Discussion: Will history be kind to Hillary Clinton?

Kamren

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Although Clinton carried the popular vote on Election Day, the Electoral College delivered a decisive victory to Donald Trump. The so-called Blue Wall states that went for Trump (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin) exposed embarrassing cracks in the Democrats’ campaign strategy. Add to that the humiliation of having to concede a presidential race for a second time in 8 years. Hillary Clinton is done.

And yet. There’s a possibility for Clinton to achieve a status that eluded her during the campaign, and over her last 30 years in public life. If elected president, Clinton would have moved into the White House and had to unpack years of baggage—emails, her husband’s scandals, “super predators,” Benghazi—and then deal with the grueling and unpredictable politics of the next four years. That’s a lot to fit in the Resolute desk. But in defeat, that matters less. Her place in American culture is suddenly very different. Hillary Clinton’s transgressions may be largely forgiven by her supporters and largely forgotten by the public.

As a presidential candidate, Clinton was vanquished. But as a feminist icon, she lives on. She’s the women who withstand the painful misogyny of American society. She’s telling your daughter to raise her hand in class, even if the boys make fun of her. She’s pantsuits and she’s the more than 3 million members of the Facebook group Pantsuit Nation. She’s every qualified woman who had an unqualified man beat her out for a job. She’s the “I Voted” stickers on Susan B. Anthony’s grave. She’s the cracks in the glass ceiling that didn’t break. She’s what could’ve been. She’s the promise of what someday will be.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...n-icon/507503/

HandsOn

AP http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1086817

masegoRih

HRC is already a stunning woman.

1. She will go on and do great humanitarian work with the CF foundation...

2. She has already done a lot of good for the america already.

3. She has paved the way.

4. The first woman president will refer to her speech, glass ceiling , so iconic.

Lastly , she is going to be studied around the world (I mean she already is but that's about to increase by a HUGE margin). Your children will be reading about her.

Kamren

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Originally posted by HandsOn

AP http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1086817

I meant for this to be a discussion about Hillary and only used the article as a starting point.

Lord Blackout

Well, what are the chances of Trump being a competent president? She'll get Al Gored as the nation suffers

TheVoiceXtina

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Originally posted by masegoRih

HRC is already a stunning woman.

1. She will go on and do great humanitarian work with the CF foundation...

2. She has already done a lot of good for the america already.

3. She has paved the way.

4. The first woman president will refer to her speech, glass ceiling , so iconic.

Lastly , she is going to be studied around the world (I mean she already is but that's about to increase by a HUGE margin). Your children will be reading about her.

lol lol lol

1. Her humanitarian work with Clinton Foundation where she swindled Haiti out of a load of money?

2. Does a lot of good include her work in the destabalisation of the Middle East?

3. Not really.

4. Again, not really.

Yes our children WILL study her, but mainly in how she, the Dems and neoliberalism FAILED the EASIEST election in decades over an overt, intentionally racist/misogynist.

masegoRih

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Originally posted by TheVoiceXtina

lol lol lol

1. Her humanitarian work with Clinton Foundation where she swindled Haiti out of a load of money?

2. Does a lot of good include her work in the destabalisation of the Middle East?

3. Not really.

4. Again, not really.

Yes our children WILL study her, but mainly in how she, the Dems and neoliberalism FAILED the EASIEST election in decades over an overt, intentionally racist/misogynist.

1. HRC has never been part of day to day works in the CF foundation but I am guessing she will be now ....also the Haiti thing is so complicated that they are not even guilty here....just that they brought contractors from the USA to do the job in HAITI.

2. So you are saying that after Bush had done havoc she is solely , single handedly responsible for the middle east, WOW.

3. Yes really.

4. Again, Yes really.

History will be ever so kind to her, how her one mistake was turned into a topic that was discussed for 600 days , how just before the elections an FBI director issued a vague letter to implicate her only to say never mind 2 days before the election, how Russia worked actively to see to it that she never gets elected, how the media assassinated her character bits by bits because of stupid EMAILS.

rihannabiggestfan

Well, at least she won Virginia, that's pretty impressive

Wonderland

I agree that history will look on her fondly.

Alaska.

No, she'll be known as the lesser of two evils and someone who wasn't charismatic enough to appeal to every democratic due to her controversies and being the embodiment of a totally corrupt political system.

Achilles.

Absolutely. She left the world a much better place than she found it. Her efforts in women's rights, gay rights, helping people with disabilities, her response to 9/11, supporting children and families, her presidential campaign... Her impact is so boundless that it simply defies comprehension.

TheCheshireCat

RihsusChrist(ATG)

HRC is the political equivalent to a flop pop gurl...always trying for that big hit song but things just never pan out.

masegoRih

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Originally posted by RihsusChrist(ATG)

HRC is the political equivalent to a flop pop gurl...always trying for that big hit song but things just never pan out.

Yet she has been Gallup's admired woman 20 times .... 3 years straight from 2013-2015
She left the state department with 70% favorable and watch those go up ....it is a cycle , when she is running people trash her over small things.

She has accomplished so much that you can only dream of....heck even KAC will never achieve what she has achieved.

She has helped so many people with her work throughout her adult life.'

She will never give up on America thus she will continue to fight for whats right and continue to do good through the clinton foundation.

History will forever be kind to her , so keep trying.