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You are here: Home / Politics / America / Hillary Clinton Speaks

Hillary Clinton Speaks

by Cheryl Rofer|  September 16, 201811:01 pm| 69 Comments

This post is in: America, Election 2018, Open Threads, Politics, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome

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She has a book coming out on Tuesday, and this Atlantic article is an excerpt. She has nothing good to say about her opponent.

In the roughly 21 months since he took the oath of office, Trump has sunk far below the already-low bar he set for himself in his ugly campaign. Exhibit A is the unspeakable cruelty that his administration has inflicted on undocumented families arriving at the border, including separating children, some as young as eight months, from their parents. According to The New York Times, the administration continues to detain 12,800 children right now, despite all the outcry and court orders. Then there’s the president’s monstrous neglect of Puerto Rico: After Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, his administration barely responded. Some 3,000 Americans died. Now Trump flatly denies those deaths were caused by the storm. And, of course, despite the recent indictments of several Russian military intelligence officers for hacking the Democratic National Committee in 2016, he continues to dismiss a serious attack on our country by a foreign power as a “hoax.”

There’s nothing surprising in the article, not even who’s saying it. Perhaps that she’s saying it out loud and in a way that will, hopefully, get some traction.

She diagnoses five Trump attacks on the country and makes suggestions to counter them, starting with voting Democrats in this November.

Now that the fall campaign is upon us, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are speaking out again. Good to hear from them.

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  1. 1.

    Ella in New Mexico

    September 16, 2018 at 11:08 pm

    I am firmly convinced we lost the opportunity to enjoy one of history’s greatest US Presidents by not electing Hillary.

  2. 2.

    debbie

    September 16, 2018 at 11:13 pm

    It’s not the WWC or Wall Street that’s reaped the greatest rewards from Trump’s presidency; it’s publishing! I don’t remember so many books being published so quickly!

  3. 3.

    scav

    September 16, 2018 at 11:19 pm

    So, after a jam-packed infrastructure weekend, we immediately roll into the traditional infrastructure week.

  4. 4.

    The Dangerman

    September 16, 2018 at 11:24 pm

    @Ella in New Mexico:

    …by not electing Hillary.

    I think it would have been fascinating to see how she would have been blocked from even getting to fill Scalia’s seat for the first two years and if the Democrats would have gone nuclear if they retook the Senate in 2018.

  5. 5.

    Cheryl Rofer

    September 16, 2018 at 11:26 pm

    @scav: I was thinking something similar. And so are others.

    We could be heading for the greatest Infrastructure Week yet.

    — Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) September 17, 2018

  6. 6.

    Millard Filmore

    September 16, 2018 at 11:26 pm

    An Open Thread! I am surprised that the news of 65 women that signed the letter in support of Kavanaugh has not sparked jokes about Binders Of Women.

    Some commenters here think that Trump has not moved against Mueller nor pardoned anyone under his microscope because of the bad political optics. That does not make sense, his only question on that would be “Its not illegal is it?” I think someone in his orbit has convinced him that a move like that would result in a legal maneuver that would result in his income tax returns becoming public.

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    September 16, 2018 at 11:26 pm

    @Ella in New Mexico:
    I am convinced of this too.

  8. 8.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 16, 2018 at 11:26 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer: It is always Infrastructure Week!

  9. 9.

    Aleta

    September 16, 2018 at 11:27 pm

    It’s been said before, but to repeat some campaign quotes from Clinton:

    “He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties.”
    Trump will target “millions of immigrants and kick them out of the country.”
    Trump will “ban Muslims from entering the country.”

    “There’s no other Donald Trump. This is it.”

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    September 16, 2018 at 11:30 pm

    @Millard Filmore:
    I think the President has been made to understand that anyone he pardons in this case can then be compelled to testify against him. He does have a reason to listen if his survival is at stake.

  11. 11.

    Mary G

    September 16, 2018 at 11:32 pm

    Willie Nelsons response to former, now pissed off former fans??‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/oMuNZ3GREg— ?Sista Susan? (@mariesuzy) September 17, 2018

  12. 12.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 16, 2018 at 11:36 pm

    @Mary G: I’m neither a fan of Country Music nor Texas, but I’ve always liked Willie.

  13. 13.

    Millard Filmore

    September 16, 2018 at 11:38 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Could be, but he is President and can pass out pardons like candy, for pretty much anything. “Its not illegal is it?” I’m not sure he can take it to level 2 and consider the Forced To Testify part. And so what if they do? Pardon himself! He can do a lot of damage before it really matters for him, especially if Kavanaugh gets in.

    And dang it! Someone is already on the Binders Full Of Women before I posted:
    https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211142132#post1

  14. 14.

