The Red Pantsuit

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[PatrickforO]

1. LOL. She looked good in red.

[JoePhilly]

2. Bwahahahaha!

[mainstreetonce]

3. Copied from one of the tweets

Aide: "valar morghulis. It means all men must die"

The Red Debate. LOL

[CatWoman]

39. LOL!!!!

[csziggy]

41. It's not the Vagenda of Manocide? nt

[Hugin]

4. +1

[Brainstormy]

5. Love it! and BTW

I think she looks better in red than any other color.

[woodsprite]

7. Looked great against the blue background!

My daughter and I both commented on it. My daughter loved how it popped with the split screen views. Even a bright red tie on Trump wouldn't have made such a statement. My son didn't like the red since it's usually associated with Republican states. Red is power and can make some people feel uneasy (my boss especially hates red and she feels threatened when people wear it - so much that I had to use Photoshop to change my red shirt to a blue shirt for a department xmas picture).

I thought Hillary looked wonderful, calm, prepared, and like another DUer said, serene.

[relayerbob]

8. The red state aspect caught my attnetion too

but I see it as a brilliant subliminal way to grab the red staters attention. Trump tried to do the same with a blue tie, but obviously failed

[Wounded Bear]

9. She baited him on Between two Ferns....

She mentioned he would probably wear a "red power tie." That means, of course, that he couldn't.

[Missn-Hitch]

53. LOL! I love reading the comments. Great observation. Cheers.

[Cracklin Charlie]

42. I think red is great.

But she looked fantastic in turquoise on a magazine cover a couple years ago.

[tonyt53]

6. As my wife said when she walked out "That is the power color".

[calimary]

19. YEP. That's exactly what it is.

Every time I've been in a situation where men and women were together in offices, in conferences, in social-but-still-business-related gatherings - wearing red was (and is) a STATEMENT. It's a look-at-me color for sure. Mythologically it's the color of Mars, the god of war. She suited up for battle, psychologically as well as physically. She looked GREAT.

Red is a good color on her. Actually, several bright colors look good on her. But wearing red is definitely making a statement. It brought out the roses in her cheeks and flattered, made her look strong and vibrant and commanding. Made her look like a business woman, an executive woman, a CEO. She dresses like a CEO.

Red's been a political statement color since reagan. Nancy liked red. Her choice of new White House china had red borders on all the plates and cups and other pieces. She wore red a lot, to the point where it was referred to as "Reagan Red." There was this reactive thing that took hold in the press corps - and it was openly acknowledged, too. Women reporters covering the White House wore red because they knew it would draw his eye, and he'd be more likely to call on them in White House news conferences. It does make you stand out.

Also, I think it might have been a VERY subtle reach-out to "soft" GOP voters. Red is the GOP's color.

[Ligyron]

22. Informative Calimary.

I always enjoy your posts.

[Cracklin Charlie]

43. OMG

Should Clinton win (she will), does that mean Bill Clinton will order new China for the White House?

I'm having visions of a border of Razorbacks and dogwood blossoms...

[mainstreetonce]

10. Listen

https://m.

[mountain grammy]

11. She really looks good..

Maybe I need a little pneumonia.

[Fla Dem]

13. I thought so too. She looked great just after a week out from pneumonia.

I also heard she actually did her debate prep at 9 pm so she would be used the later hour. Left nothing to chance.

[Ilsa]

17. That's very smart. We remember better and are

more comfortable, less stressed, when we are tested closer to the context in which we are prepped. At least, that was what I always heard.

[calimary]

20. That IS very smart.

Strategically and psychologically - as well as physically, too, getting her body conditioned to doing combat at that hour. VERY smart. VERY brainy.

And I want those brains in the White House. We all NEED those brains in the White House!

[Ligyron]

24. Yeah and I thought Dump was only supposed to need a couple hours sleep a night.

He definitely looked like it was past his beddy-bye time toward the end there.

[calimary]

35. And did you notice, afterwards, the "he ran outta gas" meme?

Steve Schmidt started it last night on MSNBC. He's a GOPer. And that's a metaphor he used several times throughout the evening. I noticed it was picked up again this morning - on CNN, too. It really fit, though.

