Oh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do this, Hill!
Posted on 09/09/2016 5:46:27 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Democratic senators, anxious over Hillary Clinton’s inability to pull away from Donald Trump, have some advice for their nominee: Be more open, show your soul, focus on the economy and talk about blue-collar jobs.
Recent polls show Trump within striking distance of Clinton, defying predictions in Washington that he is doomed in November.
Trump’s ability to stay competitive while running an unconventional campaign has underscored what Democratic lawmakers see as the need for Clinton to improve in certain areas. These lawmakers, who served with Clinton in Congress and have known her for years, say her public persona is too guarded.
They struggle to reconcile the charismatic, warm and funny woman they know in private with Clinton’s public persona, which can come across as stern, aloof or annoyed.
Democratic senators say it’s natural for Clinton to put up her guard because she has been the target of Republican attacks for decades. But they think she might benefit from relaxing a little more on the campaign trail.
“Her decades in this arena have taken their toll,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). “When you’re hit a lot there’s almost an unconscious shield that controls the answers to your questions. I think she’s got to get rid of that and just let herself be.
“Everybody that knows her, loves her. They know her heart is full,” she added. “That’s what she ought to do, just take the shield away from the heart.”
Vice President Biden offered similar advice earlier in the week, calling on her to be “more open.”
Clinton has had the most difficulty connecting with white working-class voters. A nationwide CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday showed Trump beating Clinton among white voters without college degrees, 66 percent to 23 percent.
Many of these voters question her trustworthiness.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I see how that is possible. Thanks for the instruction. R2z
Please review the DSM 5 criteria for a narcissist.
DSM-IV and DSM-5 Criteria Narcissistic Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements).
2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.
3. Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high status people (or institutions).
4. Requires excessive admiration.
5. Has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations.
6. Is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends.
7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.
8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her.
9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes. self-centeredness; firmly holding to the belief that one is better than others; condescending toward others. The essential features of a personality disorder are impairments in personality (self and interpersonal) functioning and the presence of pathological personality traits.
To diagnose narcissistic personality disorder, the following criteria must be met:
A. Significant impairments in personality functioning manifest by:
1. Impairments in self functioning (a or b):
a. Identity: Excessive reference to others for self-definition and self-esteem regulation; exaggerated self-appraisal may be inflated or deflated, or vacillate between extremes; emotional regulation mirrors fluctuations in self-esteem.
b. Self-direction: Goal-setting is based on gaining approval from others; personal standards are unreasonably high in order to see oneself as exceptional, or too low based on a sense of entitlement; often unaware of own motivations.
AND
2. Impairments in interpersonal functioning (a or b):
a. Empathy: Impaired ability to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others; excessively attuned to reactions of others, but only if perceived as relevant to self; over- or underestimate of own effect on others.
b. Intimacy: Relationships largely superficial and exist to serve self-esteem regulation; mutuality constrained by little genuine interest in others‟ experiences and predominance of a need for personal gain
B. Pathological personality traits in the following domain:
1. Antagonism, characterized by: a. Grandiosity: Feelings of entitlement, either overt or covert;
b. Attention seeking: Excessive attempts to attract and be the focus of the attention of others; admiration seeking.
C. The impairments in personality functioning and the individual‟s personality trait expression are relatively stable across time and consistent across situations.
D. The impairments in personality functioning and the individual‟s personality trait expression are not better understood as normative for the individual‟s developmental stage or socio-cultural environment.
E. The impairments in personality functioning and the individual‟s personality trait expression are not solely due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, medication) or a general medical condition (e.g., severe head trauma).
Oh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do this, Hill!
Gosh, I can't understand how that could possibly be the case.
I see it exactly as you do. People say, why did the Dems nominate such a bad candidate? Well who else was on the bench? They had few options.
Also, the less Hillary is in the public eye, the better she looks. When the Dems were putting all their eggs in the Hillary basket, they had forgotten how quickly the bloom goes off her lily under scrutiny.
Any time. :)
“Her heart is full”
And why, exactly, should I give a sh*t about that?
This is pure spin. Other credible accounts report that she's even more horrid in private. They're trying to pump her up as some shrinking violet who's being bullied by the big old Trump meanies and...(LMFAO)... the media!
Not this particular story, but the idea that people don’t know how fun Hillary is in private and she needs to let that warmer side of herself out.
This was around the time she was doing her 3rd re-introduction. If you recall those.
I see this as quite telling of the state of mind inside her campaign. They see she’s coming off as cold, angry, aloof - as she did in the Matt Laur horse and pony show. She played badly.
The article sounds like more of this sort of thing: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438323/hillary-clinton-democratic-party-wont-stop-reintroducing-her
Anyway, I think the people do know Hillary and, most of them, see her for who she is.
The American electorate HAS seen her soul. THIS is why they are turning away from her in droves and boarding the Trump Train.
Oh yes!! This is the best advice for old granny because people love her even more they hear, see her.
Open up Hillary! Quit hiding in the shadows
Fixed it.
-PJ
Hillary must be rebooted?
She’s like alpha software that never makes it to a final release.
Not gonna happen with 59 days out.
Drudge has this shoe-licking article linked front and center. The comments section is an avalanche of loathing and rejection.
Be more open,
You want Girlfriend should spill the beans about Benghazi, Bill’s extra marital affairs and rapes, and her own debilitating illness ???
show your soul,
Please don’t the ugly sight will blind the LIVs
focus on the economy
Yeppers heres a winner...Its the Economy Stupid will be draw more attention to Obama’s failed years...
talk about blue-collar jobs.
1st ya gotta have one yerself to know what to say...major fail...
OK guys next lot of bright ideas...
Just had a thought
WHERE’S JAMES CARVILLE ???
When I think of Hillary "opening up", I can't help but think of the birth scene from Alien.
“Anxious Dems Urge Clinton to Open Up”
That looks pretty open.
Tell America how your Bible teaches you to murder the unborn and support sodomite “marriage”. Tell it in front of a large black mega church congregation because believe it or not 75% of them have no idea you want to murder their children and let Tom and Bruce get “married”. They support you because you’re a democrat who put them all on welfare 50 years ago and it’s ingrained in their psyche that they have to vote democrat and nothing else. It’s time blacks heard the truth about the party they support. The party of slavery, Jim Crow laws, didn’t want blacks to vote, didn’t want to make blacks citizens, the home of the KKK that lynched blacks by the thousands all in the name of keeping the white race pure and holding down inferior blacks. Please take a copy of “Hillary’s America” with you and show it to a few thousand blacks free of charge, then apologize. You worthless POS nothing.
She's so cold she's so cold
She's so cold cold cold Like a tombstone
She's so cold she's so cold
I dare not touch her my hand just froze
--Rolling Stones, 1980
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