Letters to the Editor
Emmaboverry
Published Letters: 9
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Hillary's New Yellow Submarine
[Read the article: Hillary's time of troubles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And the makeover is all wrong: too generic, from no specific region, with no particular persona, meaning no offense to anyone.
Costume! Think Susan Sarandon playing a law prof at a women's college in The South. Put the glasses back on and spike the hair up a bit.
Think spunky, sexy, liberal, aging, aloof...
Get Hillary out of that yellow strait-jacket.
Why does a woman auditioning for World Leader have to look like she's on the board at The Bank of America?
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scary stereotype
[Read the article: Does Obama's baritone give him an edge?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary needed a drama director and speech coach. She has tried, I know, pitching her voice lower, speaking a little breathy, the pale lipstick, the wan foundation, just a little misty.
But when she gets frustrated, the schoolmarm takes over: "Shame on you, Barack Obama!" And when she's in more control, she's Madame chairman or Club lady. She actually does look down her nose, shuts her eyes, opens them, raises her eyebrow and archly delivers some cold bit from her CV.
The suits are all wrong, the severe brow line, the cheek implants, the over groomed hair--when will she understand that in public speaking at this level, in t.v. land, style always trumps substance. It's not WHAT you say Hillary, it's HOW.
Breathe from the diaphragm. Open the mouth. Tousle the hair a bit. Or wear your spectacles and take that law professor look all the way out,
Wear a long scarf.
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scary gender stereotype
[Read the article: Does Obama's baritone give him an edge?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary needed a drama director and speech coach. She has tried, I know, pitching her voice lower, speaking a little breathy, the pale lipstick, the wan foundation, just a little misty.
But when she gets frustrated, the schoolmarm takes over: "Shame on you, Barack Obama!" And when she's in more control, she's Madame chairman or Club lady. She actually does look down her nose, shuts her eyes, opens them, raises her eyebrow and archly delivers some cold bit from her CV.
The suits are all wrong, the severe brow line, the cheek implants, the over groomed hair--when will she understand that in public speaking at this level, in t.v. land, style always trumps substance. It's not WHAT you say Hillary, it's HOW.
Breathe from the diaphragm. Open the mouth. Tousle the hair a bit. Or wear your spectacles and take that law professor look all the way out,
Wear a long scarf.
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Pillow Talk
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton makes her stand in Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary Clinton's last campaign ad is over the top. I wonder what makes her the best prepared for the red phone moment?
The last time the U.S. faced a possible national security crisis, she voted to go to war against Saddam Hussein who had nothing to do with it. Surely she doesn't mean that blunder gives her Commander in Chief cred?
Oh, I get it. She knew a guy who knew a red phone. Maybe Laura Bush should run.
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Nicotine and Schitzophrenia
[Read the article: My name is Jane, and I'm a drunkorexic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To get in the middle of things: Amerigo, better not to moralize about
biologically-based mental conditions it's obvious you don't now much about. The nicotine connection is pretty well known. I can't cite the study either, but AKA Smith's assertions are well established, widly recognized and, as to proof, well mainstream addiction/recovery/ research, studies, and practice o.k. vs. your personal belief system. And that's ok too --I mean there are those who think pessimists get cancer or that it can be cured with cofee grounds--it's just that you have to know when you are
viewing these things through a belief system that actually doesn't acknowledge a whole body of research and study. And you don't have to. But then don't go asking for proof. You would dispute it. You have your views: People who self-medicate are excuse-making belly-achers. I won't ask you for proof.