Posted on 09/10/2016 5:16:55 PM PDT by simpson96
New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton expressed "regret" Saturday for comments in which she said "half" of Donald Trump's supporters are "deplorables," meaning people who are racist, sexist, homophobic or xenophobic.
"Last night I was 'grossly generalistic,' and that's never a good idea. I regret saying 'half' -- that was wrong," Clinton said in a statement in which she also vowed to call out "bigotry" in Trump's campaign.
The Democratic presidential nominee sparked an uproar late Friday when she described Trump's supporters at a fundraiser. "To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," Clinton said. "Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it."
She added, "And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric."
Clinton then said some of these people were "irredeemable" and "not America."
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I waded into the feverswamp on this one (went to Dummieunderground). Synthesizing the first 40 comments I read:
There’s the theory that everything is calculated by her campaign and her comment was intended to (choose one or more) a) push the topic of her email server scandal off front page b) a “set up” to show that she can apologize (i.e., the poster implies Trump can’t apologize and that Hillary intentionally faulted and then apologized graciously) or c) pull media limelight off Trump and put it on her.
Personally I think she did it to energize her base; her base likes winning and right now they feel like they are being shamed with her poor performance so she fed them raw meat.
Naturally there are the Dummicrats who put the actual number of deplorables at anywhere from 40 percent on up to 100%
A poster there said they wanted to embrace the meme “deplorables” and dutifully created a hashtag to start the process.
One tender snowflake visited our thread and said they could only “stand a few posts” and that we were “having a field day with it. So calling repubs bigots, racists, phobes etc. seems fair to them but holding Hillary accountable for insulting 25% of voters is “no fairsies” as far as I can tell.
Regarding her apology some feel she issued a “smoothe non-apology”
Two seconds on the lips and regret for ever.
“I’m Deplorable . . . and so’s my wife.”
She is such a PIG. And that is being kind.
"...rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists. Muslims"
Words have meaning. She has to live with her hate and bigotry
90% of Hillary supporters are either working for the state or paid welfare by it. There’s that 10% stupidity factor to consider, also
Oh, screw you and the horse you rode in on, you fat bitch.
I wonder if she thinks I’m deplorable.
Not very presidential now, is that.
she only regrets that she wanted to say all Trump supporters were deplorable.
She’s actually become quite rich living by her own words.
Do tell which thread!
:-D
She’s already spewed her vile.
Hildabeast and Bubba Clinton playing race card or anything because the LIARS will say anything keep power at the expense of others.
She’s sickening.
You know, she keeps this up and her handlers just might decide she’s ‘worn out her welcome’ so to speak....
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