Are you ready for Hillary?

Hillary Clinton is an accomplished senator, Secretary of State, and businesswoman. Despite all her expertise she has trouble in one area:getting the American people to trust her. A Quinnipiac University poll suggests that Clinton's polls in both favorability and trustworthiness are falling. She has a hard time conveying to the American people that she genuinely cares for their problems and will fight for them. She's changed her opinion on a variety of issues probably because of the left-leaning candidate taking away from her poll numbers. If you can believe it, people rank Donald Trump as more trustworthy.

Many Liberals, myself included, don't get fired up to Clinton's speeches the same way we did to Obama's notoriously famous keynote speech at the 2004 DNC. I have yet to see a single speech of Hillary's that has gotten me fired up, even to the amount of Obama's worst speeches. I saw myself in Barack Obama, we were both raised by our mom and grandparents and worked hard to overcome obstacles despite lack of paternal leadership. In 2012 I went out with my grandfather and canvassed for Obama-informing people voting dates and taking policy questions. After he won the election my grandparents sent me a video of Obama addressing young participants. In the video when Barack speaks about how he realizes the impact he's made on getting kids to get involved he starts to cry.

The way that President Obama spoke and the way I got chills and tears (manly tears of course) from that video has never been reproduced by any Hillary speech I watched. While I think she has some great policy ideas, mostly because of the time she's had to prep for the 2016 election, I don't see her lighting a fire under people to get out and be active. Many people don't see her as a genuine person, she came out against the Keystone pipeline when she used to be for it and she came out against Obama's trade program that she was really the writer of. Many people feel ready for Hillary but are like me- will vote for her, but aren't willing to do the work they did for Barack to elect her. She's a calculating politician which will be a trouble spot for her in the future.