FEDIT POLITICS Thread

<oh poor sad Hillary really does mean it when she 'apologizes' .. chuckles>

Hillary Clinton is the first and only woman to have given a big US presidential concession speech—and she is the first and only candidate to say “I’m sorry.”

Trust a woman to do that. Research finds that women apologize more than men, likely because people are faster to judge women for their behavior. Clinton has since acknowledged time and again her own responsibility for losing the 2016 US presidential election. Months later, apologies continue to abound in her new book about the campaign, What Happened.

Nevertheless, many appear deaf to her words of acknowledgement: From political analysts to president Trump himself, the rumor has taken hold that Hillary Clinton blames everyone but herself.

With her book launch, that false narrative has taken center stage, propelled by critics who seem outraged that Clinton thinks her electoral college defeat can be explained by factors in addition to herself. Clinton “seeks to exonerate herself,” her book is a “long list of who Hillary Clinton blames,” and she is wasting an opportunity to go away and, therefore, be missed, they claim.

Perhaps they have not read the book. Hillary Clinton blames herself at least 35 times in What Happened. She apologizes for her mistakes, she apologizes for not apologizing, she even reports past apologies for mistakes she’d made before becoming the Democratic party candidate.

To clear up any doubt, we’ve listed each of those apologies below—perhaps reading them in sequence will quench the thirst for female contrition.

• When they said they had no further questions and thanked me, I apologized to them all, saying that I was sorry they’d had to spend so much time on this matter.
• I said how sorry I was and that I understood why people were angry. <saying it and understanding it being different>
• I then called President Obama. “I’m sorry for letting you down,” I told him. <imagine groveling to him>
• I regret handing Trump a political gift with my “deplorables” comments. […] I am sorry about that.
• I’ve made mistakes, been defensive about them, stubbornly resisted apologizing.
• I made a mistake with my emails. I apologized, I explained, I explained, and apologized some more. <still HUGE mistake, explaining is irrelevant>
• I felt absolutely sick about the whole thing. I clarified and apologized and pointed to my detailed plan to invest in coal communities. But the damage was done. <they had seen through you>
• A few weeks after my “gaffe” I went to Appalachia to apologize directly to people I had offended. <they were no longer interested>
• I blamed myself. My worst fears about my limitations as a candidate had come true. […] I had been unable to connect with the deep anger so many Americans felt.
• It’s fair to say there was a fundamental mismatch between how I approach politics and what a lot of the country wanted to hear in 2016.
• It seems as if many Trump voters were actually voting against memore than they were voting for him.
• I go back over my shortcomings and the mistakes we made. I take responsibility for all of them. You can blame the data, blame the message, blame anything you want—but I was the candidate. It was my campaign. Those were my decisions.
• “Could the campaign have been better?” Christiane Amanpour asked me. “Where was your message? Do you take any personal responsibility?” “I take absolute personal responsibility,” I replied.
• I was the candidate, I was the person on the ballot.
• Many in the political media don’t want to hear about how these things tipped the election in the final days. They say their beef is that I am not taking responsibility for my mistakes—but I have, and I do again throughout this book.
• None of the factors I discussed here lessen the responsibility I feel or the aching sense that I let everyone down.
• I have tried to learn from my own mistakes. There are plenty, as you’ll see in this book, and they are mine and mine alone.
• Every day that I was candidate for President, I knew that millions of people were counting on me, and I couldn’t bear the idea of letting them down. But I did. I couldn’t get the job done, and I’ll have to live with that for the rest of my life.
• At every step, I felt that I had let everyone down.
• I felt like I had been fighting for her and millions like her my entire career. And I had let them down.
• I run through the tape over and over, identifying every mistake—especially those made by me.
• That was a mistake […<taking Wall St. $$$?>] I shouldn’t have assumed it would be OK for me to do it. Especially after the financial crisis of 2008-2009 I should have realized it would be bad “optics” and stayed away from it. I didn’t. That’s on me. <I'm just THAT greedy>
• This is one of the mistakes I made you’ll read about in this book. I have tried to give an honest accounting of when I got it wrong, where I fell short, and what I wish I could go back and do differently. […] My mistakes burn me up inside.
• It was a mistake to have a personal account. I would certainly not do it again. I make no excuse for it. <yep. that. A bit late but Yep America told you>
• Another example where I remained polite, albeit exasperated, and played the political game as it used to be, not as it had become. That was a mistake.
• During the campaign, I tried endlessly to explain that I’d acted in good faith. I tried to apologize […] No matter what, I never found the right words. So let me try again: It was a dumb mistake.
• Given my inability to explain this mess, I decided to let other voices tell the story this time.
• I listened carefully, determined that if I did jump in the race, I would have to avoid the mistakes that had dogged me the last time.
• In the end, we decided it would be better to just let it go and try to move on. Looking back, that was a mistake.
• Sometimes it just comes out wrong. It wasn’t the first time that happened during the 2016 election, and it wouldn’t be the last. But it is the one I regret the most.
• Or maybe I was the wrong messenger. <duh.. do you think?>
• “Well, Dad, what if I lose an election I should have won and let an unqualified bully become President of the United States?”
• I should have seen that coming.
• He told me he had followed his doctor’s orders and stayed home for a week. Looking back, I should have done the same.
• Now I wish I had pushed back hard. <as he thrust.. she never said>
• Right there and then, I should have known there would never be some magical words to prove how silly it was and make it go away.
• Slowly working through why I lost, what could I have done better.
• I wish more than anything that I could have done a better jobspeaking to their fears and frustration. […] I wish I could have found the words or emotional connection.

https://qz.com/1077873/hillary-clinton-book-how-many-times-clinton-apologized-in-what-happened/

Some of these are just gems and I'm sure she's learned a lot. Maybe. More likely Not.

