"One Tough Mother"

[applegrove]

One Tough Mother

By John Dickerson at Slate

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/06/hillary_clinton_s_first_big_campaign_speech_a_tough_mother_is_the_democratic.html

"SNIP..............



Tough mother. That’s both the theme of Hillary Clinton’s big speech on Saturday and the emerging theme of her campaign. According to a preview of her remarks, Clinton will talk about her mother’s struggles and how they guide her and her campaign, which the candidate has fashioned around four tough fights. Since announcing her campaign in April, at every stop Clinton has said she will advocate for families, remove money from politics, increase wages for the middle class, and protect America. How is she going to do these things? She’s going to fight.

The speech, like all campaign speeches, is an attempt to define the terms of the election in a way that highlights the candidate’s attributes. (My presidential campaign, for example, would be founded on the obvious truth that the American dream can only be restored through asides and rejoinders made by blond, middle-aged fathers.) If Clinton is a scrappy fighter, why not define the election that way? It’s not a stretch. This is what voters talk about when they describe what they want in a candidate. Does the candidate get my life and will she go to bat for me? Does she have my back? Political scientists will tell you that if voters forge that kind of connection with a candidate, they will then project all kinds of other favorable qualities on that person.


Clinton’s strategy is one her husband often employed. No matter what personal or political troubles Bill Clinton found himself in, he always presented himself as a tireless fighter, someone who’d go into pitched battle for voters. The blunt political calculation is that even if voters don’t find Hillary Clinton trustworthy—and only 42 percent do in a recent CNN poll—they will support the person who they think will fight for their interests. As Ron Brownstein has argued, Hillary Clinton doesn’t need Americans to trust her.


Fight, fight, fight. Clinton rarely misses an opportunity to raise her gloves, even when she is making a joke about something else. “I’m aware I may not be the youngest candidate in this race,” Clinton told Democrats in South Carolina in May. “But I have one big advantage: I’ve been coloring my hair for years. You’re not going to see me turn white in the White House. And you’re also not going to see me shrink from a fight.” Friday the campaign released a Web video titled “Fighter.” (If by now you haven’t gotten the message, the candidate may have to come over and beat you up.)




..............SNIP"

[randys1]

1. Bill Clinton is the most skilled politician, ever.

When you add that he is also genius level IQ, you have an amazing combination.

He is also a politician who gave away too much of the store, for my liking, but thank GOD we had him and not Bush again.

Hillary may be just as smart as Bill, or smarter, but she doesnt come off as the polished, never unnerved person that Bill clearly is.

This may actually work in her favor.

Is she my first choice?

Hell no...but is she a saint compared to any con, hell yes.