Today’s paragraph comes to us from Joe Klein, reliably left wing and someone who would vote for Hillary Clinton 1,000 times out of 1,000 over Donald Trump (or, I’m pretty certain, any other Republican).
What does Mr. Klein have to say about Ms. Clinton in his latest column – remembering, again, that he is going to vote for her if she is the nominee?
Here’s your answer:
Clinton seems particularly ill equipped for the task. She is our very own quinoa and kale salad, nutritious but bland. Worse, she’s the human embodiment of the Establishment that Trump has been running against. “I am not a natural politician,” she has admitted, and (CNN’s Jake) Tapper asked her what she means by that. She said she couldn’t speak “in poetry” the way her husband and Barack Obama can. True dat, but poetry is only the beginning of Clinton’s deficiencies. Indeed, her real problem is that she’s too much of a politician. She still speaks like politicians did 20 years ago, when her husband was President. This year, the candidates who have seemed the most appealing-Trump, Sanders, John Kasich-don’t use the oratorical switchbacks that have been beaten to death since John F. Kennedy: “We need a uniter, not a divider.” They also, sadly, don’t take carefully nuanced positions. Asked about fracking in her Flint, Mich., debate with Sanders, Clinton split hairs with a microlaser, leaving everyone confused. Sanders simply said, “I do not support fracking.”
And that is far from the only attack on Clinton in Klein’s column; use the link, read it, and see for yourself.
If this is what a supporter says about Hillary Clinton, is there any reason to wonder why her detractors – the ones unwilling to look the other way on her behalf – feel as they do?
Joe Klein wins Paragraph Of The Day honors for being honest enough to talk this candidly about the many flaws that Hillary Clinton has…which you can be sure the Republican candidate, whether Trump or someone else, will exploit early and often (though he came very close to losing it by tossing in the term “true dat”, as if he were a Carribean or inner city Black. It is about as authentic as Snoop Dogg doing a Shakespeare soliloquy.)