Either way the article's defensive pro HRC slant is bullshit, voters were "punishing Hillary for 'female contrition' ? Come on now kiss my ass. "Female Contrition" like 'that' were such a thing.

I've voted for females.. just not EVER going to be 'that' bkitch

 

Imo, a vast majority of those passages, only can come from a monumental ego, and a person who feels he/she is destined to be the ruler/ monarch.
Even the apology is mad power driven...
"I'm sorry I didn't get to be your messiah".
Coulda' been a contenda', Hill...but just wound up a multi millionairess (probably a billionairess), and an author, instead.
No shot outdoors in a ballpark.
And definitely no class.
Poor Hill.

 

LOL

yeah she completely buhleved it was ordained.. <sputtering cries> but but but I paid for it.. I served my time <fundraising> whhhyyyyyyyyyyy don't they liiiiiiiiiike me??? bwaaaah haahhhh hhaaa SNORT sniffle sniffle..



Go away already

 

No amount of weak apologies matter when you entirely buhlieve that you've done nothing wrong

 

I don't think even Bill would eat that and he hits everything.

 

tender snowflakes abound

 

U.S. students in France acid attack show compassion for assailant

American college students attacked with acid at a train station in France have offered compassion and prayers for their assailant, who authorities say suffers from a mental illness.

French authorities have said they don't believe extremist views motivated the 41-year-old woman arrested in the attack on the four Boston College students, who are studying abroad.

One of the students, Courtney Siverling, said in a post on Facebook that she was not injured and that all the women are "safe."

"I pray that the attacker would be healed from her mental illness in the name of Jesus and receive the forgiveness and salvation that can only come from Him," said Siverling, of Chester Springs, Pennsylvania.

The four women intend to remain in Europe to continue their studies, the spokesman for Boston College told The Associated Press.

The four were attacked Sunday morning at the Saint Charles train station in the southern French city of Marseille. Police in France described the suspect as "disturbed" and said the attack was not thought to be terror-related, according to a statement from Boston College, a private Jesuit school.
College spokesman Jack Dunn said the women were released from the hospital and expected to return to Paris on Monday.

Michelle Krug said she was one of two who got hit in the eye with "a weak solution of hydrochloric acid." She asked friends to "please consider thinking about/praying for our attacker" so she can receive help
"Mental illness is not a choice and should not be villainized," Krug, of White Plains, New York, wrote, adding she planned to continue her "incredible opportunity" to study in France.

Kelsey Kosten said on Facebook that all the women are doing much better and that she is looking forward to returning to Copenhagen to continue her studies abroad. Her father, Phillip Kosten, told The Boston Globe at his Winchester, Massachusetts, home that his daughter is "fine" and asked for privacy for his family.
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Yeah umm no mention of "religion of peace" and numerous claims that 'terrorism was not involved'. ?!? Where is that data please? Just the data. Name and country of birth please.

Yeah umm bullshit, so the genetically bred testicle free Frenchies 'don't believe extremist view motivated..." the attack ?!? WTF who in their fool fkucking mind throws acid in young girls faces WITHOUT being an extremist?? Apologetic MSM is dialing up denial big time.

Yeah umm and about that bullshit, how is it that 4 young Boston College co-eds get acid to the face and then they have been genetically bred to 'feel bad' for the attacker HAS ZERO TO DO WITH THE GUILT of the 'non extremist' attacker. Pray for her in prison for life. Right Pray. Do that. Get back to us how well that helped assuage your white middle class guilt?

WTF is with 'peaceful' people these days?

 

Youre sooooo full of shit Rube

Hydrocloric acid is no bueno even if diluted
and one girl is reported with eye damage requiring further care AFTER the hospital care

Crazy bag lady or not the media is clearly hiding certain facts

Same as you're delighted to brush over them
Acid in a girls face = Acid in a girls face bucko.. not lime juice

Don't even try to spin that

 

this is the reality of what our kids learn in college these days
i guess they can file the acid under "micro aggression"
whats a little acid in the face between friends after all?
btw you are a racist

 

I heard on the radio that someone used their Emmys speech to thank Hillary for her grace. LOL

 

I took a Chicano studies course once. I lasted one day. And I was actually interested going into it. But I was just handed a text book about why/how white people are oppressing Hispanics and I decided it wasn't for me.