    BC in Illinois

    September 16, 2018 at 11:40 pm

    My first reaction was one of amazement: “Wow! She has a new book out already!”

    It’s not a new book. It’s the paperback edition of “What Happened.” The Atlantic article is an adaptation of the new afterword of the book. Well worth reading, for the clear, blunt statement of our Trump Problem:
    – – assault on rule of law
    – – legitimacy of elections
    – – war on truth and reason
    – – “Trump’s breathtaking corruption”
    – – national unity (racism)

    Then read what she says is needed — things that will be needed for years to come.

    I admit, it’s hard for me to read what she says, however spot-on her analysis, without inwardly cringing at the inevitability of the hatefulness of the backlash against her. (Just look at the comments or tweets whenever her name comes up.) But if you read what she says and what she proposes, it’s good.

  15. 15.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 16, 2018 at 11:41 pm

    @Amir Khalid: AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA!

  16. 16.

    Mnemosyne

    September 16, 2018 at 11:41 pm

    @Mary G:

    You gotta love the morons who thought they could actually intimidate Willie fucking Nelson. ???

  17. 17.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 16, 2018 at 11:42 pm

    @Mary G: Ooops, I meant to AHAHAHAHAHAHA to Willie’s great pic!

  18. 18.

    WarMunchkin

    September 16, 2018 at 11:43 pm

    She could run again and win probably.

  19. 19.

    randy khan

    September 16, 2018 at 11:46 pm

    @The Dangerman:

    At least one Republican Senator said that the plan was to confirm Garland during the lame duck session if Hillary won, on the theory that he was better than anyone she’d nominate. But of course McConnell could have changed his mind.

    And even if that happened, Clinton probably would have had at least one other seat to fill, as I would guess that RBG would have stepped down.

  20. 20.

    gene108

    September 16, 2018 at 11:48 pm

    Demoxrats are in control of the House in 2021, the first thing they need to do is increase the number of seats above the crurrent 435.

    More seats for heavily populated areas and EC are votes may fix the issue of the loser of popular vote winning the Presidency.

    It would a,so up representation in more Democratic friendly areas and change equation of Democrats having to win rural districts to Republicans having to win urban districts to control the House.

  21. 21.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 16, 2018 at 11:50 pm

    @gene108: DC and Puerto Rico admitted as states!

  22. 22.

    Frankensteinbeck

    September 16, 2018 at 11:51 pm

    @Millard Filmore:
    I think you are overestimating Trump. He is behaving like a standard toxic narcissist. He does not save other people to save himself. He does not grasp the concept. Win-win is not an exchange he understands. And even that is describing the toxic narcissist’s thought processes in a deceptively reasonable way. They’re in trouble, so he kicks them. He’s in trouble, so he throws someone else into danger. Basically, he’s a mean shit.

  23. 23.

    Rommie

    September 16, 2018 at 11:52 pm

    Maybe a target-rich environment will overload Twitler’s little brain into exceptional stupid behavior. Obama + Hillary on top of everything else? He’ll burn his phone battery out by the end of the week.

  24. 24.

    Mike in NC

    September 16, 2018 at 11:54 pm

    If the Senate rejects this imbecile Kavanaugh, will the rotten pumpkin sitting between Fat Bastard’s shoulders finally explode?

  25. 25.

    The Dangerman

    September 16, 2018 at 11:57 pm

    @randy khan:

    At least one Republican Senator said that the plan was to confirm Garland during the lame duck session if Hillary won…

    Maybe, but I’m highly doubtful; the Right was ready to fight to the end to keep the 5-4 edge.

    I’ve heard rumors that the Republicans were ready to hold all seats open for all 4 years if they held the Senate. RBG might have retired, but that seat might have been left vacant. Again, the Right was ready to go to the end on the USSC.

  26. 26.

    Frankensteinbeck

    September 17, 2018 at 12:04 am

    @The Dangerman:
    A 5-4 liberal Supreme Court would overturn gerrymandering and voter suppression. The GOP would be permanently fucked. No one knows that better than McConnell.

  27. 27.

    Kelly

    September 17, 2018 at 12:10 am

    Court packing. Freezing out Garland was court packing. It’s already happened. We must respond by adding more justices when we can. A bunch more at all levels. Supreme, Appeals , Districts.

  28. 28.

    Randroid

    September 17, 2018 at 12:15 am

    So…anyone here still upset that Franken is not on the judiciary? Anyone?

    Didn’t think so. And this situation with Kavanaugh is why. The Dems now can command the high moral ground, without hesitating.

