The most thorough, profound and moving defense of Hillary Clinton I have ever seen.
The most thorough, profound and moving defense of Hillary Clinton I have ever seen.
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First of all this is not my writing. It's a Facebook post by someone I dont even know, a man named Michael Arnovitz in Portland OR. But as a Facebook post it passes the fair use test and Im quite certain he would not object that I share it here (he doesnt). The original Facebook post is here: www.facebook.com/ So without further ado, its truly worth the read:
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"In the course of a single conversation, I have been assured that Hillary is cunning and manipulative but also crass, clueless, and stunningly impolitic; that she is a hopelessly woolly-headed do-gooder and, at heart, a hardball litigator; that she is a base opportunist and a zealot convinced that God is on her side. What emerges is a cultural inventory of villainy rather than a plausible depiction of an actual person." Henry Louis Gates The quote above comes from a fascinating article called Hating Hillary, written by Gates for the New Yorker in 1996. Even now, 20 years after it was first published, its a fascinating and impressive piece, and if you have a few spare moments I strongly recommend it to you. (www.newyorker.com/...)
And Im reading pieces like this because now that Hillary has (essentially if not officially) won the Democratic Primary, I have become increasingly fascinated by the way so many people react to her. In truth, I sometimes think that I find that as interesting as Hillary herself. And I cant help but notice that many of the reactions she receives seem to reflect what Gates referred to as a cultural inventory of villainy rather than any realistic assessment of who she really is and what she has really done. To conservatives she is a radical left-wing insurgent who has on multiple occasions been compared to Mikhail Suslov, the Soviet Kremlins long-time Chief of Ideology. To many progressives (you know who you are), she is a Republican fox in Democratic sheeps clothing, a shill for Wall Street who doesnt give a damn about the working class. The fact that these views could not possibly apply to the same person does not seem to give either side pause. Hillary haters on the right and the left seem perfectly happy to maintain their mutually incompatible delusions about why she is awful. The only thing both teams seem to share is the insistence that Hillary is a Machiavellian conspirator and implacable liar, unworthy of societys trust.
And this claim of unabated mendacity is particularly interesting, because while it is not the oldest defamation aimed at Hillary, it is the one that most effortlessly glides across partisan lines. Indeed, for a surprisingly large percentage of the electorate, the claim that Hillary is innately dishonest is simply accepted as a given. It is an accusation and conviction so ingrained in the conversation about her that any attempt to even question it is often met with shock. And yet heres the thing: its not actually true. Politifact, the Pulitzer prize-winning fact-checking project, determined for example that Hillary was actually the most truthful candidate (of either Party) in the 2016 election season. And in general Politifact has determined that Hillary is more honest than most (but not all) politicians they have tracked over the years.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/11/1537582/-The-most-thorough-profound-and-moving-defense-of-Hillary-Clinton-I-have-ever-seen?detail=email2&link_id=2&can_id=dbb0d69c584cc3d0a04f63b55f76c85f&source=email-trump-nailed-229-years-ago-by-alexander-hamilton-2&email_referrer=trump-nailed-229-years-ago-by-alexander-hamilton-2&email_subject=trump-nailed-229-years-ago-by-alexander-hamilton
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)niyad
(113,552 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)Thank you for posting, niyad!
niyad
(113,552 posts)Bill USA
(6,436 posts)recommended!!
teach1st
(5,935 posts)So I'm bumping it.
niyad
(113,552 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)without a scintilla of evidence to back it up. But then again, Republicans and the GOP-machine have spent tens of millions of dollars - most of it taxpayer dollars during the Clinton Admin - to vilify her, and the complicit U.S. M$M fulfill their part in propagating this fact-less myth ad nauseam.
And the American people, unlike people who actually have a REAL fourth estate in other developed countries, believe Hillary is both ultra-conservative and ultra-liberal at the same time...and no one is asking any question, just swallowing that tripe by the gallons.
niyad
(113,552 posts)it is a wonder that the deluded ones don't choke on the swill they are being fed.
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)people spout Trump' "honesty" PF rates him as telling the truth about 5% of the time. Hillary tells a lie about 5% of the time, yet she is labeled as the liar by many.
niyad
(113,552 posts)greatlaurel
(2,004 posts)Thanks for the link!
niyad
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