Her constant rhetorical imprecision is one of my many issues with her as a politician.
I can't listen to her and get what she apparently means out of what she speaks, because it's just not concise enough. That, to me is a failure of anyone who speaks for a living, especially a politician, but she seems somehow to have turned linguistic imprecision into an asset. I find this scary for a whole bunch of reasons (she never defines who is trying to take these things away from her, but obviously those people who were listening to her at the rally know who "they" are without being told, so when she goes on interviews she can easily make it seem like the media elite are badgering her and are out-of-touch with the political currents, when they ask for a more precise definition of terms).
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31/8/10 04:51 (UTC)I can't listen to her and get what she apparently means out of what she speaks, because it's just not concise enough. That, to me is a failure of anyone who speaks for a living, especially a politician, but she seems somehow to have turned linguistic imprecision into an asset. I find this scary for a whole bunch of reasons (she never defines who is trying to take these things away from her, but obviously those people who were listening to her at the rally know who "they" are without being told, so when she goes on interviews she can easily make it seem like the media elite are badgering her and are out-of-touch with the political currents, when they ask for a more precise definition of terms).