  29. 29.

    catclub

    September 17, 2018 at 12:22 am

    @Amir Khalid: The only crimes that paul manafort can be pardoned for were committed years ago and had nothing to do with the campaign ( so far). How can a pardon for those old crimes be used to force him to testify about more recent events, if he then says, “I refuse to testify because such testimony on these more recent events might incriminate me.”

  30. 30.

    catclub

    September 17, 2018 at 12:23 am

    @Kelly: I think the SC should be unpacked by temporarily lowering the size to seven justices. naturally, the most recent two, with least seniority, would go first.

    Then raise the size to handle the excess workload.

  31. 31.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 17, 2018 at 12:25 am

    @Randroid:

    The Dems now can command the high moral ground, without hesitating.

    Two things to add: (1) this is true, even if KavaNO! is installed on SCOTUS. (2) this is true EVEN IF Franken was in fact innocent.

    Politics ain’t beanbag. If you want a friend, get a dog. Many low-information voters are also decent Americans. They need a simple message. And the message is really, really simple: the Dems are the party of women’s rights. Period.

  32. 32.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 17, 2018 at 12:26 am

    @catclub: As with Nixon, Shitlord would have to pardon for all crimes in a certain window of time. In Paulie The Deviant’s case, from 1978 thru 2018.

  33. 33.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 17, 2018 at 12:31 am

    MJ Lee @ mj_lee
    Breaking: Sen. Murkowski tells @stevebruskCNN that Senate Judiciary might need to consider delaying Kavanaugh vote: “This is not something that came up during the hearings. The hearings are now over. And if there is real substance to this it demands a response.”

  34. 34.

    jl

    September 17, 2018 at 12:34 am

    Brock Long, FEMA chief, been on TV today defending Trump’s BS and disgraceful attacks on scientific analysis of how many death in PR attributable to to hurricane. So, despite his good record, he is either has always had a bad side, or has turned bad and turned Trumpster.

    I try to look on the bright side of things, and look for decent people, though people I may vigorously disagree with on a lot, who might do some good in Trump administration. So, I guess there is Mattis, and who else? Powell at the Fed, but he was always a competent moderate, following Yellen school of central banking. As I’ve mentioned before, must have been sneaked in by Cohn or somebody. I don’t know who else has any business serving in any government. But Powell really isn’t part of Trump administration.

  35. 35.

    TS (the original)

    September 17, 2018 at 12:34 am

    @The Dangerman:

    the Right was ready to go to the end on the USSC.

    They go to the end on everything. They have no morals, no sense of right and wrong and do not want a democracy. trump is fulfilling many of their dreams.

  36. 36.

    rikyrah

    September 17, 2018 at 12:40 am

    Hillary Clinton was right.
    About it all.?

  37. 37.

    Kelly

    September 17, 2018 at 12:47 am

    @catclub: The only mechanism to reduce the size of the Court is waiting for retirements and leaving seats unfilled. Lifetime tenure is in the constitution. Adding seats requires majorities + the President a tall order but less than Constitutional amendments. I would expect alternating rounds of court packing as the parties slip in and out of power. Messy.

  38. 38.

    Amir Khalid

    September 17, 2018 at 12:49 am

    @catclub:
    The most recent two Supremes? As of now, that would be one Trump appointee … and one Obama appointee. No one knows yet if Kavanaugh will get to join the Supremes.

  39. 39.

    Jacel

    September 17, 2018 at 12:52 am

    @catclub: It makes sense to remove any Supreme Court justices who were approved by the Senate by fewer than 60 votes.

  40. 40.

    Bill Arnold

    September 17, 2018 at 12:53 am

    @Kelly:

    Court packing. Freezing out Garland was court packing. It’s already happened. We must respond by adding more justices when we can. A bunch more at all levels. Supreme, Appeals , Districts.

    Or shrink the court to 7 members, retiring the most-recently-confirmed members first. :-)

  41. 41.

    Mandalay

    September 17, 2018 at 12:54 am

    Three Miami Dolphins players knelt or raised their fist during the playing of the national anthem before Sunday’s road game against the New York Jets. The Dolphins are the only NFL team continuing the protest former quarterback Colin Kaepernick started for a third consecutive season…

    Stills and Albert plan to kneel all season.

    “It’s not going to change,” said Stills, who visited Miami’s VA Hospital along with Wilson last Tuesday to greet veterans. “Activism isn’t something you just kind of get involved in and then turn your back on it. Once your eyes are open to some of the things that are happening, you continue to work and try to grow and create change for the rest of your life. It’s something I’m committed to forever.”

  42. 42.

    The Dangerman

    September 17, 2018 at 12:55 am

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    The GOP would be permanently fucked. No one knows that better than McConnell.

