Hillary: A Female Barack Obama?

The audience laughed and Cooper played up the mystery. “The memo was written for a big Come-to-Jesus meeting, at which Obama wanted us to review the strategy and lay out our plans”, Axelrod said, adding that Obama “wanted to talk brass tacks about where we were going” and “we had a rigorous discussion around the points in the memo”. We can not let Clinton especially blur the lines on who is the genuine agent of change in this election. “Secretary Clinton, welcome back”. “She is going to get attacked either way, so she might as well get attacked while having a honest position”.

“I just know that women make rash decisions emotionally – they make very permanent, cemented decisions – and then later, it’s kind of like it didn’t happen, or they didn’t mean for it to happen”.

Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders and Jim Webb referred to Obama twice, Martin O’Malley referred to him three times, and Chafee did once.

Oprah chimed in because of course someone would ask, and after giving the TMZ camera a serious mean mug, she gave a simple response: “Honey child, shut your mouth”.

Moments later she was listening to a question about a crown and how it was being passed back and forth between her family and another.

“I don’t think it posed a national security problem”, Obama noted about Clinton’s communications approach, according to the network.

“I think being the first woman president would be quite a change from the presidents we’ve had.”

Somebody feels pretty comfortable with her authority when she can do this. “I just don’t see it. I said a month ago that I thought her stock was greatly undervalued, and I would buy it now”. Somebody in charge had better be immune to petty undermining. If there was any query of how much she had focus on gender this time around, it was answered repeatedly on Tues. night.

John Wayne used to say, “I don’t act, I react”.

During the Tuesday debate, Clinton was pressed about her differing positions on the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement, the Keystone XL pipeline and other matters. It was like she was on alert but at the same time getting a kick out of the moment. Words like “admiration”, “affection”, and “support” were thrown around, but Clinton drove home the point that she worked, arm in arm, with the sitting president, who is very popular among Democrats. So that’s why we’re supposed to be upset about Hillary’s email habits, because George W. Bush lied about WMDs. “No”, she said, and her smile seemed completely authentic.