Posted on 12/11/2014 8:40:42 AM PST by PROCON
So far it looks like Mrs. Clinton would have at least as many problems in 2016 as she did in 2008.
There have generally been two reactions to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Dec. 3 statement at Georgetown University that America should try to “empathize” with our nation’s “enemies.”
One camp holds that Mrs. Clinton simply chose the wrong word to express a banal thought—that the U.S. must understand its enemies. The other camp says her State Department record demonstrates she herself lacks the empathy to know how to deal with America’s adversaries or allies.
Both responses are true, yet I have another observation about her speech: It is further evidence Mrs. Clinton is at best a mediocre presidential candidate. She was lackluster in 2008 and worse today. The stiff, off-putting style is familiar. What’s more surprising is how sloppy, ill-prepared and tone-deaf she has become.
If Mrs. Clinton intended to say we must understand our adversaries—their motivations, methods and goals—she should have said so. If her speechwriter’s draft was unclear, she should have ordered a rewrite. If she can’t summon warmth and wit now, how will she display a winning personality in her umpteenth hundred event, assuming she becomes a candidate?
The empathy quote was memorialized on video. It may come back to haunt her: Sounding like President Obama on foreign policy isn’t going to help her win in 2016, when the world is likely to be more chaotic and American interests even more threatened.
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Isn't going to happen, Carl, the drivebys will do what they always do; scorch Republicans and embrace democrats.
POWER
PANTSUIT POWER!
It is her density...
Plain and simple.
She’s a narcissist just like 0’Barry ....
Exactly. POWER.
I think it is revenge driven myself. She wants to obliterate and/or enslave those who have spoken out against her in the past. She and her husband-in-name-only are built that way.
IMHO, Hillary is the most power hungry female in the country.
Same as Obama : )
I think right now Hillary is hearing two voices...
her giant ego telling her she’ll win this time
and some high paid consultants saying “this could well be a repeat of 2008”
Seeing MoveOn start funding FauxCahontas the other day indicates to me the Mob wants to take her down again.
Unlimited bar tab.
That’s an easy power & money!
For later.
When people refer to the power hunger of the left,
they need to further define it.
The sheeperal left see gov’t power as beneficial, because they NEED power in order to “do good”.
Of course, that’s not the motivation for the “elite” -
Power means, specifically, power over the lives of other human beings. Power to control and destroy.
” She wants to obliterate and/or enslave those who have spoken out against her in the past. “
Her hatred for anything or anyone good has no bounds.
” Power means, specifically, power over the lives of other human beings. Power to control and destroy.”
Obama & Hillary in a nutshell.
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