Posted on 02/06/2018 7:40:00 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Former presidential candidate blames 'misogyny and sexism' for 2016 loss at Georgetown event
Two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Monday that she intends to continue fighting for women's rights and to "remain on the front lines of democracy," despite her 2016 election loss to President Donald Trump.
"Advancing the rights, opportunities, and full participation of women and girls is the great unfinished business of the 21st century," Clinton told students at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. "I intend to keep fighting to pursue this agenda and remain on the front lines of democracy."
Clinton appeared at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security to give a speech, participate in a panel discussion, and present the 2018 Hillary Rodham Clinton awards to individuals who advance women's role in creating a more peaceful and secure world.
The former secretary of state presented the human rights awards to Nadia Murad, a former Islamic State captive, and Wai Wai Nu, a Rohingya activist and former political prisoner from Myanmar, and also gave a special Global Trailblazer Award to BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet.
Clinton praised the three recipients and commended their work. She said that Murad represents a powerful rejection of what ISIS stands for through her work against human trafficking and that Nu, who works for democratic reforms and human rights, helps others understand the internal strife in Myanmar.
Clinton praised Doucet's reporting on the experiences of women and children in conflict zones, calling her stories "absolutely essential." The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee added that the work of journalists is crucial when "expertise, truth, and facts are under siege."
"I still believe in truth, evidence, facts," Clinton said in an implicit shot at the Trump administration. "There is no such thing as alternative reality, and we have to make sure that we don't try to live in it or let anybody else push us to live in it either."
The former secretary of state added that she gets "overwhelmed at least a dozen times a day" by news about events across the world.
The "steady drumbeat of women speaking out about their experiences has never been stronger," Clinton also said, describing the wave of sexual assault and harassment survivors coming forward as a "watershed moment." She mentioned harassment, reproductive rights, and pay disparity as major issues that women face in America.
But Clinton also discussed other issues, like climate change, which she argued during the panel discussion, led by Doucet, would primarily affect women.
"So yes, women once again will be primarily burdened with the problems of climate change," she said. "So look for international organizations to support."
Clinton blasted Trump's intent to withdraw from the Paris climate accord and said "there needs to be more political pressure put on the current administration to get back into the [agreement]." She encouraged the crowd, comprised mostly of students, to be active in calling members of Congress on the issue.
During her remarks, Clinton mentioned her 2016 election memoir, What Happened, and argued that "misogyny" and "sexism" contributed to her loss to Trump.
"Any of you who've read my book about ‘what happened' know that I think misogyny and sexism was part of that campaign—it was one of the contributing factors," Clinton said. "Some of it was old-fashioned sexism and the refusal to accept the equality of women, and certainly the equality of women's leadership."
Clinton said the best way to push for women's equality is to vote.
"Certainly, voting remains the principal way that every individual can express an opinion," Clinton told the audience. "And anyone who chooses not to vote, basically leaves that opinion to others and perhaps don't hold your values."
"We are not going back and woman's voices are not shutting up," she said.
“Advancing the rights, opportunities, and full participation of women and girls is the great unfinished business of the 21st century...” “I intend to keep fighting to pursue this agenda and remain on the front lines of democracy” said the crook who nobody should believe.
Hillary, you are a scummy and failed politician. When you had the chance to be on the ‘front lines’ you let people die, including the Ambassador who worked for you in Benghazi. You said, “What difference at this point does it make?”. It was too late to make a difference at that point. You wasted that opportunity, and it was your ultimate responsibility. Asking you about it wasn’t about making a difference at that point. I was about holding you accountable, and giving you the opportunity to make your case. By the way, that’s an opportunity you tried to deny the women who were harassed or worse by your husband.
You’re a textbook narcissist, lacking empathy, and constantly pushing to fulfill your narcissistic need, willing to do just about anything to ‘achieve’ that which fulfills your vision of yourself as different and better than the rest of the world. This is why you can’t step off the stage, even after most people have long since ceased clapping, and even the critics who propped your performances up before are now panning you.
GTMO would be a good place for her to be.
Just die already
A sociopath like Hillary is easy to understand.
Take everything she says and understand she means the exact opposite.
When she says “Democracy” she means “coup plotters conspiring”.
Like a fly from an outhouse, she will never go away. Constantly buzzing around you all the time.
Thank you. I posted a piece on that subject over this past weekend. Bottom line: We are not a democracy, we are a Republic.
“Advancing the rights, opportunities, and full participation of women and girls is the great unfinished business of the 21st century,” Clinton told students at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.”
Unless you are a woman or girl who is getting in the way of her ambition for power in some way. Then she and her flying monkeys will attempt to destroy you completely. Always fighting for the rights of women, aren’t you, Hildabeast? What a joke.
Hillary you are helping Trump. Keep it up!
Democrats wept.
Hillary is also talking in code—the real “glass ceiling” is over the inner sanctum of the world’s elite (deep states).
No women or minorities allowed—and Hillary is not very happy about it.
Hillary Clinton is the equivalent of a Soviet or East European Communist politician bleating out Marxist-Leninist dogma in 1989, as regimes from East Berlin to Bucharest were collapsing.
Crooked hypocritical Hillary on the front lines of democrat causes- the gift that keeps on giving.
Don't shoot until you see the whites of her eyes, folks!
“...pay disparity as major issues that women face in America. “
And then she picked up her check for $500,000 for the speaking ‘engagement’.
I think her cheese has slid off her cracker!
She could start with her own organization, The Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/18/hillary-clintons-huge-112k-gender-pay-gap-at-found/
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