In a series entitled “Love Trumps Hate”, the Clinton campaign has been showcasing people from Clinton’s personal life – from her best friend to pen pals she’s kept for years – all to show a little more of her soft side.
Clinton has faced a lot of criticism for being cold and seemingly emotionless. Donald Trump even tried out the nickname “Heartless Hillary” before settling on the adjective “Crooked.” This ad series attempts to bring people in to show the more human side of Hillary Clinton – this time featuring a young man named Ryan.
Ryan was born with a rare form of dwarfism, and his family suffered economically when his father’s employers didn’t want to take on the burden of covering Ryan’s condition. His family was chosen to speak at a 1994 congressional hearing on healthcare where Hillary was speaking as First Lady.
Similarly to some of the other ads in the series, “Ryan” describes how Hillary goes above and beyond in keeping up with his family for 20 years. We see Clinton holding up Ryan at the hearing, who’s smiling and “beatific” (which means blissfully happy, if you – like Ryan’s family – had to look it up), throughout her speech.
Clinton also invited Ryan’s family to the White House for a private tour. At the time, she gave him a present that was a picture of the two of them at the hearing, signed by her and Bill, that had been hanging in her office for years.
Ryan noted how she didn’t invite the press, she had nothing to gain by keeping up with him, no ulterior motives. “She just wanted to connect with me, and our family,” he explained. Clinton is often described as perpetually calculated and inherently political, but Ryan challenges that assertion by showing that their connection couldn’t have been contrived because she had nothing to gain. “Even if she got 100% of the Dwarfism vote, I don’t think that would move the needle much,” he joked.
“I don’t view myself as cold or unemotional,” Clinton said in one of two uncharacteristically vulnerable spots on Humans of New York, “And neither do my friends. And neither does my family.” This series of ads serves to show that – the secret side of Clinton that has been keeping up with families across America for years, supporting small businesses, going to people’s graduations and checking in on relative strangers after they finished chemo therapy.
Hillary describes the way perceptions of her are often tied to her gender in the rest of her HONY post. “I know that I can be perceived as aloof or cold or unemotional,” she says. “But I had to learn as a young woman to control my emotions. And that’s a hard path to walk. Because you need to protect yourself, you need to keep steady, but at the same time you don’t want to seem ‘walled off.’ And sometimes I think I come across more in the ‘walled off’ arena.”
Clinton has faced a lot of criticism for being cold and seemingly emotionless. Donald Trump even tried out the nickname “Heartless Hillary” before settling on the adjective “Crooked.” This ad series attempts to bring people in to show the more human side of Hillary Clinton – this time featuring a young man named Ryan.
Ryan was born with a rare form of dwarfism, and his family suffered economically when his father’s employers didn’t want to take on the burden of covering Ryan’s condition. His family was chosen to speak at a 1994 congressional hearing on healthcare where Hillary was speaking as First Lady.
Similarly to some of the other ads in the series, “Ryan” describes how Hillary goes above and beyond in keeping up with his family for 20 years. We see Clinton holding up Ryan at the hearing, who’s smiling and “beatific” (which means blissfully happy, if you – like Ryan’s family – had to look it up), throughout her speech.
Clinton also invited Ryan’s family to the White House for a private tour. At the time, she gave him a present that was a picture of the two of them at the hearing, signed by her and Bill, that had been hanging in her office for years.
Ryan noted how she didn’t invite the press, she had nothing to gain by keeping up with him, no ulterior motives. “She just wanted to connect with me, and our family,” he explained. Clinton is often described as perpetually calculated and inherently political, but Ryan challenges that assertion by showing that their connection couldn’t have been contrived because she had nothing to gain. “Even if she got 100% of the Dwarfism vote, I don’t think that would move the needle much,” he joked.
If Hillary Clinton Only Had a Heart...
Throughout history, the main criticism of women in politics has been that they are not tough enough to take the spot as Commander in Chief. Clinton, contrarily, has had to try and prove over and over again that she does, in fact, have a heart.“I don’t view myself as cold or unemotional,” Clinton said in one of two uncharacteristically vulnerable spots on Humans of New York, “And neither do my friends. And neither does my family.” This series of ads serves to show that – the secret side of Clinton that has been keeping up with families across America for years, supporting small businesses, going to people’s graduations and checking in on relative strangers after they finished chemo therapy.
Hillary describes the way perceptions of her are often tied to her gender in the rest of her HONY post. “I know that I can be perceived as aloof or cold or unemotional,” she says. “But I had to learn as a young woman to control my emotions. And that’s a hard path to walk. Because you need to protect yourself, you need to keep steady, but at the same time you don’t want to seem ‘walled off.’ And sometimes I think I come across more in the ‘walled off’ arena.”