Watching their speeches during the DNC one noticed that both Hillary and Chelsea were very wooden faced. Their faces lacked expression as they as they spoke. Almost as if their facial muscles were paralyzed by Botox something. So to communicate emotion they have to adopt exaggerated facial expressions like an actor way up on a stage, because they are unable to do anything otherwise. And they both speak in a stilted, sing-song way that lacks any real emotion to boot. Clearly Hillary is someone who would rather scold you into voting for her than try to gently persuade you to her point of view. She was even recorded telling BLM activists that she doesn’t believe she can change the hearts and minds of people who don’t agree with her, but that she DOES believe she can change laws and force compliance with her policies (or else!). So being nice in public is stressful for her and it often shows.
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Ann Althouse writes a perceptive commentary (hat tip: Instapundit) on an aspect of Hillary Clinton that bothers me a lot, too:
that wide-open-mouth/insane-elation thing with her face
Specifically, she analyzes a still photo of President Obama onstage with her at the Wednesday night session of the DNC:
She explains the really weird facial expression this way:
…my theory was that she's stuck making the best of doing appearances where she needs to look like the person who is intensely loved but she does not believe she is loved.
The specific reference here s standing next to Obama, who is well-liked at a personal level by a majority of Americans. But remember that ever since she graduated from law school she has been standing next to her husband, who is even more than Obama a charming fellow, so charismatic that he was able to charm even Newt Gingrich right after the GOP won control of Congress in 1994. From Hillary’s perspective, her adult life has been one long lesson in being the unlikable one in a very prominent couple.
There has to be a lot of resentment. The stories of screaming matches, thrown lamp, and the rest are credible to me because Hillary has endured a level of private humiliation at her husband’s hands, in ways overt as in all the extracurricular sex, but also in ways completely unintended, the product of her negative charisma.
The result of all this is a burning desire to surpass Bill, to occupy the Oval Office and get revenge for his casual ease at being liked.
And the facial expression? I think it is a window into the intensity of Hillary’s desire, buried deep within her soul, and rarely allowed out.
Professor Althouse chose to compare Hillary’s picture to The Scream, the famous painting by Munch.
I think that comparison makes my point.
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