So is Hillary going to work on the honesty/corruption problem at all?

[egalitt]

Here is an anecdote :
An interview with a presidential candidate.
       Reporter: Why did you decide to run for President?
       Candidate: It is common knowledge that the state apparatus has become corrupt, people who are in power take billion dollar bribes, luxuriate, and loaf around without feeling guilty.
       Repoter: How are you going to struggle against it?
       Candidate: Why should I struggle against it? I plan to participate in it!

http://samlib.ru/j/jacko_w_a/anecdotes.shtml

[egalitt]

How can she "work on it"? People either think she's corrupt or they don't, and everything she does will simply reinforce their existing opinion.

"Work on it"  means inventing some new  lies.

[egalitt]

How can she "work on it"? People either think she's corrupt or they don't, and everything she does will simply reinforce their existing opinion.

"Work on it"  means inventing some new  lies.

You mean "re-inventing herself" again?

I mean she will concoct new lies that explain her previous lies, i.e.  some second (third, forth) power lies.  Accordingly she becomes a squared liar,  a cubed liar,  etc.

[egalitt]

Most people who think she's "crooked" wouldn't be convinced otherwise even if she rescued 100 children from a burning building. They'd probably claim that she started the fire in the first place. She should focus on proving that she's prepared for the job, while Trump isn't.

First to put a building on fire and then to rescue its inhabitants to present herself as a hero? Yes, this is very much in Clinton's style. And it's very instructive that such ideas occur to her backers.