Hillary Re-Re-Re-Re-Rebooted
‘This is a new, contrite Hillary Clinton,” said Cecilia Vega of ABC News. She was reporting on Clinton’s decision, in early September, finally to apologize for using a private email server while secretary of state. The disclosure of the unusual arrangement, uncovered during a congressional inquiry into the Benghazi terrorist attack, has dogged Clinton for months, as she has dismissed allegations of wrongdoing, played down the FBI investigation into whether the server compromised national security, and struggled against the perception that she is dishonest, secretive, and untrustworthy.
"It’s a losing battle. By the end of summer vacation, Clinton’s poll numbers had become so worrisome, and the threat of Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden so real, that her top aides ran to the New York Times to reassure donors and Democratic elites that a change in strategy was coming. “Clinton Aides Set New Focus for Campaign,” read the September 8 headline. The subhead promised “A More Personal Tone of Humor and Heart.” Clinton delivered her apology to ABC News the same day—24 hours after refusing to apologize to the Associated Press.
"For Hillary to suggest that only now, in the midst of her second campaign for the White House, will she reveal her “humor” and “heart” is worse than absurd. It’s offensive. What else is she hiding? Feelings of modesty? An unpublished novel? A proficiency with the bassoon?". . .
. . . Hence the new, new, contrite Hillary Clinton that stalks the land as I write these words—though knowing Hillary, she may well have re-launched her political identity yet again by the time you finish this column.
Here Hillary gets close to her people
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