Write a comment"So enough already about the damn emails!" was Brooklyn-speak for let's just move on. Bernie Sanders may have meant his comment at the first Democratic presidential primary debate last week in a pejorative sense, but it didn't come across that way, and whether it was a slip of the tongue or unintended pat on the back to Hillary Clinton, the effect is still the same. "Enough already!" That phrase is as understood by the Gentile as it is by the Jew. Republicans should have heard this, too.
They will undoubtedly pay no heed, as they are focused on furtherance of a negative agenda that knows no bounds. There are no limits either to the lengths they will go to derail Clinton's ascendancy in the 2016 presidential race.
It matters not that she is smart, or competent, or composed and capable of bending in the winds to achieve her stated political objectives. She is simply anathema to large swaths of the largely middle-aged or older male base of the Republican Party, and they have come to dismiss and despise her with a vehemence heretofore unknown in American political circles.
The irony here is that, if given an opportunity to get to know Hillary Clinton, beyond the caricature that has been painted of her, they would find that she is indeed an intelligent and engaging individual who would be fun to share a beer, or a martini, with. But that is unlikely to happen often enough to change the Quinnipiac poll.
Say what you will about Hillary. I have firsthand knowledge of her compassion and generosity of spirit.
True confession: I know and like the Clintons, and have had an opportunity to interact with them on a personal level on more than one occasion. When my late wife, Charlotte, was in the terminal stages of her bout with a very virulent form of cancer, it was Hillary Clinton who sent a videotaped tribute message to the Amelia Earhart dinner at which my wife was being honored. That meant the world to me, my wife and our four daughters.
After my wife passed that Thanksgiving, I had been invited to one of the last White House Christmas parties of the Clinton era in December 1999. I responded to the invitation that I would not be attending, and the White House Social Secretary reached out and said, please come, and bring the whole family. What a heartwarming invitation that first Christmas after my wife had died. We all went, and it was the experience of a lifetime, and we were warmly greeted by the president and the first lady. Those are things you never forget.
So, say what you will about Hillary. I have firsthand knowledge of her compassion and generosity of spirit, and will never forget her kind gestures to my family.
