Tuesday, September 24, 2013

The Airbrushing of Hillary Clinton

Airbrushing Hillary
  
From New York Magazine; Hillary in Midair   ..."In a sense, the Weiner scandal is a ghost of Clintonworld  past, summoning sordid images of unruly appetites and bimbo eruptions, exactly the sort of thing that needs to be walled off and excised in a 2016 campaign. Former advisers from State say any future campaign will take a page from Clinton’s relatively peaceful past four years. “In contrast with reports of disunity in the 2008 campaign,” says Kurt Campbell, “the State Department was operated with a high degree of harmony and
collegiality.' ”
Just the same, lock up the interns; here comes Bill again.

The 10 Most Cringe Worthy Parts of NYMag’s Glowing Hillary Profile*   ...."Regardless of the facts[!], Republicans are liable to use Benghazi as a wedge to pry back her stately exterior, goading her into an outburst, once again revealing the polarizing figure who saw vast right-wing conspiracies and tried ginning up government health care against the political tides of Newt Gingrich.' ”
Lost in Clintonworld   "We are told that “[a]t State, she was the head of a smoothly running 70,000-person institution,” which sounds absurd when one considers the whirlwind of criticism that the State Department suffered after the Benghazi debacle on September 11, 2012—an organization that ignored the embassy’s requests for additional security and kept the families of victims in the dark, but could afford to spend $630,000 to generate “likes” for the State Department Facebook page."
 
*Item #1 being this magazine cover.
 

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