The press is all over themselves today trying to figure it out. There so-called experts blame everyone from the pitiful fundraisers to her vote on Iraq to her husband, and more.
Maybe. But I think she lost for one simple reason, and it is completely encapsulated in this picture:
This is perhaps the fake, forced expression I can imagine. Completely ingenuine.
And yet, how many times have we seen this on this campaign? Every other day, it seems.
There is not a genuine sentiment in this picture. I do not believe it's how Mrs. Clinton looks when she is truly expressing astonishment.
This is, rather, her "I'm-on-camera-and-must-look-astonished look," and everyone knows it.
It is so obviously fake. It is clearly a lie. It is very off-putting.
You'd never catch Bill Clinton making this kind of face. Or Barack Obama. Or even John McCain.
This is why it's a good think Hillary lost. She just doesn't have that necessary, magical quality. She would have gone through her White House years fighting off all of the right-wing conspiracy that overwhelmed her husband, with the disadvantage of insincerity to boot.
It would have been a disaster, and we all now it. In fact, we now it by the sake of a very thin smile.
Photos create an illusions by giving a duration and prominence to things that could have been subliminal in real time and/or significantly colored by the context. Especially given the accusations of bias in the reporting on Clinton in the main stream media, video would be a more credible sort of evidence.
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