Clinton Won't Be Silenced No Matter How Many Male Opinion Writers Demand It (HRC Group)

[TexasTowelie]

Note: This is posted in the HRC Group.


Hillary Clinton’s new book, What Happened, doesn’t drop until Tuesday, but with some juicy leaked excerpts and an interview with Jane Pauley on CBS Sunday Morning, it’s clear that the Clinton who failed to go hard on primary opponent Bernie Sanders and who tried to put policy at the forefront in the general election against the wildly unpredictable, fallacious Donald Trump is no longer playing the dutiful female candidate.

When a leaked excerpt from the book in which she relates her story about how Sanders handed Trump the “crooked Hillary” playbook and how his supporters bullied her supporters online with misogynist rhetoric, commentators on the far left fell apart in dozens of opinion pieces with dog-whistle language that evoked Freud, stopping just short of calling her “hysterical.” But Clinton proved in her interview with Pauley that she has every intention of owning her victories and every intention of not remaining silent or of playing nice with the right or those on the far left who’ve already begun slamming viable female candidates like Kamala Harris.

“Oh, I don’t agree with that, and the primary was part of what happened. I won a landslide victory in the primary,” Clinton said when Pauley said that writing about Sanders's lackluster support of her in the general election was “opening a barely healed wound in your own party.”

“I know what it’s like to win and I know what it’s like to lose, and when I lost to Barack Obama I immediately turned around. I endorsed him, I worked for him, I convinced my supporters to vote for him,” Clinton said. “I didn’t get the same respect from my primary opponent.”

Read more: https://www.advocate.com/politicians/2017/9/11/clinton-wont-be-silenced-no-matter-how-many-male-opinion-writers-demand-it

[all american girl]

1. She's my girl and she speaks for me

[still_one]

2. Thanks Hillary for speaking for so many of us who voted for you

[George II]

3. Hillary Clinton didn't wait until days before the Convention to concede...

....she conceded shortly after the California primary. At the Convention she was on the floor from the start, and called for the delegates to declare Obama the nominee by acclamation. She didn't stew and glare down from the gallery.

And then just days after the Convention she was enthusiastically out on the campaign trail, making sure that Obama's message got out - she didn't wait until after Labor Day to reluctantly start campaigning.

She is a REAL loyal Democrat, and we all love her for that.

[sheshe2]

10. +++

[NurseJackie]

4. We need this. I need this.

[DesertRat]

5. Good for Hillary!

I'm still with her.

[Jamaal510]

6. K&R

[betsuni]

7. K&R

[treestar]

8. K&R

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Good for her

She has a right to express her view of her experience.

[sheshe2]

11. K&R!

[Lee Adama]

12. Posting for the last paragraph quoted.

From where I sat, she's absolutely correct.

[mcar]

13. So glad she's speaking out

[shenmue]

14. She rules

[murielm99]

15. K&R