Though Hillary Clinton’s second run at the White House has so far found high praise in certain corners of the press, left-wing Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus is decidedly unimpressed.
“I understand what Hillary Clinton is trying to do,” Marcus said Wednesday on MSNBC, referring to the former first lady’s attempts to “connect” with voters in Iowa this week following her announcement this weekend she will run for president in 2016.
But Clinton’s campaign launch — and the video that accompanied it — has so far been “substance-free,” the Post columnist said.
“The first couple days of campaigning have been semi-close to that. The video didn’t say anything except for everyday Americans are being left behind. It didn’t say how it wanted to — how she wanted to help fix,” Marcus said, adding that the topics mentioned in Clinton’s video, which include an “economy for tomorrow” and keeping “our country safe,” came across as “boilerplate.”
Elsewhere, on Monday, Marcus took a much harsher tone with Clinton, dinging the Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign launch video as “insultingly vapid.”
“The more I watch Hillary Clinton’s announcement video, the less I like it. This may be putting it mildly,” the columnist wrote. “Might I suggest, candidate Clinton? The best way to demonstrate your humility to voters is to take them and their presidential choice seriously, not to pander and condescend.”
