Posted on 09/05/2017 11:08:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin
According to excerpts that have surfaced online, Clinton accused Sanders of resorting to “innuendo and impugning my character” during the contentious primary because the Democratic socialist “couldn’t make” a policy argument against her.
“Nonetheless, his attacks caused lasting damage, making it harder to unify progressives in the general election and paving the way for Trump’s ‘Crooked Hillary’ campaign,” Clinton wrote.
Clinton’s book -- "What Happened” – isn’t set for release until Sept. 12. But several supporters who obtained the book have published early purported excerpts on social media.
In the book, the former Democratic presidential nominee compared Sanders to the “deranged hitchhiker” in the 1998 Ben Stiller movie “There’s Something About Mary.”
“A deranged hitchhiker says he’s come up with a brilliant plan,” Clinton wrote, describing a scene in the movie. “Instead of the famous ‘eight-minute abs’ exercise routine, he’s going to market ‘seven minute abs.’ It’s the same, just quicker. Then the driver, played by Ben Stiller, says, ‘Well, why not six-minute abs?’”
Clinton added: “That’s what it was like in policy debates with Bernie. We would propose a bold infrastructure plan or an ambitious new apprenticeship program for young people, and then Bernie would announce basically the same thing, but bigger.
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Clinton lamented in the book how she was pressured – including by President Obama – not to “hit back against Bernie’s attacks.”
“My team kept reminding me that we didn’t want to alienate Bernie’s supporters,” Clinton wrote. “President Obama urged me to grit my teeth and lay off Bernie as much as I could. I felt I was in a straitjacket.”
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She also accused some of Sanders’ supporters – “the so-called Bernie Bros” – of harassing her supporters online and being “more than a little sexist.”
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
This is great, she’s not going to re-piss off all the Bernie supporters.
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I think you meant “now,” there, friend :-)
I believe this hints at a ghostwriter. Have we seen the Something About Mary comparison in any other work?
Who is Seth Rich?
The funny thing about the other part of this passage is that her critique of Bernie can be applied with far more force against her party and ideology in general:
In the book, the former Democratic presidential nominee compared Sanders to the “deranged hitchhiker” in the 1998 Ben Stiller movie “There’s Something About Mary.”
“A deranged hitchhiker says he’s come up with a brilliant plan,” Clinton wrote, describing a scene in the movie. “Instead of the famous ‘eight-minute abs’ exercise routine, he’s going to market ‘seven minute abs.’ It’s the same, just quicker. Then the driver, played by Ben Stiller, says, ‘Well, why not six-minute abs?’”
Clinton added: “That’s what it was like in policy debates with Bernie. We would propose a bold infrastructure plan or an ambitious new apprenticeship program for young people, and then Bernie would announce basically the same thing, but bigger. On issue after issue, it was like he kept proposing four-minute abs, or even no-minute abs. Magic abs!”
“It will be amusing to compile a list of all the people she blames for her loss in this book.”
Heh. That should be the next book title, “I Blame Them All”, or, “I Blames a Village”.
Like a bad traffic accident, you look but instantly wish you hadn’t.
What she’s done isn’t going away, and even many of those willing to vote for her admit she’s corrupt (and don’t care).
She is, was - and always will be - all the inspiration needed for ‘crooked hillary attacks’ — in other words, speaking the truth.
If the excerpt is accurate shes actually comparing Sanders to Stiller. Stiller comes out with the final one up when he suggests 6 minute abs. That leaves Hillary as the deranged hitchhiker.
"Hey! He's promising to give away more free stuff than me! Is that fair?"
Then reality intruded.
First, she'd find some hayseed hick Bubba with no morals and a silver tongue, and groom him to be President...
Come on Bernie. Time to go home.
From “Weekend at Hillary’s”
“:^)
I can’t wait to read the chapter where she finally admits/realizes that everything she’s “accomplished” in life, she owes to Bill.....
The demented old skank. Grasping for any excuse to assuage your loss. By now Hillary’s imagination will have to double down to come up with more lame excuses.
The demented old skank. Grasping for any excuse to assuage your loss. By now Hillary’s imagination will have to double down to come up with more lame excuses.
She has a reputation - it’s ‘bad’...
Your remark reminds me of a (sort of) joke I once heard. It’s set during Bill’s presidency. He and Hillary are visiting Illinois and manage to sneak away from the Secret Service and go for a ride in the country. They drive past a gas station and Hillary says “See that gas station attendant? He was my boyfriend before I met you”. Bill says “I wonder where you’d be now if you had married him?”. Hillary says “I’d be First Lady of the United States”.
Yeah. Okay. I'd bet a dollar you could ask her a question about that movie, and she'd not be able to answer it. This has to have been ghost-written.
“Is there somewhere a comprehensive listing of Hillary’s excuses? It’s getting hard to keep track of them.”
indeed. adding “It’s Bernie’s fault for daring to oppose me” to the list is a relatively new one.
The actual text actually attributes the analogy to her policy adviser.
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