Reply #17: It's not about Kerry - but that paragraph [View All]

[karynnj]

attempts to make a comparison to benefit Hillary. The comparison ignores that Hillary did not experience the same thing as Kerry, McCain, and Gore. It then ignores all her actions of June and July 2008. The fact is "funk" describes her in those two months better than it did Kerry. The fact is that out of the four he was the one who handled defeat the best - even when he was treated poorly by his own party within months.

I have given Hillary credit when I think she deserves it. I would even ignored the puffery of her handling defeat so gracefully if the author did not unfairly use a negative characterization of Kerry. (It is fair to say that Gore and McCain went into funks - they did.)

In addition, she is no more the most popular politician in the country than Madelaine Albright, who had higher approval ratings than Bill Clinton did was. To my knowledge there is no poll that asks favorite politician done any time recently. Obama is very likely the most popular politician in the country. Now, I will concede that Hillary might beat Biden for second. I also will state that Kerry is likely nowhere in the running. Happy? I also think popularity polls follow positive media.