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"I Am A Real Person," Hillary Clinton Says [Her Supporters Are Unreal!]
CBSNews ^ | September 20, 2015 | REBECCA KAPLAN

Posted on 09/20/2015 12:58:38 PM PDT by Steelfish

REBECCA KAPLAN September 20 "I Am A Real Person," Hillary Clinton Says

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was stumped Sunday when "Face the Nation" moderator John Dickerson asked her to name three words that describe "the real Hillary Clinton."

"Just three? I can't possibly do that!" Clinton said, throwing hear head back with laughter. "I mean, look, I am a real person with all the pluses and minuses that go along with being that. And I've been in the public eye for so long that I think, you know, it's like the feature that you see in some magazines sometimes, 'Real people actually go shopping,' you know?"

But Clinton has struggled with perceptions that she is inauthentic on the campaign trail, and her aides recently told the New York Times that she will work to show more humor and heart in her bid for the White House.

She has also struggled to win over voters who are attracted to candidates who seem to be outside the political establishment, something Clinton - with her roles as first lady, senator, secretary of state, and two-time presidential candidate - is not.

But she thinks she is an outsider.

"I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president," Clinton said.

"I know you're asking, 'Do we want people who have never been elected to anything, who have no political experience, who have never made any hard choices in the public area?'" she told moderator John Dickerson. "Well, voters are going to have to decide that."

She also addressed criticism that she is too deep inside the political system to help reorient the economy back toward the middle class.

"I have an economic policy that is centered on raising incomes, because I think what we inherited from the Bush administration,....

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To: Steelfish
I can describe her in three words.

1.) Undesirable

Drunk

Criminal


41 posted on 09/20/2015 4:23:49 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: elcid1970

Ahhhh!!! My brain!!! My brain!!!


42 posted on 09/20/2015 4:46:26 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Fantasywriter

Nope!

Real live bitch!


43 posted on 09/20/2015 6:06:07 PM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
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To: Steelfish

How about “Waste of Skin?”


44 posted on 09/20/2015 6:07:18 PM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
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To: Fantasywriter
Hillary in three words: Not gonna win.

Then there's the six word version:

All washed up, but still stinks.

45 posted on 09/21/2015 2:40:37 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb

Haha!


46 posted on 09/21/2015 10:52:34 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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