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Saturday, October 03, 2015

Hillary Clinton’s Authenticity Problem, and Ours

Is Hillary Rodham Clinton not presenting her true self to voters? As with candidates like Mitt Romney and Al Gore, claims that she isinauthentic have fueled endless cycles of negative coverage of her campaign.

In reality, all politicians are strategic about the image and behaviors they present to voters. Some just hide the artifice better than others.

The refrain that Mrs. Clinton is calculating and inauthentic has recurred throughout her political career. During this campaign cycle, reporters and columnists have already questioned who the “Real Hillary” is, said that she “wrestles with the authenticity issue,” and described just being herself on the campaign trail as “a tricky proposition.” The Daily Beast’s Mike Barniclereflected the conventional wisdom in writing that the “nagging question” that “won’t go away” is “Who is she? Really, who is she?”

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2 comments:

  1. Let's start from the top. Obama, who is he, who is he. They are both corrupt lying Democrats.

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  2. Hillary Clinton by her own mouth despises the American public. Read HER OWN books. She will tell you she does.

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