I kept flashing back on Tony Schwartz. Something he said months ago during one of his many interviews about The Donald, with whom he hung out and tagged along with for months while researching to write "The Art of the Deal" for Trump. He was Trump's ghostwriter. He spoke numerous times about Trump's lack of focus and an abysmally low attention span. "Three seconds." "A minute or so." But the one that REALLY struck me: "he has the attention span of a nine-year-old boy with ADHD." DAMN that nailed it. Just freakin' NAILED it! I personally know that one painfully well. That was my kid, too, when he was nine years old (and younger). He eventually grew out of it, but as a child, he dealt with ADHD. When he was nine years old, SHEESH!!!!!!! Let's just say I never took him with me if I ever had to go shopping in a china shop or glassware department! YIKES!!!!!!!! My husband even created a screen saver for me - with the message "NO FLAPPING!" in big multicolor letters floating around the screen. Because I found myself saying that to him all the time. Sometimes it seemed like that's all our boy did. Flap! Arms, legs, mouth, hands, fingers. At home. At school. In karate class. At the grocery store. Just about anywhere. AY-yi-yi... There were times when I seriously thought we'd never get through that.

[Cracklin Charlie]

44. He just needed his woobie.

[Ilsa]

48. Flapping, like pulling elbows close to the body and flapping hands? nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

56. Truth!!!!!!

YES!!!!!!!!!

[mountain grammy]

52. I couldn't watch, too nervous, went for a ride and listened on Sirius.

I was screaming at the beginning, then Donald began to self destruct. A beautiful thing. Came home, flipped on my laptop and there she was was in that red pantsuit! Wow! fantastic! She's never looked better.

[Fla Dem]

12. Red badge of courage and strength. I think it made a great statement!

[ffr]

14. Or red Honey Badger

What a dominating commanding masterfully coherent stateswoman she was last night.



SO FIRED UP TODAY!

[calimary]

27. "Commanding" is a GREAT word for it.

That's exactly what she was. Poised. Strong. Vibrant. Composed. Confident. Knowledgeable. Prepared. Masterful. Bold. Gutsy. Commanding.

Her demeanor said all kinds of good things and telegraphed massive positive cues. Especially when her opponent behaved exactly as his "Art of the Deal" ghostwriter Tony Schwartz complained about him - having spent months in close scrutiny of Trump for the purposes of writing his book for him: "like a nine-year-old boy with ADHD." Btw - as a personal note, I happen to have had one of those - those nine-year-old boys with ADHD. My son was diagnosed with that. He's 24 now and has it much more together now. But back then, he was a fidgety, sniffing, waving, flapping, spinning, head-bobbing, nervous-tic-ridden kid. We used to call him the Tasmanian Devil. My husband even made me up a screen-saver that wiped around my computer screen with a quote of mine that I used with our son ALL THE TIME: "NO Flapping!"

She was PREPARED. Reminded me of when I was a freshman in college, wanting to get involved in the campus radio station. To do that, back then, and go on the air and have your own show, you had to have an FCC 3rd-Class license with a broadcast endorsement - the "element nine." To acquire one of those you had to take a test at the FCC offices in downtown L.A. For me, that meant doing what I always did before a test. Study my ass off! Spent all night pouring over that FCC license book, which was thick and mostly written in Romulan (or might as well have been - VERY complex and math-based). The freshman boys who also wanted to join the radio station and get their own show just shrugged and figured they'd ace it, and none of them studied. I treated it as any other test. You study for the test, okay?

And guess how it turned out? I passed. None of the guys did. They didn't take it seriously and they blew off studying for it. Didn't think they'd need to. So I thus earned one of the rare open timeslots, and was off to the races, and they had to wait til the next quarter, when they could go take the test again and try again. Many of 'em lost interest and disappeared. Meanwhile, I was rockin' every Wednesday morning, signing on the station, following the rules I'd studied, all legal, my little FCC license with the element nine on it authorizing me to touch and operate all the equipment and turn on the transmitter and all that stuff you had to be licensed by the FCC to do.

A test is coming? You damn well prepare for it! For Pete's Sake! You study! You make notes and review them over and over again. You stay up all night if you have to. You GET READY for it and take it seriously. And he clearly didn't do either one. Hillary did. Probably because she takes all this seriously. Which, I think, when it all comes right down to it, is what we all really want and need in a President, 'eh?

I think this is NOT something where you just "wing it." I remember when George HW Bush was running for a second term. He was asked, at one point, about readiness and what HE would be equipped to handle. And he responded vaguely and rather casually - "whatever comes up." WTF is that? "Whatever comes up"? You don't have specifics? You don't have ideas? You don't have plans and approaches thought out already? All this stuff a President has to deal with and you're just swatting it in the air like some wandering fly? Much was made of that, as I recall. And it became one of many reasons why Bill Clinton was able to make him a one-term President.

