Hillary Clinton absolutely cannot express negative emotion in public. If she speaks loudly or gets angry or cries, she risks being seen as bitchy, crazy, dangerous. (When she raised her voice during the 2013 Benghazi Senate committee hearings, the cover of the New York Post blared “NO WONDER BILL’S AFRAID.”) But if Hillary avoids emotions—if she speaks strictly in calm, logical, detached terms—then she is cold, robotic, calculating.

You’d think the solution might be to put on a happy face, to admit to emotions only when they are positive. But it turns out that people hate it when Hillary Clinton smiles or laughs in public. Hillary Clinton’s laugh gets played in attack ads; it has routinely been called “a cackle” (like a witch, right? Because she’s old, and female, like a witch); frozen stills of Hillary laughing are routinely used to make her look “crazy” in conservative media.

She can’t be sad or angry, she can’t be happy or amused, and she can’t refrain from expressing any of those emotions. There is no way out of this one. There is no right way for her to act.

Will Trump Help Hillary?

The Clintons at Donald Trump's most recent wedding

How Donald Trump May Be Helping Hillary Clinton Bloomberg Politics

Steve McMahon, a Democratic strategist, called Trump's attack "misogynistic" and predicted it will rally women to Clinton's side.

"It reminds the women who love her so much of the kinds of things that professional and successful women have to go through every day. So it solidifies and strengthens her core female vote, which is fantastic for her," McMahon said. "She's no stranger to [these attacks]. And no one handles it more adroitly than Hillary Clinton does. We saw it in 2008, we saw it in 2000 when she ran against Rick Lazio, and we're seeing it today. It's a reminder that she's at her best and strongest when she's under attack."

Hillary Clinton Headlines Dec. 24, 2015

Sanders fails to convert data breach into new support Politico

CNN Poll: Post-debate, voters move to Clinton CNN

Clinton campaign sweats out data breach damage Politico

Hillary Clinton's Line of Attack (on terrorism) Slate

Preliminary ABC Democratic debate numbers: Not bad Politico

Open Letter From Clinton Campaign to Sanders Campaign

In advance of tonight's Democratic debate, the Hillary Clinton campaign has asked Bernie Sanders four questions. I've attached the data logs for two of the questions because there seem to be quite a few folks saying this problem is all a giant, invented conspiracy against the Sanders campaign. The boys only walked into the Clinton digital house, looked around but left empty-handed. I actually read comments that the Clinton campaign planted the tech guys in the Sanders campaign to pull off this caper, when the data company opened up the digital garage door. It makes perfect sense to me.

Records indicate that much mischief was going on by the Sanders team, but these logs are probably all fabricated. This is my new approach to presenting facts. It is equally probable, argue some, that these logs are one grand lie created by the media and the Democratic establishment.

The data downloads didn't happen, just like some folks say Sandy Hook never happened, the kids really weren't shot. And I was only dreaming that airliners flew into the World Trade Center. I really didn't see it happen, standing there along the Hudson River.

Too many martinis the night before and I bought the government ruse hook,, line and sinker. Same story with these data logs. The media went for them, and we all know that they are borderline alcoholics and owned by the billionaires.

Okay, now all my FB friends are covered with a neutral overview of this Clinton letter to Sanders!! Yeah, Anne. Ms Diplomat! You did it girl. So far, so good. It will get easier, I promise.