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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A classic example was her now-infamous answer to Tim Russert's question at the MSNBC debate in Philadelphia. His question was simple: should illegals be issued driver's licenses? Since she evidently wasn't prepared thoroughly—Oh God, a surprise!—she petulantly labeled it a "gotcha" question. Then she gave a pretzellike, contradictory response. Later, the campaign issued its own tortured statements, but spent most of its time and energy blaming the big, bad (that is, uncontrollable) moderator.
Hillary is surrounded by the savviest, most experienced Democratic handlers in the business. And yet their dominant collective emotion sometimes seems to be a kind of joyless, anticipatory fear.
Having served at Bill Clinton's side for so many years, Hillary's team may know almost too much about the risks and brutalities of political life. As a result, they may be amplifying, rather than allaying, her self-destructive desire to master all that she surveys.
Her close friends say that there is a warm, charming and at-ease Hillary Clinton. I'm not a friend but even I have seen it, especially when she is around kids. Folks see it when there are no cameras around. Voters see it when she speaks to small groups in living rooms, where she is at ease, feeling that she knows the room and therefore feels safe.
She needs to make the whole country that living room.
If she doesn't stop being afraid to lose—or even to make a mistake—she isn't going to win.
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