David Frum, writing in The Atlantic, critiques Hillary Clinton's first policy speech, delivered at New York's Roosevelt Island last Saturday. "Despite her own great personal wealth, and long association with people even wealthier than herself, Clinton is frankly presenting herself as a politician of inter-class struggle,"writes Frum, adding that this scrappy underdog message is exactly what the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party has been longing to hear.
Hillary's "stinging" rebuke of Barack Obama's "approach to the presidency" was short on hope (unlike Obama in 2007, she never used the "h" word) and long on combat. Clinton "... self-advertises as the toughest, fiercest, most relentless fighter Democrats have seen in a very long time," writes Frum. Forget leadership as all gauzy inspiration. “Leadership means perseverance and hard choices," said Hillary on Saturday. "You have to push through the setbacks and disappointments and keep at it.” You have to fight.
