2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHey Hillary...Chuck Toad just lobbed you 'telegraphed' soft balls...
for which you had fairly short answers....
he asks you if you would not reverse on TPP and your goddam answer went about 2 minutes plus and didn't answer the question...
yeah, you were a Senator from NY and you worked with the Chinese and all that shit...
you talked long enough the question disappeared...
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)emulatorloo
(44,130 posts)CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)She is the MASTER of stringing together random factoids, minutiae, name drops and historical malarchy over protracted periods in order to provide a seeming "answer" with a SOLID UN-ANSWER!
GREAT OP! kand r'ed
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)That is a certainty.
riversedge
(70,239 posts)islandmkl
(5,275 posts)at some point, the questions will have to be answered...
she will run out of 'I've never been asked that before.'
thesquanderer
(11,989 posts)She began her answer, "Well, look, I think the question Americans are asking is..."
She often takes a question, gives it a perfunctory answer (or in this case, none at all) and then "expands" on it (that is to say, largely avoids it) by talking about what she thinks the "bigger question" or the "underlying issue" is... some related point that she can talk about without actually having to dwell on the discomforts of the actual question she was asked.
CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)How can we take THIS for 4 or 8 years...? HRC... Master of the Circuitous Response!