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Hillary Clinton blames many things for her loss. George Clooney blames her ‘frustrating’ speeches.
The Washington Compost ^ | September 24 at 11:30 AM | Avi Selk

Posted on 09/24/2017 11:57:25 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

It was never exactly a shock that George Clooney — a lifelong Democrat, and about as Hollywood as they come — would endorse Hillary Clinton for president.

But it wasn’t a given, either. And as Donald Trump was bulldozing his many Republican rivals in the spring of 2016, Clinton was still slogging through her own primary contests with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

So Clooney laid out his endorsement that March in a short, to-the-point fundraising letter.

He called Clinton a “voice of tolerance and experience,” a champion for the poor and a savvy diplomat. “If ever there was a time for a grown-up,” he wrote, “that time is now.”

You’ll notice he never called her a great politician, but more on that in a minute.

Clooney expressed reservations about the campaign at least once that year, even as he used his star power to raise millions of dollars for Clinton.

Yes, he told NBC News in April: $353,000 a head for dinner with Clooney and Clinton at the actor’s Los Angeles home was “an obscene amount of money.”

But, Clooney added, quite a lot of that obscene amount would go not to Clinton, but to down-ticket Democrats who would help her govern.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: downgoeshillary

1 posted on 09/24/2017 11:57:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yet nobody blames the fact that 1) she's a horrible person and 2) her tenure at State (and the aftermath) was a disaster *and* a joke.
2 posted on 09/24/2017 12:06:16 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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😹🍿. OMG! If you lose clooney, all is lost. 🙀👏🏽
3 posted on 09/24/2017 12:27:38 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Clooney is running. He wants to eliminate Hillary as his competition.


4 posted on 09/24/2017 12:29:00 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

If you want to watch some one run look at Jerry brown over the last 4 months.


5 posted on 09/24/2017 12:29:52 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Here is Bloom County's cartoon today:


Here is the offending cartoon he is talking about:



The blame game strikes a peek-in-the-briefs.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

6 posted on 09/24/2017 12:38:17 PM PDT by Varmint Al
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Jane Long; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Black Agnes; djstex; RoosterRedux; ...

The one main thing she hasn’t blamed is Bill, you know, the sexual abuser and rapist she is married to...(course he didn’t blame her for being a lesbian either)...


7 posted on 09/24/2017 12:49:14 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: dfwgator

It might be said *That’s a job easily done*

It’s the other bozos he’ll have to bring down.


8 posted on 09/24/2017 12:53:19 PM PDT by V K Lee (DJT: "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. ")
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9 posted on 09/24/2017 2:30:48 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Gay State Conservative

Those speeches and that whole criminality thingy...


10 posted on 09/24/2017 2:34:58 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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