The unbearable lightness of Hillary Clinton, 2016 (Part II)

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Hot Air:

Five months ago, I joined many observing that Hillary Clinton’s cautious approach to the 2016 election cycle had resulted in a campaign devoid of any substance or excitement.

 

“Everywhere Hillary Clinton goes, a thousand cameras follow. Then she opens her mouth, and nothing happens,” The Atlantic’s Molly Ball observed in September of last year.

 

In the interim, Hillary Clinton’s status as the Democratic Party’s inevitable 2016 nominee has grown more secure, but that is only due to the fact that her most formidable challengers have opted to submit to the Clinton juggernaut. “It’s her turn,” after all.

 

But the unbearable lightness of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign has only grown more insufferable in the interim.

 

On Monday, Clinton appeared before an audience of 5,000 women of influence in the technology industry at a Silicon Valley conference. Just glancing at the hashtag associated with the event, #LeadOnCA, prompted me to issue a challenge to the media to farm a single headline of interest out of the anodyne pabulum to which Clinton treated the attendees. Kudos to The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker who rose to the challenge with, “Clinton: ‘Crack every last glass ceiling.’”

 

“If we want to find our balance again, we have to figure out how to make this new economy work for everyone,” Clinton said.

 

“It’s time to have wage equality once and for all,” she added.

 

“We have to restore economic growth with rising wages for the vast majority of Americans, and we have to restore trust and cooperation within our political system so that we can act like the great country we are,” the former secretary of state declared.

 

“I’d like to bring people from right, left, red, blue, get them into a nice, warm purple space where everybody’s talking, where we’re actually trying to solve problems,” the likely Democratic standard-bearer insisted. “That would be my objective if I decide to do this.”

 

Clinton conceded “I don’t think I have all the right ideas” and added that “I don’t think my party has all the right ideas,” and later repeated that her greatest desire is to help ensure “that we could get back to working cooperatively again.”

 

Hillary Clinton, bridge builder.

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The inevitability of the empty pantsuit.