Posted on 03/11/2015 6:37:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the wake of Hillary Rodham Clinton's fairly disastrous press conference at the United Nations on Tuesday, there's only one conclusion shared by all parties: This was not how it was supposed to go.
This was supposed to be the month Clinton led with her chief selling point: her gender. She had put together a whole "I Am Woman, Hear Me Bore" speaking tour in which women's issues -- particularly the women's issues that poll well among women who care a lot about women's issues -- would be the main subject.
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation unveiled a big foofaraw over Hillary's "No Ceilings" campaign. What a wonderfully convenient theme for Mrs. Clinton's massive and mysterious foundation, given that smashing the "highest glass ceiling" -- i.e., the presidency -- is the central rationale of her planned presidential bid. It was just a coincidence that the tax-exempt foundation with her name on it happened to be rolling out a big light show on that very subject during the rollout of her presidential campaign.
It was all carefully scripted, because everything Hillary Clinton does is carefully scripted. Normally, that's a figurative expression. But with Clinton, when things are carefully scripted, they are literally carefully scripted.
On Monday, Hillary had a "No Ceilings" event at the Clinton Foundation. After her opening remarks, the Associated Press reported, she declined to take any questions. "When she sat down to lead more informal conversations with invited speakers, participants appeared to be reading from teleprompters."
I'll give the AP reporters a pass on this odd locution since they at least conveyed the truth to the reader. But for the record, a dialogue between people on a stage in which they read from teleprompters is not an "informal conversation" -- it's a play.
The trouble for Clinton is that, despite all of her preparation, all of her coordination, the world is going off her script. And for a woman who thinks off-the-cuff speaking is switching from her prepared remarks to her prepared note cards, that's a scary place.
That is surely why she set up her own private Internet server. Four times at the U.N., Clinton said she had created her "home-brew" email system simply for "convenience."
"I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two," she said.
Never mind that it's much easier to set up two email systems on one device than it is to set up a whole dark server hidden from the government. And leave aside that a woman who travels with a very large entourage on non-commercial flights could probably manage two devices.
I'm sure she's right. She set up the server for convenience -- but not the convenience of sparing her the load of an additional 4-ounce phone. When you want to hide what you're doing, a private server is definitely the way to go.
Hillary has only two comfort zones: deep in a bunker or high on a pedestal. Drag her out of the former or knock her off the latter and she's at sea.
In her very brief press conference Tuesday, she essentially admitted to the transgression she's been accused of for the past week. She admitted to deleting thousands of emails. She turned over the public emails she deemed safe to give to the public and kept the rest, saying they were private, anointing herself to be the sole arbiter.
"I fully complied with every rule that I was governed by," she said. And: "I have no doubt that we have done exactly what we should have done."
This hints at the attitude that binds her and her husband: the belief that they are governed solely by what they choose to be governed by and what they do is right because they have done it.
The problem for Hillary is she can't sell it. That's why she prefers everything to be scripted. For example, Mrs. Clinton needed to tell the public not to ever come looking for any more email from her, including the allegedly private ones she chose not to share. So she claimed they no longer exist.
"At the end, I chose not to keep my private, personal emails -- emails about planning Chelsea's wedding or my mother's funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends."
Clinton's vast marketing division has been toying with rolling her out as the "Grandmother in Chief." Well, here's a tip: Grandmothers save that kind of stuff.
In the end, what will doom Hillary is that she’s not Bill. For all of his many faults, Bill Clinton has a personal magnetism that allows people to overlook his flaws. But Hillary? She’s simply not likable. The second she no longer looks invincible, people (other than die-hard Clinton loyalists) will look for a reason to bail on her.
Hillary uses urinals.
LOL. To paraphrase the knock on General McClellan — It was carefully scripted and she gave the conference to a compliant press but there still was a fatal flaw — she brought herself to the press conference.
She should have said
“I’m just here so I won’t get fined.”
It’s getting harder and harder for would-be sympathizers to stay sympathetic.
But this whole routine is theologically congruent with what we know as original sin. By every possible method keep up the serpent’s kabuki dance lest it look like, what, God might actually win this thing and the serpent lose.
In the end, the Dems might even be forced to go with someone less radioactive. So far it is a race to the bottom between the main parties but the Dems, never fear, are still going faster.
Barack Hussein Obama campaigned on his greatest strength - his skin color. Voters were disappointed after 2008 when that really did turn out to be his greatest strength. Being slow learners, they were disappointed after 2012 when skin color was still Barack Hussein Obama’s greatest strength.
Hillary’s greatest strength is that she’s female, but she’s not even as much of a woman as Obama is black, and that’s a low standard to meet. I’m hoping she will disappear and the democrats will choose someone with ability rather than just diversity.
yep
“Hillary uses urinals.”
And eats the candy smelling urinal cake for dessert.
Her main problem with her "I am woman" campaign is that she's a white woman. They have Fauxahontas ready to roll out. They don't need Hillary.
Good one!
LOL!!
She didnt look or sound good at all.
Here’s the problem, when Hillary was running State Dept she could hand a lackey like Susan Rice, Jen Psaki or Marie Harf the lies to read off and to take all the heat while she stayed hidden and far away (location unknown, maybe South of France) .
Hillary was never around when bad news had to be explained to the press core, she was only on TV when it was good news.
But now they are no longer at Hillary’s disposal so she has to get on TV and tell her lies herself and she’s terrible at it.
Fauxcahontas is as “white” as a Swede...
But, she has the audacity to make the claim,
and no one dare question it in the media.
Did anyone else get the idea not only the questions, but her answers were entirely scripted, until one reporter went off-message and actually asked her a tough question?
Scott Walker, if nominated, will stomp her to dust in a debate. Unlike most “leading” Repubs, he’s not in awe of her or any other democrat.
It is the millions of Americans who tolerate corruption and dishonesty on all levels of society and of government that are the problem.
Were it not for them and their monumental stupidity, the Clintons and their ilk would never even have gotten started.
The millions of Americans who tolerate--even encourage--such corruption and dishonesty do so because they are themselves dishonest and corrupt--as well as stupid. That's the real problem.
Fixed it.
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