--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: [I wrote:] > > "He's not well informed, and he vacillates all over > > the place. I think he's doing a barely mediocre job. > > And it's a major drag to serve with him," the former > > secretary of state declared.
> Yuk, yuk. Did you watch the interview, Judy? Obviously > that is not Hillary's opinion. it's quite apparent that > her private feelings and public statements are quite in > sync. No, I didn't watch it, and I might well have had the same impression you did if I had. BUT I don't place absolute reliance on my impressions of professional politicians, especially in this kind of situation, where they don't have much choice about what kind of impression to give. Again, my point is that we couldn't expect her to be anything but very positive and to do her best to convey that those were her private feelings, even if she hated his guts (which I don't think she does; I'm just saying). It's the same with the folks here who regularly post Obama's high approval numbers in response to criticism as if they were somehow *proof* that the criticism was uncalled for. There's a strong element of kabuki in politics, and you have to allow for it.
