Naturally Hillary

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from Suzi Parker at the WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/hillary-clinton-barefaced-and-bespectacled-is-a-refreshing-image-in-politics/2012/05/08/gIQAwR4HAU_blog.html

Hillary Clinton, barefaced and bespectacled, is a refreshing image in politics



The picture of Hillary Rodham Clinton sans makeup was front and center on The Drudge Report Monday.

The caption read “Hillary Au Naturale,” and the photo showed the Secretary of state without makeup except lipstick, wearing black-framed glasses. Her hair fell in natural, unspectacular waves. Clinton was speaking at a news conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh during a trip to promote democracy and development. The event followed a complicated and highly dramatic trip to China.

Of course, if this was a male politician, few — if any — would focus on whether he had primped before his public appearance this deep into an overseas trip. It would only become a headline if Joe Biden suddenly started wearing eyeliner and lipstick.

But we aren’t accustomed to seeing female politicians and politicos without camera-ready makeup and, God forbid, showing wrinkles. In fact, how many pictures in glossy magazines have probably been airbrushed to make Hillary picture-perfect?

While I’m a makeup addict, it’s refreshing to see Hillary fresh-faced. She looked like a schoolgirl in the picture – the Hillary from her granola college days at Wellesley. It was the look that won her few fans back in Arkansas in her days as the state’s first lady. After all, Southern women love their makeup, and Hillary wore little.

As Hillary prepares to exit the high-wire of politics, are we finally seeing the real woman? It seems so.


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[onehandle]

1. She's beautiful. Drudge and the GOP are misogynist pigs. nt

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3. I confess to being a devoted fan of hers

. . . but she (always) looks absolutely beautiful to me. I also love the confident style she's projecting. Coolness, that the press is now picking up on this. She has much to offer.

[obamanut2012]

2. Hillary Clinton looks wonderful

K & R

[hamsterjill]

4. I'm one of her biggest fans!

She "gets it". She understands that what she's doing is more important than what she's wearing.

As usual for just about everything she does - I applaud her.

[EC]

5. She does look

like she did in college. I thought that yesterday when I saw another photo of her in China and I thought it was a photo of her in college at first.

[Bake]

6. I'm a huge fan.

Bravo to HRC for not giving a rip about make-up. What's inside her head is what matters!

Bake

[tallahasseedem]

7. I think she looks beautiful!

The fact that this is even an issue is disconcerting!

[WilliamPitt]

8. 2016

[Beacool]

9. Suzi Parker can go play in traffic, as far as I'm concerned.

Another one claiming not to have seen the "real" Hillary. Hillary hasn't changed, it's the media's perception of Hillary that has changed. They spent a good portion of 2007 and 2008 trashing her and just now they see the "real" person????? As if she hadn't been in the public eye since 1992.

BTW, she never cried in NH, her voice cracked but there were no tears.

All these pundits and reporters who just now have found the person and not the caricature that they themselves created, can go screw themselves.

Also, this so called reporter should learn how to spell. The country is called Colombia, not Columbia.

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10. fine

. . .but I didn't think the word 'real' or the editor's misspelling were all that bad. I'm just fine with folks gaining understanding in their own time; as long as they do understand. Besides those little expressions of cynicism (hers or, is she just expressing that of others), I think Parker is rather complimentary.

Besides, I've been watching Mrs. Clinton since the early days, and I've seen many progressions and changes in her public image. The fact that someone might find this current persona of hers 'real' (and she IS somewhat different than she was as Senator; as First Lady in Arkansas; as first Lady in the WH; as a presidential candidate) doesn't bother me a bit.

[Beacool]

12. I resent it because where were these people when she needed them????

I spent a year and a half listening to superficial crap thrown at Hillary from all sides, including the left. Now that she says that she is not interested in running again they find things to compliment her on? They make me sick. Hillary would have been a superb president.

[edbermac]

11. Look who's talking, Matt

You got the perfect face for radio.

[hifiguy]

13. She looks perfectly fine

and utterly normal to me. So what's the issue?

[Beacool]

14. Hillary addresses the issue in an interview with CNN.

(CNN) – Hillary Clinton laughed off the perpetual conversation over her appearance that landed in the spotlight once again Monday when a picture of her sporting glasses sans make-up made the rounds on the internet.

"I feel so relieved to be at the stage I'm at in my life right now," the secretary of state told CNN Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jill Dougherty in an interview. "Because you know if I want to wear my glasses I'm wearing my glasses. If I want to wear my hair back I'm pulling my hair back. You know at some point it's just not something that deserves a lot of time and attention."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/08/clinton-addresses-au-naturale-moment/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_politicalticker+(Blog:+Political+Ticker)

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15. nice

thanks for the statement.

[Beacool]

16. I love her answer.

Ever so lady like she's giving them the finger. She's at a stage in her life that she can do whatever pleases her and those who don't like it can go suck it. LOL!!!

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17. I like the way she's in tune with the political buzz

. . . and the way she answers the hub-bub without any detectable hint of self-consciousness or resentment.

[Liberal_in_LA]

18. k&r

[Poll_Blind]

19. Not a fan of Mrs. Clinton but I think she looks better in those pics than...

...she typically does with makeup.

I can't be the only one who thinks this.

PB

[Beacool]

20. She's not wearing make-up on this pic either.

[MrScorpio]

21. I'm not seeing a problem here at all...

This is just another case of wingers throwing shit up on a wall to see what sticks