Just Like Real Leadership: The Clinton ‘Hostage Crisis’
This by Clarice Feldman - The American Thinker
AP is not alone in puffing up her performance. The normally sane Larry Sabato, was equally batty: Politico continues inflating this like from- the- can soup into farmhouse Tuscan ribollito with Sabato’s assistance:
The scene was one of a woman in charge.”It looked and sounded presidential,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “This was an instance of the White House experience of this campaign. They knew how to handle this.”That the crisis was outside Clinton’s control gave it a rare quality in this era of hyper-controlled politicking, Sabato added.
“What’s most important about it is that it’s not contrived,” he said. “It’s a real event and that distinguishes it from 99 percent of what happens in the campaign season.”
Like me, Ann Althouse isn’t buying the puffery:
Did she do anything? Other than canceling her appearances - which she had to do to show decent sensitivity - she made a lot of ineffectual phone calls. For 5 hours, we’re told, she “continued to call up and down the law enforcement food chain, from local to county to state to federal officials.” She says, “I knew I was bugging a lot of these people.”Afterwards, she used the occasion to make a show of her emotions (or did you think she was cold and mechanical). [snip]
Is that what you want in a President? Someone who feels extra confusion because she’s a mother? But I don’t believe that for one minute. I think that was just what was considered a good script. I don’t happen to think it is a good script, because I don’t want a President to roil into a mommyesque ball of emotion when a few people are in danger.
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