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To: SeekAndFind

This reminds me of something that happened in the Olympics figure skating championship a few years ago. There was a female skater who was the favorite to win the gold. Another female skater was maybe going to win the bronze at best. So the skater who was picked to win the gold went out and skated a very safe program. No more jumps than she had to do, and basically a lackluster performance so as not to make any mistakes and, literally, skate to the gold.

The other skater went out there and skated her heart out. She aced not only the jumps she was supposed to do, but threw in a few more. She was exuberant, smiling, energetic and had the audience on their feet at the end of her program.

The end of the story is the gold wannabe ended up with a bronze medal, and the supposed also-ran won the gold.

My point is that Hillary appears to be doing the same thing. She thinks she’s a shoo in to win the nomination, so she’s trying to play it safe and not make mistakes by saying something to the press that could come back to bite her later. But she may be being too clever by half and this lack of accessibility could end up costing her the gold.


21 posted on 05/14/2015 9:31:50 AM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: murron
Excellent appraisal.

(hopefully we don't have to watch her skate...)

22 posted on 05/14/2015 9:52:23 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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