Communities! Faith communities! Business communities! Police! Clinton is a smart person, and she’s been in the public eye long enough to be comfortable there. She should be perfectly capable of expressing what she means in complete sentences with appropriate cadence. And yet, it seems she’s not.

This is a strange phenomenon, one that not all our modern politicians fall prey to. Ted Cruz, a practiced college debater, is a talented orator. Say what you will about Marco Rubio’s tendency to robotically regurgitate talking points, at least it means he speaks in coherent sentences (at least most of the time). And, of course, Barack Obama is a talented writer with a gift for turning a sentence, even on the spot.

This is more than just a stylistic point. Having politicians who speak well makes following politics more pleasant, which is something we should wish all for.