"Yes, I see, I see. Just one question, though. Why was the electorate so angry about the economy and health care and so much else after two successful Obama terms?"
Posted on 09/16/2017 3:54:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Democratic party leader admitted her developmental agenda was 'out of sync' with the electorate
Nearly 10 months after her shocking defeat at the hands of President Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has said that she was not ready or equipped to run for the White House against a reality television star.
The former Democratic presidential candidate said she had an agenda of development, but possibly there were no takers.
"I take running for president and being president really seriously. I really wasn't ready or equipped to run for president against a reality TV candidate," Clinton told PBS News Hour in an interview.
It may be the toughest job in the world, the 69-year-old former US Secretary of State, said.
"I knew that there was unfinished business from the successful two terms of President Obama, whom I had served, but that we needed to go further on the economy, on health care, and so much else," she said.
"I really prepared and how I would defend what I wanted to do. It turned out that was very hard to communicate. It was a time when an empty podium got more broadcast minutes than all of the policies that I was putting forth," she said.
Clinton said it was clear that the kind of campaign she was running, and the seriousness with which she looked at the agenda, she wanted to represent and then execute "was just out of sync with the anger that a lot of the electorate felt, or the disappointment that another part of the electorate felt."
In her latest book 'What happened', which will hit the bookstores this week, Clinton, the 67th US Secretary of State, appeared to be very critical of Trump.
"I believe that he has given a lot of encouragement and rhetorical support to the Ku Klux Klan. He accepted the support of David Duke. I believe that he has not condemned the neo-Nazis and the self-proclaimed white supremacists in Charlottesville and other settings," she said.
"The Congress had to, on a bipartisan basis, pass a resolution asking that white supremacy be condemned by this president, which he then signed. And we will wait and see what he does. So, I can't tell you what's in his heart. I don't know. It could be total rank, cynical opportunism. He's got a hard-core base that believes these things, and he's going to keep feeding it," Clinton said.
Responding to a question, Clinton called for a full-court diplomatic effort against North Korea.
"We should have a full-court press diplomatic effort. If Trump doesn't want to listen to the experts inside his own government, then go to people outside in think tanks and academia who know about this very complicated region, and particularly North Korea," she said.
"Make it clear that we will do everything in our power to protect our allies, South Korea and Japan, including installing more missile defence. Now, the Chinese don't like that, but then the Chinese better be more on board with us in trying to rein in Kim Jong-un, Clinton said.
"The Japanese are not for long going to leave their defence against this aggressor in North Korea to us, when they can't really rely on Trump's understanding of our promises," she said.
How many BS excuses can this thing come up with? Rhetorical.
"Yes, I see, I see. Just one question, though. Why was the electorate so angry about the economy and health care and so much else after two successful Obama terms?"
You got to feel sorry for the poor old gal. In less than a years time she has gone from near anointment to the presidency to Walmart greeter.
Is she going to continue doing ‘interviews’ with all the questions lined up in advance, and attempt to sort of ‘rule’ from the sidelines?
That’s a strange remark. All the way through the campaign Trump was disdained and declared a loser BECAUSE he was a mere reality TV crumb. Now she claims it’s reason why she LOST to him? Make up her alleged mind.
It isn’t pretty when an embittered and possibly alcoholic woman shares her feelings about the man who beat her for President.
ENOUGH OF HILLARY! I don’t want to hear about her any more.
She's fallen from power and she can't shut up...
Good grief hillary...you are a 2 time loser and had no business to be queen of the world as prez. This statement alone makes you not worthy of being in that position.
Put some ice on it hillary, you lost for the 2nd time running for prez.
“She’s fallen from power and she can’t shut up...”
That was a belly laugh.
Lives in her own head; a giant in her own mind. Blames everyone and everything but the common denominator in it all -— herself.
With any luck, through the 2018 elections. We can watch the incredible shrinking Democrat Party that way.
This is precisely what ‘created’ Hillary, and almost ruined our nation. For those who aren't markedly creative, lack entrepreneurial skills, don't invent things, aren't accomplished craftsmen/women, aren't great musicians or writers, aren't good at science or engineering, don't have the grit to work hard building things, and who aren't going to make it as an entertainer or athlete, there is ‘academics’, ‘activism’, and politics. Generally not the ‘cream of the crop’, but often with huge egos, these are the people who never matured enough psychologically or spiritually to understand that the world doesn't revolve around them - and shouldn't.
That she got into Wellesley was the entire key to the rest of her life - and it was probably the beginning of the end of any chance of a normal fulfilling life for her, because it ‘fed’ her narcissistic ego - an ego that sees her now unable to cope with losing an election and accepting that she just isn't a very good politician.
She is in her own self-induced Hell. TFB.
blah blah blah, shut up, twit!
the dog ate my election strategy
So the unreal wench doesn’t want to appear with the real man.
Sun Tzu is pretty deep stuff for a Dim.
Hillary isn’t nearly smart enough to understand most of it.
Maybe Bill will take up a little B&D? The mental image of hillary with a ball-gag in her mouth is hillarious.
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