{"id":8891,"date":"2015-04-11T17:19:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T17:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8891"},"modified":"2015-04-11T17:19:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T17:19:11","slug":"hrc-needs-to-prove-shes-authentic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8891","title":{"rendered":"HRC needs to prove she&#039;s authentic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the one word, I believe, that sums up Hillary Rodham Clinton&#8217;s major hurdle as she begins her second quest for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>It starts once again on Sunday. She&#8217;ll convene some small-group sessions. She&#8217;ll talk to voters who about herself, which\u00a0is what all politicians do when they discuss campaigns for public office.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/hillary-clinton-begins-her-entry-into-the-2016-presidential-race\/2015\/04\/10\/f5f08ef0-df9c-11e4-a1b8-2ed88bc190d2_story.html<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m left to wonder, though. Just who is this person?<\/p>\n<p>I also am going to venture a guess that a lot of Americans are going to seek to find the <em>real<\/em> Hillary Clinton, whoever she is.<\/p>\n<p>The email kerfuffle and her delayed reaction to it just stokes the flames of those who think she&#8217;s a phony. She&#8217;s got all that big-time money backing her, yet she&#8217;s going to say that the Citizens United case &#8212; which allows corporations to give unlimited amounts of money to politicians &#8212; needs to be overturned. She told us a while back she and her husband, the 42nd president, were &#8220;dead broke&#8221; when they left the White House in January 2001; well, a lot of Americans define &#8220;dead broke&#8221; differently than the way Hillary Clinton defined it.<\/p>\n<p>Is she for real? Does she really connect with me, or you, or most Americans?<\/p>\n<p>Her campaign begins once again in about 24 hours. She&#8217;s going to be the Target No. 1 of every Republican running, or <em>thinking<\/em> of running, for president in 2016. She&#8217;s going to draw fire from those on the far left wing base of her own Democratic Party who are looking for signs that she isn&#8217;t too cozy with Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, on top of all this, she&#8217;s got the baggage she&#8217;ll be lugging around from her time as first lady, when the entire Republican Party establishment &#8212; and before we knew about the TEA party wing of the GOP &#8212; was out to get her husband tossed out of office. She drew her share of enemy fire during that time. Is she ready to take more of it?<\/p>\n<p>Just who is the real Hillary Rodham Clinton?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re about to find out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authenticity. That&#8217;s the one word, I believe, that sums up Hillary Rodham Clinton&#8217;s major hurdle as she begins her second quest for the presidency. It starts once again on Sunday. She&#8217;ll convene some small-group sessions. She&#8217;ll talk to voters who about herself, which\u00a0is what all politicians do when they discuss campaigns for public office. http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/hillary-clinton-begins-her-entry-into-the-2016-presidential-race\/2015\/04\/10\/f5f08ef0-df9c-11e4-a1b8-2ed88bc190d2_story.html &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HRC needs to prove she&#039;s authentic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[73,631,1337,1941,2140,3907,4531,5246],"class_list":["post-8891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-campaign","tag-bill-clinton","tag-democratic-party","tag-gop","tag-hillary-rodham-clinton","tag-republican-party","tag-tea-party","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}