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pirateshipdude

(967 posts)
Tue Jul 18, 2017, 01:57 PM Jul 2017

Its Time for Hillary Clinton to Gracefully Bow Out of Public Life, Along with All Other Women

You won’t find a bigger supporter of Hillary Clinton than me. Sure, I stumped for Barack Obama in 2008, and for Bernie Sanders during the 2016 primary, but I have always been steadfast in my belief that Hillary Rodham Clinton had the judgment and experience to be Commander-in-Chief of the United States (unless there were some technical way in which Bernie Sanders could still pull it off).

So it is as one of Clinton’s biggest supporters that I say to her now: your work here is done. It is time for Hillary Clinton to disappear from our magazine covers and our television screens, and gracefully retire from public life. Ideally, taking all other women with her.

This is about moving forward, and how are we supposed to do that when we’re hamstrung by symbols of past failures, like Hillary Clinton, or Geraldine from human resources, who makes a federal case out of every bad joke around the water cooler? Let’s save the investigating for private e-mail servers, O.K., Geraldine? There are still a lot of unanswered questions there.

The Trump Presidency isn’t a slow-motion car crash. It’s happening at light speed, every day. How are we supposed to combat this existential threat when we’re constantly interrupted by the rejected message of a previous candidate? And how am I supposed to formulate my thoughts when my wife is constantly interrupting to ask what I’m thinking? It’s a political Catch-22 that can only be reconciled by Hillary returning to the Chappaqua woods, along with my wife, and her friend Sarah with the weird laugh, who apparently doesn’t have her own apartment where she can watch “The Good Fight.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/its-time-for-hillary-clinton-to-gracefully-bow-out-of-public-life-along-with-all-other-women


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Its Time for Hillary Clinton to Gracefully Bow Out of Public Life, Along with All Other Women (Original Post) pirateshipdude Jul 2017 OP
LOL. Iggo Jul 2017 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Mrs. Overall Jul 2017 #2
Kicking because this disappeared early today, and I think it is funny. Eom pirateshipdude Jul 2017 #3
Kicking one more time. Eom pirateshipdude Jul 2017 #14
so with all the chaos coming down from trump drray23 Jul 2017 #4
I am a strong supporter of Clinton. I do not believe this is a shot at Clinton. pirateshipdude Jul 2017 #7
K&R betsuni Jul 2017 #5
Good satire! mcar Jul 2017 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author MrsCoffee Jul 2017 #8
The best satire is entirely believable. yardwork Jul 2017 #9
Isn't it though. Eom pirateshipdude Jul 2017 #11
Funny, but NastyRiffraff Jul 2017 #10
Absolutely there is truth in the satire. For sure. I agree. Also, this is what makes it so good. Eom pirateshipdude Jul 2017 #12
"Along with All Other Women". I am especially fond of this. Eom. pirateshipdude Jul 2017 #13
Me too! eom NastyRiffraff Jul 2017 #15

Response to pirateshipdude (Original post)

drray23

(7,627 posts)
4. so with all the chaos coming down from trump
Tue Jul 18, 2017, 06:26 PM
Jul 2017

your chief concern is to take shots at Hillary Clinton ? Nice set of priorities.

 

pirateshipdude

(967 posts)
7. I am a strong supporter of Clinton. I do not believe this is a shot at Clinton.
Tue Jul 18, 2017, 06:33 PM
Jul 2017

You might want to re read.

Response to pirateshipdude (Original post)

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
10. Funny, but
Tue Jul 18, 2017, 06:42 PM
Jul 2017

the sad thing is, it's not much of an exaggeration for some people. Including some so-called "progressives."

Great satire, though.

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