Daily Caller on Hillary Clinton

Eric Owens at Daily Caller gives seventeen reasons why it is impossible for Hillary Clinton to relate to regular Americans. The subject is a book by Ronald Kessler, The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents.

First, I must say the Daily Caller site is a mess. Their JAVA is intrusive and this piece is spread out over four pages. But it is so worth it this time.  When I go there I turn off JAVA but this time I actually wanted to click through. Thanks, Eric Owen!

Eric said "normal" Americans in his title but that is a cisnormal trigger, Eric, define "normal." What? Now Hillary is expected to behave normally. Your normal. As a woman she's supposed to behave as a "normal" woman by your presumptions. You're so sexist, Eric.

Yes. Hillary is supposed to behave normally. Is that too much to ask? For this Party, yes, it is too much to ask because obviously she's dominated their slate. Man, there are some great examples. Very damaging indeed. Each item is a mortal wound to a candidate for a normal collective but not for hers. They would go anywhere for her even chase down her van just be shut out. Let the excuse making begin but I won't be listening. They're stuck. They already know she's a terrible person. It can be nothing but excuse making from here out.

This is my favorite Secret Service anecdote #13. While running for NY Senate seat her staff scheduled a meeting with a 4-H club. When they arrived and got out of the car and Hillary saw cows and regular people all over the place in jeans and not enough of people she realized the stop was hardly worth her time. Hillary flew into a rage and turned to one of her staffers and said, "What the fuck did we come here for? There's no money here."

There's a woman who knows how her time is spent most profitably. I actually smiled when I read that. It made me like her. Who doesn't like Cruella de Vil?

These are reported by Secret Service. They don't like her. They consider assignment to her punishment. She has never expressed gratitude for their service, demands they stay out of sight, speaks to them rudely, and curses at them and they do not like the detail one bit. Her chief assistant, Huma is equally rude. Usually the detail helps the ladies with their luggage but the men don't bother with Hillary and Huma. Huma can pick up her own four bags since she treats them so poorly and she can pick up Hillary's bags too. Double luggage for Huma because both are rude and dismissive.

That was my second favorite part. There are fifteen more such items and they're all damaging with very little overlap. They give a good deal of insight into what it would be like having that job and working in that environment with and for such insolent people.