Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Hillary Clinton Saves the Day...

...by once again educating us poor benighted yahoos on why she Got Shafted during the election. Yup, that one. Two years ago.





Mrs. Clinton passed on her wisdom during a speech at the India Today Conclave in Mumbai on Saturday.

   -- Wait a minute. Was she paid a plump fee for making this speech? Silly me, to even have to ask.




"I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product. 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,” she added, “you didn’t like women y’know, getting jobs, you don’t want, y’know, see that Indian American succeeding more than you are, whatever your problem is, I’m gonna solve it.”
“So it was a symptom but it was also a cause because having someone run for president who voices those ideas, who rejects so much of the American story and our values, was also the underlying cause as well.”
In other words, if you don't live in the states, regions or populous areas where she won, or you didn't (gasp) vote for her -- well, you're a 'backwards' person "who rejects so much of the American story and our values."
'Darn that Donald Trump, anyways... Why didn't he pick me?''

I'm not a fan of Mrs. Clinton -- or her opponent, for that matter. But there comes a point when you need to stop looking back -- like she is so fond of pointing out that Trump is doing -- and get on with life. Whining about your election loss is not the way to do it.
Here's another analysis of Mrs. Clinton's speech -- with the same conclusions. And it's from Business Insider, a well-respected source. Oh my.
The frosting on the cake, at least to this ignorant deplorable, was Mrs. Clinton's announcement that white women don't think for themselves -- they let their husbands do it for them.  (Interestingly enough, the Washington Post says that some surveys suggest she isn't wrong.)
"[Democrats] do not do well with white men and we don't do well with married, white women," Clinton said. "And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should."
I find this particularly interesting, since:
*I'm a registered Democrat.
*Married to the Brick for 36-plus years. 
*I'm a 'white' woman -- or as Caucasian as a mixture of nationalities can be. (More of a mutt than anything.)
*The Brick not only encourages me to think for myself -- he relies on it. 

--Wait another minute. Hillary, aren't you also married for a long time...and a white woman? Do YOU vote the way Bill tells you to? 
    So if you both believe in certain causes, you're duty-bound to vote differently, just to prove he's not in charge?
Where do I fit, Mrs. Clinton? (Frankly, where do you fit?) How do you think white women everywhere will feel about your crass generalizations?
     Even better, how about finding more important subjects and causes to talk about, than November 2016? 
After all, 2020 will be here in no time. 

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