One of the problems with writing about Hillary is that she is, generally speaking, a reasonable person doing sensible things — not exactly the stuff of memorable headlines. Finding news about Hillary is sometimes like reading a plot synopsis of The Odd Couple if there was no Oscar; or Sesame Street if Bert lived alone; or if you like, Star Wars if the rebels were really passionate but didn't have any ships or pew-pew guns.
That's probably why all of the news about Hillary on her very own website is mostly about Trump, Obama, Sanders, or stuff Hillary's done in the past, rather than wacky hijinks/adventures she's getting herself into today.
And that's good for a president! You don't want the leader of the free world to live like she's a character on a TV! But it's bad bad bad for a candidate, who is literally an actual character on TV and will get canceled if her ratings sink too low.
Here's what's on your Facebook feed right now, none of which is Hillary Clinton: Pokemon Go/Westboro Baptist Church, how many black people have been shot today, bizarre deals on Amazon Prime Day items, and Manhattanhenge. If you work at Microsoft, you're probably atwitter about Ubuntu right now; and if you are Chad you are probably fixated on the news about Draymond Green.
Trump, on the other hand, is all over the news, as always. He's saying nasty things about Bernie; he's saying nasty things about Ruth Bader Ginsburg; he's predicting violence from Black Lives Matter. Every time he opens his mouth, it's to say something insane, so of course we're delighted to talk about it. He's spent nothing on TV ads, while Hillary has to spend millions.
But that's because Hillary's so reasonable. She's saying nice things about Bernie; she's giving speeches about equal pay for women; she wants more community health centers. That is awesome, and not insane, and therefore several orders of magnitude less interesting than the other guy, the madman.
If Hillary is on the radar at all today, it's because Bernie just endorsed her, which is very nice and good for him. But Hillary herself is not doing anything to elicit astonishment at the moment, and I can't decide if I want her to do something, ANYTHING, to steal attention away from Trump ... or if that would be horrible and gross and stooping to his level.
I mean, there's no question that it definitely would be stooping. But then again, with so much at stake... is stooping so wrong?
