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Hillary Clinton Destroyed Her Own Campaign
The Daily Beast ^ | 9 Nov 16 | Betsy Woodruff

Posted on 11/10/2016 3:15:11 AM PST by SkyPilot

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a woman stood in between a row of satellite trucks and a concrete wall outside the Javits Center in New York City—the Hillary Clinton’s “victory party”—sobbing and screaming into her cellphone, “How are we losing?!”

The answer on the other end was received by a wail.

And later that morning, the world learned that despite all the polling, all the momentum, and a second-to-none campaign operation, Hillary Clinton lost to a flaxen-haired maybe-billionaire best known for starring in an NBC reality-television show.

The Clinton campaign had hoped that the glass ceiling of the Javits Center would become the night’s enduring symbol. But instead, its basement cafeteria became a microcosm of the Clinton campaign.

Late into the night, grim Clinton supporters huddled around televisions on folding chairs, watching with blank faces as cable news commentators delivered blow after blow. And when Kelly Clarkson’s “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger” anthem played over the speakers, it sounded more like a taunt than a battlecry. Many supporters didn’t want to talk. Instead, they hunched over their iPhones and beers.

Lani Brandon, an environmental attorney from Attica, New York, drank Barefoot cabernet sauvignon from a tiny plastic bottle as the results rolled in. She volunteered on Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, and recalled her response to that loss with admiration.

“Even when she was conceding, she did it with class and elegance,” Brandon said. “This election alone, with him running, it has created—or maybe made people aware of—the hatred that already existed.”

Many were visibly misty-eyed.

“You’ve gotta make it quick,” said New Yorker Frank Capalbo when approached, “because I’m about to break out in tears.”

He loved Clinton for her brain, her guts, and her effectiveness, he said.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; hillary; hillarylost; media; trump
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To: SkyPilot

It seems impossible that Clinton, after being cleared of wrongdoing, would be jailed.


The left lives in a world all their own. Clinton was in no way “cleared” of wrongdoing. The head of the FBI after listing all the crimes simply said he would not recommend prosecution. It really is not his call to decide if a crime is to be prosecuted or not, his job is to determine if a crime had been committed (in this case several crimes) and give the evidence to the Department of Justice to determine if she should be prosecuted.

They were trying to be cute and it failed.

I hope for the nation’s sake Trump in fact follows through and has an independent prosecutor look into all this.


61 posted on 11/10/2016 5:50:12 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN
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To: Rummyfan

And she didn’t call Bill.

Wonder what his plans are for next week?


62 posted on 11/10/2016 5:54:22 AM PST by Texas resident (Hillary's enemies are my friends)
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To: SkyPilot

These “protest” do not occur in a vacuum, someone is organizing them. This is a job for the FBI. I wonder if they have been ordered NOT to investigate.


63 posted on 11/10/2016 5:56:11 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN
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To: exDemMom
Many were visibly misty-eyed.

“You’ve gotta make it quick,” said New Yorker Frank Capalbo when approached, “because I’m about to break out in tears.”

He loved Clinton for her brain, her guts, and her effectiveness, he said.

Her crimes?
In his fantasy world, they did not exist.
Her bribery schemes and her treason and HER hatred?
In his fantasy world, they did not exist.
Her stupidity and selfishness?
In his fantasy world, they did not exist.

64 posted on 11/10/2016 6:21:56 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: SkyPilot

I’d like to thank Hillary Clinton for the “Basket of deplorables” statement. It mobilized thousands.


65 posted on 11/10/2016 6:25:16 AM PST by oyez (Hell is a gun free zone.)
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To: oyez
I’d like to thank Hillary Clinton for the “Basket of deplorables” statement. It mobilized thousands.

Add to that the biased media and between them they helped the get out the vote effort - for Trump! LOL

66 posted on 11/10/2016 6:26:30 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Trump-a-licious

She thinks of them as “Bernie’s residue” and they can rot in Hell.


67 posted on 11/10/2016 6:27:45 AM PST by oyez (Hell is a gun free zone.)
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To: shhrubbery!

