I'm not a fan of her Hawk military agenda, but I saw Hilary in an interview on the Project once. Very engaging and charismatic, a great sense of humour, keen intelligence, a fun person to be with. I was impressed.

It's a pity Hillary can't present this to crowds. Hillary acknowledges that she can be brittle and uncomfortable in front of audiences. She's the reverse of Trump, who is a great public agitator, but not so appealing in person - certainly not to interviewers and journalists, anyway.

When the Washington Post interviewed Trump when he was on his way to winning the primaries, they were shocked. Their article was restrained and benign, but in private, the journalists who met and spoke with Trump were astonished at his bizarre and inept answers. His facts were wrong. He fudged. He tried to cover up his ignorance of the most basic foreign and domestic policies.

They had never met a candidate with such ignorance of policy and government process, his huge conflicts of interest, or even basic world facts. They were agog at his take on the world, and as they said, every answer came back to Trump. They could not consider supporting such a self-indulgent candidate.

Hilary was the opposite. Vast knowledge and intimate experience in some of the most seismic recent world events. In contrast to Trump, it was not about Hillary at all.

I'm hardly a fan, but Hillary was a candidate who genuinely engaged and stood for people. Trump was a candidate who has always surrounded himself with bodyguards, who avoids talking to members of the public - "losers" - and if he has to shake someone's hand, grimaces and wipes himself afterwards.

Cool story, minty sprinty


Stay stupid.