Oh, finally someone agrees with me. Peggy Noonan described Hillary as almost dark and inhuman, in her Wall Street Journal article, "What's Not to Like." She touched on the initial perceptions of Hillary Clinton from the early years, when our country knew that she was "grimly combative and rather dark." Noonan quoted a longtime supporter of the former First Lady's saying, "We're back where we were in '92--likability. Nothing has changed." This much is true, nothing has changed. But most don't realize that.Though Hillary's jagged, dark interior hasn't changed, her facade has softened and relaxed quite a bit. This is all through make-up and great coaching, of course. She has an incredible team working around the clock to make sure she seems like a human being, trying to change our perception and erase our memories of the real Hillary Clinton. The same Hillary Clinton who left the White House with more valuables than she took in. She has spent the last 15 years, at least, trying to evolve her image, assuming voters will only remember the most recent version, like an auto-saved document.
We must remember who she really is. Peggy Noonan is right in the sense that Hillary needs to "prove she has normal human warmth...a normal amount of good nature." But I think that Noonan gives many people too much credit. There are so many people out there who will be so easily absorbed into the recent-document version of Hillary that they will forget the follies of past, which ultimately lead us to the monster within.
Let's not forget how she can change with the time and tide. She has and will again. The only thing constant about this candidate is her selfish ambition.
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