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2016 Postmortem

treestar

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22. The media could not have fluffed up the email scandal

Reply to synergie (Original post)

Sun Jan 8, 2017, 08:42 AM

Jan 2017

against any white men, IMHO. No one would have been interested.

One thing I am relieved at is that Hillary will not be going through the next four years investigated and judged over every damn thing they can lay their hands on. You know they did a lot to Obama with the hope of showing a black man cannot do the job. But it would have been even more vicious when they wanted to prove a woman couldn't.

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Flawed: Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good If Youre A Female Presidential Candidate [View all] synergie Jan 2017 OP

I honestly think being a woman metroins Jan 2017 #1

A lot of that overall hatred and quite a bit of Trumpism is rooted in misogyny. synergie Jan 2017 #2

+1000 sheshe2 Jan 2017 #4

So true! boston bean Jan 2017 #12

+1 uponit7771 Jan 2017 #14

I don't believe that. People who voted for Trump would have voted for Palin. Exilednight Jan 2017 #28

Of course you don't. nt JTFrog Jan 2017 #35

if you think misogyny had nothing to do with it, you are really in la-la land. 30 years of niyad Jan 2017 #5

Also don't forget that it is difficult for one pantry to hold the oval office for more ... spin Jan 2017 #7

How do you define "Trumpism" brer cat Jan 2017 #8

Of course you do. nt JTFrog Jan 2017 #34

Thank you for this, synergie.. will Cha Jan 2017 #3

Great read. sheshe2 Jan 2017 #6

Still makes me furious mcar Jan 2017 #9

Fantastic OP, synergie! brer cat Jan 2017 #10

ANY losing candidate goes through that same nonsense karynnj Jan 2017 #11

I think you're missing the point here, which was that this was happening throughout synergie Jan 2017 #16

I guess you missed the intra party attacks in 2000, 2004 and 200 karynnj Jan 2017 #21

Once again, I wonder if you read the post. synergie Jan 2017 #24

What you ignore is that even when she was SoS, there were congressional and Foia requests for her karynnj Jan 2017 #25

The question has never been answered honestly... Yurovsky Jan 2017 #26

So you STILL have not read the post, as you attack her to illustrate how it's not about synergie Jan 2017 #27

Look, I know you LOVE the piece, which incidentally you posted more than you are allowed to karynnj Jan 2017 #29

Wow, you "know" a lot of things that you can't support, don't you? synergie Jan 2017 #31

Talk about unsupported statements! That describes this karynnj Jan 2017 #32

I think we need to elect a woman as VP before we'll elect one president crazycatlady Jan 2017 #13

She was held to a much higher standard than any other candidate in Presidential history. Tatiana Jan 2017 #15

Exactly right. 100% oasis Jan 2017 #17

As the father of two daughters, I am so disappointed with this election Gothmog Jan 2017 #18

K&R! betsuni Jan 2017 #19

So, Clinton was "flawed." WTF does that make Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2017 #20

The media could not have fluffed up the email scandal treestar Jan 2017 #22

That's a crock of excrement meow2u3 Jan 2017 #23

People just sat back and watched bogus investigation after investigation Rex Jan 2017 #30

Well said.... Blue_Tires Jan 2017 #33