NEW YORK ¨C The political context around Hillary Clinton has changed. Until now, complaints about her have pervaded public commentary, usually with a predictable refrain. In a May podcast, former ¡°Daily Show¡± host Jon Stewart couldn¡¯t find much good to say about the next leader of the Democratic Party.
He imagined Hillary Clinton, he said, ¡°to be a very bright woman without the courage of her convictions, because I¡¯m not even sure what they are.¡±
It was hardly an original damnation. Clinton has long been perceived and portrayed as a cautious, calculating, programmed talking-points robot churning personal ambition into political power, a transactional politician who lacks the inspirational lift that Democrats admire in Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama.
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