Posted on 05/27/2015 10:12:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... Mrs. Clinton lacks some of the extraordinary gifts for connection and empathy that her husband possesses, and the round-table events that have characterized her early campaign can feel stage-managed. But even these settings are producing revealing moments, as Mrs. Clinton finds herself far from the world of international diplomacy and scrambling to re-educate herself about the nation she hopes to lead.
A lot has changed since Mrs. Clinton left domestic politics to become the secretary of state: Student debt has ballooned, access to credit has tightened, and the cause of income inequality has taken on a forceful momentum.
Ever an eager student, she has immersed herself in dense briefing papers and academic tomes and consulted more than 200 experts as she thought about her economic policy.
There is not a lot of I-feel-your-pain hugging at these events and few uproarious moments. But Mrs. Clinton brings a wonkish intensity, arriving at each round table armed with specific data points.
To be sure, part of Mrs. Clinton’s reassuring voters that she is learning has to do with an acute awareness by her campaign that she must combat the opinion of some voters in 2008 that she seemed aloof and entitled. “The goal,” said Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, is to “take advantage of the long campaign season, start small” and “not just shake hands but get under the hood.”
Mrs. Clinton is embracing her inner geek, rather than trying to mimic President Obama’s cool or Bill Clinton’s common touch. The campaign is betting that approach may have its own appeal.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
More like avoiding and hiding.
She wants to “govern” us plebes, we should be honored to have her thighness govern us...
How many ‘listening and learning’ tours does a candidate need?
“But is she evolving?”
What a typical peon you are, don’t you know? It is us that have yet to evolve to their level. :)
Where’s the “barf alert”?
“But is she evolving? “
Yeah, and dog excrement “evolves” when it lays out in the sun too!
That’s all we need, another POTUS getting on the job training while already in the WH.
I wonder if the NYT’S passes out bibs to their writers to catch the slobber as they write...glowing nonsense about PIAPS...
[That’s all we need, another POTUS getting on the job training while already in the WH.]
How about making every candidate pass a U.S. Constitution test?
In other words, since a scripted campaign made her seem aloof, they'll just script in instead an engaged non-aloof candidate.
Yes, listening to the voices in her head, and learning how to be even more manipulative.
Dries out, shrinks, and turns white!
[She’s Listening, and Learning]
Talking to Eleanor Roosevelt again, are we Hillarity?
“How about making every candidate pass a U.S. Constitution test?”
That WOULD be interesting.
I wonder if this “author” received new knee pads from the Clinton Foundation for this piece of political propaganda?
Poor Hillary. It’s that old age memory thing. She’s already forgotten that she was the biggest, hughest frontrunner last time around....and lost to a clean, articulate, unknown BLACK, MAN.
She’s been “listening” since her days in the Arkansas Governor’s mansion. Hasn’t she learned anything yet?
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