Clinton charm
In this topsy-turvey election where pundits' predictions turn to dust in hours, I wonder if the received wisdom on the Clintons also needs to be re-visited.
It's been all about Bill's charm and Hillary's lack of it. Yet suddenly, Bill is angry and charmless and Hillary is playing the part of a with the apparent ease and pleasure of a Southwest employee. Being the Clintons, they must be doing this deliberately.
The video of Bill with a San Francisco TV reporter is all over the place at the moment but this clip from the past is still my favourite - heartfelt and authentic and probably not damaging, but the man does get angry!
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They're simply playing good cop-bad cop, and have worked out it is less damaging for Bill to be the bad cop. The infamous Hillary's tears incident seems to have made that clear to them...
Anyone who hates either Bill or Hillary clinton needs to get a life. Neither individual has done anything to warrant hate. and they've both served their country well. And if you don't like Bill's personal lifestyle then go to your church and pray for him. But stop trying to make it a news event.
That is what is slightly grotesque to lay-people but apparently 'clever' to political professionals.
I mean the continously calculated moves that these politicos makes.
Nothing that they say or do is spontaneous, they never let their guard drop even when appearing to have had a 'vulnerable moment'.
Does politics really have to be like this?
Because all it does is make the both parties, i.e. the politicians and the people, deeply cynical.
Reporters do ask penetrating questions. Are we really listening?
Posted 16 Jan, this continues as the top video clip on You-tube:
The real story is the conflict between the Democrats' local, state and national "central committees" and VERY different ideas regarding who should be able to participate in the nominating process.
Bill is still a southern governor at heart ... and he ain't-a-gonna-be drivin' no low-class, po' people to the polls, nuh-UH.
This video is at the top because a pattern of voting restriction and/or fraud is visible.
I might ask, why has the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ not even mentioned the New Hampshire recount? "Naughty" hostess aside, diverting Hill Force One to New Hampshire might land the Clintons and the National in the Bermuda Triangle, not the White House.
Too much democracy makes some "Democrats" nervous. That is why the American President is not elected by popular vote, but SELECTED by loyal party members appointed to the Electoral College. Americans haven't always directly elected Senators, either.
The real question, and Americans ARE asking, is WHO gets to choose? Who counts, and who is counted?