Why Hillary Clinton’s encounter with Black Lives Matter is her defining performance

[riversedge]

Why Hillary Clinton’s encounter with Black Lives Matter is her defining performance

. Below is an edited version (here’s the uncut video).

It’s an emotionally charged, 16-minute encounter, in which Clinton—put on the spot in a setting that could throw off even the most skilled politician—shines with both respectful empathy and surprisingly tough love.

“Your analysis is totally fair,” she says at one point. “It is historically fair, it’s psychologically fair, it’s economically fair.”.............................includes some writers comments.....


What the commentators and the BLM activists are missing is that they aren’t the important audience. It’s the Democratic base, especially ambivalent and indifferent liberals, who may get fired up by Clinton’s performance. As evidence of this potential, there are few more venues more reliably Democratic than the comments section of the New York Times, where most of 700-plus comments lauded Clinton’s response.

Here is reader “mh12987”: “For the love of God, please tell handlers to let us see more of this! This was a very difficult, potentially explosive conversation that she handled masterfully, showing her full range of skills—staunch advocate, patient listener, skilled politician and diplomat. Lesser candidates than she would have found themselves out of the race after an exchange like this, but she shines in it.”................

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. Seriously?

She did classic 'active listening feedback' of nodding and saying, "Mmmm hummm" every time he paused in mid sentence.

If he had stopped and asked her, "Okay, what did I just say?" she would have been lost.

[riversedge]

2. Seriously, you just said something as silly as this??

"If he had stopped and asked her, "Okay, what did I just say?" she would have been lost."

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. Goes like this...

Seriously,

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you

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just said

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something

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as silly

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as this??

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[bonniebgood]

3. I will not listen to anything Hillary nor Biden has to say since they

voted, supported wrote the welfare reform bill, crime bill, bankruptcy bill, and Iraq. to hell with both of those corporate dems. Don't set your pants on fire, If one of them ended up as the democratic nominee i'd hold my nose and vote. I won't be voting for them, I'd be voting AGAINST the republicans.

[maddiemom]

14. What a mature and enlightened attitude!

[Old Crow]

4. Trying to be as fair as I can here.

And I'll preface this by saying that if Hillary wins the Democratic nomination, I'll absolutely be voting for her.

But I don't see anything in her performance in this video clip to stand up and cheer about. Frankly, what I see in this clip is a masterful, political performance of saying the right things while promising nothing.

I'm more interested in positions and facts. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Hillary accepting money from the Prisons-for-Profit industry? And doesn't that contradict--completely--the sentiments she's expressing here?

[sorechasm]

10. I don't understand why BLM advocates needed to be treated with 'tough love'?

Isn't that a term parents use to discipline children?

I too will vote for Hillary if she is the nominee. I don't see how this exchange helps get her there. If I saw her talk this way to Goldman Sachs, that would be more persuasive.

[stuffmatters]

11. Exactly. "Plantation" incarceration/profit is precisely the wrong they're addressing

The value in this video is not Hillary's response but the succinct description of racist incarceration for profit by the questioner.

[Quixote1818]

5. I don't doubt she did okay but she needs a body language coach

She looks put off by being there, frowning much of the time, not able to break the tension like Obama or her Husband can. Her answers are good but I felt a tension watching it that made it uncomfortable to watch.

[stuffmatters]

9. Please Hillary, stop with the valedictorian tone &style. And the finger in the face - just awful

How can a person be in political life for so many decades & be so absolutely robotic and dull in public speaking, even talking to people as here. A language & body coach is essential.. Stop the crazy hands and learn how to animate and inflect your words & speeches with passion and meaning effectively.

[Gothmog]

6. I like the way that Hillary Clinton addressed this issue

[jalan48]

7. I think it would have been more difficult for her to respond if she had been interrupted on stage.

[SunSeeker]

12. She's always being very good at listening to people. nt

[arlington.mass]

13. prison vs education costs data http://money.cnn.com/infographic/economy/education-vs-prison-costs/