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Related: About this forumHillary Clinton Is More Than a President - "I love Hillary"
http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a40811/hillary-clinton-is-more-than-a-president/I so agree... When anyone here or in real life bashes Hillary, I will say or write "I love Hillary"
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When people told me they hated Hillary Clinton or (far worse) that they were "not fans," I wish I had said in no uncertain terms: "I love Hillary Clinton. I am in awe of her. I am set free by her. She will be the finest world leader our galaxy has ever seen."
I wish, in those exchanges, I had not asked gentle, tolerant questions about a hater's ridiculous allergy to her, or to her fictional misdeeds and imagined character flaws. More deeply still, I wish I had not reasoned with anyone, or patiently countered their ludicrous emotionalism and psychologically disturbed theories. I wish I had said, flatly, "I love her." As if I had been asked about my mother or daughter. No defensiveness or polemics; not dignifying the crazy allegations with so much as a Snopes link.
Maybe "I love her" seemed too womany, too sentimental, too un-pragmatic. Not coalition-building, kind of culty. But people say with impunity they love Obama, the state of Israel, their churches, Kurt Cobain. In the end, I wish I'd said it because it's true.
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Hillary Clinton Is More Than a President - "I love Hillary" (Original Post)
OKNancy
Nov 2016
OP
She has worked for a lifetime for the public, I really do not see her stopping now
Thinkingabout
Nov 2016
#4
Aristus
(68,373 posts)1. That's good. I like it. Me too.
I want to see how many people I can drive crazy with it.
I'm still with H---->er
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)2. i love her too. all those right wing lies that
have been spread for 30 years really hurt her. people believed them.
LisaM
(28,604 posts)3. I wish I'd been bolder, too.
I have a real fight or flight tendency though - and I don't trust myself not to come on too strong when writing.
My bad.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)4. She has worked for a lifetime for the public, I really do not see her stopping now
applegrove
(123,145 posts)5. I'm sure she'll find other ways to change the world. She's not gone.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)7. She is free now.
No congress, or uneducated voters, to put up roadblocks for her now...she can turn her considerable talents and connections towards anything she chooses.
applegrove
(123,145 posts)9. Democrats have quite a braintrust in soon to be or former
Presidents. She can ad to that list as a former politician and secretary of state.
DemonGoddess
(5,123 posts)6. K&R!
What a great article!
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)8. Thank you!
Cha
(305,435 posts)10. I love Hillary.. I've said it often.. here I'll say it again..
[font size=lg][font color=blue]I Love Hillary[/font]
She is an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself.
Mahalo for the story, Nancy~
Gothmog
(154,549 posts)11. I also love Hillary Clinton
trueblue2007
(18,119 posts)12. i am still crying.
i have always been a crier.