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Why Hillary Can't Be in the Moment
The American Thinker ^ | Doris O'Brien

Posted on 04/18/2015 12:24:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Watching Hillary Clinton reach out and touch ordinary Americans is excruciating. In working a crowd of regular folks, Hillary is fingernails on the blackboard in a pantsuit. It is difficult to imagine anyone more out of touch with their own affect, movement, and connection to the people around them. She is unable to talk, touch, listen or smile in a natural manner. She doesn't seem to know what to do with her hands, where to direct her eyes, her scope of awareness is restricted. A blind person with a stick would be better than Hillary Clinton at reading people around them.

In the staged and rigidly controlled glimpses of her we see people positioned a handshake away wishing to be noticed by this woman, who may be the next president, growing discouraged and becoming commensurately uncomfortable because Hillary can't see them. Everyone is down on Hillary. The right hates her for moral, patriotic, and ideological reasons, the left wing has a worsening case of Hillaphobia. Those on the left who are not too drug-addled to be aware of politics don't like her because they are driven by narcissistic emotional needs which she does not meet. She cannot reach the anti-traditionalist places where the left likes to be massaged, nor can she humor them with hipness. It's too late for Hillary to blow the smoke of radical transformation, on someone else's dime, up the left-wing's collective keister. Hillary can trot out plausible transgenders when necessary, but fundamentally she chose to stand by her man and political expedience at every point in her career. Just being around her makes people feel uncomfortable and she clearly returns the unhappy condition.

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That was Doris O'Brien's warm-up. She concludes with:

"....[Hillary] has become the Dorian Gray of politics, a terrible visage nobody can bear to behold. Nor does she, hiding at the bottom of her own slop bucket, wish to be seen."

1 posted on 04/18/2015 12:24:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“She is unable to talk, touch, listen or smile in a natural manner.”

Throughout the years , have discerned her ‘there’s my ‘bestest’ friend smile. While on stage, campaigning, she points in some general direction and then laser focuses her ‘I’m in with the in crowd’ smile







2 posted on 04/18/2015 2:39:57 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough...the Low Information President Obola (LIPO) goes golfing)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Hillary and her creepily fake grin remind me of:

1) The evil nanny who, under that smiling faceplate, has every intention of drowning your children in the bathtub...

2) A hatchet murderess... and

3) A malevolent, horned demon that is about to leap screeching and snarling out of that layer of wrinkled, aged flesh.


3 posted on 04/18/2015 2:48:10 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Hillary is nothing more than a white, wrinkled form of Obama in pants.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
It is difficult to imagine anyone more out of touch with their own affect, movement, and connection to the people around them.

Inclusive Language--Lesbonics--seems to have infected everyone. Since it is a woman who is being talked about, "their" and "them" should both be "her."

4 posted on 04/18/2015 2:57:49 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Peggy Noonan wrote years ago about an event where Bill and Hillary were doing that pointy thing from a stage—i.e., pointing at “old friends” from “back home.” A gaggle of reporters all swiveled their heads to where the Clintons were pointing, “and there was no one there.”


5 posted on 04/18/2015 3:05:53 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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In 2000, David Horowitz took points from a Peggy Noonan piece and then penned this about the Clintons - it's excellent, long but dripping with the ugly truth about the Left:

Hillary Clinton and "The Third Way" How America's First Lady of the Left Has Bamboozled Liberals and Conservatives Alike

6 posted on 04/18/2015 3:17:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Stand Watch Listen

It’s all an act.

And the full-blown contempt in her people - her inability to empathize with others, is palpable.

She KNOWS the ONLY reason people tolerate being around her is for what she can do for them, or because they fear what she can do to them.


7 posted on 04/18/2015 3:21:50 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Bookmarked that Horowitz piece as it will need to be pushed out or quoted multiple times in the coming months, IMO.

Glad it wasn’t lost to the mists of time.


8 posted on 04/18/2015 3:29:19 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Normally, when candidate for President kicks off the campaign, you'd see a big rally announcing the candidacy, then a real bus tour with public rallies along the way and photo ops at local restaurants as much as possible.

But Hillary Clinton did almost the exact opposite, and as such it has (at least in private) annoyed a lot of people on the Left and made Hillary the subject of ridicule.

9 posted on 04/18/2015 3:33:56 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: T-Bird45
Howowitz knows these people (his parents were "these people" and so was he until the truth hit him upside the head).
10 posted on 04/18/2015 3:35:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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But Hillary Clinton did almost the exact opposite, and as such it has (at least in private) annoyed a lot of people on the Left and made Hillary the subject of ridicule

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

11 posted on 04/18/2015 3:37:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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And Proverbs 17:28. The Bible was a primer for A. Lincoln.


12 posted on 04/18/2015 3:44:55 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Hillary was also Obama's international cleaning lady as his policies weakened the American position around the world. The Benghazi outpost was under Madame Secretary's authority and she is to blame for the outrages which were committed there against Americans. But it is hard to imagine such Muslim-pandering, puerile trash as the video cover story originating with the Clintons. Maybe the scheme was Hillary's idea, we may never know. In this case the video cover story was so ridiculous when it fell apart, it made the righteous outrage of the American people far worse. But there is no doubt Hillary had the most to lose of the cleanup crew, and has been the most sullied by Benghazi. She has the most filth still clinging to her bright green jacket.

This episode of filth will come back to haunt this butchbitch.

13 posted on 04/18/2015 4:15:49 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: ScottinVA

....and that’s on her good days.


14 posted on 04/18/2015 4:17:15 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Ted Cruz 2016)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Bill taught her that. I read a good article once about how a journalist or blogger or someone realized that BC wasn’t really recognizing or pointing at anyone, it was just theatrics. BC would point toward the middle back at the crowd and grin like he’d just found an old friend. There was nobody there!
Hillary (and others) have picked this up and do it too.


15 posted on 04/18/2015 4:24:29 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Never in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This is a fun article on “America’s Ex-Wife.”

She has all the pleasantness and emotional connection of a TSA crotch fondle.


16 posted on 04/18/2015 4:25:58 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Ted Cruz 2016)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

The one caption that goes with all of those photos is “why yes, I will have another vodka and tonic!”

CC


17 posted on 04/18/2015 4:27:44 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

There was an article earlier this week on how PIAPS was a marketing dream come true....for her opposition.

Carpe jugulum.


18 posted on 04/18/2015 4:28:49 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Ted Cruz 2016)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I don’t think she’s functional as a candidate, and I think she’ll be out of the race in 3 months.


19 posted on 04/18/2015 4:33:39 AM PDT by Jim Noble (If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Thank you for posting. It’s a good read and spot on.


20 posted on 04/18/2015 4:36:22 AM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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