Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Clinton advisers sought to soften her image
Associated Press ^ | Mar 1, 2014 3:30 AM EST | Ken Thomas and Philip Elliott

Posted on 03/01/2014 12:58:25 AM PST by Olog-hai

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s advisers sought to “humanize” what they saw as her stern, defensive public image during her husband’s White House days and as she embarked on her groundbreaking Senate campaign in New York. […]

Thousands of pages of documents released Friday by the Clinton Presidential Library reveal the first lady’s struggles with the health care plan during the 1990s, “an aversion” to the Washington press corps and her transition into a political candidate in her own right as the Clinton administration ended. […]

Clinton’s public image has been a hotly debated topic throughout her career and could linger into any presidential campaign in 2016. She generated headlines during her husband’s 1992 campaign when she defended her work as an attorney instead of being someone who “could have stayed home and baked cookies.” Her role in the health care reform effort was criticized as Democrats were routed in the 1994 elections. Establishing herself in the Senate, Clinton lost to Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary but has become one of the most admired women in the world, watching her popularity grow as Obama’s secretary of state.

The documents provide more details about the concerns in her own camp about how she was perceived by the public. …

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; election2016; healthcare; hillary
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-47 next last

1 posted on 03/01/2014 12:58:26 AM PST by Olog-hai
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

Comment #2 Removed by Moderator

To: Olog-hai

The new, softer "Walmartian" look.

3 posted on 03/01/2014 1:23:23 AM PST by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai
I've got just the tool to do it:


4 posted on 03/01/2014 1:48:05 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: shibumi

She should start with her hair.

I’m thinking a nice bouffant.

Preferably bulbous.


5 posted on 03/01/2014 2:03:13 AM PST by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

As a realist, I have a hunch that “Hillary People” are sending their resumes out far and wide. This ship has sailed. Also sunk.


6 posted on 03/01/2014 2:03:53 AM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai
Soften up a Witch?
Impossible task. . . .
7 posted on 03/01/2014 2:05:43 AM PST by DeaconRed (Back to basics FUBO FUJB FUHRC! ! ! !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Salamander

..... and Ga - LOSH - es.


8 posted on 03/01/2014 2:22:27 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: TChad
No, this is better.
9 posted on 03/01/2014 2:26:39 AM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: John W
Sorry, forgot the old, new, softer, harder look of this restyle.
10 posted on 03/01/2014 2:31:30 AM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

Photographers also use a gauze filter to soften a person with a rough image. For her they would have to use a Levi’s 501 Blues filter.


11 posted on 03/01/2014 2:34:05 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: John W
Perhaps the happy go-lucky drunken look would work.
12 posted on 03/01/2014 2:34:34 AM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

Clinton advisers sought to soften her image
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

What difference does it make? It still takes a village!/s

But that does not include the village of Benghazi!


13 posted on 03/01/2014 2:35:46 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: John W


14 posted on 03/01/2014 2:42:16 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends




That couldn't be softened in its youth!

PLEASE Make YOUR Donation Today!

Time to Git-R-Done!

15 posted on 03/01/2014 3:02:35 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: shibumi

Now that is a “Laser-Like” focus that Gay Barry would be proud of.


16 posted on 03/01/2014 3:12:42 AM PST by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

A tenderizer mallet, all the marinade in the world, and stopping clocks with her face repeatedly couldn’t soften her image.

Oh, they mean her PR image, not her outward appearance.


17 posted on 03/01/2014 3:24:01 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

This is bull hockey. They are trying but it won’t work. Her supporters known as “Hillary land” are primarily made up of women like her; a group of vicious unprincipled leftist power hungry harpies with the scruples of sewer rats in my humble opinion


18 posted on 03/01/2014 3:30:28 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: onyx

As someone posted earlier, deemed too corrupt (by fellow democrats) to investigate Nixon.


19 posted on 03/01/2014 3:32:24 AM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

Satan in a pantsuit — after decades of lies, deceit, criminal activities — the Evil manifests on her face and in her bloated, consumed body.


20 posted on 03/01/2014 3:46:56 AM PST by twister881
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-47 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson