Dumb [overasked] closing debate question in essence: What crisis have you gone through that makes you prepared to handle a really bad crisis in our nation? [Unspoken: like 9/11?]
Hillary: "Well, I think everyone here knows I've lived through some crises and challenging moments in my life. People often ask me "How do you do it? How do you keep going?" And I just have to shake my head in wonderment because, with all of the challenges that I've had, they are NOTHING in comparison to what I've seen in the lives of Americans every single day."
Hillary’s exactly right about words being nothing without actions. She just says what sounds good and then does whatever she wants. I keep wanting to like her and respect her and even feel bad for her, but then she goes and says another Line. I thought that part [listen to the whole thing {link at the top} to get the tone of it, complete with stories of her being the only D candidate invited to speak to Iraq war veterans with their limbs blown off] was so literally incredible–I could hear Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson and her going over those lines.
She sounded good, but she didn’t answer the question, really. But if you want to analyze the implications of her answer, were it to be relevant to the question, they were bad.
1) Yeah, soldiers in Iraq definitely have it worse than her. Because of a war she helped authorize yet blames Bush wholly for, refusing to take responsibility for her poor judgment.
2) Yes, she's lived through a lot of crises. And a lot of them were the result of her own bad judgment and sketchy actions. How does that make her ready for a crisis as president? None of her reactions to those crises were particularly laudable or without some duplicity. If she said that those crises taught her how to take responsibility for her choices and how the choices of someone in power affects so many people, then okay, that would have been a relevant and good answer I could respect. But no. She goes into that voice-coached fuzzy-inflection mode…
Update from a blogger from The Economist:
10:05 : Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson takes Hillary's debate-closing love-fest with Mr Obama and runs with it in a suspiciously prompt e-mail sent to reporters:
"What we saw in the final moments in that debate is why Hillary Clinton is the next President of the United States. Her strength, her life experience, her compassion. She's tested and ready. It was the moment she retook the reins of this race and showed women and men why she is the best choice."
Yet ANOTHER UPDATE!
Ben Smith of Politico.com mentioned something about Hillary borrowing some words from John Edwards about being "fine" at the end. Well, okay. . .I see the similarity here. But this is just silliness! Hillary's 'best' line was totally lifted Bill's from 1992. Almost word-for-word.
And that's all for tonight, folks.
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Erin, why didn't you tell me you had such a cool blog! I'm digging it. And thanks for your support with the Bill Maher entry yesterday. :)
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