I have to laugh at the quality of the judgment and critical thinking ability of those who would put more trust in a former low-ranking Secret Service agent who's been denounced by his colleagues as not having been any closer to Hillary than seeing her walk past in the White House hallway (and is making a mint out of claiming otherwise), than in the Republican (and Democratic) senators who worked closely with her on policy and legislation.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : Oh yes, the Secret Service is especially fond of looking out for her! From: "authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 11:12 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] It's Looking Good That's only in public. Just about without exception, everyone who has worked with her (including Republicans) says she's warm and caring and funny and charming and exceptionally likeable. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : She has to look *likeable*, which she is not. That's like asking nurse Ratchet to look and act likeable. From: "awoelflebater@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] It's Looking Good ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <salsunshineiniowa@...> wrote : (snip) There’s really only one way Hillary could lose this debate IMO, and that’s if she pulls a Gore and tried to play down her own massive intelligence and experience in an attempt to make Trump look smarter than he is. Why anyone would do that is of course the big question, which I’m sure still leaves psychologists scratching their heads about Gore and his first debate to this day. Gore wasn't so much trying to make Bush look smarter. Gore had been brutally mocked for being too wonkish and was portrayed as stiff and boring, and he was attempting to counter that image. Hillary actually has a similar problem. She needs to come across as human and charming as well as intelligent and experienced. Not fair, but that's the way it is. At this point I think all the debates are striving to do is capture the approval and votes of all of those independents and/or former Bernie supporters who are leaning towards Jill or Gary. The Hillary supporters are going to stay Hillary supporters and Trump supporters are going to keep enabling a sociopath no matter what happens at the debates. It would take some sort of miracle for Trump's base to abandon him. It will be very interesting to see what happens and how the polls are effected after the debate based on performance. That should give us a hint as to how important the debates are and how many undecideds there actually are/were out there pre-debate.