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.
The UniParty thought she would win.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434259/trumps-prospects
Very good!
Another ultra-lame excuse.
“Plans are nothing. Planning is everything." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If she couldn't be agile enough to adapt to the changing landscape (and with MONTHS of advance knowledge), she should not be anywhere near the White House. Trump, being a CEO, knows how to rapidly adapt to the swiftly changing fronts in the business wars. Se was plodding, could not anticipate, literally stayed in one place. Trump was agile, mobile, and adapted.
Every utterance from this harridan should deepen her grave.
Mrs. Clinton is the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is Mrs. Clinton.
This one sentence defines exactly why people voted against her. As president, you have to be ready for absolutely anything that comes your way. Running against a non-politician flummoxed her? THAT’S why are aren’t, and never will be, capable of being president.
And it was OBVIOUS.
I’m a midwesterner. Born in Clevelamd and lived the past 21 years in Chicago. The coasts may buy into that star power bullish!t but people from flyover country are too real and grounded in reality. And Cankles is about as fake as it gets.
That’s why this drunken, infirm, money-intoxicated social climber lost.
Priceless!
This short quote from townhall.com sums it up for me:
All those Arkancides, zero results. So sad.
I recall her campaign wanted Trump to run against.
Yeah....the statement “I wasn’t ready” should never be described as a “quip.”
Yes, rather asymmetric, huh?
Trump was ready to run against a criminal, no-account, lying sack of sheet.
But she wasn’t ready to run against a well-known energetic businessman whose message resonated with the electorate.
So just WHEN did she plan to acknowledge her foe and get ready to run against him? Would it take her a year? 2 years? The real world doesn’t give you that much time to get ready. You have to make decisions NOW.
She is the most pathetic excuse for a woman and a human being I’ve ever run across.
I do believe Hillary’s alcoholism has destroyed what little sanity she had. At this point in her life she if probably consuming quarts of Old Crow or Ten High
Boy those are harsh brands. I’m loving my Bulleit Bourbon that I discovered several years ago.
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