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• Friday, February 29, 2008 05:20 PM

  @markworthi "the real problem with Hillary Clinton"

  Your comments are spot on and I am including them in this post for those who might have missed them:

  "The real problem with Hillary Clinton, the reason she can only occasionally "find her voice", is her utter lack of authenticity. As a rather vivid demonstration of this, I saw that yesterday, she suddenly began dropping her r's, noticeably talking down to her largely blue collar audience. Suddenly, our Wellesley and Yale educated candidate began to speak of Obama "runnin' " on such and such a platform and "toutin' " his policies. I was truly embarassed for her, this foray into the vernacular as awkward a spectacle as President Bush attempting an African tribal dance."

  "Why seize on these seemingly unimportant moments? Because they're revelatory of a deep-seeded problem of integrity, the same issue that led her to vote to authorize war in Iraq so as not to appear weak (keeping in mind that she would, in the near future, be running for President); the same personal flaw that was revealed even earlier, in fact, when she suddenly appeared in New York with a Yankees cap and announced that she would be making a bid for the senate, that she had a Jewish grandparent, and so on."

  Your post reminded me of a discussion with a woman I met in mid-January at an Obama fundraiser in D.C. She had been a Hillary supporter until shortly before this event. I asked her why she'd changed her mind. She said, "I read her book." It is telling that Hillary's true character (or lack thereof) came through even in a book designed to flatter and promote her!

  —cecilbeanie Read cecilbeanie's other letters
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