How can you present yourself as a “champion of everyday people”, and then repair to an ultra ritzy retreat in the Hamptons; 2 weeks of fun and sun at an anything-but-everyday cost of $50,000 per week.
Yep, everyday Americans certainly can relate to spending $100,000 for a couple of weeks\’ R&R…
Ok, look: in fairness, Hillary Clinton is a very public figure and must have major security wherever she goes – which you don\’t get with a couple of rooms at the Hamptons Motel 6. And there certainly is no doubt that she has the money for it.
But then there is the matter of what, these days, is called “optics”. This looks terrible. Clinton comes across as a phony-baloney fraud who says one thing and does the exact oppo…….
……oh, wait.
It is a measure of Hillary Clinton\’s obtuseness as a person, as a candidate that she go on this kind of vacation, especially as her numbers continue to plummet and the opening for a serious challenger grows exponentially every day.
How could she not have considered the optics? How could she not have seen that this plays directly into the most damaging negatives voters see in her? How could her staff have not stopped her.
And what does it say about her judgment – the judgment that would be exercised by our commander in chief for four, or maybe eight, years?