[Ellen Forradalom]

58. Wish I could rec this post

[George II]

15. Red looks much better than orange, Donny.

[babydollhead]

16. laurie anderson's red dress

[unblock]

18. it was part of the needle-donnie strategy. it works. he saw red.

[TonyPDX]

21. Probably celebrated afterwards with a really rare steak and a glass of burgundy. She trounced Trump.

[Cracklin Charlie]

45. Trump steaks

Trump vodka.

[TonyPDX]

50. Brilliant!

[niyad]

23. absolutely loved it--and love the comment!!

[NewJeffCT]

25. awesome comment

I was hoping to see a picture of Clinton photoshopped in place of Jeffrey Dean Morgan/Negan with Lucille over her shoulder and Trump in the lineup of potential victims (for those who don't watch, Lucille is from the season finale of The Walking Dead last year - a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, nicknamed Lucille, was used to kill one of the main cast members in last year's season finale. Who was the victim was a cliffhanger, though, to be revealed next month in the season premiere)

[BBri]

26. Looking Dynamite Was Just A Bonus...

She could have dressed in a tarp and she'd have been more Presidential than Donald Trump. She was so well prepared and articulate, but, I expected that. She's a BOSS. She knows how to handle herself. And she showed she knows how to handle an adversary in a debate.

[calimary]

30. Welcome to DU, BBri!

That's a good point. Indeed, she IS a boss. She IS an executive. And she dresses that way. She's a player and might well wind up with the most powerful job on earth. And she's no newcomer. Dammit - at THIS level, you HAVE TO take things seriously. You HAVE TO be prepared, or get yourself there by hell or high water. This isn't something where you can just "wing it." This isn't something where you can rely exclusively on "your gut" and the strength of your personality. That won't cut it in a game like this. HE won't cut it in a game like this, particularly since it's not what he's used to. He's used to playing on a playing field he owns, or runs, and he can just phone it in. Where he calls the shots because he's the star of the show or he owns the building or he's the alpha and he can just coast on that.

Nope! Not here.

[RKP5637]

28. She really really looked great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Gothmog]

29. Great tweet

[BlancheSplanchnik]

31. !!!! :D

[left-of-center2012]

32. Previously, Hillary called Trump's red ties his "power ties"

Maybe she wore her 'power suit'?

[Cracklin Charlie]

46. He'll say...

She only started wearing red, cause he wore red.

Whiny baby.

[CaptainTruth]

33. As a former video producer, I realize that color was off-limits in the SD (NTSC) days.

NTSC just literally could not display real red, it wasn't in its color space.

Today, with HD, on-screen talent can rock the red, & she definitely rocked it!

[Wounded Bear]

55. I remember....

Back in the day, trying to watch certain football teams was virtually impossible. Wide shots of the crowd would wash out the whole screen.

[MFM008]

34. She dominated visually

Only white or yellow would have worked better.
Blue . Black or green and she would have been absorbed in the background.

[CJohnson_LS]

36. She looked fantastic last night

You could tell that she was so ready to beat Drumpf at his own game. And she succeeded with flying colors. Only the most delusional, RW nuts believe Trump did well. I'm really looking forward to the next 2 debates.

[rivegauche]

37. OMG, beautiful! The perfect salute. nt

[Coyotl]

38. versus the Orange Anus. Sounds like a Mexican wrestling match, yet no match at all.

Rosie O’Donnell responds to Trump: Calls him an ‘orange’ body part on Twitter
By Travis M. Andrews September 27

Rosie @Rosie
HE WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT ... @WeinerAnne
8:39 PM - 26 Sep 2016

In the second, O’Donnell called Trump an “orange anus.”

Rosie @Rosie

…
--- the 5 mins orange anus can't seem to get over --- tell the truth - shame the donald #ImWithHer
8:54 PM - 26 Sep 2016

Will #OrangeAnus be the next trend?

[Hekate]

40. Bwahaha

[RussBLib]

47. betcha she wears white in debate #2 and blue in debate #3

red-white-blue

get it?

It's subliminal enough to affect a few people.

[bigwillq]

59. That would be cool (nt)

[Skittles]

49. she looked great

I thought Donald looked constipated

[Raine]

51. Looked at her very best, powerful & pretty!

[Rex]

54. Awesome power outfit.

She rocked it, of course. We have class, they have ass.

[Gothmog]

57. K&R

[Rezzi1945]

60. looks great!!

she looks great, beautiful and intimidating at the same time, like a red bull!!