Letters to the Editor
Nicky Hartzell
Published Letters: 3
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Why Can't Hillary Close the Deal?
[Read the article: What Pennsylvania tells us]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Great Article, Joan. Most of today's headlines pick up (of course, they can't pander enough) on Hillary's "Why Can't He Close the Deal?" remarks from yesterday (ungracious, I thought, slapping him while he's down). My question is, why can't she close the deal? She is not really the great feminist candidate: she got where she is gracias a her husband, and continues to glean support because many who vote for her think they're getting him back. She started with every political elitist advantage; it's not so much that she's been working for the American Average Joe for 35 years, she's been helping to build a Billary network of political heavies for 35 years. Despite the fact that she's made herself the center of attention, rather than making the voters the center of attention, just because she loves attention, the limelight energizes her and makes her look better than she is. She has small-minded, white racists soundly in her corner, and God knows, there are a lot of them. She's sent out operatives to convince mentally deficient people that Obama is a foreigner, who gets all his money from overseas, and clothes himself in funny dresses. And still, she can't close the deal, and can only make any headway by ruining his deal. So sad that this is all she has, and now has managed to convince half the Democratic voters to hate a man who has nothing hateful about him, and has been gracious enough to let all her personal faults and baggage go unchallenged, only counterattacking on policy. (If the "screw 'em" remark had been widely broadcast in PA, would the voters have continued to side with her, or would they have seen her more clearly?) My prayer is that at some point, voters start to understand that she has not put forward ONE inspiring reason to vote for her, only counting on people's ingrained negativity towards education ("elitist"), racial difference (ex-slaves should know their place), and xenophobia (Kenya Ain't Kansas). That she stayed with Bill during a lifetime of tawdry hotel liaisons with cheap hookers, drugs and alcohol, doesn't really put a feather in her cap, as far as I'm concerned as a 57 year-old, white woman.