Hillary Clinton has run a stunningly boring campaign. Is this really our first female president?

[WestVirginiaRebel]

UK Telegraph:

A length of white rope was the first abiding image of the election, and it was one which said a lot about Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

 

On July 4 last year, Mrs Clinton was in Gotham, New Hampshire, to press the flesh months ahead of the primary – which she went on to lose badly. Things turned a tad messy as a gaggle of protesters emerged to harangue her about Benghazi. So out came the rope, behind which the press were corralled as she made her serene and carefully controlled progress through the town.

 

Local Republicans lapped it up, accusing her of insulting “granite staters”, but it was the first hint of the sense of entitlement has underpinned her entire campaign.

 

A few months later she was in Concord, the state capital, as the contest began in earnest. Hundreds of people queued in the bitter cold hoping to catch sight of her. Around a dozen people were turned away, despite having been told they would get into the rally. This apparently happened a few times and there were already murmurs of disenchantment among folk who should have been core Hillary supporters.

 

In the months that followed, the excitement which should have accompanied the prospect of the United States having its first woman president dissipated. On the Democratic side it was an old white man, Bernie Sanders, who captured the public’s imagination. During the primary contest Clinton displayed tetchiness as she and her team discovered, to their horror, that the road to the nomination was not going to be a procession.

 

Even since getting the nod, Mrs Clinton has at times displayed an annoying smugness rather than the passion one would hope to see from a candidate. It is a struggle to remember anything Mrs Clinton has said over the past 16 months apart from the odd slogan such as “deal me in”, when she was accused of “playing the woman card”.

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Boring her way to the White House?