Posted on 04/25/2018 5:37:54 AM PDT by simpson96
A curious dualism emerges in New York Times reporter Amy Chozicks book Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling. As I noted yesterday, Chozick makes it clear that she was rooting for Clinton. But she also thinks Clinton hates her.
Chozick shouldnt take things so personally: Clinton hates everyone. You cant relate to people you despise. Her inability to master the basics of being a politician inspired one of the great underreported witticisms of the 2016 campaign, when Donald Trump was asked about his comparatively loose debate preparations. I dont need to rehearse being human, he said.
As a college sophomore, Clinton once described herself as a misanthrope. Her inability to hide that made her an amazingly poor candidate, one who would have had difficulty capturing a seat on any city council on her own. Dealing with the populace standing between her and power was never anything but a chore.
Chozick and the other reporters covering Clinton in 201516 were pulling for her. You could hear it in the questions they asked. Chozick makes it obvious in her new book. Yet Clinton was convinced this gaggle of liberal women was somehow out to take her down, and she barricaded herself off from them. She was a glum loner, not a happy warrior.
After the election defeat, Chozick met with a Democratic-party stalwart who was a major Clinton supporter in an apartment with a panoramic view of Manhattan and walls covered with Monets. (Chozick doesnt identify this person.) Look around, the big shot told the reporter. Im not a loser. Hillary is a L-O-S-E-R. Then the person made an L sign with one hand.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Hillary Clinton, human? She has no idea of the concept. From the beginning it’s always been about me, me, me...
However, the axe is about to fall and by the time it’s over she’ll never want attention again.
Tone-deaf, aloof, arrogant, self-entitled and self-righteous..... What a train-wreck she is and her campaign was. And Thank God she is not president.
Clintons poor political instincts infected the entire campaign. One aide ripped a sign saying I [heart] Hillary out of a little girls hands in Phoenix because Brooklyn [the site of Clintons headquarters] thought it best that Everydays hold professionally produced signs that displayed the message du jour rather than something made with love and some finger paint.
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Wow. Zero political acumen.
Defects and all, she still would have squashed any conventional GOP candidate in 2016 (and 2020).
“Tone-deaf, aloof, arrogant, self-entitled and self-righteous..... What a train-wreck she is and her campaign was. And Thank God she is not president. “
Couldn’t have said it better!
“All who hate me, love death”—Wisdom, Proverbs 8:36
“That inability to schmooze was a noxious gas, the flammable hydrogen that doomed Clintons two Hindenburg-like presidential campaigns.”
It HAS been rather entertaining watching that gasbag go down not once, but twice. Great article.
Despite what this author thinks of Clinton and it doesn’t appear she thinks much of her she and her fellow journalists were still in her corner.
Basically this story says that Hillary was considered to be loathsome by the press, a feeling that was mutual, yet the press was 100% behind her anyway. Basically, the press would have supported Charles Manson or Jerry Sandusky if either was the dem nominee. But we already knew that.
For an example, look at what is happening to the Kennedys now. The movie Chappaquiddick would never have been made while Teddy was still in the Senate. But now he’s gone, and the lid is coming off the garbage can that is the Kennedy legacy.
Hillary may live to see the movie about her own buried history, way things are going.
Thanks simpson96.
Chozick makes it obvious in her new book.
Yet Clinton was convinced this gaggle of liberal women was somehow out to take her down, and she barricaded herself off from them.
The election was rigged in Hillary's favor - from corrupt butt kissing 'reporters' - to black voter fraud, to ALL TV networks, to an unethical FBI and an amoral CIA ... AND HILLARY STILL LOST...
Um. This is old. Kate McKinnon won an Emmy for her misanthropic Hillary on SNL two years ago. Not a secret.
when Donald Trump was asked about his comparatively loose debate preparations. I dont need to rehearse being human, he said.]
Oh my gosh, never heard that. Delicious!
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