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Hillary trying to weasel out of her offensive comments in India that scared Democrats

Jim_S

Gone But Not Forgotten
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March 19, 2018
Hillary trying to weasel out of her offensive comments in India that scared Democrats – and fails
By Thomas Lifson

https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...n_india_that_scared_democrats__and_fails.html

Hillary Clinton never took to heart Denis Healey’s First Law of Holes: “If you are in one, stop digging.” Her comments in India blaming her loss on the “backward” parts of the country and white women whose husbands made them vote for Trump scared the crap out of Democrats, especially those running for re-election this year in states that Trump carried, who just might need a few backward voters and servile white wives in order to stay in Congress.

Like Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who is up for re-election, come the midterms in November, in a state Trump won by 19 points.

“Those are kind of fighting words for me, because I’m partial to Missouri voters,” McCaskill told The Washington Post.

And:

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who is up for re-election in a state Trump won, also slammed Clinton.

“I don’t really care what she said,” Brown told the Huffington Post. “I just think that that’s not helpful.”

And:

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, who’s running for re-election in North Dakota, a state Trump won in 2016, said it’s time for Clinton to step off the political stage.

Asked during an interview last week when Clinton should “ride off into the sunset,” Heitkamp said: “Not soon enough.”

And yesterday, Dick Durbin kept the criticism coming:

“No, it’s not helpful at all,” Durbin of Illinois said on “Fox News Sunday.” “In fact, my friend Hillary Clinton is wrong. Thirty percent of the people who voted for Donald Trump had voted for President Obama. Why? The same people who looked for change with President Obama thought there wasn’t enough as far as their personal lives were concerned, and they supported Donald Trump. ”

Here are the comments, if you are not familiar with them:

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So, faced with Democrats wishing she would just go away, she posted an 861-word non-apology on Facebook that claimed she was “misinterpreted,” basically blaming Trump for being so awful. It is pathetic. The woman simply cannot admit to being wrong.

I can only hope that she offers further clarification, and just keeps digging.

During an interview last week with an Indian news publication, I was asked about 2016, and whether Trump is the "virus" or a "symptom" of something deeper going on in American society. Like most Americans, people overseas remain shocked and dismayed at what they are witnessing daily.

My first instinct was to defend Americans and explain how Donald Trump could have been elected. I said that places doing better economically typically lean Democratic, and places where there is less optimism about the future lean Republican. That doesn’t mean the coasts versus the heartland, it doesn’t even mean entire states. In fact, it more often captures the divisions between more dynamic urban areas and less prosperous small towns within states. As I said throughout the campaign, Trump’s message was dark and backwards looking. I don’t need to list the reasons, but the foundation of his message, “Make America Great AGAIN” suggests that to be great we have to go back to something we are no longer. I never accepted that and never will.

I'm from the Midwest. I had plans that, had I been elected, would have focused on the real needs of hard-working yet struggling Americans in every part of the country. Raising the minimum wage. Paid leave. Affordable college. Affordable, quality health care for everyone. Training for good jobs that don’t require a college degree. And giving workers a larger share of corporate profits and tax cuts. So far, Donald Trump has done nothing positive to ease the pain of the people who most strongly supported him, from the loss of jobs in coal country to the opioid epidemic to the tax bill that increases the debt by $1.5 trillion with a massive corporate tax cut, only 13% of which went to workers in the form of bonuses or pay raises.

I was also asked about women, specifically white women, the majority of whom have not voted for Democrats in recent history. I did better with them than previous Democratic nominees, but still lost them overall to a candidate who relies on scare tactics and false attacks, masking the fact that he is otherwise no friend to most Americans.

I also mentioned something in passing that's gotten a lot of negative attention: that there is anecdotal evidence and some research to suggest that women are unfortunately more swayed by men than the other way around. As much as I hate the possibility, and hate saying it, it’s not that crazy when you think about our ongoing struggle to reach gender balance – even within the same household. I did not realize how hard it would hit many who heard it. I was out there having a conversation, and this was one piece of a larger point about how Democrats need to do better with white women, because I know in my heart that Democrats have much more to offer them. Do I believe that some women look at a powerful woman and question whether she can lead, maybe voting for the man their husband is voting for instead? It may not be universally true or easy to hear, but yes, it’s a dynamic still at play in our society. I know this because even I spent parts of my life wondering if I could achieve the same as male leaders, and a lot of that insecurity stemmed from my gender and how society views women. When I was serving in various roles in public life, I was always more popular when I was working for or defending a man then when I was out there on my own. That’s the point I was making, in an effort to explain to an audience some of the many dynamics that have gone into these tumultuous last few years.

I understand how some of what I said upset people and can be misinterpreted. I meant no disrespect to any individual or group. And I want to look to the future as much as anybody.

But our future requires us to learn from 2016. We need to protect our election systems from intrusion by Russia or anyone else. We need to combat voter suppression and the propagation of fake and misleading news. I fear we are not doing anywhere near enough on those fronts, and I know we can do better.

I love our country every bit as much as a private citizen as I did as a candidate, Secretary of State, Senator from New York, and First Lady. That’s why I don’t want us to remain passive in the face of these threats. I want us to be free to focus on the future. A future in which I hope to be fighting for Democratic values of equal opportunity, social inclusion, and strong communities; for an economy that works for everyone; and for lifting up the next generation of leadership, particularly women.

So to those upset or offended by what I said last week, I hope this explanation helps to explain the point I was trying to make. And I hope now that we can get back to the real business before us: Protecting our democracy and building a future we can all share.

Hillary keeps on stumbling and injuring herself – physically and metaphorically.
 

rugerman

New member
Clinton much like Pelosi must like the taste of shoe leather, because they both keep putting their feet in their mouth and then trying to explain their way out of what they said, usually very poorly.
 
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