In class last week, my "team" strategized about how to help Ms Clinton capture the White House. While we weren't tasked with creating a television ad for her, I keep having visions of one. It features....well, it features ME! (Or people like me).
The Chris Christie team in class speculated that Secretary Clinton will be viewed by voters as too old for the job ("Over the Hill-ary"). On Election Day, 2016 she will be just a year away from her eighth decade, as will I. So, to address such criticism, I recommend that one of her campaign's first ads be designed to preempt the concerns of voters by showing strong, healthy, energetic contemporaries of the candidate engaged in robust activities such as skiing, house painting, gutter cleaning, running, driving a tractor, etc. These people would take a break from their work (or play) in order to speak to the camera about feeling a kinship with Ms Clinton because of the similarity in their ages. Maybe they could say, "70 is the new 50" or something like that.
Obviously, my comments here are a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I think there's a kernel of something useful there, should Secretary Clinton win her party's nomination. I'd be happy to pose on my extension ladder if they need me.
On another note, the haircut and "makeover" my team suggested for Hillary is easily accomplished, unlike the 200+ pound weight loss challenge which is faced by Governor Christie. Seriously, Mr. Christie is not simply overweight; he is morbidly obese. His weight puts him at greatly increased risk of premature death. There is no way that his situation can be spun into a positive. The fact that a high percentage of Americans struggle with their weight will not translate into votes for Mr. Christie.
If both these individuals require transformation in order to be embraced by voters, my money's on Ms Clinton, not Mr. Christie, to successfully accomplish it.
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