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.”
I’m not a fan of Mitch Romney, but I don’t recall him whining endlessly about his 2012 defeat nearly a year after the fact.
And the ads using his words, from a private conversation 10 years, were on here 10 times a day. And yet, many of my Dem friends/relatives defended her and said she was ‘for the children’.....when the only place ‘the children’ heard Trump’s vulgar comments was IN HER ADS ON TV.The Left’s hypocrisy knows no bounds.
To me it is very telling that, according to post-election night reporting, Trump was unsure enough of victory that he didn’t prepare an acceptance speech, while HilLIARy was so sure she’d win she didn’t prepare a concession speech.
Suggests she believes she didn’t have to EARN the honor of serving in the highest office of our land, but DESERVED it.
True hubris!
‘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’
Admitting her own campaign strategy........
Candle, cankle , cackle!
Auto spell
She was going to be a mult-billionaire through massive corruption and Trump destroyed her plan.
It is very uncharitable of me to say it, but I hope that there is not much of that life left.
The woman is pure evil. Her Narcissistic Personality Disorder prevents her from ever seeing people as human beings. People are tools to her, to use for her own means. That attitude would be mitigated if she had good judgment--but her actions in destabilizing the Middle East show clearly that she does not.
Thank God for President Trump.
She reminds me of the kid in third grade who always demanded a “play over” when he lost a game. Hillary can’t get over two things - losing the election and flunking the DC Bar exam, which kind of both call into question the claim that she was just the “smartest, most qualified candidate for President ever”.
I’ve gotten over it ,,, her losing I mean ,,, I had a three day party .
WINNING !
The more Hillary talks, the more I like it. It continues to show how unfit she was for the Presidency. We dodged a huge bomb. She is detached from reality, in some instances it is delusional.
Trump did not come up through the Rep Party ranks, so he is “not one of them” - he had to fight and win within his own party. Trump is an open book, doesn’t mince words. The Dems knew what was going to happen as they watched him take out more than a dozen Republicans in a primary. The Dems rigged their primary by putting up a leftist “sparing partner” complete with too much protective gear so Clinton could look like she had to work for the nomination. Their old playbook of woman hater, Russian dossier, racism, blah blah blah did not work this time - and Hillary was a big part of the reason.
Also, Trump got more Dems to vote for him than people will admit to happening. Dems are out of touch with blue collar people who work and might vote for them out of family/loyalty. Dems insult them by calling them uneducated and bigots. A billionaire who can relate to the common man - what does that tell you?
Trump won by not following the Repubs book on how to run for office - the “old rules” of being Mr Nice Guy. George “Aw Shucks” Bush played Mr Nice Guy with the media and the Dems, made deals with them on out of control spending, etc etc, in the end they destroyed him nonetheless. Trump doesn’t play that way and their character destruction is ineffective against him (what else can they say that will destroy his character in their eyes?) - who are they trying to convince?
Don’t overlook one last key factor in Trump’s political development. He was a Dem in a bastion of liberal/leftism New York City (political cesspool) and it taught him things (tactics and strategies) on a practical level that Repubs only read about in books and moralize that they are “above dirty politics. He knows these anti-American people well - including Hillary.
The girl has never had an original thought in her life.
I once heard Bill Clinton say, “I suffer a terrible responsibility for not beating Hillary.”
I think you’ve covered it. In reality, it’s her who ran for ‘the applause of the masses’. It’s all about her.
“I thought I’d be a damn good president, I did not think I was going to lose”
The words of someone that prepared for a coronation but not an election.
Hillary Clinton, in my humble opinion, is a combination of the following:
1. The modern equivalent of Jezebel from 1 Kings of the Old Testament. Read that and the similarities border on eerie.
2. The equivaleent of a denizen of the fictional capital city of Panem from the Hunger Games trilogy, complete with the indulgent, parochial and sanctimonious attitude.
In short, the ultimate coastal elite. No wonder she lost the Presidential election.
And yet, her campaign was centered on the theme of, "don't you want a woman in charge?" Is this not misandry?
“I believe this woman is incapable of remorse for anything except what affects her personally”
Of course. She’s a clinically diagnosable narcissist.
“Trump made a critical strategic, political and historic error when he failed to prosecute her crimes.”
Time will tell.
On one hand, her running for the Presidency was necessary to give her immunity from prosecution. If she were President, no prosecution. Since she lost, no prosecution because should she be charged and tried by jury and all it takes is one leftist to nullify - the media would protect her that this was a prosecution of political enemies. History will be the judge - and it will come down against her, and Obama’s complicity / corruption on letting her get away. It will be at least 4 generations before the historical judgement - as most people living will be gone from this earth.
If Trump made a political mistake, he should not have taken it off the table so quickly, if at all, even if he knows the dangerous precedent of criminally prosecuting the person who ran directly against him. Just let it sit there as something that could possibly happen “depending on what evidence is found” in any of the 33000 “missing” emails. The fear and sleepless nights for Hillary and her co-conspirators might be punishment enough - and would neutralize them. It says a lot about our country’s culture and power structures that such a person would be given a pass and allowed to be “nominated” for the office. It undermines the rule of law and concept of justice. She was in a high position of power and trust, more is expected of such a person to have that privilege.
I am a past master at muting TV ads and/or skipping them with the DVR but still couldn’t help notice that Hillary’s ‘Poltergeist’ commercial (with kids staring at a TV in a dark room) ran literally with every break in a program.
Trump is scary etc.
It’s amusing that Hillary imagines she would have been a good president when her campaign consisted exclusively (and ironically) of slamming her opponent as ‘unfit.’ It’s especially delicious to think, with benefit of hindsight, that Hillary’s oracles of focus groups and polls sent her down so many blind alleys and that none of her pajama boys had the smarts or the courage to alter her strategy.
What a horrible, disrespectful, narcissistic, classless bitch.
That’s it in a nutshell. You NEVER say no to the Beast. You NEVER stand in her way. She had this election in the bag because she had minions working around the clock to secure the Oval Office for her......it was HER turn! God in His mercy made sure that didn’t happen.
I once heard Bill Clinton say, “I suffer a terrible responsibility for not beating Hillary.”
Truly a missed opportunity as we know Hillary would have endured it to stay close to the heart of corruption!
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