Hillary does counterterrorism

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Power Line:

Scott Johnson

Mar. 27 2016

 

On Wednesday Hillary Clinton gave her previously scheduled speech on counterterrorism at Stanford University. The Brussels attacks had taken place the day before. She both comments on the attacks and criticizes Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in the course of her remarks, the C-SPAN video of which is posted below and here.

 

Her speech was treated seriously as a major statement of policy by the news outlets, but it is almost laughable in substance in delivery. She read the speech off the teleprompter, robotically turning her head from side to side at predicable intervals. She read the speech in a monotone and pace suggestive of automated speech. The speech is dead and deadening. As in her thoroughly false statement at the United Nations about her private email server, she struggles to impersonate an authentic human being.

 

Elsewhere in the campaign she presents herself as an ardent supporter of President Obama. In the Democratic primaries, at least, she seeks to ride his coattails. Dissent from his views is something like an offense against majesty. In her speech, she describes the defeat of ISIS as urgent and lays out a three-point plan. It’s a “comprehensive strategy.”

 

The implication is that her views would take her in a different direction than the one in which President Obama is headed, if he is headed anywhere. What would she do differently? I think it is more of the same. Her neurasthenic delivery belies the alleged urgency of the problem. Weirdness rules the day.

 

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Just think 4 years of listening to this person......my head hurts!