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Pugster

(229 posts)
Thu Sep 21, 2017, 03:21 AM Sep 2017

Politico: Hillary is authentic, and that's a problem

This is not a joke. Politico today now says Hillary didn't have an authenticity problem. See, she should not have been so authentic!

The Strange Authenticity of Hillary Clinton
Read her book, and you realize she might have been the most authentic candidate out there—and maybe that was the problem.
By JEFF GREEENFIELD


This, after telling us for months that she had an "authenticity problem" (lack of authenticity).

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/20/hillary-clinton-book-what-happened-authenticity-real-215627

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Politico: Hillary is authentic, and that's a problem (Original Post) Pugster Sep 2017 OP
Interesting. ucrdem Sep 2017 #1
Al Gore too. rainy Sep 2017 #2
We're so used to the idea that politicians should be fake that fake becomes authentic kcr Sep 2017 #3
I have bern enjoying the recent Clinton interviews Gothmog Sep 2017 #4
Twisting themselves into pretzels mcar Sep 2017 #5
Take 2,512 of "You can't make this shit up" NastyRiffraff Sep 2017 #6
Eye roll. Sigh. nt ecstatic Sep 2017 #7

ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
1. Interesting.
Thu Sep 21, 2017, 03:35 AM
Sep 2017

She was definitely the most honest and least "crooked." But she was up against the VRWC and its army of professional liars. She was flattened by the borg, just like Kerry was, but to their credit it came down to vote stealing and if the votes were counted accurately they would both have won the EC.

kcr

(15,300 posts)
3. We're so used to the idea that politicians should be fake that fake becomes authentic
Thu Sep 21, 2017, 07:56 AM
Sep 2017

So then a politician who isn't fake seems off.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
6. Take 2,512 of "You can't make this shit up"
Thu Sep 21, 2017, 10:04 AM
Sep 2017

Stop being so authentic, Hillary! So we can criticize you for not being authentic again. You're spoiling our fun!

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