Hillary Clinton's High Profile Is Hurting the Democrats

The Atlantic ^ | May 1, 2018 | by MICHELLE COTTLE

[walford]

Hillary is too much of a narcissist to care how she’s hurting the Party of Jim Crow with every excuse she trots out to explain why she failed to win an election that was rigged in her favor in every way.

If not for the media/entertainment industry propaganda, academic indoctrination, politician demagoguery, ballot box stuffing, gerrymandering, fraudulent votes from the dead, non-citizens, fictitious characters, etc., Trump would have won in a landslide.

She had to stand on her own against a seasoned and natural marketing genius. She could not ride on her husband’s coat-tails and failed miserably.

[a little elbow grease]

(snip) --- ……. She lost. And while her frustration, disappointment, and rage make perfect sense, Clinton needs to give the public kvetching and finger-pointing a rest—if not for the sake of her or her party, then for the nation as a whole.

What’s so wrong with Clinton’s letting off a little steam? For starters, she’s bad at it—by which I mean she too often winds up making herself look bad. Whenever she talks about What Happened, her recent book recounting her experience as a presidential candidate, Clinton comes across as self-pitying and self-justifying, in large part because she cannot resist bringing up all the other folks and forces she considers at fault. This has reached the level of bad political joke. (In October, Newsweek compiled a handy list of “Every Excuse Hillary Clinton Has Given for Her 2016 Election Loss.”)

Yes, now and again she’ll make some comment about how, as the Democratic candidate, she takes “absolute personal responsibility” for everything that happened. But such vague, half-hearted blame-shouldering simply cannot compete with her detailed, heartfelt, perpetual blame-throwing.

Even more damaging are the occasions when, in her frenzy of finger-pointing, Clinton’s disdain for everyday Americans seeps into view. Who can forget her trenchant bit of electoral analysis at a conference in Mumbai in March?

So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign, Make America Great Again, was looking backwards. You know, you didn’t like black people getting rights, you don’t like women, you know, getting jobs, you don’t want to, you know, see that Indian American succeeding more than you are, whatever your problem is, I’m going to solve it.

Oof. That’s tone-deaf enough to make you miss her “basket of deplorables.”

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Her tough father made some great curtains back in Park Ridge, Illinois. Of all people Hillary ought to know it's now curtains for her.

[Nifster]

Hillary is a drunk. By nature she is selfish and self centered. At her core she can only blame other people

[prophetic]

And remember that her pantsuit aka Old Crusty has been on her dead skin for so long, that it has its own Voters ID card.

[Red Badger]

I didn’t say she’d get nominated, I just said she’ll run, regardless of whether the rest of the (D)umbass Party likes her or not..................