Clinton’s Silent Treatment

J.J. Jackson* | December 31, 2007

Senatorette Clinton has adopted an age old political strategy. When you speak do so in broad terms, don’t get pinned down and let people paint the blank canvas you give them. That seems to be her latest tact based on this report:

As she races through Iowa in the days before next week’s caucuses, Hillary Clinton is taking few chances. She tells crowds that it’s their turn to “pick a president,’’ but over the last two days she has not invited them to ask her any questions.

Before the brief Christmas break, the New York senator had been setting aside time after campaign speeches to hear from the audience. Now when she’s done speaking, her theme songs blare from loudspeakers, preventing any kind of public Q&A.

She was no more inviting when a television reporter approached her after a rally on Thursday and asked if she was “moved’’ by Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. Clinton turned away without answering.

Her daughter, Chelsea, had the same reaction when a reporter approached her with a question.

When you speak you risk offending someone. And as we know liberals hate to offend people. So she is going out and giving well crafted speeches and then running off.

Unfortunately, like everything else she does, this shows a lack of real leadership ability.

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