Is Hillary Clinton's campaign an audition for Saturday Night Live?

A.B. Stoddard:

Those Clinton campaign strategists are so clever: trying to just lighten up this whole process, appeal to the young, show they get the joke and turn Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign into a late-night comedy punch line.

In just days, Clinton has issued dire warnings about climate change; been caught jumping on and off a private plane; pledged, because of the plane’s emissions, to the make her campaign carbon neutral (without revealing how); jetted to New York City for a $600 haircut; and refused to reveal her position on the Keystone XL pipeline, which those same voters interested in climate change are asking her about

Has Clinton fallen into the Republicans’ trap, trying to outdo Donald Trump in bad publicity, or does she want her candidacy to become a permanent skit on “Saturday Night Live”?

Obvious mistakes aren’t being avoided but amplified, and negative stereotypes are being embraced.

This appears to be the plan for a candidate who is already known and cannot surprise, who is failing to excite her liberal base, who doesn’t understand the definition of “dead broke.” A majority of voters say they find her dishonest because she did her work as secretary of State, even some of it classified, through a private email server she later wiped of data. Yes, that’s quite a funny approach.

Clinton has chosen an elective presidential campaign, one in which she speaks only about what she is interested in
discussing, allowing no pesky or problematic topics.

Audiences are friendly, and even supporters are counseled not to talk to the press. Much is off limits, and unlike other campaigns that are traditionally prerequisites for winning the White House, in which candidates attempt to blend in with voters and answer their questions, Clinton’s mode is sparing, inauthentic and, well, mystifying.
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She just is not a very good candidate and is too insecure to take a position,  Trump may have his moments with the media, but he is not afraid to tell you what he thinks on an issue.  There are also many other very able Republicans in the race who are also not afraid to take questions from the media or the audience.  Clinton's lack of courage is hard to ignore.