Hillary Clinton: Classic or Dud?

I think people here are judging the excerpts, which are not quite good

plunge into the entire book wins

Wow, imagine looking at the life of Hillary Clinton and thinking "if only she were free of Bill she could really have made something of herself"

I think that. not necessarily something good, but perhaps less terrible to some extent

But I don't think she'd have had a path to president.

She would have been a Mayor of Chicago covering up police black sites.

too believable

She does have a lot of ambition. But I think "poor battered woman who made the mistake of hitching her wagon to that loser" is a very bizarre projection onto a person who very deliberately hitched her wagon to someone who was the definition of a winner and benefited greatly from it.

She’d be President now if she had divorced Bill after winning her Senate seat.

"winning" her senate seat

what did she lose the popular vote

she moved to a state that hasn't had a republican senator since the 1970s for the sole purpose of running for a senate seat where the primary was cleared for her in advance

actually sorry that's not true, I forgot about D'Amato

I like Sittenfeld’s short stories - they’re unambtious, sort of Tom Perotta, Cat Person-type stories, but usually funny and absorbing. I don’t think she’s written a single novel I’d want to pick up though - I think the last one was a modernised Pride & Prejudice.

No thanks, I have to inject some bleach at that time. pic.twitter.com/yTMsb6sER5

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) July 21, 2020

great revive

when you’ve lost Doug Henwood...

i just love how simpatico L-MM is with her in perpetrating a con, and making me equally thirst for hemlock

:/

MLK Jr. said: “I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress." This is a subtweet.

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 14, 2022

She literally wrote her thesis on how being the white moderate was the better way

who was she subtweeting?

Sinema

Somehow when MLK spoke of breaking down the dams of law and order I don't think he was referring to changing senate procedure so an infrastructure bill can pass.

I respect that she’s still doing this even though the response ranges from “oh, she’s still alive?!” to “fuck off and die.”

At least she’s not doing promoted tweets for hot sauce.

xpost I think she's talking about the Voting rights bill not BBB

ohhhhhh, ok. Well that makes it more on point I guess, but still

Love her or loathe her, I'll give you three reasons she should have been president: Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett.

It's amazing how even at 74, she manages to come off like the student council president trying to sound cool while saying "marijuana is for losers."

If only someone had told her that Michigan and Wisconsin had electoral votes.

I think u mean why BERNIE should have been president, xp

That may be, but she was the party's nominee. The Bernie voters who stayed home in the general can go fuck themselves, since they fucked the rest of us.

I still see that meme a bunch where they ask during the Dem debate "should the candidate with the most votes be the nominee?" and everyone says No except for Bernie, as some sort of gotcha re: the Dems trying to "protect democracy". But Biden was almost certainly going to get the most votes in the primary anyway, right?

That may be, but she was the party's nominee. The Bernie voters who stayed home in the general can go fuck themselves, since they fucked the rest of us.

― jimbeaux, Friday, January 14, 2022 1:34 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Keep up the good work, you're doing great

I'm still upset LOL

thinking about her makes me very upset

Clearing the runway for an unpopular candidate who had never won a contested election might have been the real blunder. Although just one among many by the democrats that set the stage for 2016. But keep blaming things on the imaginary "Bernie voter who stayed home."

Against Trump, she seemed a better bet than Bernie, who might have gone the way of George McGovern.

Serious question what should the Democrats have done in 2016? Only three people ran and one of them was a guy no one had heard of. I get that all of us wanted Bernie but he got a lot less votes! And 2020 wasn’t particularly close either! Do we really think Mayor Pete and Klob and whoever else dropping out and endorsing Biden tipped the scales that much?

ok i now regret posting her shitty tweet

Serious question what should the Democrats have done in 2016?

Anything?

It was so hard to take Trump seriously

she should have peeled off her face and revealed her real reptilian skin

ok i now regret posting her shitty tweet

― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, January 14, 2022 1:54 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oh come on, you don't want to do this again?

i did it for the lols, i forgot there are people everywhere itching to do berniebro stuff

#stillwithher

#pantsuitbackfromthecleaners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLGFyxAP0QE

This thread in a nutshell:

Love her or loathe her, I'll give you three reasons she should have been president: Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett.

― jimbeaux

It's amazing how even at 74, she manages to come off like the student council president trying to sound cool while saying "marijuana is for losers."

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive)

how is this woman still alive? i could have sworn she was on her death bed! remember at the 9/11 anniversary she passed out because her handler didn't give her the injection in her neck that was keeping her alive. pretty sure she was clinically dead there for a few minutes until they could get the baby blood she has to drink to function.

the only thing I know is the whole "vote blue no matter who!" vs. "why should I play into this system when both sides are bad" debate is gonna get much worse now that Republicans are openly telegraphing the end of democracy