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islandmkl

(5,275 posts)
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 06:26 PM Feb 2016

Hey 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...

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Hey Hillary...Chuck Toad just lobbed you 'telegraphed' soft balls... (Original Post) islandmkl Feb 2016 OP
Same technique she used in th Benghazi hearing. Skwmom Feb 2016 #1
Honestly, she was fucking amazing at that hearing. emulatorloo Feb 2016 #5
THIS Well Described Technique IS Classic Clinton! Used It At The TOWN HALL The Other Night Too! CorporatistNation Feb 2016 #7
There were NO questions that she was not fully briefed on pre-show. NorthCarolina Feb 2016 #2
LOL. Whow the outrage! riversedge Feb 2016 #3
no outrage...just more obfuscation... islandmkl Feb 2016 #4
She used one of her well-worn techniques... thesquanderer Feb 2016 #6
Smokin' HOT Answer That So Well Describes Her MO! It is FATIGUING! CorporatistNation Feb 2016 #8

CorporatistNation

(2,546 posts)
7. THIS Well Described Technique IS Classic Clinton! Used It At The TOWN HALL The Other Night Too!
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 08:00 PM
Feb 2016

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

islandmkl

(5,275 posts)
4. no outrage...just more obfuscation...
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 06:53 PM
Feb 2016

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)
6. She used one of her well-worn techniques...
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 07:51 PM
Feb 2016

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)
8. Smokin' HOT Answer That So Well Describes Her MO! It is FATIGUING!
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 08:02 PM
Feb 2016

How can we take THIS for 4 or 8 years...? HRC... Master of the Circuitous Response!

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