As awful as portrayed by whom? For the past 25 years her political opponents have been trying to drag her through the mud, reaching at least back to their calling her a member of the hard left in 1992’s The Lady Macbeth of Little Rock. Her portrayal has been so ridiculous that John McCain (a so-called Republican Moderate) has joked that Chelsea Clinton is so ugly because Janet Reno is her father. So no, I think we can categorically say that Hillary Clinton is nowhere near as awful as she is portrayed to be.
Indeed the lengths the Republicans have gone to to drag up mud on Hillary Clinton have been comical. Benghazi? Eight separate Benghazi probes and counting. Which has been in line with the worst thing the Republicans found on the Clintons being dick (and a blue dress). Why? If you catch GOP members at an unguarded moment they will admit that Benghazi and its waste of millions of dollars is nothing more than a political hit. The Clinton Foundation? If you gave the Clinton Foundation a million dollars it wouldn’t guarantee a meeting. Bill Clinton’s aides couldn’t get passports. And the AP’s big smoking gun? Muhammud Yunus? Not only was he a Nobel Prize winner in economics, he’d been a friend of the Clintons since 1983.
The line in making up smear stories about Hillary Clinton goes back at least as far as the Arkansas Project and a billionaire who hated the Clintons spending almost two million dollars to buy reporters to smear them. And the GOP gleefully joining in.
So what’s Hillary Clinton like? She’s a private person whose demeanor dealing with crowds has been altered by the smears against her. And by previous events. She’s also extremely smart and able and an amazing listener, dedicated to public service. (Being a great listener does not, of course, help you deliver a speech).
No she isn’t even as close to being as awful as her political opponents portray her.
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