    I may be way off (in more ways than one), but the GOP will be permanently fucked because of Trump; it’s just a matter of time and trigger. A contested primary might be a trigger. Not getting Kavanaugh would piss off a whole pile of people and be a trigger. Let’s not even talk demographics or actively pissing off basically every person without a package. Then, there’s Mueller.

    They’re sell by date is coming and they are turning funny colors (insert orange joke here).

  43. 43.

    Bill Arnold

    September 17, 2018 at 12:55 am

    @catclub:
    Oops, should have read thread fully first, sorry. Such a seven member court would have 3 women, which would be healthier.

  44. 44.

    Ruckus

    September 17, 2018 at 1:09 am

    @Mike in NC:
    One can only hope.

  45. 45.

    NotMax

    September 17, 2018 at 1:13 am

    @Jacel

    Exactly why does that make sense? And why 60? The Constitution specifies consent, not overwhelming consent.

    One certain outcome would be a return to the historical norm of approval by voice vote rather than roll call vote.

  46. 46.

    JR

    September 17, 2018 at 1:22 am

    @Kelly: That’s pretty much what the Romans would do

    Well at least until Julius Caesar

  47. 47.

    The Dangerman

    September 17, 2018 at 1:23 am

    @The Dangerman:

    Their sell by date is coming and they are turning funny colors…

    I suppose I should add this assumes “fair” elections (no significant suppression, no hacking, no meddling); of course, without fair elections, things will eventually go to shit, but I’m hopeful it won’t come to that fact.

  48. 48.

    Aleta

    September 17, 2018 at 1:28 am

    From what I can figure
    Kav was 18, Ford 16 (He graduated in ’83 at age 18.)
    or Kav was 17, Ford 15

    Trayvon Martin was 17.

  49. 49.

    MagdaInBlack

    September 17, 2018 at 1:50 am

    @Aleta:
    Here’s a man who will be party to deciding who controls a womans body.
    At 17, he obviously felt he did.
    Has that changed? Judging by his interference with that young pregnant immigrant, it has not.

  50. 50.

    smike

    September 17, 2018 at 2:03 am

    @MagdaInBlack:

    And judging from a lot of his facial expressions, he comes off as a determined, spoiled “I will get my way!” brat. Unappealing in every way.

  51. 51.

    Yutsano

    September 17, 2018 at 2:06 am

    @NotMax: The Constitution also gives each house the right to make their own rules. So the Senate could make a vote of forty yeas a pass and no one could do boo about it. Consent doesn’t have a specific definition, so the Senate can theoretically make it anything they want.

  52. 52.

    ruemara

    September 17, 2018 at 2:12 am

    I have to admit, I admire the fact that she still is out there fighting and raising a ruckus. I know she knows that just poking her nose outside sends the right and the left into a tizzyfit. Good, keep them in a tizzyfit. The more agitated and angry they are, the more mistakes they’ll make, the more opportunities we can take advantage of. I connected with a friend who does GOTV postcards to red areas, so I have that to do and I’ll donate as much as I can. I mean, the housemate is having a lean booking season until his holiday acting gigs, so we’re a little tight now, but, I’ll find a way or two to donate.

    In nice news, I booked a voiceover gig for motion comic based on a Dark Horse Alien comic universe story, so I made green tea brownies. They were very good. As was the oven-smoked pork & triple cheese radiatore mac & cheese I made for the celebration dinner. A full meal for 2 homecooked cost me less going out to eat something just like it at a local diner. Wild. It’s also funny that the pay is about the cost of the groceries.

  53. 53.

    lahke

    September 17, 2018 at 2:13 am

    Aarrggh. Cannot sleep. Usually just drop right off. Really do not want to think about Republicans now, that’s a recipe for insomnia. Can I tell you that Sweet Bird of Youth was a terrible movie? A friend and I are trying to work our way through the movie classics, but mostly they’re pretty dreadful. This was southern gothic crossed with Sunset Boulevard.

  54. 54.

    Citizen Alan

    September 17, 2018 at 2:17 am

    @The Dangerman:

    Maybe, but I’m highly doubtful; the Right was ready to fight to the end to keep the 5-4 edge.

    At the time, there wasn’t a 5-4 edge. It was 4-4 which meant that if pro-liberal appellate rulings were sent up on cert, they were automatically affirmed even if none of the conservatives joined the 4 liberals. Despite their posturing, there was little benefit to blocking Hillary’s judicial nominees that outweighed the extraordinarily bad optics.

  55. 55.

