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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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To: SoFloFreeper

Her body language gives away her lies. She’s not perfected the ability to lie with ease like barky.


21 posted on 04/11/2015 12:38:54 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Mixed feelings.

She definitely lacks in the her campaign skills, debating skills, and in eye appeal. With these she is a beatable candidate.

However, she has a solid hard core base, an electoral edge and a whopping war chest. And when the MSM gin up the Repub attacks, she just might pull it out.

Is there any doubt that she will be a horrible president?


22 posted on 04/11/2015 12:39:57 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: SoFloFreeper
"...she is simply not equipped to deal with the world unmediated. "

Or unmedicated...

23 posted on 04/11/2015 12:45:10 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Beowulf9
If the Republicans this time say, no I won’t vote for this guy we will hand the election to likely, Hillary.

Then the GOP-e had better wise up and push to nominate a true conservative this time.

If they nominate a faux Democrat again, people will just vote for the real Dem, while millions of conservatives stay home.

24 posted on 04/11/2015 12:48:51 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Flame away.

Why? You're posting at Free Republic, not the DUmp.

25 posted on 04/11/2015 12:51:02 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Hillary Clinton, who will be elected

Thanks for keeping the faith, fellow patriot.

Sheeesh....

26 posted on 04/11/2015 12:52:19 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Howard Hughesish. She’s not pooping in mason jars is she?


27 posted on 04/11/2015 12:53:48 PM PDT by Leep (To put it in laymen's terms liberal/progressive ist coo coo.)
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To: Windflier

It is a tragedy, sorry. Look who the American people elected in 2008 & 2012 TWICE!


28 posted on 04/11/2015 12:59:32 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Feminism tells us that women are not to be doormats for husbands.”

Yes, they are to be doormats for their butch girlfriends instead.


29 posted on 04/11/2015 1:02:57 PM PDT by Leep (To put it in laymen's terms liberal/progressive ist coo coo.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
It is a tragedy, sorry. Look who the American people elected in 2008 & 2012 TWICE!

So what are you going to do about it? Roll over and run up the white flag?

Better to go down fighting with your dignity intact.

30 posted on 04/11/2015 1:25:58 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I wonder if there are some mental health issues within Hillary that have been aggravated by years of a scripted life? Maybe she is socially hobbled by her staff of helpers. Oh, this may be sweet as tea in Georgia.


31 posted on 04/11/2015 3:12:39 PM PDT by healy61
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To: Windflier

and you’re going to tell us who is faux, right?


32 posted on 04/11/2015 4:32:30 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9
and you’re going to tell us who is faux, right?

Most Freepers can figure that out for themselves, but I'll lend you a hand if you need it, little fella ;-)

33 posted on 04/11/2015 5:03:04 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

You think you can do that, eh. You already are wrong on one account.


34 posted on 04/11/2015 7:56:53 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9
You think you can do that, eh.

Sure I can. Just ask, and I'm there for ya, good buddy ;-)

35 posted on 04/12/2015 11:41:38 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

It just so happens I’m a girl.


36 posted on 04/12/2015 8:42:45 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9
It just so happens I’m a girl.

Oh, excuse me. Beowulf is a masculine name, so I assumed you were a guy.

My handle isn't gender specific, but for the record, I'm a guy.

37 posted on 04/12/2015 9:01:44 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

The truth is, and no one knows this here, I thought the name Beowulf was cute.

So I named my cat Beowulf. He was a great cat, very intelligent and loyal. I called myself that because I miss him and hated to forget the little guy.

I have, however, read Beowulf and am interested in history.


38 posted on 04/12/2015 9:06:39 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9
So I named my cat Beowulf. He was a great cat, very intelligent and loyal. I called myself that because I miss him and hated to forget the little guy.

That's kinda touching. The story behind my nick is a lot less poetic.

About fifteen years ago, I was trying to join my first internet forum, and every handle I tried was already taken. Out of sheer exasperation, I typed in, 'Windflier', and it took.

The way the software was written, there was no turning back, so that's what my nick became. Over time it grew on me, so I've kept it all these years.

39 posted on 04/12/2015 9:14:39 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Actually, Windflier is kind of a cool name.


40 posted on 04/12/2015 9:23:13 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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