Four years. That’s how long it’s been since Hillary Clinton made an appearance on a Sunday morning show. It may explain then why she had trouble with some questions on Sunday’s Face the Nation.
For her last question, host John Dickerson asked Hillary to describe herself in three words.
(LAUGHTER)
DICKERSON: Just three.
CLINTON: Just three? I can’t possibly do that.
I mean, look, I am a real person, with all the pluses and minuses that go along with being that. And I have been in the public eye for so long that I think — you know, it’s like the feature that you see in some magazines sometimes. Real people actually go shopping, you know?
DICKERSON: All right. Well, I’m going to have to really interrupt you.
Earlier in the interview, Hillary had also been asked about political outsiders. Hillary was First Lady for eight years while her husband was president. She herself served as Secretary of State and her political ambitions are not secret.
But, for Hillary, she qualifies as an outsider merely based on her sex:
DICKERSON: Now, I agree, but your name — we have not…
CLINTON: I mean, if you line up — if you — all these mothers and fathers bring me the place mats with all the presidents, and they bring their daughters, and they say, my daughter has a question for you. And the daughter says, how come there are no girls on this place mat?
DICKERSON: I agree that that is a difference.
CLINTON: I think that’s a pretty big unconventional choice.
DICKERSON: Yes. But you know what I’m asking.
CLINTON: Well, I know you’re asking, do we want people who have never been elected to anything, who have no political experience, who have never made any hard choices in the public arena? Well, voters are going to have to decide that.
DICKERSON: But they worry that people who are inside are too inside, that that’s why the economic situation is tilted against the middle class. It’s why they always feel like everybody can wiggle around the rules.
And that’s something you have to deal with, right?
When asked on CBS This Morning how he thought Hillary did, Dickerson did not commit to an answer. Rather he said “we’ll have to see how the polls, you know, respond to this.” He also acknowledged it’s “a strategy” from the Clinton campaign starting to make these appearances.
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