Clinton thread
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"Here is what I have learned about the Clintons through this race (and now in retrospect, about them in the past):
They plan from one immediate need to the next, and no farther. They lurch from petty political goal to the next political goal. Sometimes those goals don't last a week.
I used to think that she was squandering the black vote because, in her arrogance, she figured they'd just fall in line like any good machine candidate would think. But I've nuanced that opinion: she didn't think that far ahead. She'd figure she'd worry about it later. She'd pander to blacks later. she'd make promises later. She'd forget what offenses she had caused, and swat those pesky offenses away like flies.
The Clintons are psychologically incapable of strategizing, assessing consequences, weighing choices that might offend or set off anyone who isn't in their immediate sights.
Do we want a Commander-in-Chief who thinks like that? Oh, wait -- we have one now........
The Republican meme -- the Clintons will do anything to win. Man, I defended the Clintons against such a horrendous attack for 16 God damn years. If you people would just stop picking on them, they'd do great things.
Well, in light of this campaign, I get it now. Anything. Offend, demean, insult anyone -- even an obviously good man who is your Democratic rival and all of his supporters. I'm a traitor, by the way: I'm white, 58 years old and a feminist, so I must be a traitor because I don't blindly follow the candidate who is using the most egregious affirmative action there is: the Clinton name.
It's lizard-brain-ish: just attack what's in front of you and get that threat out of the way, by any means necessary.
I've lived through 8 nightmarish years of Bush. I won't accept that from a Democrat. And I certainly won't accept it from a Clinton. "