dajo9 said:
wifeisafurd said:
dajo9 said:
wifeisafurd said:
1) Voter suppression in North Carolina and Wisconsin*;
2) Russian hacking*;
3) FBI Director Comey's willful and intentional release of documents meant to suggest criminal wrongdoing by the Democratic nominee a week before the presidential election;
4) The use of Wikileaks as an agent for a hostile foreign power to meddle with our election;
5) A systemic failure by the news media to serve as editorial gatekeepers, differentiate false equivalencies, or to report on falsehoods propagated about the Democratic nominee.*
6) Men hate powerful women
6a) Women hate powerful women
7) Bernie Sanders spent the tail-end of that campaign impugning Clinton's integrity and questioning her qualifications to lead. Despite having begrudgingly supported Clinton following his primary defeat, he gloated on the talk shows with a "told-ya-so" (btw, isn't this called politics).
8) The liberal progressive voter base supporting Sanders began to regurgitate right wing talking points and lies used to impugn Clinton's integrity for decades
9) She should have been more personable (citing Hilbot)
10) Her staff let her down, not scheduling her in the states that went narrowly to Trump
10a) The Electoral College
11) The polls lied (the narrative is Trump voters lied to pollsters and more Clinton supporters would felt the urge to vote if they knew how close the election was).
These are all excuses made by Clinton why she lost. Only one is her own doing arguably (number 9).No fault has ever lied at the feet of Hillary Clinton or the Clintons, in countless years of controversies, scandals and the like, or for losing against Donald Trump, a horrible politician. Everything always is a historic injustice that, if allowed to continue, only hurts us as a nation and democracy. Look in the mirror woman.
Her repeated excuse making allows a shift in conversation away from crucial issues, smothers important Democratic candidates, and moves the discourse towards petty partisan squabbles and the unproductive blame game.
I think this is you trying to shift blame. The reason Trump won is because too many people, like you, voted for him.
and my California vote mattered how? I'm not the one still making all the excuses.
That post was:
1. Excuse
2. Followed by claim of non-excuse
NO excuses for me. I voiced for who I voted for. But I didn't open my mouth in public, Hilary did, and she picked the timing. In no way is this about me. Go back and look at the posts, its people commenting on Clinton's comments, not mine. If anyone is trying to shift the conversation it is you my friend.
Let's say it wasn't Hillary, her baggage, or her policies that caused her to lose the election. Let's say it's the excuses she continues to make blaming everyone else So what? The election is over. She is not running for office. Yes, as an experienced public official her views on policy matters to some.
But she doesn't discuss policy. Instead, she took the opportunity to trash Sanders and defend her relationship with Harvey Weinstein. All she does is make divisive comments, she hurts specific candidates, in much the same way she claims Bernie hurt her, she gets people focused on her on a week in which the focus s/b on the Dem's impeachment case. She remains with high negatives, is unhelpful to the Democratic Party at this juncturea selfish pose for someone whose approval rating hasn't budged above 38 percent since the election, and who remains a ready target for Trump to use to whip up his base. Even to the extent you seem a fan, she lost what people perceive as the unloseable election, and there has to be an element of Clinton fatigue in this for everyone, including her minimal fan base, as she keeps making devisive, angry comments. Look at that list of excuses - a good portion of that is aimed at what might be considered her people (news media, women, liberal progressives, her own staff).
There are plenty of hurt feelings to go around. But to the extent Sanders is a valid candidate, she should keep her resentment to herself. It is not like Sanders is going around complaining how Clinton stacked the deck to steal the Democratic nomination from him.