Posted on 11/09/2016 3:43:20 AM PST by a fool in paradise
Secretary Clinton has conceded. It is now official.
Well the polls were wrong - very wrong, most journalists were wrong - and the earth has been shaken with an earthquake of a magnitude many didn't see coming. This is Brexit on steroids. We are entering into uncharted territory as a nation with a now president-elect who has run roughshod over the norms of American presidential campaigns. Clearly a silent but vocal majority has poured forth and pulled down the status quo in Washington with an energy that is echoing not just across the United States but around the world.
America is divided, not along geography as it used to be, but within states between races, educational levels, and urban vs. rural. This is a county by county map and clearly there were many voters who felt overlooked by a new world order who have roared with vengeance. They will not be by forgotten any longer.
No doubt many will disagree but I do not believe Hillary Clinton lost because she is a woman. My analysis is that a majority of voting Americans ached for change, especially structural changes in the economic system. They believe the American middle economic class has been mostly lost and they want it back.
There is sure to be deep despair amongst Clinton supporters who seemed to be tasting the sweetness of victory for most of the campaign. I have heard from many who feel like they are staring into an abyss. Many of you have posted on this page, there is palpable fear about the future of the nation, of the world. But this is the verdict of the American people and we must accept it. We also must work on the process of hope, healing and a re-dedication to unity.
It may be unbelievable to think now, but we cannot fogo our values. Flush with victory, will Trump change his tune at all? He has always been a mercurial man who has shown very little of a policy compass. His supporters will allow him to do anything. And perhaps he can build a bridge we never saw coming. Hope is father to the thought, I grant you. But it is a hope.
I have seen dark days - after Pearl Harbor, during Vietnam, in the depths of the Civil Rights Movement. I still believe that most Americans are kind and decent people, including--overwhelmingly--those who voted for Trump.
I still believe we can work together. If Donald Trump does indeed win, I pray for him tonight to be a wise and magnanimous leader. I pray that he is not bound by the limits of party. I pray that he can prove his critics wrong. I pray for my country. I pray for its leaders of all political parties. I pray for my country and my countrymen. I pray for the future.
Great article. Sharing it. Thanks for posting
...and sorry she couldn’t even be bothered to come and thank all of her supporters, her NEW deplorables but she is too busy counting all of her change so she cay pay back all of those countries, dictators and criminals who paid her to be their WHORE.
Dan Rather who?
Apparently he is not someone who understands how our political system works. A concession speech is meaningless.
Donald Trump is the Nickelback of candidates says one of the headlines.
But what if you like NIckelback?
At lunch Tuesday I told my brother all I could know from media reporting to that point was that there was no way of knowing.
In 1980, 84, 88, 2000, 2004 they always oversampled Democrats, refused to acknowledge Carter and Dukakis were being blown out BEFORE election day.
Hillary’s internals couldn’t have look good for her to be screaming herself hoarse on the campaign trail on the weekend before the election.
I attended a Houston rally on the eve of the 1992 election and GHWBush was clearly frazzled going into the final stretch. At least I got to see Ted Williams and Charlton Heston one more time that night.
You are most welcome : )
Dan Rather was resigned to having to blog on facebook like one of the pajama people.
His buddies at Time-Life-Warner-Turner-CNN-HBO didn’t give him a chair (and a paycheck) to go on the air.
>>she is too busy counting all of her change so she cay pay back all of those countries, dictators and criminals who paid her to be their WHORE.
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To give back? Why would she ever do an honorable thing like that? Ha.
I suspect she instead, is making plans to follow the billion+ dollars she recently transferred to Qatar, so as to avoid the same fate as Mussolini.
I wonder how many shots of “courage” it took Dan to write that this morning.
All I know is if you went to see 50 Cent and Nickelback, it should only cost you $0.45.
The REAL question is will AG Giuliani be unleashed and these criminals run to ground. “A man whose supporters will let him get away with anything.”.
Please.
These asshats never get it. Clinton was defeated. Whether she concedes or not simply demonstrates the nature of her personality. There is NOTHING about her concession that makes this "official". She was beaten by the American voter. THAT's what makes it official.
This dolt thinks that the Clinton's decide what happens in this country.
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One of the great victories of this wonderful day, is the outing of the Media as shameless political operatives serving the Progressive agenda of the Democrat Party. Like Dan Rather, so many of them have been crushed by the truth of their partisan dishonesty. The Leftists, the corrupt machine politics of Clinton, Obama, the Democrats, and the press are married together. They were rejected totally. So Dan, as a charter member of the phony hack Hall of Fame, SHUDDUP already.
Sounds like projection from Hillary supporters. Doesn't matter the crime, this was for all the marbles...
You can be sure that Trump was far more gracious than the “I won, you lost, get over it” side would have been....
May this nation (and the world) awaken from this Orwellian/Stalinist nightmare.
the MSM has taken it on the chin for fabrication and bias umpteen election cycles now. They have NO credibility in my house. I gave up on them in all areas, even entertainment) when my tv died in the 2008 election cycle. I no longer would invite their propaganda in my home to spin the day’s talking points at every turn (on commercials, in paid messaging incorporated in fictional television shows, in stilted tv interviews on purported ‘entertainment’ programs).
I’ve been aware of their biases dating back before the 1980s (the steady drone of anti-Reagan messaging while I attended college in Boston) but I accepted being subjected to it even if I didn’t accept the messaging itself. I tune it all out these days and don’t even have to yell back at a tv anymore.
No more Clintons.
No more Bushes.
What a great day in America.
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