Voter Sees The “Real Hillary” Her Campaign Seeks To Reveal

[Alfresco]

The Story
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/voter-sees-the-real-hillary-her-campaign-seeks-to-reveal#.vuyKgQv7j
Originally posted on Oct. 1, 2015

Excerpt:
For a supporter, it took meeting Clinton to see the “contrast” between the person and the “caricatures.” How one moment went from an intense, meaningful exchange between candidate and voter, to a story retold on Facebook, to one shared on Twitter, to a campaign video.

Before this year, he was never much of a Hillary Clinton person. But he’s never disliked her. He’s never found her “cold” or “calculating,” never seen her as “inauthentic” or “unapproachable.” He didn’t buy into all that — the “caricatures,” he said.

Still, for Keith F. Thompson, meeting Clinton for the first time in the flesh — seeing her, talking with her, even starting to tear up with her — came as something of a revelation.

“I knew the caricatures — I knew that was from some angry person in their mom’s basement,” said Thompson, a 52-year-old delegate from New Hampshire.

“I knew that,” he said. “But the contrast is huge.”

[murielm99]

1. Thanks for posting this story. n/t

[Betty Karlson]

2. At least we know that camp Clinton reads DU:

one week after the DNC fiasco, resulting in people "not trusting her" and continued posts about Clinton never doing anything that wasn't calculated polled and focusgrouped, here is an effort to (haha) correct the record.

Yes, those 200 per campaign event carefully selected voters had their minds supposedly changed. It's a shame that so few people bother to show up at Clinton events; maybe those events are too scripted for a meaningful exchange with Clinton? It's almost as if her campaign is afraid to let her answer tough questions like

- why would you start negotiating the minimum wage - start, mind you - with a bid below living standards?
- what made you change you mind on LGBT equality? We've been asking for three years, and all you give is hollow vagueries.
- How are you qualified to be president when you voted for the biggest clusterf*ck in recent history: the Iraq war?
- Are you at all concerned about helping Bush to create ISIS, and why are you so keen to repeat the policies that brought forth groups like ISIS and Al-Nusra?

[Alfresco]

3. If you would focus on the positives of Bernie you would be a much happier person.

[leftofcool]

4. It's a shame you don't spend time building up your candidate.

Perhaps your candidate has nothing on which to build.

[m-lekktor]

8. Perhaps you might want to clean your own house before lecturing the supporters of others.

Should I provide you links to threads as examples?? The BRAZEN hypocrisy from some on this board is something to behold.

[Android3.14]

10. Well said

[tecelote]

11. Yes. Bernie should put out feel good stories.

"7 things Bernie Sanders has in common with your abuelo"

That's the ticket!

[TexasTowelie]

9. Yet this story was posted on Buzzfeed on October 1

which was before the DNC fiasco even began. Oops!

[pengu]

5. lol

The silly mommy's basement blogger dig never gets old, does it?

[berni_mccoy]

6. The Story is Bullshit

And it's as manufactured as Clibton's campaign.

Thompson, a self-described “New Hampshire person” — namely, a “New Hampshire person who expects to meet each candidate twice and have dinner or something” — was already committed to her campaign at the time of the convention. But before that Saturday, he hadn’t met Clinton or even seen her speak.

[Alfresco]

7. Ah yes, the fertilizer that grows a successful campaign into the Presidency.

[Overseas]

12. K&R. Glad to hear it.