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Hillary Clinton’s Truman Show Campaign
National Review ^ | 4/10/15 | Ian Tuttle

Posted on 04/11/2015 11:08:39 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

If she can’t handle a kickoff speech, how could she handle the presidency?

....It’s hard to screw up a campaign launch. But Hillary Clinton might be about to do it....Clinton plans to announce her presidential campaign at noon on Sunday, en route to Iowa, “on Twitter . . . followed by a video and email announcement.”

...Why? Because for someone who has spent her life in public, Hillary Clinton is very bad in public. And her team knows it.

.....For decades, Hillary Clinton has had her entire life scripted. She has existed in a world insulated by handlers and managers and “her people,” all of whom are employed for the overarching purpose of mediating her engagement with the calamitous world “out there.” Yet every time the bubble is pricked, and we no longer have to see Hillary Clinton through limousine glass darkly, we rediscover her vices — her obsessive secretiveness, her arrogance, her shrewish treatment even of those closest to her — and the unmistakable fact that she is simply not equipped to deal with the world unmediated.

Hillary Clinton wants to run a Truman Show campaign. But what the last six years have made incontrovertibly clear is that you can’t run a Truman Show presidency.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; clinton; grandma; vote
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True dat.
1 posted on 04/11/2015 11:08:39 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Hillary’s NotTrueWoman show. Been like that forever.


2 posted on 04/11/2015 11:10:13 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

a female version of obozo


3 posted on 04/11/2015 11:11:28 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Cruznial is a mental disorder that effects the brain of liberals where they deny he is" electable.")
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To: freedumb2003

This must be one of those “listening tours”


4 posted on 04/11/2015 11:15:49 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: SoFloFreeper

Last time, Hillary announced her candidacy in a video, sitting on her couch, saying she wanted to start a conversation with America, etc..

She didn’t give a speech in front of an audience of supporters.

And apparently won’t do so this time.

I’ve often wondered why someone running for office would not give an actual speech to actual supporters, to announce running for office.


5 posted on 04/11/2015 11:16:58 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SoFloFreeper

Hillary will be able to pull in votes due to the fact she’s a woman. Period. And a Democrat, they want her. She doesn’t have to do much more, from what I can see. If Bill stumps for her I personally think that will only get her more votes, lots of Democrats liked him, regardless.

We have a large amount of Independent voters out there. I wonder if that will determine the election. If the Republicans this time say, no I won’t vote for this guy we will hand the election to likely, Hillary.


6 posted on 04/11/2015 11:21:21 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

all that is true .. plus .. impact of dem fraud and illegals voting will make it increasingly hard for a non-dem to ever win the Presidency again.


7 posted on 04/11/2015 11:30:07 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Dilbert San Diego
 
 
Yeah, it's like making a marriage proposal over a cell phone text. Coming from her it's downright haughty, like "you little people have now been notified." Bleh.
 
Just like that Saturday Night Live cold open back in March were they lampooned Hillary - the wedding anniversary form letter -
 
 
 
There was more than just a little truth to that joke.
 
 
 

8 posted on 04/11/2015 11:34:34 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

If she announces it on twitter, she doesn’t have to answer any questions. I read today on Yahoo News that she is separating herself from the Clinton Global Initiative fund. LOL. How is she going to do that? Divorce Bill and have a lawyer give it all to Bill? Even then she’s connected. What a bunch of hogwash


9 posted on 04/11/2015 11:35:09 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: Secret Agent Man

Blanche DuBois didn’t want to be seen under the bright glare of light either...

Same reason.


10 posted on 04/11/2015 11:36:52 AM PDT by GOPJ (Climatology is a science?? Kinda like Lesbian Dance Theory is a sport... freeper eyeamok)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

She’s Blanche DuBois - besides Hillary’s used to Arabs paying millions to hear her speak.

Maybe her mere voice will change your life forever... or maybe Arabs were buying favor. We’ll never know how great the million dollar speeches were...


11 posted on 04/11/2015 11:40:27 AM PDT by GOPJ (Climatology is a science?? Kinda like Lesbian Dance Theory is a sport... freeper eyeamok)
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To: GOPJ

The sheep will vote for the first pres with lady parts. Could be mrs mao and theyd still vote for her


12 posted on 04/11/2015 11:41:46 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: freedumb2003

A female version of Obozo and could be worse or more of the same of the last 8 years..


13 posted on 04/11/2015 11:43:29 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe like Project : build it already Congress)
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To: headstamp 2

This is crazy isn’t it?

Yes, campaigns are exhausting, have unscripted moments, open you up to questions and criticism.

But the speech to kick off a campaign should be the easiest thing a politician ever does.

You do wonder, why can’t Hillary handle a speech to announce her candidacy?

I’ve wondered about Hillary in other ways too. I may get flamed, but, I’ve wondered how people perceive Hillary as such a strong leader, etc. when she was such a doormat for her husband over decades.

Feminism tells us that women are not to be doormats for husbands. Feminism tells us that women are to take action against men who cheat on them and violate marriage vows and treat them like dirt.

Yet Hillary stayed with a man who treated her terribly within her marriage. What does it say about Hillary Clinton the person that she stayed and tolerated the abuse all those years?? And this is allegedly a strong leader who will stand up to Putin and the Ayatollahs and other assorted madmen in the world when crises happen??? She never even stood up to her own husband.

Flame away.


14 posted on 04/11/2015 11:45:40 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: lapsus calami

Like those foreign mail order brides, so too Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign will be the “ Mail order Presidential canadate “ supported by foreign bourn campaign funds...


15 posted on 04/11/2015 11:48:33 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe like Project : build it already Congress)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The negro community organizer from Chicago supported by a degenerate population started our nation on its death spiral. Hillary Clinton, who will be elected-(A trivial degenerate society plus illegal aliens will see to that)-shall administer the Coup de Gras.


16 posted on 04/11/2015 11:50:36 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Hillary last time announcing that she is going to run for president sitting on a couch ?

More like Madam Clinton running a whore house...

Welcome to the Cheyenne Social Club ( in reference Shirley Jones in the movie Cheyenne Social Club ).....


17 posted on 04/11/2015 11:53:04 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe like Project : build it already Congress)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Hey, the bitch is busy.


18 posted on 04/11/2015 12:04:25 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The personality of a turd.


19 posted on 04/11/2015 12:13:38 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The media wants a Democrat to win in 2016. Hillary is doing her best to make sure she has no competition for the nomination (apart from a couple of vanity candidates who pose her no threat). She will have the media singing her praises and eviscerating all the Republican candidates...plus trying to divide the Republican Party into segments (social conservatives, economic conservatives, libertarians) so that they won’t unite behind the nominee. That plus millions of illegal aliens voting should do the trick.


20 posted on 04/11/2015 12:26:31 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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