Probably could’ve worded the original post better. I was a Bernie supporter until the general when I (happily) voted for Clinton. I thought she would’ve been a good president, even if she was stupendously disliked. Totally agree that her campaign was bad.
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I think it’s important to note that both history and God will judge Mitch McConnell for not following through on his statement that Trump had committed the most impeachable offense short of treason.
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I hope Moscow Mitch rots in the dark depths of hell one day. He’s a scumbag.
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That’s a little harsh.
Scumbags by definition have enough integrity to hold scum.
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He was mourning the death of his son and didn’t have it in him to run.
This is true. He also said in his memoir that several months after making the decision not to run he began thinking about Beau encouraging him to do so towards the end of his life. Allegedly, the DNC told him that Hillary had the commitment of the major donors and was the preferred candidate.
I had not heard that. Interesting.
The DNC had its thumb heavily on the scale that year. Something that came out in the hacked emails that were gleefully pushed out to the public by the press on the eve of the DNC and cost DWS her job.
Just one of the many gifts the press gave Trump. Same as this year, where the press is still sitting on hacked emails from the Trump campaign and nary a word was said about age the instant Biden dropped out, despite the Trump campaign looking increasingly like Weekend at Bernie’s as the election drew near.
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I thought Clinton was as qualified to be President as anyone ever has been. She is a lightning rod for animosity, though, and ran an overconfident, poor campaign, imo. The late email issue hurt her, no doubt, but even with that I thought she would win easily. If she had, Trump would have gone back to bankruptcy court.
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Eight? Try at least 44years. Reagan was the start of this shit.
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Conservatives disagreeing respectfully happens about as often as pigs fly out of our collective asses.
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She was far more qualified than her husband, but had all of his baggage and none of his charisma.
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That’s one way of looking at it. But if not for her marriage to Bill, would anyone even know who she was?
Oh, please. Read about Hillary Rodham. There is no question you would have known who she was without Bill.
If you say so. However, she first started dating Bill in '72, before she graduated from law school.
ETA: I will add, she was invaluable to Bill and without her by his side and helping out immensely, we might not know who Bill was, either.
I don’t disagree. I was just referencing the timespan brought up by the writer of the article.
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They stepped on the gas after 9/11 and floored it with the Tea Party.
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I don’t know the source of this but i find it apropos:
"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is ‘Nazi’. Nobody cares about their motives anymore.”
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Of course, it has always been that intentions don’t necessarily negate the impact or consequences of one’s actions or affiliations.
ETA: BTW the passage quoted is by A.R. Moxon
