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The New York Times ?@nytimes 34m34 minutes agoAfter a top Republican suggested Hillary Clinton didn't smile enough, she responded
____Thursday, the day after a top Republican accused her of insufficient smiling at a televised national security forum, Mrs. Clinton suggested that it was, at least, a question worth considering.
Im going to let all of you ponder that last question, she said, holding a news conference in New York with her traveling press corps on an airport tarmac in White Plains. I think there will be a lot of Ph.D. theses and popular journalism writing on that subject for years to come.
Jennifer Palmieri @jmpalmieri
People. Reince actually said HRC needed to smile more. This is real. https://twitter.com/reince/status/773694140404170752
On Thursday, Mrs. Clinton suggested that her demeanor was owed to the serious issues being discussed, adding that she did not make a habit of taking advice from the Republican committee. She was not interested, she said, in just making political happy talk.
I had a very short window of time in that event last night to convey the seriousness with which I would approach the issues that concern our country, she said, appearing to allude to what critics described as a rushed format.
She noted that Mr. Trump had devoted much of his speaking time to praising President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
Maybe he did it with a smile, she said, now flashing one of her own. I guess the R.N.C. would have liked that.
read: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/us/politics/hillary-clinton-smiling.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
LisaM
(27,820 posts)then we get what we deserve, basically what we got when we failed to elect Gore and then Kerry. We have been offered some very fine choices for President in this country and if we continue to elect nitwits instead, well, then, I don't know what more there is to be said. Me, I value people who have experience and brains and also have the ability to work with the other side.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)against him.
MotorCityMan
(1,203 posts)This is WAY too much of a repeat of 2000 and 2004. One candidate eminently qualified and presidential, the other an absolute joke. While I never thought ANYone could make Bush look good, Trump is doing it. I saw his "speechifying" during the primaries for 5 minutes, and I can't stomach him. I can no way sit through one of his hate filled, incoherent speeches.
I gave up on watching any of the tv news shows after 2000, always thought they have deserved most of blame for that election since it never should have been close. The media's handling of Gore is being repeated with Hillary now. They also spend so much time propping up the orange haired shit gibbon just for ratings and profit.
I have never so looked forward to the end of an election. It just better end with President Hillary Clinton and First Gentleman William Clinton.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)This is something that happens to women all the time.
Complete strangers will say that to women. Quite sure they don't do it to men.
LisaM
(27,820 posts)It's pretty bloody interfering of total strangers to tell you what mood to be in.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Once at the gym, which left me speechless.
I wish I could think of a good response, but I'm usually so completely flabbergasted that I can think of nothing.
athena
(4,187 posts)I mean, how do they know that your grandmother didn't just pass away? Or that you didn't just lose your job? How can they know your soul well enough to be able to tell you that you should be smiling at that moment? I hate that I don't have a good answer to this obnoxious comment that is not too snarky-sounding.
Skittles
(153,174 posts)"fuck off"
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Short and sweet!
Skittles
(153,174 posts)you know, for effect; yes INDEED
Skittles
(153,174 posts)FUCK OFF
who do these guys think they are???