Posted on 10/08/2017 5:47:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The former Secretary of State and Democratic hopeful discussed how difficult it was for her to come to terms with losing to political wildcard Trump and said it was not what she expected.
“I thought I’d be a damn good president, I did not think I was going to lose,” she said in an interview with The Sunday Times Magazine.
Mrs Clinton describe her loss as “deeply troubling” and said is left her feeling a “sense of real loss for our country, that we elected someone who knows so little, cares even less and is just seeking the applause of the masses”.
“I feel a terrible sense of responsibility for not having figured out how to defeat this person,” she said. “There must have been a way and I didn't find it."
But she also said that, despite shortcomings in her campaign, they were “not the full story” as to why she ultimately lost.
She told interviewer Christina Lamb that Trump ran a campaign rife with “sexism and misogyny” and he himself “advocated violence [and] said all kinds of terrible things”.
"Trump was running a reality-TV campaign filled with personal attacks, giving people a great show,” she said.
"It was a combination of playing on the fears of people who are worried about losing out in the future by fuelling sexism, racism and anti-immigrant feelings.”
And she said the UK Brexit vote should have rung alarm bells for her as the same people were backing Trump’s campaign – namely former Ukip leader Nigel Farage.
“They thought, 'Hey, we've got this figured out, just tell a really horrible lie over and over again, keep people off balance and make them think that this will, if not make their lives better, make them feel better',” she said.
“They voted against modern Britain and the EU, believing that somehow this would be good for their small village. The same thing played out in my race, but I didn't think we were so vulnerable. But it turned out we were wrong.
“[Farage] came to the US to campaign for Trump and spent half of his remarks insulting me in a very personal way and talking about Trump as the alpha male, the silver-backed gorilla. Think of those images and what that says about what's acceptable and what's not."
Mrs Clinton said she also feels the Trump administration is now seeking to undermine much of her work as secretary of state under the Obama administration – specifically in building international relations.
“It’s not about me,” she said. “It’s about the message that sends to the world and what his priorities are, what he values and what he doesn’t.”
The former First Lady, who published her account on the election in a book titled ‘What Happened’, said she turned to writing as a method of understanding her experience.
She said the writing process helped, as well as having more time to spend with her grandchildren, but that she was still living the experience “every day”.
A friend gave me a little sign that says ‘I do yoga, I meditate and I still want to kick somebody’,” she said.
“I know that feeling.”
Go bake some cookies for your grandchildren and leave us the f alone.
Poor baby....
Always the victim.
But not like Vince Foster and others who have incurred the same fate.
“I find that she exists and is not in prison for her many crimes “deeply troubling”. What an uncivil malignancy.”
I agree with you. However, the consolation prize is that she is, daily, convincing more people that she and the Democrats are evil. I notice more articles from the Left saying, essentially, “Go away, already!” As the title of one article suggested, “Hillary, the GOP gift that keeps on giving.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3587008/posts
Hillary is complaining that Trump “ran a campaign of sexism and misogyny”?? where is her criticism of her leading contributor, the pig Harvey Weinstein who held a fundraiser for her that she attended? Read about the trashy porker Weinstein in today’s New York Post; an article by a young waitress who worked in the restaurant in his office building tells of how this disgusting human being brought young woman after young woman to his table and then “upstairs”. Yet, Madame Clinton is silent about this, just as she was over Kathleen Willey and other women groped and harassed by her husband. I am so glad you lost, Hypocrite Hillary, now you can soak up the sore loser’s bitterness every hour of the day.
"Hillary said the Trump administration is seeking to undermine much of her work as Secretary of State. " (in collusion w/ the Obama admin)
Thank you for that Pres Trump......and find out the whereabouts of the 6 billion tax dollars that went missing when the Obama/Clinton reign thankfully ended.
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I found it reprehensible that Hillary routinely sent her SoS itinerary to the Clinton Foundation. This gave conniving Billybooboo the opportunity to plot ways to bilk global treasuries and to profit from insider deals.
Disclosing her itinerary is an actual crime. The SoS's itinerary is classified into....... for safety reasons.
I don’t think duct tape, socks, wire, or a fist will shut this old shrew up.
Has anyone tried boiling water yet? It worked in The Wizard of Oz. LOL
Keeping her out of the White House may be the greatest political accomplishment of all time.
I’m hoping she and Bernie run again, against each other of course.
Maybe she should’ve gone on The View more, or Ellen’s show.
I believe this woman is incapable of remorse for anything except what affects her personally
Benghazi? Pffft. Stand by a coffin and lie to the dead mans mother
It doesn’t get any colder
If I had to name a soulless person she’d be it
She is tormented by this loss and it provides a glimpse into her psyche that is very disturbing. She is obsessed with her epic loss to Trump and cannot gracefully accept the reality and significance of her defeat. The whining and blaming will go on for the rest of her life.
She claimed she was “dead broke” in 2001 and was worth over $31 million in 2012 after ten years of “public service”. She took and laundered bribes through a phony foundation. Trump made a critical strategic, political and historic error when he failed to prosecute her crimes. True justice has been denied and over the long term makes people even more cynical about their government.
There is a psychological condition known as projection ... where you call out the sins and shortcomings of others that you know deep down you, yourself are guilty of.
So according to Her Highness, Trump was guilty of:
Personal attacks ...................... projection!
Lying ................................. projection!
Misogny .............................. projection!
Someone who knows so little ........ projection!
Cares even less ......................... projection!
Seeks the applause of the masses ... projection!
What she and obama did in the middle east or even just Syria alone - “ Arab spring”
And hundreds of thousands of deaths
The birth of virulent islamism aka ISIS
Should be enough to send them to HELL
She is a thoroughly hopeless ass.
we can be sure they’ll end up there. I’d like to see them pay for their actions before that judgment.
Me too.
She should have been done after Waco. Those 16 innocent children were burned to death because of here GROSS Negligence. She authorized the final solution and Reno got the blame. Had a Republican been responsible the press would still be pointing it out.
How come they never ask her about her health issues during the campaign? Her never ending pneumonia?
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