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Why is there one rule for Bill Clinton and another for Hillary?
The Guardian ^ | 28 September 2017 | Emma Brockes

Posted on 09/29/2017 3:40:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

As Hillary Clinton’s book tour chugs on around the US, two opinion pieces keep popping up. The first, which always appears under the headline “Hillary Clinton still doesn’t get it”, asks when this woman is going to shut up and why she is still blaming others for the election. The other, with equal frequency, demands: “Why do people keep telling Hillary Clinton to shut up?”, god forbid a woman should have an opinion.

Honestly, it’s exhausting, and at this point I have no idea which side to take, although it strikes me that the terms of the disagreement exactly mirror those that encumbered her candidacy. If Clinton hasn’t moved on, then neither has anyone else and that is the most depressing thing of all. As for her failure to “get it”, I imagine she doesn’t. There’s a good line in the New Yorker profile of Gloria Allred, which compares its subject, the most famous lawyer in the US and a divisive figure, with Clinton, who is her friend: “Each seems temperamentally incapable of absorbing the charge of self-interest, having woven self-interest together so tightly with an interest in the public good.”

What interests me about the attacks on Clinton is not how visceral they still are, but how they come from people who retain warm feelings for her husband. As far as I can tell, Hillary Clinton is no further to the right on any issue than Bill; in fact there’s an argument that her career-long focus on children’s rights and the family puts her somewhat to the left of him. And yet many of those who are happy to overlook Bill’s corporate speeches and the glad-handing with billionaires, hate his wife for just those reasons.

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To: SaveFerris
Okay, great.

" : ^ )

41 posted on 09/29/2017 4:49:46 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: Seruzawa
We want her to shut up because she is evil, corrupt, venal and vile.

That's exactly why I hope she never shuts her pie hole. She is inflicting permanent damage onto the Democrats.

42 posted on 09/29/2017 4:50:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: COBOL2Java

My eyes!
A Clinton onesie?
LMAO


43 posted on 09/29/2017 4:53:30 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: DoughtyOne; musicman

44 posted on 09/29/2017 4:53:41 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I agree with you but sometimes she’s just too much and I’d just like to see someone cork her piehole for a few days.


45 posted on 09/29/2017 4:57:54 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Fiddlstix

Just in case you hadn’t seen it.....and then you’ll be sorry you did.....


46 posted on 09/29/2017 4:58:32 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Seruzawa
For your viewing enjoyment. :)


47 posted on 09/29/2017 5:00:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: COBOL2Java

48 posted on 09/29/2017 5:05:13 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And it gets worse - you just HAVE to mouse over the shirt

https://www.shelfies.com/products/hillary-clinton-rainbow-suits-sweater

Available in 3XL, too.......


49 posted on 09/29/2017 5:06:47 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Where was Bill when Hillary was falling and being shoved into that van?

Bill has a sense of humor and is intelligent. Hillary is shrill.


50 posted on 09/29/2017 5:07:24 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: Bon mots

How could I forget to ping you to 6 and my last two posts....oops


51 posted on 09/29/2017 5:07:40 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: COBOL2Java

I require medical assistance my retinas have been burned to a crisp. LOL


52 posted on 09/29/2017 5:12:52 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Once again, cue up Pat Benatar’s “Victim.”


53 posted on 09/29/2017 5:14:34 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("Silence is violence.")
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To: SaveFerris
Great one... thanks.


54 posted on 09/29/2017 5:16:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Male vs. female? Boy child vs. girl child? Or, a worthless media?


55 posted on 09/29/2017 5:21:59 PM PDT by mulligan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well gee whiz Emma Brockes; do you think it might be HRC is one of the most detestable unlikable vile cretins to crave public attention on such a narcissistic scale not seen since, well, obama. Okay it hasn’t been that long but they are two peas of the same rotten pod. They don’t call her Hillary Rotten Clinton for nothing you know!

Emma, I get that you’re a femnazi trying to protect one of your own, but maybe, just maybe, you should find someone worth championing. The rotten one just ain’t worth it.


56 posted on 09/29/2017 5:44:53 PM PDT by Boomer
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The difference is even though he’s an impeached face-biting rapist con man, Ole Bill likable.

Kankles on the other hand is the textbook definition of a B*tch with a capital B, and is the most unlikable woman on the face of the earh.


57 posted on 09/29/2017 5:51:15 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

58 posted on 09/29/2017 5:56:51 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Now that Trump is kicking their ass, they want to quit.)
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To: All

Because Hillary is fat?


59 posted on 09/29/2017 6:13:19 PM PDT by bagster (I crack myself up.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Please tell me that’s photoshopped.


60 posted on 09/29/2017 6:41:00 PM PDT by henkster (The View: A psychiatric group therapy session where the shrink has stepped out of the room.)
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