Hillary Clinton is a drama queen. Her reactions are not your reactions. We cannot “read” her.
And for what it’s worth, I am a former supporter!
I worked on her presidential campaign in 2008. I spent a lot of time apologizing to people who felt neglected or insulted. For example, there was never anyone in the Press Office. Ever! And if there were people there, they certainly never answered their phone. Everything went to voice mail. All the time. And never got a response.
That hurt.
I blamed it on the disorganized nature of the campaign. About three years ago, it occurred to me— ta, ta! like, finally— that the neglect was intentional. Hillary sees the press as untrustworthy, part of the “great right-wing conspiracy” arrayed against her. She doesn’t return their calls. She’ll show up for SNL, but she’s less happy with Sunday morning talk shows.
As a lib and a women’s libber, I am so bitterly disappointed. This wonderful lady was going to be our first woman president! Hurrah!
Never happen.
Have you ever been involved with a manipulative person? You give a little. You make allowances. You figure “whatever.” You look between your fingers. After an eon or so, you wake up to find yourself in a place you don’t want to be.
I’ve been to Hillaryland. Been there, done that. I’m not going back.
She forgave Bill when he screwed the chambermaid. Although I disagreed and felt it was clearly grounds for divorce, I figured “Okay, she’s more magnanimous than I am.”
She did a great job as Sec State. I thought, “Hurray, we’ve rounded the corner.” When Benghazi blew up, however, she went before a Congressional Committee and questioned whether the attack was “because of guys out on a walk one night who decided they’d go kill Americans?”
You kinda lost me there, Hills. Instead of “owning it,” instead of Harry Truman’s “the buck stops here,” it was all somehow somebody else’s fault.
Unfortunately, Hillary learned a bad lesson from Obama. Politicians do that, we watch and learn from one another. Hillary found that if you make pretty speeches about bipartisanship and progress and game-changing the climate in Washington, words are enough. In your daily life, you can continue with “politics as usual.” So forget Hillary’s speeches, they are all hot air.
Now we get to the emails. She deleted 30,000 emails? Thirty… thousand… emails. I NEVER HAD 30,000 EMAILS IN MY LIFE! It boggles the mind. With Hillary, the best is never enough. It took me forever to realize that, “Yeah, government email, all it takes is a simple Freedom of Information Act request. Eighteen months later, the contents are publicly available.” Hillary didn’t want anybody peeking at her correspondence, so she set up her own private server. “She wanted her privacy,” we say, forgiving her YET AGAIN! I am getting very tired of this, sister.
UPDATE: May 2015
Don’t get me started on the money! What people do in their private lives is between them and their conscience. But there’s no way you can accept millions of dollars in “speaking fees” and credibly run for president. Since January 2014, the Clintons have “earned” 25 mil making 104 paid speeches, mostly to corporations.
What are these companies paying for? WHAT ARE THESE COMPANIES PAYING FOR??? And don’t tell me it’s Clintonian wisdom and glistening oratory. When Hils gets $315,000 for a 20-minute speech at an eBay summit, something smells way unethical.
In my day, that was considered a bribe.
Bill, bless his avaricious heart, has made 100 million dollars in speaking fees since the year 2000. But he assures us it’s all right, since he gives 10% to his foundation. That means the Clintons are sitting on a personal fortune of 90+ million dollars. Which, as The Washington Post pointed out, the Clintons maintain in cash, rather than investing. Talk about insecurity! Everybody needs a nest egg, but… give me a break!
What is wrong with this picture?
Craig Minassian, a spokesman for The Clinton Foundation, is quoted in The Washington Post humble bragging that their website has “more than 300,000 donors who are all listed.” That’s gotta be a misprint!? What are they thinking? Them Clintons are unbelievable.
It gets worse! The Clintons blur the line between speeches made for their foundation and speeches made for personal profit.
Citibank paid The Clinton Foundation over $250,000 for a Hillary Clinton speech.
It gets even worse geographically. Newly released info from The Clinton Foundation, published in The Washington Post on May 22, 2015, indicates:
The government of Algeria (!) donated (!) $500,000 to The Clinton Foundation. Tell me the Algerians don’t want anything for that money.
The Nigerian This-Day newspaper group paid The Clinton Foundation over $500,000 for a Bill Clinton speech.
The energy ministry of Thailand paid The Clinton Foundation between $250,000 and $500,000 for a Bill Clinton speech.
The U.S. Islamic World Forum, with support from Qatar, paid The Clinton Foundation between $250,000 and $500,000 for a Bill Clinton speech.
The Qatar First Bank, representing clients with a high net worth (read: rich) paid The Clinton Foundation between $250,000 and $500,000 for a Bill Clinton speech.
China Real Estate Development Corporation paid The Clinton Foundation between $250,000 and $500,000 for a Bill Clinton speech.
The Beijing Huaduo Enterprise Consulting Company Ltd., specializing in natural gas, paid The Clinton Foundation over $250,000 for a Bill Clinton speech.
The South Korean chemical and energy conglomerate Hanwha paid The Clinton Foundation between $500,000 and a million dollars for a Bill Clinton speech.
Hey, that musta been some speech!
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s Telmex Foundation paid The Clinton Foundation between $250,000 and $500,000 for a Hillary Clinton speech.
La la la la la! Harumph! Four score and seven years ago…! Okay, I’m ready. Ladies and gentlemen, I AM AVAILABLE! I was a d.j. on college radio and at MRS, Music Radio Service, in Sweden. As you see, I can be as inspirational as the best of ’em! Graduates of the Class of 2015, as you tremulously stumble your way into a closed job market, think of what Paul Revere said. I mean beyond “The British are coming!” He also said…
How do the Clintons see it? I can imagine them looking at each other and saying “Oh, look honey, this is a really neat way to make money! And it’s all legal!”
Where is their moral center? What are the Clintons’ core values? How outrageous and absurd can they act before America has had enough chicanery?
“Oh”— you say— “Politics has always been a rotten business. Don’t critique the Clintons! If I want to hear carping criticism, I can always tune in to Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. Everything you are saying is old news.”
Except my mom and I are Democrats. If we’re disenchanted, some kind of sea change may be in the offing.
Yes, I want a woman president. Give me a decent candidate, please!
I’m truly sorry, but I don’t trust Hillary Rodham Clinton to take that proverbial 3 a.m. phone call. I have no idea how she’ll react.
Kinda heartbroken, Kevin
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