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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with pp about Hillary’s choices and I think it is a key point. I was in my late 20’s/early 30’s during the Clinton presidency and was waiting for the big moment after he stepped down when Hillary would kick him to the curb and be the shining image of a strong, capable woman who didn’t need a man (let alone one who so dispicably and publicly spit on the marriage and union) to be successful...and kept waiting...and waiting...

I am greatly disappointed by Hillary’s choice at that time. It demonstrated to other women that in fact she didn’t feel capable of succeeding with out a man and even worse, you may have to put up with humiliating treatment from men to get ahead. Or, make a pact that includes personal humiliation. No thank you.

I think she could have succeeded as a single woman rather than live in a humiliating marriage. She didn’t make that choice though. That she is somehow thought of as a leader of women is mind-boggling. Maybe because I was old enough to remember that time...

Both Hillary and Monica made choices that ultimately led them to powerless, humiliating circumstances.

The only person in this situation who has gotten everything he wanted and continues to flourish in a continual glass-raised-wink-woo-hoo party is Bill Clinton.

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My experiences as well. I kept waiting for HRC to show herself to be bigger than her First Lady role showed her to be...never happened. As late as 2006, I thought she'd win the Presidency in a cakewalk. Didn't happen.

People who don't like Trump deserve to do a meaningful post-mortem on Hillary and her political career. The truth is she's a candidate engineered in a lab and she was engineered by Bill's cynical friends and backers, almost entirely horrible members of the patriarchy who cynically sought to use her status as woman as cover their tracks.

To deal with the sexism charge, consider what other recent Dems have been about. Bill was a 'bubba' who worked too closely with Goldman-Sachs and the Waltons, etc. to sell out Bubbas. Note that 'Bubbas' have been sharply less likely to vote Dem since 1996....BHO was a black man who worked too closely with the small, white world of finance to disappoint black America, who were dis-proportionally damaged by the financial crisis (check median black HH wealth since 2007) by that small, white world of finance. In 2016, black voters in many areas felt abandoned and failed to turn out in needed #s... Hillary's job was to be the token woman who helped the same noxious elements that supported Bill and BHO, she disappointed her core constituency of women and we now have Kavanaugh on SCOTUS.

Time for Dems to change![/quote]

Even as a mostly Republican voter, I had high hopes the BO would instill positive change in the urban black communities.  Instead he flamed racism and perpetuated the "it's not my fault" mind-set that suffocates our black communities.  [/quote]

Pretty sure his fealty to his fellow Ivy Leaguers, mostly privileged white dudes, at the banks was massively more consequential. The financial crisis meant massive amounts of wealth was transferred from middle-class blacks to wealthy whites, including wealthy white Democrats. Most other stuff he did on 'race' was noise, including what you're highlighting.[/quote]

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