“She has no political power left, and never will again.”

The Clintons’ massive income of the last eight years came from selling influence they had and, especially, influence evil people thought they would have once the Witch became President. Now they’ve lost it. Where’s their income going to come from?


68 posted on 11/10/2016 6:33:32 AM PST by libstripper (oHillary is willing to risk her own life to protect her secretive nature. She would rather go to her)
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To: SkyPilot

While I’m savoring the tears of defeated socialists, I’d like to remind everyone to LOCK HER UP. There must not be two systems of justice in this country. Equal justice under the law must be maintained, or this country will have lost everything.


69 posted on 11/10/2016 6:33:50 AM PST by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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To: SkyPilot

Symbolic glass ceiling...

Does this apply, or what:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-enNj3gnZk

(For those not familiar with B5, the one thing missing for you is that we only catch a tiny glimpse of Anna Sheridan’s “Shadow” controllers creeping up behind her.)


70 posted on 11/10/2016 6:39:02 AM PST by Paul R.
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To: Liz; bigredkitty1

But would you buy anything if their faces greeted you at the counter? I would lose my appetite.


71 posted on 11/10/2016 6:43:10 AM PST by knittnmom
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To: knittnmom

LOL.....true.


72 posted on 11/10/2016 6:44:21 AM PST by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: SkyPilot

I’m excited about the fact that their bench is empty. Who will they dump on us in 4 years. Imagine Caine the creep trying to run again. I think Caine represents what is left of the Dem bench. Other than Caine it gets really weird like Van Jones.


73 posted on 11/10/2016 6:50:15 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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To: SkyPilot
This election alone, with him running, it has created—or maybe made people aware of—the hatred that already existed.”

It actually DID this for me, but probably not in the way she intended.

For me, this election showed me the hatred that already existed in the dominant Left-wing press.

It showed me the shear disdain and hatred the Left has for the working class who aren't minorities the Left depends on to deliver them political power.

It made me aware that despite all the crimes Hillary Clinton and staff made, that we know other less elite people are charged with and punished for on almost a daily basis, meant nothing to those on the Left who craved power over others.

And here is the quote from an environmentalist lawyer from Albany, New York, who has probably never had to work with her hands, or fret that she might not have the funds to pay the rent, or feed her family, or that drove through those rural parts of poverty stricken New York state, except to be pissed off that it wasn't all pristine wilderness un-spoiled by the deplorable yeoman farmers and town trades people that environmentalists so readily hate.

74 posted on 11/10/2016 7:02:07 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: SkyPilot

Her problems as a candidate began with the choice of campaign slogans.

“I’m with Her” means “It’s all about Me.”

Make America Great Again” means “It’s all about you.”


75 posted on 11/10/2016 7:06:20 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: knittnmom

No, just that their pieces of paper qualify them for those jobs. I am not saying they would be good at them.


76 posted on 11/10/2016 7:08:14 AM PST by bigredkitty1 (March 5, 2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: SkyPilot

Hillary has no more bargaining chips. And some not so nice people might be expecting something for their millions in ‘speaking fees’ and what not?


77 posted on 11/10/2016 7:16:22 AM PST by Leep (Last Days of Hillary)
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To: libstripper
The Clintons’ massive income of the last eight years came from selling influence they had and, especially, influence evil people thought they would have once the Witch became President. Now they’ve lost it. Where’s their income going to come from?

I hear she writes best-selling books...

78 posted on 11/10/2016 7:17:09 AM PST by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: metmom
I figured they must have had her on something really strong to remain so composed.

You can be sure she had her pick of the wonders of modern pharmacopoiea. She's not on Obamacare.

79 posted on 11/10/2016 7:18:36 AM PST by thulldud
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To: SkyPilot

“You’ve gotta make it quick,” said New Yorker Frank Capalbo when approached, “because I’m about to break out in tears.”

What metrosexual delicate flowers these Hillary “men” are.


80 posted on 11/10/2016 8:53:07 AM PST by Senator Goldwater
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