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Here’s who Hillary Clinton blames for defeat in 'What Happened'
The New York Daily News ^ | September 12, 2017 | Jason Silverstein and Ginger Adams Otis

Posted on 09/12/2017 12:05:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary Clinton doesn’t mince words when it comes to President Trump, one of her least favorite subjects.

In “What Happened,” her memoir of her failed 2016 presidential run released Tuesday, she imagines, in a chapter titled “Those Damn Emails,” a roomful of future students.

“You’re .... learning about the 2016 presidential election that brought to power the least experienced, least knowledgeable, least competent President our country has ever had,” she wrote.

While dissecting her brutal November 2016 loss with flashes of humor and wry disbelief at President Trump’s shocking rise to power, Clinton doesn’t spare any of the major players from blame — and that includes herself.

1. Bernie Sanders, for attacks on the campaign trail that “caused lasting damage” to her run. The Vermont senator - who famously gave Clinton a huge break by saying he wouldn’t focus on her “damn emails” — “had to resort to innuendo and impugning my character.” “It was beyond frustrating that Bernie acted as if he had a monopoly on political purity,” she wrote.

2. “Bernie Bros” for “harassing my supporters online” with attacks that were “ugly and more than a little sexist.”(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: comey; hillary; russia; trump
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1 posted on 09/12/2017 12:05:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary is a criminal, a liar, corrupt, vicious and power mad. The public perceived her as such. That is why she lost.


2 posted on 09/12/2017 12:12:39 AM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud-man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, CONSTITUTION WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess that we are not allowed to “join the conversation” on this New York Daily News article..


3 posted on 09/12/2017 12:22:32 AM PDT by mowowie
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“You’re .... learning about the 2016 presidential election that brought to power the least experienced, least knowledgeable, least competent President our country has ever had,” she wrote.

He beat you...

4 posted on 09/12/2017 12:42:03 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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I am confused....this reference to ‘party purity’ that she talks about. Is this related to the fact that Democratic Party is a group of agenda groups, and that Bernie’s working-class crowd and university punks....aren’t part of the Democratic ‘purity’?

Or is this some kind of fake ‘purity’ (like fake politics, fake religion, fake Russians, fake bankers, fake Hollywood, fake journalism, fake climate change, etc)?

Or is her form of ‘purity’ something that you can’t really grasp without a couple of cocktails and some White Fire Alien OG marijuana (the good-good stuff)?


5 posted on 09/12/2017 12:43:38 AM PDT by pepsionice
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4. Sexism and misogyny.
5. Vladimir Putin.

Americans are a bunch of bigots controlled by Russia. Yeah, that’s it.


6 posted on 09/12/2017 12:46:12 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Pffffffffft. What a maroon.


7 posted on 09/12/2017 12:47:59 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The article would be a lot shorter but wouldn’t fill the required column-inches if they wrote about who she didn’t blame, namely herself.


8 posted on 09/12/2017 12:57:46 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Had to resort to innuendo and impugning her character...monopoly on political purity...harrasing supporters?

Projection and blame. She actually seems indignant that anyone dared give her a dose of her own medicine,


9 posted on 09/12/2017 1:00:13 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia (#DrainTheSwamp #HeFights)
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Mirror mirror ....


10 posted on 09/12/2017 1:01:24 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (.There is no difference between liberals/rinos/moslems/lamestream)
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18. Hillary hate. "I have come to terms with the fact that a lot of people — millions and millions of people — decided they just didn’t like me,” Clinton writes — though she doesn’t understand the dislike. “What makes me such a lightning rod for fury? I’m really asking . . . I’m at a loss.”

I suspect many of her voters dislike her, but voted for her anyway since she is a democrat...

11 posted on 09/12/2017 1:10:32 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary needs to blame her fate ass for weighing her down.


12 posted on 09/12/2017 1:19:03 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is she blaming God yet?


13 posted on 09/12/2017 1:21:52 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The cool thing is that what cost her the White House is not just one specific thing. It is any one of a million little things.

The regret cycle of “if only” in her head and that of millions of liberals is just awesome. Should send them into deep despair and depression.

They just barely missed total control and domination in this country forever. And just by a little.


14 posted on 09/12/2017 1:50:00 AM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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Note - each of the following came from Hillary, from one of her drones, or from a pro-Hillary article; I am not creative enough to have made these up:

Anthony Weiner, who brought the dumb story about Hillary’s dumb emails back into the news, elected Trump.

Matt Lauer and NBC launching a pointless ambush against Hillary and soft-peddling her opponent elected Trump.

An unfair election with secret reasons we may never know about elected Trump.

Hillary not being meaner and nastier elected Trump.

Sexism from Bernie Sanders and his voters elected Trump.

The American people not liking Hillary enough, without reason, elected Trump.

Innuendo and character attacks by Bernie Sanders elected Trump.

White identity politics from whites who felt threatened by black identity politics elected Trump.

Bernie Sanders voters not showing up elected Trump.

