Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, authors of "Game Change," described Hillary Clinton’s performance during her book tour as "rusty" and criticized her book "Hard Choices" for a lack of "message."
"I don't think she's handled things well at all this week," Heilemann said Wednesday on Charlie Rose’s PBS program.
"Is she rusty as a politician?" Rose asked.
"She was very rusty. Mark said earlier he thought the book... was 'mush and the interview was 'tone deaf,' I thought that was probably true. I'm not through the whole book yet, but I think those are both accurate," Heilemann responded.
Said Halperin, "She was rusty. To handle the wealth question the way she did did not show a lot of deftness, a lot of finesse." Of Clinton's book: "I don't understand writing a book of that length without a message."
(h/t Politico)