Posted on 06/01/2018 7:18:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If Jennifer Palmieri could turn back the clock, and make one change to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, what would it be? I can guess any number of answers when I put the question to the campaign’s communications director, but not the one she gives.
“I would have spent more time and money,” she replies without hesitation, “in Texas, Arizona and Georgia.”
Palmieri’s explanation makes perfect sense. She says they made the classic mistake of devoting their energy to the swing states of previous elections, such as Ohio, while overlooking historically safe Republican states now becoming winnable due to shifting demographics. It’s a clever answer – analytic, pragmatic, strategic; everything, in other words, we associate the Clinton campaign. What also makes it quintessentially – perhaps calamitously – Clintonesque, however, is its failure to strike any kind of emotional chord.
Palmieri was 24 when she first worked in the White House, for Bill Clinton. Under Barack Obama she became director of communications and in 2015 she joined Hillary’s campaign team. The 51-year-old has dedicated her life to the Democrats and, had about 80,000 Americans voted differently in November 2016, she would now be in the White House again. Instead, Palmieri is in London, promoting her book about what went wrong.
There is nothing colourless or dry about Dear Madam President. In person, its author is forthright, quick-witted and doesn’t mince her words. She describes Donald Trump as a dangerous, unstable, racist misogynist, looks on the verge of tears at times, and can be very funny....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Something about the eyes, forehead, and chin.
That one in the middle got my attention for some reason.
The uplifted chin, and the Duchesne smile in the eyes.
Go listen to Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl.
I’m HEALED!
I don’t even remember what I was ailing from I’m so healed!
:)
Chronic depression?
Recalcitrant plebney?
Yes, I think it was those things.
Seriously, you have no idea what a pleasant shock it was to
refresh my comments page today and see those pics.
Not the usual sort of posts I find there. lol
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