I found this article on liking Hillary Clinton..

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very interesting. Her politics aside, because I differ a lot with many of her positions, many of the things in this article made sense to me. Especially the parts on showing any emotion in public. Imagine her yelling like the male candidates. I'm not saying it's sexism, because Elizabeth Warren can get loud.

When someone says Bernie always seems angry, people get all offended and are quick to defend him/it as passion; him caring about the issues.

I kinda of agree with the writer of the article. Liking Hillary is a difficult thing. I sit back and watch and read and am appalled by some of what I see and hear--from our side. I won't even touch what I see and hear from the other side. You don't like Hillary's policies fine, but it's always so personal. People don't mind making it personal with her. Matter of fact it seems like a badge of honor when it's done.

More Than Likable Enough

I like Hillary Clinton. And I’m convinced that saying so can be a subversive act.

’ve come to believe that saying nice things about Hillary Clinton can be a subversive act. I recently spent some time sorting through Clintoniana dating back to the early 1990s, looking at the nasty things people have said about her and common narratives that have formed about her personality. I got a better sense of the pressures that she has to live with—even on days when Donald Trump isn’t using words such as disgusting and schlonged to describe her—and how those pressures have informed her decisions.

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Here is one of those pressures: Hillary Clinton absolutely cannot express negative emotion in public. If she speaks loudly or gets angry or cries, she risks being seen as bitchy, crazy, dangerous. (When she raised her voice during the 2013 Benghazi Senate committee hearings, the cover of the New York Post blared “NO WONDER BILL’S AFRAID.”) But if Hillary avoids emotions—if she speaks strictly in calm, logical, detached terms—then she is cold, robotic, calculating.

You’d think the solution might be to put on a happy face, to admit to emotions only when they are positive. But it turns out that people hate it when Hillary Clinton smiles or laughs in public. Hillary Clinton’s laugh gets played in attack ads; it has routinely been called “a cackle” (like a witch, right? Because she’s old, and female, like a witch); frozen stills of Hillary laughing are routinely used to make her look “crazy” in conservative media.

She can’t be sad or angry, she can’t be happy or amused, and she can’t refrain from expressing any of those emotions. There is no way out of this one. There is no right way for her to act.

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You’d think, given the impressive amount of unfair and often cruelly personal scrutiny this woman faces, it would make sense for her to be pretty cautious about how she presents herself in public. Bizarre, then, that Hillary Clinton has developed a reputation in the press for seeming distant—even secretive or paranoid! It’s almost as if, after a quarter-century of being attacked for her appearance, personality, and every waking move, breath, and word, Hillary Clinton is highly conscious of how she is perceived and portrayed, and is trying really hard to monitor her own behavior and behave in ways people will accept. Which is “disgusting,” of course. We want “authentic” candidates.

Remind me: How well did the public and media react the last time she appeared in public without makeup? Or raised her voice? Or laughed? Or went to the goddamn bathroom? Or did any “authentic” thing that a real-life person does every day?

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http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/12/saying_nice_things_about_hillary_clinton_has_become_a_subversive_act.html

The last bolded part says it all for me. My thought is people liked Bill so much that they put all his 'sins' on her. They didn't want to hate him so they made her the villain....I've seen people blame her for the Monica thing.