Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin — the same Mark Halperin who treated Ted Cruz like a billboard for Hispanic stereotypes earlier this month — recently sat down with a group of Hillary Clinton supporters in Iowa to gently question them on why they’re so enthusiastic about putting her in the White House in 2016.
Halperin wasn’t as aggressive in his questioning of Clinton’s small group of everyman fans as he’d been in questioning Cruz. Maybe that’s appropriate: Cruz is a candidate for president; these folks are just, well, folks.
Either way, Clinton’s supporters shared plenty of enthusiasm for their favorite candidate — but they didn’t share much knowledge. In fact, their appreciation for Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state under President Obama was downright vacuous.
One of the panelists among the group of 10 Iowa Democrats (Halperin referred to him as “Bill”) set Halperin up to ask about Hillary’s accomplishments by referencing her work as secretary in some of his general comments.
“There’s definitely some trust issues there, but like everybody else has said, her record pretty much speaks for itself,” said Bill. “She’s eminently qualified to run this country, and I think she’d probably do a pretty good job.”
“Bill, what’s the thing you like most about her?” followed Halperin.
“Her experience; especially in foreign policy and, being secretary of state, I think that’s gonna be a real key — key problem in the next four years.”
Uh-oh. That opened the door for Halperin to follow up with a logical chaser: “What did she accomplish, that you consider significant, as secretary of state?”
The answers — or, rather, non-answers — were so fabulously bad that the videotaped session began to resemble a GOP-orchestrated satire sketch.
“I really can’t name anything off the top of my head,” said one.
“I honestly can’t say I followed along with everything that was going on,” said another.
Others sat in silence. There were a couple of “Uhmm”s and “Ahh”s.
Halperin modified the question a bit; and finally, one of the Democrats explained that Hillary had her baggage, but that she was still the best choice because she had at least been married to Bill Clinton while he was president — and that they were still a married couple. That has to count for something, right?
“You know, her experience… Bill Clinton had a lot of good policies, and, you know, they stayed married; they have to have had something in common, to make it through everything that happened.”
Fair enough.
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