It was during the 2008 election that Hillary Clinton portrayed herself as the hard-hitting person America needed in the White House to answer the phone at 3:00 am.  This time around, in response to Republican Donald Trump's hard-hitting talk, Hillary has modified that image. Recently, while speaking to a crowd in Iowa, Mrs. Clinton replied to a question about how to confront hate and fear by saying: "We've got to do everything we can to weed out hate and plant love and kindness." Judging from that reply, it appears that the former secretary of state, who notoriously answered a question about an American ambassador being sodomized and murdered in a terrorist attack with "what difference at this point does it make," has added a hearty dose of Oprah Winfrey to her more recent image upgrades. And here senior adviser for strategic communications to U.S. secretary of state Marie Harf had America convinced that a jobs program was all it would take to...(Read Full Post)