    Yutsano

    September 17, 2018 at 2:18 am

    @ruemara:

    oven-smoked pork & triple cheese radiatore mac & cheese

    I am so coming over for dinner…

  56. 56.

    ruemara

    September 17, 2018 at 2:23 am

    @Yutsano: I managed to feel like a fatass in just one meal.

  57. 57.

    The Dangerman

    September 17, 2018 at 2:27 am

    @Citizen Alan:

    At the time, there wasn’t a 5-4 edge. It was 4-4…

    I was counting Scalia’s seat that the Right HAD to keep. Or die on that hill, bad optics or not…

  58. 58.

    lahke

    September 17, 2018 at 2:28 am

    @ruemara: You two sound like folks who still have their gall bladder.

  59. 59.

    The Dangerman

    September 17, 2018 at 2:39 am

    @Yutsano:

    I am so coming over for dinner…

    Count me in too (though I’m confused what a car radiator has to do with Mac and Cheese)…

  60. 60.

    smike

    September 17, 2018 at 2:40 am

    @ruemara:
    I had no hesitation voting for Hilary. There was a chance she would fight the right wingers using their own rules, and under such a capable leader such tactics could have been productive.

    And as for the price of dinners out, they are rarely worth the cost of admission. Although, good tex mex cheese enchiladas may be an exception to that.

  61. 61.

    jl

    September 17, 2018 at 2:50 am

    I supported BS with contributions and GTOV in the primaries. But of course supported HRC with contributions and GOTV in the general.. I’m glad that she has decided to start working on getting some big electoral victories in the future, which I think is the only remedy for the mess we’re in. I especially liked

    “Third, the president is waging war on truth and reason.”

    HRC, Obama, BS, and Biden all have unique but overlapping constituencies. I hope they all get out and do whatever they can to get some big electoral wins in the midterms.

  62. 62.

    sukabi

    September 17, 2018 at 3:20 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: infrastructure shitshow from here on out.

  63. 63.

    sukabi

    September 17, 2018 at 3:36 am

    @Bill Arnold: or impeach them for lying to congress during their confirmations.

  64. 64.

    Patricia Kayden

    September 17, 2018 at 3:40 am

    @Mnemosyne: Willie Nelson has been progressive for decades. I don’t understand why some of his fans are shocked that he’s for O’Rourke. They haven’t been paying attention.

  65. 65.

    MagdaInBlack

    September 17, 2018 at 4:08 am

    @Patricia Kayden:
    They aren’t fans. They like a couple songs.

    I like a couple Ted Nugent songs. Not a fan.

  66. 66.

    OzarkHillbilly

    September 17, 2018 at 4:38 am

    Karma is a beach in England:

    Controversial commentator Katie Hopkins, who once said poor people in debt have no one else to blame but themselves, has applied for an insolvency agreement in a bid to avoid bankruptcy following a costly libel case involving the food writer Jack Monroe.

    Last year, the rightwing broadcaster was ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in damages and legal costs after she sent tweets in 2015 which falsely implied Monroe backed the defacement of war memorials by protestors.

    Monroe originally asked for Hopkins to apologise and donate £5,000 to a migrants’ charity or she would sue. But Hopkins – who had confused Monroe with the columnist Laurie Penny – refused to back down, resulting in a costly court case, with the commentator forced to pay £24,000 in damages and a substantially larger sum in legal costs.

    Meanwhile, her mainstream media career collapsed. She parted ways with Mail Online, for whom she had written a regular column, in late 2017, only a few months after losing her LBC radio show when she called for a “final solution” in response to the Manchester Arena terrorist attack. She now works for the far-right Canadian outlet Rebel Media.

    Hopkins, who has already had to sell her Devon home, applied for an individual voluntary arrangement (IVA) in May, a filing on the Individual Insolvency Register shows. Monroe told the Guardian that the agreement, which will allow Hopkins to avoid bankruptcy and manage the long-term repayment of her debts, was recently formally agreed following discussion with creditors.

    Hopkins, whose tweets suggested she is on a trip to Poland, did not immediately return a request for comment.

  67. 67.

    Amir Khalid

    September 17, 2018 at 5:33 am

    @Patricia Kayden:
    Bruce Springsteen has many Republican fans. In fact, Chris Christie, the Republican former governor of New Jersey, is Springsteen’s biggest fan by many pounds.

  68. 68.

    Citizen Alan

    September 17, 2018 at 6:47 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    That’s because the dumb fucks hear the chorus to “Born in the USA” and think it’s a jingoistic America Fuck-Yeah song.

  69. 69.

    Gelfling 545

    September 17, 2018 at 1:21 pm

    @Mary G: My son in law’s band is playing at a voter registration event at Babeville on Friday. I have to suggest they add a Willie Nelson cover as a tribute!

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