just two said they will support that. the only real silver lining, though they were sour about washington gridlock, the job market and health care felt optimistic and all felt hopeful about the e economy and felt it was improving. two of the 11 called it a fork in the road and said declining popularity is a bump that he may be able to overcome. we asked them to describe political figures with a single word. here s what they came up with. enthusiasm for hillary clinton was striking. they assigned her the strong leadership qualities that allude the president right now. hillary clinton? distrustful. energetic. strong. vivacious. first woman president. powerful. i would say powerful.
do what you ve got to do. makes you nervous with things like martial law, feels like you could be overpowered. lets hide places. the way terrorism is happening now, it s almost necessary. almost like living in a terrorist country. it s a problem. they can t be doing what they are doing, but they are. the guy that admitted he searched the web for pictures, he knew we were on tv. i told him, this is national cable and he volunteered that information. i can t explain it. you get a lot of good information out of people. i notice you seem to target good looking people. was that all it was. it s not good looking, demo friendly. demographically friendly. we want to look at people young, vibrant, vivacious, like you.
shep? shepard: trace, it sounds like her co-workers thought the world of her. she said she was unwavering and on the right path. fox news correspondent dominic di-natale knew her from afghanistan and said she was very, very bright and had the talent to become a top u.s. ambassador some day. but the proof really is the fact that anne smeddinghoff was chosen to help guide secretary of state john kerry tore afghanistan two weeks ago. john kerry remembers her well. listen. vivacious, smart, capable, chosen often by the ambassador there to be the lead person because of her capacity. she seemed to be really advancing quite quickly through the ranks of the foreign service and even john kerry s comments sort of reflected that. her body, of course, flown back to dover air force base today, shep. her family has not yet
she was killed while delivering books to children in afghanistan. the taliban are claiming responsibility for this weekend s suicide bombing which killed six americans total. smedinghoff is the first diplomat to dione on the job sie the benghazi attack. she joined the foreign services right out of college three years ago. her family said she wanted to help afghanistan become a place where women could walk openly in the streets and young girls could go to school. those who knew ann speddinghoff, john kerry spoke about the attack this weekend. i remember her. vivacious, smart, capable, chosen often by the ambassador there to be the lead person because of her capacity. so it s a grim reminder for all of us, though we didn t need any
but always so gracious and so big and under these just the worst circumstances. i think it s because we ve had them in our lives so long that we want to share that with everyone else. we will have those memories. that can never be stain away. the coward with the rifle can never take away the 24 years my family had with my sister. what was she like? well, actually a passionate one at the theater. clumsy, vivacious, go, go, go. she would be behind the button and pressing every button and say i wonder what this is and we would be off the air for a couple minutes. but she s a wealth of knowledge. sometimes in the industry we get jaded on how day-to-day things go or we are doing this here or this is our jobs. when she would show up anywhere, she lit up the room and you kind of all of a sudden ire like i need to be on my game. and that was her. it was, you know, she was everybody s little sister that we all loved.