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Showing Original Post only (View all)Newly Released Emails Reveal The Hillary You (Still) Don’t Know [View all]
http://www.nationalmemo.com/newly-released-emails-reveal-the-hillary-you-still-dont-know/Joe Conason
Newly Released Emails Reveal The Hillary You (Still) Dont Know
July 2, 2015 4:28 pm
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According to the New York Times a liberal newspaper that no longer attempts to conceal its longstanding animus against the Clintons this initial batch of 3,000-plus emails is striking in its banality, because so many of the messages from her early months as the nations third-ranking official deal with daily problems like scheduling, fax machines, and snow days at Foggy Bottom. Seeking to embarrass her whenever possible, the Times account leads with her apparent concern over possible press comment on a 2009 joint interview with her most notorious predecessor.
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Still, if these emails offer no hint of titillating scandal or slander, they cannot be said to offer no insight into Americas best-known female leader. While the Times grudgingly concedes that these messages reveal hints of personality, Time magazine found a woman in full and someone whose very existence may surprise voters more familiar with the secretive, imperious, self-centered figure so often caricatured in American media over the past 25 years.
Time informs us that the complex portrait of Clinton emerging from the emails shows a management style that is efficient under pressure and reflective in the late hours of the day, with bursts of thinking that sometimes erupted during sleepless nights circling the globe. Nothing new there: Everyone knows she is sharp, thoughtful, and driven to get stuff done. But Time describes her with adjectives rarely used in conventional profiles: humble, self-deprecating, concerned, generous, and one of the best bosses that members of her staff have ever had.
Humble? She usually went out of her way to meet with friends and colleagues, rather than insisting they come to her. Self-deprecating? She joked constantly about herself and her foibles. Concerned? She repeatedly sought ways to help a young girl she had met in Yemen and she admonished John Podesta, an old friend who now serves as her campaign chair, to wear socks to bed to keep your feet warm. Generous? She often expressed gratitude to staff and kept close track of births, illnesses, and other milestones affecting friends, acquaintances, and employees.
Does any of that sound familiar? Not unless youve spoken with people who know Hillary Clinton well. The point isnt that she is any kind of paragon. She is simply a human being, whose friends and former staffers might also mention her flashes of impatience and temper, her wariness toward the press, her efforts to protect family privacy that can sometimes seem excessively secretive.
The question is whether major media outlets, often hostile and suspicious toward Clinton, can yet draw a fuller portrait of a candidate who is so well known; a candidate whose true character, in all its complexity, has been obscured by negative coverage for so many years; a candidate who, despite those persistent distortions, may yet make history again.
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babylonsister
Jul 2015
OP
Good possibility, how anyone can read and hear hard working Americans, white Americans and
Thinkingabout
Jul 2015
#5
Nothing like bashing lefties. I had to look up and see the name of this forum again.
roguevalley
Jul 2015
#14
Barbra Streisand used to make that same point - as she transitioned from actress-singer to
calimary
Jul 2015
#47
I think that any woman who chafed under society's restrictions and tried to pave her own way
Beacool
Jul 2015
#57
No kidding. HE: Ballsy! Great! Strong! Forceful! Assertive! Happening! Bold! Hot! SHE: Bitch.
calimary
Jul 2015
#60
I never doubted that she was a warm and loving woman. I just think she's wrong on many key polices.
Scuba
Jul 2015
#6
The media is salivating over the billions of CU unleashed ad dollars to come in a tight race...no race, no dough.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#9
Until I read that article, I rather liked Hillary Clinton. After getting all the Facts, not so much
BlueJazz
Jul 2015
#31
Amazing how great Hillary is once you wade through the Demagoguery thrown at her from
stevenleser
Jul 2015
#59