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Showing Original Post only (View all)Hillary supporter: I hope she "bows out gracefully" [View all]
Im a Hillary Clinton fan. But I hope she bows out with graceby Mary Dejevsky * The Guardiqn * August 17, 2015
Hillary Clinton has a fundraising pot that is overflowing. She appears to be cruising to the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination: and then, if the stars align in her favour, on to a well-deserved place in history as the first female president of the United States.
Her supporters have wished it for so long, it seems almost impossible that it might not come to pass. And I would count myself among those supporters, ever since as a Washington-based correspondent I watched the lobbyists gang up to defeat her health plan, and observed how she toughed out the sordid revelations about her husband and that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
Clinton, as she showed then and has shown since, is not one to walk away. She embodies that all-American quip about the going getting tough and the tough getting going. But I just hope that there are those, somewhere in her entourage, who are even now begging her not to do it, and to bow out while there is still time to do so with grace.
Reality must be looked in the eye. Clinton is a hugely divisive figure, including within her own party and not primarily because she is a woman. There is the clan question. What does it say about the meritocratic credentials of the United States that two of the most favoured candidates for 2016 are closely related to recent presidents? Neither is to blame but in my book, this alone would be a reason for both Clinton and Jeb Bush to leave the field. It is also a reason why they may not be electable.
Then there is the Bill question. A large section of the Republican party hates the Clinton name with the same venom that many Britons reserve for Margaret Thatcher, blaming Bill, as they see it, for defiling the presidency. This should not affect Hillary Clintons support but it will limit her ability to appeal across parties. Nor do US voters need to be dragged all over again through the intricacies of the (loss-making) Whitewater land deal, the involvement of the Rose Law firm, or the suicide of a close aide, but they probably will. And if these Bill questions are not enough, there is another where she really does have some explaining to do: it concerns her involvement with his post-presidential charitable fundraising at a time when she held public office.
Clintons chief liability, though, is the baggage she carries of her own...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/17/hillary-clinton-white-house-too-much-baggage
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That answers it. You live in a red state and they can't wait to vote for Hillary.
Cleita
Aug 2015
#16
You lost it with the reference to chemtrails and whatever the little insider ha, ha you
Cleita
Aug 2015
#59
So how come if Sanders attract Republicans it is a wonderful thing, but a bad
lunamagica
Aug 2015
#57
Bernie is an American first. He has declared himself as a socialist democrat for the past thirty
Cleita
Aug 2015
#37
He's been in politics more than three decades, in Washington almost 25 years, I'm sure
Cleita
Aug 2015
#66
I don't believe the Constitution speaks to how parties can conduct their primaries.
DemocratSinceBirth
Aug 2015
#131
Yes, she did, K.. and that's when I started liking her again. She came together for the good of
Cha
Aug 2015
#78
Yeah, BS wanted to primary President Obama in 2012. I won't say what I think of him.. 'cause
Cha
Aug 2015
#84
I give Hillary credit for being gracious in defeat. Unfortunately, too many of her loyal supporters refused to follow her lead...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Aug 2015
#112
Great, a tit for tat. A thread is started quoted someone I never heard of saying that "Bernie
still_one
Aug 2015
#4
There is a plethora of "I support (candidate) BUT...." nonsense flying all over these days...[n/t]
Maedhros
Aug 2015
#11
Now you know what it's like to be at the receiving end of that kind of dissembling.
delrem
Aug 2015
#105
yes, I really give a fuck what someone who lives 5000 miles away, who's attacked Democrats before,
ericson00
Aug 2015
#83
"As the frontrunner by a massive plurality, I feel I have no choice but to step down"
Godhumor
Aug 2015
#125