Hillary Clinton is set-up in this debate at Dartmouth University.
Now all i can do is laugh at this video. seeing as i am not a strong supporter, or rather just not a supporter of Clinton whatsoever, i do find this clip of her caught off guard in the middle of a debate comical. i love the initial reaction on her face when she finds out it was something her husband said that she just so strongly disagreed with, then how she quickly recovers and snaps back. of course, the commentary by Colbert adds to the comicality of it all.
It seems as though Hillary cannot escape the shadow of Bill. At first she tried, but it seems she has given in. Perhaps she realized that it was more of a political advantage for her campaign to have her husband be a former (and somewhat successful) U.S. president. i don't know why she shied away from it for so long, but now she just needs to make sure she doesn't get hidden underneath it. there is a delicate balance.
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yeah the clip is funny, thanks for posting about it. i think it's interesting that tim russert thought it was important to ask hillary if she and bill disagreed on some points. that's not really fair for hillary.
nobody was asking bill if hillary agreed with him politically all of the time. i'd guess that the voting public hasn't spent too much time discussing the political beliefs of any of our nation's first ladies, historically.
sure, it would be different if bill clinton became first man. he has an established political career and was, after all, president. i imagine that hillary's insulted that people are surprised to find that she and bill might not agree on everything. first wives do make a show of supporting their husbands, but was she really supposed to be the doting wife for eight years?
hillary got the hard question from russert because bill was the president, yes, but i also think it's because he could be our first first man. and maybe it's harder for some people to envision a husband mindlessly and unquestioningly following his wife when it comes to political policy -- the way first ladies have been portrayed.
if hillary really wanted to, she could make the case that all the attention bill receives from the press and other candidates is a gender issue and a sexism issue just as much as it is a political issue.
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