And to all those folks that missed the humor - look out!! the boogeyman is right behind you!!! Oh and your fly is down.
Hillary’s Achilles’ Heel
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Confidence and insecurity run a never-ending race in Hillary's mind. Her biographers, including Sally Bedell Smith and Carl Bernstein, ascribe her character to a stern, judgmental father who was tough on her and even tougher on her sainted mother.
The longing for order has its virtues. At Wellesley she was the student leader who counseled her classmates to turn disruptive anger into teachable moments and electoral politics. In her family life she was passionate about providing a safe harbor for her daughter Chelsea, whose privacy was respected and who was rarely used as a political prop.
Within the orderly cocoon of "Hillary World," friends stay friends for life, and she elicits the kind of walk-through-walls loyalty that other politicians cannot match.
She demands, and actually studies, carefully constructed memos on every topic. For important speeches she writes her words out long-hand, and places backup material in labeled and tabbed folders. She knows the names and college affiliations and family backgrounds of every thoroughly vetted summer intern in her office.
That's the good news. But there is a major downside.
She tries, against all logic and against her own best interest, to anticipate and answer every substantive and political objection to everything she says. This can lead to locutions so tortured and timid as to seem ludicrous or, worse, evasive or dishonest. Sometimes, covering all the bases ends up looking like merely covering up.
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