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ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 09:37 AM Jan 2017

Dear People Demanding to Know Why Hillary Clinton Isn't Doing Whatever It Is You Think She Needs to



Hillary Clinton doesn't owe you a goddamned thing.

Hillary Clinton ran for president. She ran despite a hideous game of cajoling her to run, only to shame her for running. She ran despite the fact that the media has treated her like garbage for decades; despite knowing they would treat her like garbage again—which they did. She ran despite knowing, as keenly as any other woman in the country and more than most, the hellscape of vicious misogyny that would be unleashed against her. She ran despite the fact that she knew, should she win, she would face Republican obstructionism and vitriol so vast and relentless that it would take a tenacious beast to govern. She ran knowing she would have to be that tenacious beast, and could be.

She ran for president on the most progressive Democratic platform ever, and her campaign was remarkably devoid of the typical unforced errors in most presidential campaigns (including her previous one). She showed herself to be a candidate capable of learning and willing to learn—when she changed positions, it was because she came to the more progressive one.

Which is not to suggest that she was a perfect candidate, but she was a damn good one. Yet her insufficient perfection was somehow considered a fatal flaw by people who now demand she dance at their command.

She wanted to lead this nation—and, more importantly, she wanted to govern it. And she had the knowledge and capability to do it, and do it well.

She put out an enormous number of policy papers and factsheets, so we could see exactly what she wanted to do and how she would do it. She gave detailed policy addresses, and she answered voters' questions with both compassion and seriousness and details.


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Dear People Demanding to Know Why Hillary Clinton Isn't Doing Whatever It Is You Think She Needs to (Original Post) ehrnst Jan 2017 OP
It still makes me sick when I think of what we could justhanginon Jan 2017 #1
My brain aches that Trump is President. Aristus Jan 2017 #2
Well said! classof56 Jan 2017 #3
Perfect! radical noodle Jan 2017 #4
Hillary did her part, those who did not vote for her did not do their part. Before we Thinkingabout Jan 2017 #5
Too many people Jamaal510 Jan 2017 #6

justhanginon

(3,323 posts)
1. It still makes me sick when I think of what we could
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 09:55 AM
Jan 2017

have had and instead what we now have. Too many really stupid people in this country who gave no rational thought as to whom they were voting for and did not have the intellectual curiosity to find out the positions of the candidates before voting. Instead they relied on the news (entertainment) media and the internet sites dedicated to bringing Secretary Clinton down. Then there were the purists who never find anyone that can live up to their so called "high moral or ethical positions".
And now we have President trump!

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
5. Hillary did her part, those who did not vote for her did not do their part. Before we
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 11:34 PM
Jan 2017

See the end of the Trump administration we will wish every day Hillary was president.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
6. Too many people
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 02:05 AM
Jan 2017

voted with their gut feelings rather than listening to reason. For whatever reason, they held contempt for "the establishment" and the "Status Quo" and got the impression that Toupée Fiasco actually cares about them, and that he would "shake things up". He did indeed shake things up--except for the worse and not for the better. He said he'd "Make America Great Again", but instead he's making us suck again after we were already returning to greatness. Hillary Clinton's campaign warned the country about him, but the fools didn't listen.

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