2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhy Hillary Is the Boss
It does not surprise me that it takes a woman to sit before a partisan panel and keep her cool. What does it take to do that for over eight hours, taking a grilling from people who most likely are not as smart nor as experienced as you? Age and experience. Childbirth. Marriage. Menopause. And a life in politics.
Many of the faces on the Benghazi panel looked weirdly modified to me. Hillary doesn't do Botox, hasn't had a chemical peel, a nose job, or a face stretched like small sized pantyhose over an extra large sized leg. She's not trim. She looks her age. Hillary Clinton has been around a long time and it shows.
I always felt Hillary wore her heart in the right place, and that place was never on her sleeve. Yet I voted for Barack Obama for president twice. I admit that I wanted an African American as president in 2008. African Americans were forced to build America with their bare hands as an enslaved race. They never got retribution for it, either. They were oppressed in the most profound way, and suffer now from decades of discrimination on every level.
To make it to where Obama did you've got to be better than everybody. Much, much better. I felt African Americans were overdue and Obama the was perfect candidate to break that barrier. He was eloquent, level-headed, intellectual, and he lived in Chicago, where I grew up. So my heart went even softer for him on that count.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-dunn/why-hillary-is-the-boss_b_8365998.html?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000090
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)But I stand with Labor.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)I don't regret supporting Obama over Clinton. I believe Obama has done things Clinton could not have accomplished, action on health care being the primary example. I also think Clinton would have us more deeply involved in Syria by now, a could not have brokered a nuke agreement with Iran. I think you cast your vote correctly.
cprise
(8,445 posts)There is no one in politics more likely to co-opt (e.g. adopt) the lies and the policies of her Republican attackers than Clinton.
Her perennial stance at the State Dept. was to attack and destabilize Middle Eastern countries as soon as some rioters are killed.
At least Obama had the sense to repudiate her 'attack in the name of liberalism' mindset and try to correct her bias at State.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)not sure of that's a typo or pun untended
EDIT to add: thinking its a typo. Several in the piece
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)But I don't want to be pedantic...I wouldn't put anything in print without running it by an editor.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)at least. No one is perfect but jeez...letters that should be capitalized that aren't (Oval Office), letters that shouldn't be that are (Family, Hearings, The) , missing hyphens all over the place, a missing period, knit picking, American's(sic) finest moment
Yes I am pedantic. She needs an editor
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)In the print era it would have been cleaned up first.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Nora has a problem with the Caps thing....no wonder she aint a Bernie supporter
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Of any gender or ethnicity?
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Thomas Paine
BootinUp
(47,135 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)For what's it worth boss=awesome for anybody under thirty in "like a boss."
Hilary handled the Benghazi Committee "like a boss."
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)"I don't want to see another white male in The White House for as long as I live, unless he's gay. Openly."
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)eom
Armstead
(47,803 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Thank you in advance.