Clinton also provided insight into how she’s preparing to handle Donald Trump’s freewheeling, improvisational style in their upcoming general election debates.
“I am drawing on my experience in elementary school,” she said before imitating a boy pulling on a girl’s pigtails.
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August 23rd, 2016 at 3:25PM
my guess is that she is going to be in her angry/pinched mode that turns so many off and the whole circus will be a draw with the voters which is ok in terms of the donald’s numbers staying well below where they might get dangerous.
You need to work Roy Cohn into yer Ubu series:
http://www.npr.org/2016/08/23/491037719/trump-off-camera-the-man-behind-the-in-your-face-provocateur
August 23rd, 2016 at 3:57PM
dmf: Oh, I’ve thought of putting Roy Cohn in there – except that he’s so over. Plenty of living folk to feature.
August 23rd, 2016 at 4:38PM
could be a ghost something sort of angels in america
August 23rd, 2016 at 7:22PM
I am not worried about her tone or mode. The Democratic convention was perfect pitch; laying low while Trump self-destructs — exactly right. HRC’s very smart and, by now, knows her own weaknesses (she is not a narcissist) and her own and her advisers strengths. She’s obviously got excellent advice and she’ll take it. And she’s tough enough to stand toe to toe with him and not melt. My one concern, a land mine — something buried about HRC that will be regarded as explosive, whether or not it should be seen that way. But then again what possibly could cancel out the monstrosity of DJT. By the way I think he won’t debate her. And, if he doesn’t, the ad writes itself. In this realm literal cojones are overrated and, metaphorically, he doesn’t really have them.
August 23rd, 2016 at 8:17PM
Greg: I too keep having my doubts that he’ll debate her. Not sure how he’ll wangle the refusal…
If he does indeed show up to debate, my fevered imagination imagines very weird and disturbing possibilities, up to and including his getting physical in some way with her… Though I even sometimes wonder, given the incredible pressure this 70-year-old is under, whether he might physically collapse… Certainly one way of ending his presidential nightmare/farce/terrible business decision in a way that would save face would be for him to fake a heart attack… Melania rushes up from the audience – Donnie! Donnie! – and we suddenly break to a commercial…Reality tv at its best…
Hm. I think I’m describing Pere Trubu Act Four…
August 24th, 2016 at 9:20AM
maybe he could join Scalia in whatever circle of hell is for people who die from having dark and hardened hearts
August 24th, 2016 at 10:26AM
The Party of Compassion at prayer again, I see.
August 24th, 2016 at 11:01AM
tp: Religious diversity is a healthy part of a functioning democracy.
August 24th, 2016 at 11:34AM
Ah, Scalia. Whatever was up with Ruthie G. and that friendship. I understand odd couples, but how could you be a genuine friend of someone with those views. Was it instrumental? Was she attempting to play court politics — in the way that the wily, and generally unmatched, William Brennan — often made a little nice with horrible colleagues in pursuit of achievable advances, however small? I was dumbstruck when I discovered that Elena Kagan went small game and then larger game hunting with that constitutional, theocratic buffoon. I guess its; in for a rabbit, in for a buck.
By the way MS, I often feared that DT might hurl horrible invective at HRS in a debate and that she would have to decide whether to walk off or do something else. At least she’s disciplined enough to rehearse the possibilities and responses. Never thought, though, that he might physically attack her. For what it’s worth, I think she’d drop him like a sack of your favorite root vegetables.
August 24th, 2016 at 11:37AM
Ps Sorry about the punctuation in the preceding ie the second dash.