2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton's high school classmates react to her nomination
http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-high-school-nomination-2016-6Anita Rifkind wrote a note to her well-known high-school classmate, Hillary Clinton, right after her husband, Bill, was elected president in 1992.
"None of us are surprised to see you in the White House," Rifkind wrote. "We're just surprised you had to bring that guy with you."
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Maine South classmate Cheryl Harbour told Business Insider:
This to me seems like an extension of who she was then and what every moment of her life has been. It's not as if it was a huge leap. I feel like the person that we see today is the person that I first got to know in first grade. ... I can still see the influences of Park Ridge in her.
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"I look at the media coverage and I say this is not the person I know," Rifkind said. "The person I know is warm. And open. And friendly. And is as honest as you can be. The fact that she doesn't come across that way in the media always puzzles me."
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
calimary
(81,210 posts)MineralMan
(146,286 posts)pnwmom
(108,975 posts)And then Hillary went on to Wellesley where she was student body president -- and the first student in history to be asked to address the graduating class.
She's been on this path her whole lifetime.
Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,339 posts)Well, there was the whole "baking cookies" thing. The media began tearing her limb from limb with glee and purpose from that point pretty much onward. Obviously, she had it coming.
pnwmom
(108,975 posts)calimary
(81,210 posts)She had me at "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies..." Shit! When I was still working, I felt exactly that way, too!
Maru Kitteh
(28,339 posts)It really cemented my feminism and my admiration for her.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)She still has the biggest impression-leaving to do though. The impression of her foot on the backside of the GOP!
pnwmom
(108,975 posts)Because I can just see him imploding . . . .
Maru Kitteh
(28,339 posts)It's a likely scenario.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)He is so far from being a match to her, she may as well be debating a fruitfly. But, his ego will tell him that he can demolish her just by yelling. Lotsa luck, yam-face!
Proud Public Servant
(2,097 posts)The first time I met HRC, I was arranging an interview for her with Afghan radio and we were having tech difficulties -- which left time for small talk. I introduced myself as hailing from the home town next to hers, and she immediately said, "wait, what high school did you go to?" When I said I attended Maine East -- which she had also attended until Maine South was opened in her senior year -- her eyes widened and she exclaimed, "why, you're a BLUE DEMON!"
Absolutely the most endearing thing I've ever seen a person of her stature do -- and I've seen a lot of them.
pnwmom
(108,975 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Every story I read by people who have actually met and spent some time with her, however brief, says that she's warm, friendly, and funny.
ismnotwasm
(41,975 posts)brer cat
(24,559 posts)pnwmom
(108,975 posts)hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)I like the idea of stories that make Hillary seem more "human". There's been way, way, WAY too much trash talking about her over the last decades thanks to Fox News, et al.
It's time to get some positive stories out there about the person that she really is.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)UtahLib
(3,179 posts)mcar
(42,300 posts)eastwestdem
(1,220 posts)Cha
(297,137 posts)Thank you, pnwmom~ party:
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)spooky3
(34,438 posts)That's all that matters.
Look at how much tolerance we have for a wide range of male personalities in public office, or CEOs, for that matter. We don't expect them to be warm and charming. It's clearly a sexist double standard.
niyad
(113,257 posts)The right tries to create a fictional Hillary and spread it by repetition.