Hillary didn't smile enough? Not interested, she said today, in “just making political happy talk”

[bigtree]

The New York Times ‏@nytimes 34m34 minutes ago
After a top Republican suggested Hillary Clinton didn't smile enough, she responded

____Thursday, the day after a top Republican accused her of insufficient smiling at a televised national security forum, Mrs. Clinton suggested that it was, at least, a question worth considering.

“I’m going to let all of you ponder that last question,” she said, holding a news conference in New York with her traveling press corps on an airport tarmac in White Plains. “I think there will be a lot of Ph.D. theses and popular journalism writing on that subject for years to come.”

Jennifer Palmieri @jmpalmieri
People. Reince actually said HRC needed to smile more. This is real. https://twitter.com/reince/status/773694140404170752 …

On Thursday, Mrs. Clinton suggested that her demeanor was owed to the “serious issues” being discussed, adding that she did not make a habit of taking advice from the Republican committee. She was not interested, she said, in “just making political happy talk.”

“I had a very short window of time in that event last night to convey the seriousness with which I would approach the issues that concern our country,” she said, appearing to allude to what critics described as a rushed format.

She noted that Mr. Trump had devoted much of his speaking time to praising President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

“Maybe he did it with a smile,” she said, now flashing one of her own. “I guess the R.N.C. would have liked that.”


read: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/us/politics/hillary-clinton-smiling.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

[LisaM]

1. If we fail to elect this woman....

then we get what we deserve, basically what we got when we failed to elect Gore and then Kerry. We have been offered some very fine choices for President in this country and if we continue to elect nitwits instead, well, then, I don't know what more there is to be said. Me, I value people who have experience and brains and also have the ability to work with the other side.

[GOLGO 13]

3. I agree. I expect POTUS Trump to not make it pass 14 months before he unifies the House & Senate

against him.

[MotorCityMan]

6. I agree, LisaM

This is WAY too much of a repeat of 2000 and 2004. One candidate eminently qualified and presidential, the other an absolute joke. While I never thought ANYone could make Bush look good, Trump is doing it. I saw his "speechifying" during the primaries for 5 minutes, and I can't stomach him. I can no way sit through one of his hate filled, incoherent speeches.

I gave up on watching any of the tv news shows after 2000, always thought they have deserved most of blame for that election since it never should have been close. The media's handling of Gore is being repeated with Hillary now. They also spend so much time propping up the orange haired shit gibbon just for ratings and profit.

I have never so looked forward to the end of an election. It just better end with President Hillary Clinton and First Gentleman William Clinton.

[cwydro]

2. Great response by Hillary.

This is something that happens to women all the time.

Complete strangers will say that to women. Quite sure they don't do it to men.

[LisaM]

4. Oh, I've been told that frequently.

It's pretty bloody interfering of total strangers to tell you what mood to be in.

[cwydro]

5. It has happened to me quite often.

Once at the gym, which left me speechless.

I wish I could think of a good response, but I'm usually so completely flabbergasted that I can think of nothing.

[athena]

8. It is such an obnoxious thing to say to someone.

I mean, how do they know that your grandmother didn't just pass away? Or that you didn't just lose your job? How can they know your soul well enough to be able to tell you that you should be smiling at that moment? I hate that I don't have a good answer to this obnoxious comment that is not too snarky-sounding.

[Skittles]

10. there's only one adequate response

"fuck off"

[cwydro]

11. I like that.

Short and sweet!

[Skittles]

12. you look at them like a you're looking at a bug in a jar for a short period of time first

you know, for effect; yes INDEED

[Skittles]

9. my standard reply has always been the same

FUCK OFF

who do these guys think they are???

[tblue37]

7. You go, girl! nt