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Why Is Hillary Clinton So Widely Loved?
2016-11-04
And no, she's serious. Caught via AOSHQ which rips it to shred in short order. "About the Author: Chimamanda Adichie is the author of Americanah and, most recently, We Should All Be Feminists." Surprised?
We do not see, often enough, the people who love Hillary Clinton, who support her because of her qualifications rather than because of her unqualified opponent, who empathize with her. Yet millions of Americans, women and men, love her intelligence, her industriousness, her grit; they feel loyal to her, they will vote with enthusiasm for her.
whether they're alive or dead
Especially dead.
Human beings change as they grow, but a person's history speaks to who she is. There are millions who admire the tapestry of Hillary Clinton's past: the first-ever student commencement speaker at Wellesley speaking boldly about making the impossible possible, the Yale law student interested in the rights of migrant farmworkers, the lawyer working with the Children's Defense Fund, the first lady trying to make health care accessible for all Americans.

There are people who love how cleanly she slices through policy layers, how thoroughly she digests the small print but can't remember anything under oath. They remember that she won two terms to the United States Senate, where she was not only well-regarded but was known to purchase get along with Republicans. They have confidence in her. There are people who rage at the media on her behalf, who see the coverage she too often receives as unfair. There are people who in a quiet, human way wish her well. There are people who, when Hillary Clinton becomes the first woman to be president of the United States, will weep from joy.

Hillary Clinton was guilty immediately when she stepped into the view of the American public as the first lady of Arkansas.
Her predecessor wasn't, but she was.
She was a lawyer full of dreams. She had made sacrifices for the man she loved, waived her plans, and moved to his state. But she also dared to think herself her husband's equal, to assume herself competent enough to take on expanding access to healthcare and reforming the Arkansas public education system. She was guilty of not being a traditional first lady. She offended the old patriarchal order. The conservative media loathed her
There's more if you dare...
Posted by:Frank G

#17  
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2016-11-04 16:32  

#16  Heck, even Vince Foster voted for her last week.


"It's not homicide -- it's voter registration!"

Hillary and Dems
Posted by: charger   2016-11-04 16:03  

#15  I suspect crooks love how she has gotten away with amazingly bold scams for so long.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-11-04 15:05  

#14  ... rather than because of her unqualified opponent,

So, thirty-plus years of executive experience is now a disqualifier for the office? Oh, that's right - he's a Republican.
Posted by: Raj   2016-11-04 12:21  

#13  Heh, widely.

Like watching one of those mean tween girl shows - everyone kisses up so mean girl does not pick on them.

psssst - she hates you
Posted by: swksvolFF   2016-11-04 11:01  

#12  Same kind of people who stood at the train station in Germany with "Welcome" signs for so called "refugees". They simply don't care what the results are - they believe they will never have to pay the price and dont care that others will - as long as they can feel good about themselves for appearing compassionate and loving. Like Soros they would gladly feed their neighbors to the monster as long as they can take what they want from the remains -even if it's only a temporary feeling of "I did good, I fed the poor thing.".
They are pathetic, but very dangerous in large numbers. And we have them in very large numbers indeed.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-11-04 09:02  

#11  What they don't comprehend is that for it all to collapse is for the despised male to just stand by and not infer with those outside who would do us serious harm. "Aren't you going to save us?", No. "But you'll be harmed too", no more than what you have already done to us and by any record in the book, will more likely recover something rather than the nothing you offer us.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-11-04 07:17  

#10  #5 Farragut student suspended for extra chicken nugget
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-11-04 06:32  

#9  There are people who love how cleanly she slices through policy layers, how thoroughly she digests the small print.

A great example would be her understanding of security policy as it relates to classified materials and email servers.
Posted by: Airandee   2016-11-04 06:17  

#8  All pictures of Hillary are the stuff of nightmres. I for one don't blame Bill for going off of the reservation
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2016-11-04 05:52  

#7  Believe otherwise at your peril.

Oh, we know, No More.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-11-04 05:44  

#6  That picture of Hillary is the stuff of nightmares.
Posted by: Grarong Spawn of the Heathen Rus2966   2016-11-04 05:38  

#5  

She is widely loved because the Obama coalition is still intact.

It consists of:

1. NPR-listening pseudointellectual SJW social anarchists

2. Public employee/welfare recipient thugs who value their magic checks more than the businesses, liberties, and lives of their private sector neighbors

3. Owners of/employees of rent-seeking businesses in industries like the law profession, lobbying, and regulatory compliance that depend on government regulation for demand for their services

4. Owners of/employees of a few large industries like IT, education, entertainment, and banking/finance/investment houses which have bribed Democrats and RINOs for indulgences from the regulatory leviathan.

Add to this a new twist - women who want another woman put into a position of power where she can tell men what to do and then harm or kill them if they don't comply, and enjoy that vicariously.

Believe otherwise at your peril.
Posted by: no mo uro   2016-11-04 05:32  

#4  IMO, she's widely loved among your kind Adichie, for the same reason a shark is loved by its pilot fish.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-11-04 05:16  

#3  Especially dead.

Heck, even Vince Foster voted for her last week.
Posted by: gorb   2016-11-04 04:36  

#2  Je suis desolle, pauvre Haitien
Tout pour moi, pour toi, rien
Posted by: Bov Flimbers   2016-11-04 03:17  

#1  "These Ivy Leaguers full of dreams
Of get-rich-quick and deeper schemes,
If loved enough," laughs Chimamanda,
Will fuck us like they did Rwanda."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2016-11-04 01:20  

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