http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/opinion/10collins.htmlOn the other side, there’s the new Hillary Clinton, who bears a distinct resemblance to the old Hillary Clinton. “Over the last week I listened to you, and in the process I found my own voice,” she told her victory party Tuesday night. She then went on to give an extremely boring speech that began: “This campaign is about people.”
Clinton actually seems most genuine when she’s being dull. She’s gone back to talking about policy with voters. That’s just the way she saved her first Senate campaign by disappearing into the depths of upstate New York for an endless listening tour that drove reporters mad with tedium but seemed to make the citizens very happy.
“Finding common ground and working to make change has been the cause of my life,” she told a crowd in Hampton, N.H., lifting Obama’s theme. She is a shameless borrower of other candidates’ good stuff. She’s even cribbed Barack’s signature “fired up” line on occasion, and it’s probably only a matter of time before she announces the sudden discovery of long-lost Kenyan relatives.
But when she started answering questions, she got very Hillary — talking about carbon neutrality and H.M.O. payments and procurement reform, ticking off her five-point plans and three-part explanations. The large crowd, which had been standing in a high school gym for nearly two hours before she arrived, seemed to enjoy it. Her bond with the people isn’t a passionate one, but when it works, it’s a genuine connection that starts with the belief that she will work really, really hard on their behalf.
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Just reread those paragraphs carefully. This woman's job, for which she is paid rather handsomely one must add, is to cover the issues for her readers. That is why they are called newspapers, not gossip papers. I don't think it is too much to ask this woman to actually, God forbid, listen to what the people who are asking to run our country wish to do with that power. Incidently, the speech in question wasn't boring. Columnists like this woman are why we are where we are. Today it is Clinton, tomorrow it will be your candidate, don't even doubt it for a second.