Posted on 10/16/2017 1:01:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Hillary Clinton I met in New York for our recent interview with Four Corners was an angrier, less guarded version of the person we have come to know over her decades in public life.
I have been following Hillary Clinton's career since the mid-1990s as a journalist in Washington reporting on the first term of Bill Clinton's presidency.
The Hillary Clinton I knew then would not have said publicly she had been "shivved" by the former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey.
She referred to Comey's handling of the investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state, in particular the letter written by Comey days before the election re opening the investigation: "He did shiv me, yeah … we also know that opponents of mine, like former mayor Rudy Giuliani, knew something was coming.
"So there was clearly an effort to derail my campaign at the end."
In response to Comey's remark before Congress that thinking he may have influenced the election made him "mildly nauseous", she said: "It makes me sick."
'An emotional gut punch'
The unexpected loss to Donald Trump seems to have reconfigured her interaction with the world as she grapples with her role in the loss and the role of others.
She describes the Russian hacking of her campaign's emails during the tight race as "more significant than Watergate".
But it is in the personal arena where she sounds the most raw, recounting the difficulty of turning up for Trump's inauguration: "It was very much an emotional gut punch to be there."
In the vision of Hillary Clinton waiting to walk onto the balcony of the Capitol to watch Trump swear the oath of office, the pain is visible.
Her jaw is clenched and she blinks trying to summon the composure that has characterised her public appearances for decades — in the White House as first lady, during her failed bid to reform the US healthcare system, through the many public travails associated with her husband's serial disgraces and as senator and then secretary of state.
I asked her why she had not responded more viscerally to Trump in the second presidential debate, where he clearly moved into her personal space.
She said she wanted to call him out but decided to say nothing.
"We practised him stalking me, which we thought he would do, and indeed he did," she said.
"You know, it's not easy for women to be passionate, even angry, in public; you know that.
"We train ourselves to be as, you know, as calm and together as we can and when any woman expresses her feelings and her emotions as you know your former prime minister Julia Gillard memorably did, you know, it produces mixed reactions by people."
Still a hard path for women
As a young reporter in Washington the mid-1990s, the first person I had lunch with was political powerbroker and close Clinton friend, Betsey Wright.
Wright told me over lunch in the Willard Hotel (somewhat puzzled, I felt, that she had agreed to lunch with such a minnow) that politics was cruel to figures like Hillary Clinton.
She developed the sentiment in a Four Corners program that year, investigating the Clintons' real estate dealings in Arkansas, "when an independent and very smart woman becomes effective, there is a need to turn her into a sorceress casting spells so that eventually she can be burnt at the stake".
According to Hillary Clinton, the progress for female professionals in the 20 years since then has been limited.
"We still have endemic sexism and misogyny and anybody who tries to claim otherwise is either blind or disingenuous … we've knocked down discriminatory laws and obstacles that stood in the way of when I was a young woman. But the attitudes are still there," she said.
'Imagine what it feels like'
In loss, Hillary Clinton is more candid than we are accustomed to in politicians.
That doesn't mean a wholesale acceptance of the errors she made, campaigning decisions in the swing states, or her failings as a candidate, but how many politicians at that level have written a sentence like this?
"I have come to terms with the fact that a lot of people — millions and millions of people — decided they just didn't like me. Imagine what that feels like. It hurts. And it's a hard thing to accept. But there's no getting around it," she said.
Listening to her speak now, it's as if the loss, however searing, has freed her to reconnect more directly with the younger version of herself, singled out by Life magazine on graduation from Wellesley College in 1969 as an icon of her generation.
The young graduate criticised the politicians of the era for the limited scope of their ambition and charged her peers to bring about change on a much grander scale.
She has ruled out a return to politics; almost a year on, it is unclear yet how the loss to Trump will galvanise her.
"I think about it every day, because it was, it was a horrible loss," she said.
"And if I had lost to a normal Republican, I would've been disappointed, but I would not have been so deeply worried as I am now."
Thank goodness Trump won.
Can you imagine if she was in the White House today instead of Trump...think about that for a moment.
Went to the source article. Saw the photo of the “journalist” with identical hairstyle as Hillary. End o Story.
Getting her fat ass kicked made her take off her phony mask and show us who she really is.
She didn’t know what she was headed for
And when I found what she was headed for
It was too late
She’s come undun
She found a mountain that was far too high
And when she found out she couldn’t fly
It was too late
Too many mountains, and not enough stairs to climb
Too many churches and not enough truth
Too many people and not enough eyes to see
Too many lives to lead and not enough time
It’s too late
She’s gone
Sure looks like it.
It is the overwhelming consensus here at FR that Kankles is having some kind of manic episode that has become a delusional psychic break from reality.
A lot of Rats are seeing the same thing, they’re just dancing around what to call Kankles’ deranged behavior.
She finally figured it out that the majority of voters just don’t like you? Good. Finally. But she’ll never figure out why. And it isn’t because of her gender.
Do you have ANY idea how long you must have been living in your OWN twisted reality, if you get your wake-up call SO late in life?
She got the cold shower she so richly deserved for SOOOOOOO long! :)
Are liberals sick of her yet?
Whine, whine, whimper, snivel, whine.
She just got unleashed.
Maybe she should thank Trump.
There are few that feel more entitled on the planet.
I have no idea who quote Ferguson to Hillary but the leftist chain of links among journalists is widespread and deep.
Hillary was a publicity whore even in college so it might have been a graduation speech she made at Wellesley (Moscow Un. West for Women) that got her national attention.
The same for Bill (I recall he was a Fulbright Scholar in England) for his protests of VN in London and his trip to Moscow (who paid for it is up for grabs and who his roommates were, as sons of foreign diplomats/officials, is hazy to say the least).
Barack had a publicity machine that beat-out that of Roman Polanski by miles, not yards. He had the Harvard Marxists behind him, the girls in love with Mr. Cool, law professors who knew they could corrupt him like so many others before him, a Harvard newspaper that was worth less than toilet-paper, and the whole administration falling all over him.
Barack’s whole life seemed very much to be guided by the Left, possibly from Kansas to Seattle to Hawaii, New York City and then Chicago. Too many coincidences of hardcore Communists/Soviet operatives (Harry Bridges/Paul Robeson re Frank Marshall Davis, David Simon Canter/Don Rose/Quentin Young/Milton Cohen/Alice Palmer and husband and the Ayers, among others)in his life to be accidental.
And a compliant, asskissing media liberal media to cover up for his past associations and lies. His legacy of very few accomplishments and more acts of treachery/treason are very well buried by the MSM.
IF it weren’t for the conservative media and a few brave investigative researchers - Trevor Loudon (www.keywiki.org etc,; Cliff Kincaid (AIM/USAsurvival.org) and the late internal security master Herb Romerstein, nobody would have known early on (2008) about Obama’s extensive communist connections.
The American media will be indicted by history, if we survive as a free nation, for their complicity in treason (from the nice guy Castro of the NY Times to the Uncle Ho Chi Minh and his Merry non-Marxist Viet Cong/NLF myths to the Shah of Iran was Hitler and Khomeini was a true patriot, to Mao was the savior of China (instead of being its top executioner), etc.
However, helping Obama the Red get elected as president of the US is their crowning achievement in their betrayal of America.
It is time that they pay for their treachery.
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