Reply #15: The Way I See It...

[anonymeme]

In the hostage situation, Hillary flew back to NH where the danger was and presented herself to take on any duty the local police might ask of her including, I would guess, talking to the hostage-taker through a safe hook up -- since it was her offices and her personnel he chose to hold.

And there may have been some desire on his part to get communication with her or get some favor from her in return for letting the hostages go.

And she was there to coordinate anything beyond the scope of a local PD.

She presented herself there in the location of the situation, in the fashion a commander-in-chief would.

Unlike George Bush who sat dumbfounded like a complete dork and then resumed reading My Pet Goat to a group of school kids, as the Towers were crashing down on 9/11, and then high-tailed it as far away from the location of the disaster as fast as he could.

In the case of the motorcycle policeman who was killed, she put a halt to a rally that might have meant a difference in the number of her votes to do the decent thing and go sit with the officer's family at the hospital.

Also, no one can deny her strength in the face of what the Republicans made a national crisis over her husband's peccadillo and the impeachment. She could not have known with any certainty what would happen to her husband and her family, but she stuck in there and stood by him, even defending him to the press.

And there was a legislation, that the Dems needed to get through the senate -- I haven't got all the detail immediately available -- but I need to look them up anyway, but she pulled what looked like a number to get the full attention on her and took the blame and a lot of heat for something, while her fellow Dems were able to get whatever it was through.

At first, not understanding what was going on, I was ticked at her and was wondering what she was thinking with that maneuver -- and then it dawned on me that she had done what a mother bird does when it drags a wing. It gets the attention of the predators off her babies and onto her. And that's exactly what she did. She used whatever she had the power over as a bargaining chip to help the legislation get through.

She does what a leader does. She does what a soldier and a survivor do in all things.

Hillary can handle a crisis. We've all seen her do it even if we didn't notice or took it for granted. But she can and does.

She's 17 years older than Barack and yet she has kept up the same break neck pace he has during this campaign and with less money and less support.

Anyone should try to put in the miles she has at 61 and see what it's like.

But Hillary can handle it and crises, too.

And so far Obama hasn't shown that he can handle anything.