"You helped me find my voice"

I thought Clinton's acceptance speech was great. When she talked of voice, it recalls the great feminist psychologist Carole Gilligan. If she has found her own voice, she'll be a far, far better candidate. Let's hope that's the case. Let's hope she really does take control of her campaign and starts speaking her mind, as she started doing in the last few days.

....:puke:

I'd expect nothing less from you.

...you know, because it's all about you....

:eyes:

It was a canned line at the beginning of a canned, poorly written speech...

To think that YOU would think it's all about me!!

That's like being nominated for a People's Choice Award and losing to Pia Zadora!

See, I'm old enough to remeber who Pia is/was...!!!

she just now found her voice?

...she doesn't have one to find.

:puke:

nt

I really hope that she has found her voice and that she'll follow it more from here on out. I felt the rest of the speech didn't quite live up to that line, but that's okay. :)

Her speech started off well but when she gets into the edge of shouting it is far too strident and off-putting. When she starts to sound vocally like the female version of nemesis Chris Matthews, her voice can really be annoying.

Hillary needs to learn to control the tone of her vocal output. The Clintons have all kinds of Hollywood friends - why not get some vocal advice or training? Take a note from someone like Oprah Winfrey - strong, clear voice but never strident.

nt

Doesn't that tell anyone else that something is seriously wrong with this woman? Either that was another baloney pandering line or she is someone who has no inner sense of steady purpose.

That's what I think has made her unlikeable. If she can be real, she'll be much better, but only time will tell. I think she has an inner sense of purpose, but campaigns are like football games; the goal is to win, not to be honest. I support Obama, but have long recognized he just talks in platitudes without saying much. I support him because I think platitudes work. Just as Reagan won on meaningless phrases like family values, Obama was doing well on equally meaningless expressions like hope and change.

the big hoopla about her supposed crying only helped her.

I've said for many years that that the Clintons benefit every time they're attacked.

...HRC has more "voices" than Rich Little...and not one of them genuine.

Hillary was pounded repeatedly in the right wing media throughout the Clinton Presidency and after. While she was First Lady, it was difficult for Hillary to find an appropriate perspective to return fire from - Americans traditionally are cool toward overtly partisan First Ladies. The one time she really did, when she talked about the vast right wing conspiracy out to get her husband, she got raked over the coals for saying that, and since she wasn't a candidate or in office herself, she couldn't really fire back.

Hillary started to develop a public voice running in New York State, in particular interacting with upstate New Yorkers who had been suspicious of her. But New York is a relatively cosmopolitan Blue State, even if it is largely rural. On the national stage Hillary confronted an image of herself peddled by the Right of her being a Femi-nazi hyper liberal murderess. She decided to adopt a very measured public personna to counter that, to seem as un extreme as possible to put those lies to rest.

Hillary never had trouble finding her strong voice as an advocate for children and youth throughout her life. There she fought for a cause to win for those who needed her help, it didn't involve having to unlock the puzzle of how to win an election. Now she is letting herself be herself more in front of the nation. I think losing in Iowa using her campaign handlers strategy was a liberating moment for Hillary, as difficult as it must have been for her to take.

:puke:

and a policy wonk extraordinaire. Her back was against the wall and it broke her out of her shell.

She stopped playing it safe for a while. Obama and Iowa made her a better candidate. And I think NH is going to do the same for Obama.

I would expect that she will go back into her more comfortable "wooden" mode.