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Matter-eater Man said:
Getting back to the topic of Hillary Clinton, I can't help but notice a trend of front page stories where some Republican like the RNC chairman declares Hillary as being angry or Laura Bush saying she's out of bounds. Is it really surprising that major GOPers have negative opinions about her that it should be major news? Might I suggest that their novice psychoanalyzing could be a wee bit biased?



It doesn't take a degree in psychology to see when someone displays a common emotion such as anger.

Hillary has a tendency to act angry or speak in a poorly modulated voice that conveys anger. Also, when she's not "on," she tends to get a real sour look on her face. (Case in point: that puss she had when President Bush said something nice about her husband during the SotU address...would it have killed her to crack a smile then).

If her supporters don't want people to comment on her "anger," she should stop acting in a way that, at best, looks and sounds angry.

And, in fact, it appears that even Hillary realizes this. According to the New York Times:

    Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton struck back today against a Republican leader's charge on Sunday that if Mrs. Clinton runs for president in 2008, she might fail because voters dislike 'angry candidates'...

    Speaking to reporters in a Head Start classroom on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where she came to criticize President Bush's new federal budget plan released this morning...Mrs. Clinton spoke in even tones throughout the news conference. She conveyed her displeasure with temperate phrases, including referring to Mr. Bush's budget priorities as "upside down," that were far less harsh than the sort of language she sometimes uses at political events and campaign fund-raisers.


If even the New York Times, no friend to republicans, is noting that Hillary has a tendency to sound angry when she speaks then perhaps you, and your sources at Media Matters, should consider the "anger" tag has at least some justificatiable basis in fact.