I, like so many other Americans watched the New Hampshire debates yesterday. Only a quarter of the republicans’ debate and all of the democratic.
I was amazed at just how much Hilary Clinton picked fights. Now I guess that’s what you’re supposed to do in a debate, and it’s especially reasonable for someone who has come in 3rd in the first primary, but I know that I must not be alone when I say that Hilary seems to lack compassion and therefore has lost likability. In doing so, she has lost many votes and many in the female demographic–one that she could have relied on as the race to the white house continues.
I sure wish she would smile some more. I want to give her a hug then stand back and put a hand on her shoulder and say, “It’s ok honey, to be a little soft.” She’s made her point, she can wrestle with the big dogs. No longer do we necessarily see Hilary Clinton and are baffled about a woman running for president. Having an African-American and a Hispanic candidate has taken the taboo off the running completely and Hilary is safe from scrutiny.
She’s got balls. I don’t doubt that any more. She can go in there and get the job done–whether that “there” be the white house or Pakistan. But I am a little worried about working class America under Hilary’s rule. Obama and Edwards spoke about the little guy with much compassion and conviction, that for Clinton to not do the same made her come across as unpromising and a little too hard. I only say this because she is a woman, and women do have a vagina-factor coming into play in pretty much all that we do. There is a maternal instinct that all women possess, a maternal instinct that Mrs. Clinton is correct in assuming that may cause some doubt when it comes to hard pressing issues such as war torture that go directly against our mothering kind nature. She has successfully suppressed this at the beginning of her campaign to get rid of the gender stigma, but now as differences between candidates gender and race are no longer an issue, I believe it would be beneficial for her to loosen the estrogen reins. Not completely, but enough to become likable. At least with the women, who she can get a definite strong hold with.
