Posted on 10/23/2017 11:24:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When Caroline Zuttel heard Hillary Clinton was going to be vacationing in the Eastern Townships, she felt this was her opportunity to thank her.
The Nun's Island marketing consultant wrote a heartfelt letter, jumped in her car and made the hour-and-a-half drive to North Hatley, where the Clintons were staying.
"She went through so much s**t for all of us as women that, yeah, I was like I want to thank her for everything she went through," Zuttel told CBC, noting she hand delivered her message to the Clintons' security staff.
When Clinton released her book, Zuttel had rushed to pick up a copy before heading on vacation to Jamaica, where she spent much of her time poring over its pages.
'Forever the one who took the first step'
So, you can imagine what Zuttel did when she found out Clinton would be speaking about it in Montreal Monday.
"For me, the minute I heard she was coming to Montreal, I was like, yeah, of course I'm coming."
Despite being a native Montrealer with little ties to the U.S., Zuttel kept her eyes peeled on the country's 2016 federal election. It wasn't just about choosing a new leader to her, but about women's rights.
In her letter, Zuttel said she wrote "that the glass ceiling didn't break this time, but the day it will break, she will forever be the one who took the first step."
'I want to be secretary of state when I grow up'
Claire Rawson Dannenbaum, too, feels Clinton's loss was still a step forward for women.
"I want to be secretary of state when I grow up and she has broken so many glass ceilings … that I won't have to break," said Dannenbaum, who at 18 is a political science honours student in her second year at McGill.
Dannenbaum says she was raised in Los Angeles by two moms "in an interracial, Jewish family" and is a Democrat "through and through."
Monday, she'd like to hear from Hillary about "what she hopes her actions mean for the next generation" and what led her to want to take that campaign on.
On election night, Dannenbaum gathered with fellow Democrats Abroad members in a viewing party at McGill organized under the assumption Clinton would be breaking the proverbial glass ceiling — as well as the literal one her campaign installed.
It soon became clear that wouldn't happen yet, but Dannenbaum says she and her peers immediately began mobilizing.
"What can we start doing now to bring some sanity into our government?" she says they asked themselves. "We've really been doing everything we can to ease the pain."
What to expect at the talk, according to student who worked on campaign
Alex Goldman, a 22-year-old history major at McGill, dropped everything to join the Hillary campaign two years ago and he's still reflecting on it, and the heartbreak that came with Clinton's loss.
Goldman will be at the talk Monday evening with a group of friends and fellow Clinton supporters from McGill.
"It was the single hardest work I've ever done and the single most fulfilled I've ever felt," Goldman said of working on the campaign.
"It felt like we were building the world we wanted to live in — a world of inclusivity and diversity," he said. "What was so traumatic about the campaign was that on Nov. 8 [2016], that world that we were preparing to live in … disappeared."
But Clinton's careful steps back into the public eye, to Goldman, "it feels like a glimmer of that world again."
He says those lucky enough to have gotten tickets to Clinton's talk can expect a relatively intimate setting, with Clinton "sitting on the stage, talking to the audience about her thoughts on the election."
He says "the biggest tragedy" of her loss is that the world won't have known Clinton the way he and his colleagues did because of how she was portrayed in the media and by her opponents, and critics.
"I feel like for most of the campaign, the American public didn't really pay attention to the content of her ideas," he says.
First step and then down the stairs.
It was the second step that threw her.
You poor fool. Hillary has been cackling all the way to the bank on that sort of naive sympathy for decades.
I can easily understand women wanting to see the glass ceiling broken with a woman President but what I can’t possibly understand is why they would want such a foul vile criminal and evil creature from the deepest part of the swamp to be that first woman. I just don’t get how anyone could possibly vote for her with her record.
It tells me more about the people willing to vote for her despite her evilness than it does about miss vile herself.
I know women who only get news from local nightly news (occasionally), and Good Morning America—so they did not know the majority of the scandals...but they did get a daily dose of anti-Trump propaganda :(
Hillary broke her toe falling backwards while "running" downstairs.
Well, that's what the news said, and they would never lie, you misogynist bigot.
“She went through so much s**t for all of us as women that, yeah, I was like I want to thank her for everything she went through,” Zuttel told CBC, noting she hand delivered her message to the Clintons’ security staff.
Gee. This Zuttel woman must never have heard of Sarah Palin.
You have to try to imagine how the world looks from a state controlled viewpoint.
Many (if not most) liberals are good people who've allowed themselves to be slowly indoctrinated and led by the nose by the Deep Left, who are embedded throughout every institution and layer of gubmint bureaucracy in the land.
They're conditioned to accept the views of the liberal media, which is where most of them reach for information about their world.
Garbage in - Garbage out.
Brain-Freeze Canadian women. Been out in the snow too long, or graduated from McGill (Moscow North) University.
I am getting tired of the narrative that any liberal female politician deserves to be put on a pedestal. My wife went to college in San Francisco in the early 70s, and she met many women at the time from that area and from Marin County. Says that Hillary is the prototype female from that era. Annoying, arrogant, holier-than-thou, and not attractive (the latter doesn’t include their physical beauty).
I think she really meant "so many glass ashtrays"! 😀
No doubt. A "true believer".
Most likely irreparable. d:^)
Victoria Woodhull is visiting Montreal? Very interesting.
What I find remarkable about Hillary is how she and Bill managed to burn through 145 Million of Russian bribery money in such a short time.
Took the first step...then went Ker-PLOP!
Please, don’t insult the memory of Victoria Woodhull. She was far more accomplished than Hillabeast and in an era that was far more male dominated. Didn’t do anything illegal, as far as I know.
There's your formative molding right there...rest of the article is now rendered meaningless....
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