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Hillary Clinton takes her ‘deplorables’ argument for another spin
Washington Post ^ | 3/12/2018 | Aaron Blake

Posted on 03/13/2018 4:59:25 AM PDT by simpson96

Hillary Clinton said after the 2016 election that her decision to label many Trump supporters “deplorables” was a “political gift” to President Trump.

Apparently, it's the gift that keeps on giving.

Clinton offered some rather unvarnished remarks in India this weekend that sound a lot like her “deplorables” commentary from September 2016. She played up the states that supported her as more economically advanced than the states that voted for Trump, calling them “dynamic” and “moving forward.” Then she again suggested Trump supporters were motivated by animosity toward women and people of color.

“If you look at the map of the United States, there's all that red in the middle where Trump won,” Clinton said. “I win the coast. I win, you know, Illinois and Minnesota — places like that.”

She went on: “But what the map doesn't show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America's gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward.”

Then she turned to Trump's voters: “And his whole campaign — 'Make America Great Again' — was looking backward. You know, you didn't like black people getting rights; you don't like women, you know, getting jobs; you don't want to, you know, see that Indian American succeeding more than you are — you know, whatever your problem is, I'm gonna solve it.”(snip)

Clinton also jabbed at white women voters, saying some caved to "ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.”

But even the way she describes Trump's supporters alleged racism and sexism is pretty remarkable. It's one thing to suggest they were perhaps prejudiced, but Clinton says they didn't even want black people to have civil rights or women to work outside the home.

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To: SERKIT
Hillary Wobble, by special request...


21 posted on 03/13/2018 6:37:38 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: simpson96

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned describes this wench so aptly. This is one bitter loser.


22 posted on 03/13/2018 7:26:27 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Flick Lives

Liberals seem very upset that dead blacks and gays are not littering the streets yet.


23 posted on 03/13/2018 7:35:16 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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Hillary Wobble, by special request...

She did the Wobble getting into her unmarked ambulance at the 9/11 memorial.

24 posted on 03/13/2018 10:01:06 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: simpson96

Looks like the secret service tried to push her down the steps : )


25 posted on 03/13/2018 1:08:42 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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