Posted on 04/28/2017 5:49:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
While we're examining the accomplishments of Donald Trump's first hundred days -- putting his man on the U.S. Supreme Court is the biggie -- Hillary Clinton is getting the once-over (and the second and third) for all the reasons why she's not the first woman to preside over her first hundred days in the Oval Office.
She never understood that "the fault, dear Hillary, is not in the stars, but in yourself."
In "Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign," the book Washington, D.C., is talking about, Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes write a sweeping drama with lots of supporting actors strutting across the stage. The characters are worthy of the Bard. It's a tale told not in the poetry of Elizabethan tragedy but as a comedy or farce.
When the curtain finally falls on election night, there are no dead bodies to drag off stage, but lots of Machiavellian characters litter the landscape, muttering asides and revealing dark insights into behind-the-scenes machinations. The cast includes a husband with no "impulse-control button" and enough jesters, fools and sycophants to destroy the myth of the irresistible Hillary Juggernaut that was ordained to elect the first woman president of the United States.
In one richly farcical case of mistaken identity, an aide misunderstands the name of the interviewer Clinton wanted for her first television interview. She said she wanted Bianna, meaning Bianna Golodryga of Yahoo! News, the wife of Peter Orszag, a onetime economic adviser for President Bill Clinton whom she considered friendly and deferential. The aide thought she meant Brianna, as in Brianna Keilar, and that's who got the live interview for CNN. She asked tough questions about Hillary Clinton's infamous email server.
Clinton grew defensive, especially when she was asked, "Would you vote for someone that you didn't trust?" This was a classic softball, which someone at ease with the press might have knocked out of the park. Instead, Clinton glared daggers at Keilar and replied, as if in a sulk, "People should and do trust me." The lady doth protest too much, methinks -- and so did much of the national audience.
Such insights, errors and sloppy work dogged her throughout the campaign, and this after-the-fact focus in this season of her discontent shows her to be the culprit in her demise. "Shattered" suggests why a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll suggests that President Donald Trump, despite low approval ratings, would still defeat Clinton today -- 43 percent saying they would vote for the Donald, and 40 percent for the Lady Macbeth of Little Rock. A remarkable 96 percent of Trump voters say they would vote for him again, and only 85 percent of Clinton voters would still vote for her.
Richard Nixon might have felt at home in the Clinton bunker. After her 2008 loss to Barack Obama, Clinton aides reportedly assigned loyalty scores to members of Congress, from one to seven. A score of one reflected high loyalty; seven signified likely to commit "egregious acts of treachery." Such expectations of disloyalty terrified everyone in the bunker.
Donald Trump, by contrast, inspires a different kind of loyalty. His supporters stick with him despite his evident flaws, his angry tweets and his anger that can go public in an instant. They nevertheless believe he's got their back. There's no mushy empathy like the Clintons' phony assurance that "we feel your pain." The president's fans don't like some of the things he's done but still think he'll deliver on his promise to bring about change and destroy the establishment of the elites that has grown fat and stale, surviving long past its sell-by date.
In town halls during spring break, many voters vented anger at congressmen for their support of the president. But Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, as typical of the president's loyal friends in Congress, offered a defense. "We'd be hard-pressed to find a president who doesn't have flaws," she said. "I support a majority of the policies versus the actual person." A Bubba defender couldn't have said it better.
Hillary Clinton has yet to measure the man or understand the "ordinary" men and women who stand with the president. When her aides were preparing her for one of the debates and had to choose someone to play the Donald, casting was a problem because the campaign didn't want a "Saturday Night Live" imitation but someone to rattle and annoy her. Anthony Weiner, the sexting husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin, was suggested. But Philipe Reines, a senior aide with an acid tongue and a reputation for rudeness, was selected. He helped her to an unflappable debate performance but couldn't do anything about the schoolmarm style that turned off the millions. Hillary Clinton is a woman of many gifts but not what the poet Bobby Burns described as the gift "to see ourselves as others see us." It was the fatal flaw.
Hillary is politically DEAD. Stop with this constant analysis.
She has the personality of a cold, dead fish. Her personality and her corruption were clearly on national display -- and now she's dead. End of story. Just let he go back into the woods never to be heard from again!
It’s my belief that HRC was exposed as a liar, an unabashed liar, and an unabashed liar about things of true nat’l security import for the mere purpose of saving her own skin, that her core core constituency, white suburban housewives simply could not overlook the lying any more and thus could not vote for her. Her actions, reminded them, immutably and irretrievably, of the rotten liars they (and all of us) have known in our lives and are sworn to avoid.
To me it’s that simple. She devised her own strategy to overcome the bumper stickers. She lied so often, so deeply, so pathologically, that many many genitalists could not stomach her.
It will show up on the "Lifetime" network (a.k.a., the "All Men Are Slime" channel.)
She is a Senator, everyone in the state is in her district.
Hmmm...so what would that list of her "many gifts" look like?
Those are what come right off the top of my head without even thinkng about it...
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
— Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5
Anyone familiar with Shakespeare will immediately recognize this story as the Macbeth of our time......................
You are correct, bad wording on my part.
Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa.
that her core core constituency, white suburban housewives
this struck me, because reviews of election results, show that Trump won among such women.
Trump won among white women.
Trump won strongly among white women without a college education.
Trump won with married women.
Clearly, big groups of women in this country, didn’t agree with people such as Madeline Albright, who said that there is a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women. Their attempts to make an election a referendum on women failed badly.
The issue is not whether women support women, or whether the country is ready for a woman president or any of that. The issue is the many shortcomings of Hillary Clinton, which caused her failure. It is not about women in general terms running for political office.
And I’ve heard that women are perceptive about other women. And that critical numbers of women felt that Hillary is a (fill in the blank).
Madam Secretary has been on CBS for a few seasons now. The secretary character, Tea Leoni, bears some resemblance to a younger Hillary. Was that casting a coincidence???
You think there are 66 million of them?
The criminal wretch should be arrested and in prison for her many crimes Lock her up!
...especially when their women are such unattractive, screech hags...LOL!
“I see a movie in the making.
Hopefully it will be produced by Clint Eastwood”
It will open with an empty chair!!!
And clothes made by Ahmed the Tentmaker out of used drapes! She used Ahmed because he’s adept at dressing Government Mules!
OMG! You owe me a new keyboard! I’m sopping up the coffee as this is being written!
too bad Phillip Seymour Hoffman is dead...he’d make a great Hillary in a movie.
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