A bunch of black swans converging on Hillary in the final 12 days of the election elected Trump.

Wikileaks elected Trump.

Twitter memes elected Trump.

Astrological influences elected Trump.

Blatant sexism and unconscious sexism elected Trump.

People voting against Hillary because Obama is black elected Trump.

Traditionalist attitudes toward women elected Trump.

White voters afraid of losing White Privilege elected Trump.

Democrats doing a poor job of controlling the narrative elected Trump.

A thousand Russian agents working every day elected Trump.

Content farms in Macedonia elected Trump.

The TV networks keeping Hillary off the air elected Trump.

The vast right-wing conspiracy elected Trump.

Infowars elected Trump.

Google elected Trump.

Governor Scott Walker elected Trump.

Steve Bannon elected Trump.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker elected Trump.

Nate Silver elected Trump.

Citizens United elected Trump.

The DNC being a mess and in poor shape elected Trump.

Bad polling numbers elected Trump.

Obama winning two terms elected Trump.

People wanting change elected Trump.

The New York Times, cable news, and television executives elected Trump.

According to Hillary, “Eight of the top 10 political documentaries on Netflix were screeds against President Obama and me” - Netflix elected Trump.

Democrats not making the right documentaries elected Trump.

The Democrat Party and the Republican Party elected Trump.

Concerns that Hillary Clinton was involved with a child sex trafficking operation elected Trump.

Concern about Hillary Clinton being a lizard elected Trump.

High expectations that Hillary would win elected Trump.

Voter suppression elected Trump.

FBI Director Comey announcing a criminal investigation into Hillary’s felonies just over a week before the election, when he had little reason to think there was anything there, elected Trump.

The Russians ransacking Hillary’s computer files and strategically leaking the truth elected Trump.

Misogyny elected Trump.

Gary Johnson and Jill Stein voters elected Trump.

Advocacy press on the right elected Trump.

Facebook elected Trump.

Old, out-of-touch democrats with a flawed message that alienated young voters elected Trump.

White nationalists elected Trump.

Hatred of Hillary Clinton at the FBI (how could anyone hate a lovable woman like Hillary?) elected Trump.

FBI investigation elected Trump.

Email scandal elected Trump.

Black voters not liking Hillary elected Trump.

Fewer than 100,000 deplorable voters spread across a handful of states elected Trump.

People hating Hillary because she is so professional, so polished, such a wonderful lawyer, so brilliant, so good, so righteous, and so much better than us elected Trump.

The lack of energy among Hillary supporters and expectations of Hillary being the inevitable winner, because it was her turn, elected Trump.

Robby Mook selecting the wrong travel stops for Hillary and spending heavily in the wrong states elected Trump.

Hillary’s campaign team failing to hone her message and get voters to the polls elected Trump.

Bill Clinton’s appearance of an inappropriate meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch elected Trump.

The ugly stew of racism elected Trump.

Hillary’s alleged lack of likability and claimed lack of trustworthiness elected Trump.

Self-hating women elected Trump.

Evangelical, Catholic, anti-marriage equality, and anti-choice social conservatives elected Trump.

Sinister outside forces elected Trump.

Whitelash elected Trump.

Democrat policies that favor the rich elected Trump.

Failure to talk to working-class white voters elected Trump.

Men elected Trump.

Lower-level FBI agents pressuring their Director (because that’s how professional relationships work) elected Trump.

Tim Kaine gave Hillary Virginia, but he also elected Trump.

White women elected Trump.

Racists elected Trump.

Sexists elected Trump.

Rural voters elected Trump.

The working class voting against their own interests elected Trump.

Fake news elected Trump.

Supermarket tabloids elected Trump.

Celebrity (The Apprentice) elected Trump.

White male resentment elected Trump.

Over-shaming Trump supporters elected Trump.

Rejecting Bernie elected Trump.

Reagan democrats elected Trump.

Backlash against political correctness elected Trump.

There are many terrible reasons for President Trump’s victory, but there are two things that were not a factor. First, Hillary was the perfect candidate; nothing she did harmed her candidacy in any way. Second, President Trump was the worst candidate imaginable; nothing he did helped his candidacy at all, except with racists, sexists, bigots, and the rest of the basket of deplorables.


15 posted on 09/12/2017 1:58:58 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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Inside the sociopath mind. Hillaryous

Rotten Criminal.


16 posted on 09/12/2017 2:08:30 AM PDT by PGalt
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The place where the history of America was changed, due to a guy with a cell phone, and a side of beef

17 posted on 09/12/2017 2:14:54 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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18 posted on 09/12/2017 2:37:43 AM PDT by Geronimo (God Bless America and President Donald J. Trump...)
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To: no-to-illegals
Mirror mirror ....

Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Who's to blame for my great fall?
So many others I can name
So long as I don't get the blame.

19 posted on 09/12/2017 2:44:46 AM PDT by Rocky (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwell)
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To: Rocky
Very good 😊
20 posted on 09/12/2017 2:49:15 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (.There is no difference between liberals/rinos/moslems/lamestream)
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