The Remake of Hillary Clinton continues

Because Sen. Hillary Clinton was an active first lady during the Clinton years, many Americans already had an opinion of her before she decided to run for President. In fact, most Americans think poorly of her. Recent polls show her unfavorability numbers as high as 51%. This Rasmussen poll shows 50% don’t like Hillary. It’s hard to win an election when so many people don’t like you.

Hence, the remake of Hillary Clinton. This has been going on for more than a year. Clinton is trying to make herself appear more human and less shrill. She smiles on the campaign trail, she laughs and she jokes with the media. Hillary didn’t do that back in 1993.

She cracked a joke about a year ago saying, “we face a lot of evil men, you know, people like Osama bin Laden comes to mind and what in my background equips me to deal with evil and bad men.” An obvious shot at her husband. This was Hillary trying to be funny. In one of the later debates, Hillary again joked about her husband’s infidelities. She said, “everybody here knows I have lived through some crises and some challenging moments in my life.” The crowd loved it.

She produced a Soprano’s spoof to pick her campaign song, flew on Hill Force One, and has cried three times so far. The message: Sen. Hillary Clinton is not a robot. In the past few days, she has appeared on Saturday Night Live to make fun of herself. She cracked a couple jokes on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

I have seen Clinton during a couple of campaign stops in Iowa and New Hampshire. She appeared motherly and friendly in order to remake that cold-hearted image. I have to be honest. It has worked. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t agree with Hillary Clinton on much if anything and I certainly won’t vote for her. However, I no longer think she is an inhumane, emotionless, shrill politician. I have seen her laugh, cry, and drink a beer with the press corp. All of it has been calculated and planned, but if she wins, I know she is capable of being human.