The Daily Background
| Not everything’s a joke, Hillary (Part III)
by Arlen Parsa
The NYT’s Patrick Healy has more on Clinton’s incessant laughter:
The reality is, Mrs. Clinton is the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination right now, and the commensurate political attacks and criticism are coming at her from all sides. She needs ways to respond without appearing defensive or brittle, her advisers say.
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Last Sunday, meanwhile, she appeared on all five of the major morning talk shows. I don’t know what she had for breakfast, but her laughter was heavily caffeinated at times. Chris Wallace, of Fox News, first pressed Mrs. Clinton about why she was so “hyper-partisan,†and that drew a huge cackle. (Coming from Fox, that question is pretty funny, her aides said.) But at another point Mr. Wallace switched gears and said, “let me ask you about health care,†and she responded, “Yeah, I’d love you to ask me about health care†— and then let it rip, again, a bit quizzically.The weirdest moment was with Bob Schieffer on the CBS News program “Face the Nation†when he said to Mrs. Clinton, “you rolled out your new health care plan, something Republicans immediately said is going to lead to socialized medicine.†She giggled, giggled some more, and then couldn’t seem to stop giggling — “Sorry, Bob,†she said — and finally unleashed the full Cackle.
Earlier:
Not everything’s a joke, Hillary (Part I)
Not everything’s a joke, Hillary (Part II)
Overlooked in the discussion of H. Clinton is her central role in welfare “reform”, taking public funds out of aid for the needy to help cover the costs of the “tax relief” for corporations/the richest 1%. She played a leading role in destroying all that was built upon Roosevelt’s New Deal, which reduced our economic disparities considerably, creating opportunity. We now have economic disparities surpassing those of the notorious “Gilded Era”. These policies have caused tremendous suffering. Do we want leaders who proved willing to sell out “the least of these” for his/her own political gain?