The most flawed female president ever (or so say the pukes and misogynists)
(absolutely love mark!! he has this absolutely correct)
The most flawed female president ever
If theres one thing lefty Hillary-haters love the most, its lists. Lists of all her perceived failures, of her obvious corruption, her warmongering, her lies, of this or that banking scandal or support for questionable legislation, or even more spurious proof that, despite full-throated support for Planned Parenthood and innumerable pro-women issues over the years, and despite being relentlessly attacked as an aggressive, non-feminine feminazi, shes no real feminist, all due to some perceived slight, attack or negative messaging at one point, years ago, about something that might have happened, or not, according to someone else.
Heres the amazing thing: Hillarys camp rarely responds. Not anymore. Save for deflecting all the fantastically flaccid Republicans on all the various anti-Hillary Benghazi committees, she rarely seems to expend any energy attempting to refute all the claims against her, true or not.
Maybe she knows its futile. Maybe she knows that, no matter what she says, now matter how much evidence to the contrary she procures, no matter if some of the allegations against her true or are total right-wing hate-mongering BS, or just misunderstood, or simply no worse or better than any of her male peers on either side of the aisle (including Obama), she knows that attempting to correct the record only inflames her detractors more, gives them reason to accuse her of covering up the truth, such as it is, or isnt, according to them.
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What is her forte? Just ask anyone who knows her: Personal connection. Networking. Identifying the problem, and then making a plan to fix it. And then fixing it. Follow-through. Getting things done. Genuine warmth, humor and formidable intelligence. Doing what Traister called the real work of politics, making her way through a thousand issues and causes at once, in the grit and meat of it, every single day, usually without fanfare, without melodramatic newsworthiness, without much by way of acknowledgement by the Left, or the media, or anyone else.
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As Ezra Kleins fascinating piece at Vox pointed out: We are not used to this. Hillarys methods are not so easily tracked, much less lauded. After all, this is not the way men do it. The entire American political infrastructure was designed from Day One for the masculine mode of boast, dominance, force, threat, steamroll, attack, convince and conquer and boast some more. It is most certainly not Hillarys (more feminine) strengths of listening deeply, offering real empathy, taking careful notes, building coalitions, making connections, remembering everything and everyone and then, over and over again, taking action. Getting it done. Workhorse. Workaholic. Policy wonk. Determined and stoic and sort of boring, as she does more for the progressive cause than her haters will ever allow, because OMG look at her (loud, GOP-inflamed, easily to find and even easier to parrot) faults! Look at her Iraq vote! Look at her lying about email! Look at her terrible hair! And so on!
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http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2016/08/03/the-most-flawed-female-president-ever/#photo-769779
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)I am excited for the first woman president. I didn't know if I'd live to see it!
niyad
(113,628 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)if you want to be technical
mercuryblues
(14,547 posts)has spent decades villanizing and smearing Clinton over everything.
One such incident. A lamp supposedly broke when they were moving into the WH on Inauguration Day. The rumor started out as, it broke during an argument. Every time a news outlet reported it, new details were added and others changed. Within 6 months time it was reported by major outlets as.....
she threw a lamp, book, bible or daily planner,
threw it on the floor, against a wall, she hit him on the head and drew blood,
The NYT described Hillary as lamp throwing Delilah, emasculating her weak husband.
Guess who started the rumor? Republicans. Since then lying about Hillary has become blood sport.
more details at: http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/lamp.asp
Today, she is the only person standing between America and trump presidency. How can the media take back all the untruths they have spread about her? They can't. It is all fun and games for them, until trump. There will be no mea culpa.
blueseas
(11,575 posts)Here comes trump.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Today I had a conversation with someone who claims to be an independent. He HATES Michele Obama and Hillary Clinton. When I told him that every time I hear that it comes from a man, he said that his wife hates them both too.
He thought Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were decent presidents though.
Doesn't like Trump, won't vote for Hillary. But if she gets in, it will be good to have Bill Clinton back in the White House.
Men.