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The long kiss goodbye (Read 137 times)
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The long kiss goodbye
Jun 3rd, 2017 at 1:45pm
 
A great article in the National Review today:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448199/hillary-clinton-america-failed-her-...

A small extract:
. . .At a conference hosted by Recode, Mrs. Clinton said, “I take responsibility for every decision I make — but that’s not why I lost.”

The real reasons for her defeat include, but are not limited to:
- FBI director James Comey’s handling of the investigation into her e-mail server,
-the institutional ineptitude of the DNC,
- Facebook,
- Macedonian “fake news” websites, real news (in the form of unfair coverage from the New York Times and other mainstream outlets),
- voter suppression in Wisconsin,
- low-information voters,
- the billionaire Mercer family,
- and the deep-seated sexism of the American people. 

It doesn’t matter that she is to blame for many of her excuses. If she hadn’t ignored rules for handling classified information, Comey would never have needed to investigate her and the media wouldn’t have had that story to cover.

If she discovered that the DNC’s data collection was so terrible — a claim the Democratic party’s own data guru describes as untrue, in profane and scatological terms — she should have compensated.

And as for her whining about negative media coverage, it’s not like her opponent was lavished with praise from the Times.

Perhaps the most ridiculous claim is that she lost because she’s a woman. Hillary Clinton has convinced herself she is an avatar for all womankind. Talking about her allegedly unfair treatment, she said, “And at some point it sort of bleeds into misogyny.”

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But some of the comments are great too:

This one you really need the Bobby McGee backing track for:

Keith Robinson
Losing's just another word for nothing left to say.
Losing ain't worth nothing, but it's free.
Feeling good was easy when I watched her lose that night,
and that was good enough for me.
Good enough for me and Hillary C.

Gloria McKenna
Perhaps in the interest of saving time, Ms Clinton could just tell us who's NOT responsible for her pathetic loss.

Kevin Clark

If only the press had been 99% in her corner instead of 97% - that would have done it.

Ed Gruberman

Can you imagine if she won? Excuses for everything... Dodged a giant bullet!!
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