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!@#$%! · 11.12.2016, 03:49 PM

by "she wasn't a good candidate" i didn't mean that she wasn't a good potential president.

i mean that she wasn't a good candidate. she never won the love of the people the way that obama or bernie sanders did.

and she was a terrible communicator. TERRIBLE. listen to her with the ears of your average TV audience. forget for a moment your egghead self and pretend you drive a dump truck for a living and listen to any of her speeches. it's like hearing the adults in charlie brown speak.

and she rarely spoke frankly and directly or from the heart.

e.g., whenever she was confronted with the emails, for example, she'd break into cautious legalistic sentences instead of saying "im sorry if fucked up, i'll do better" or something.

sure she's a smart person, but not smart enough i guess to realize she had to come across as less cerebral, more passionate and decisive, not a hedger.

voters wanted change and she offered a lot of dependent clauses.

could have said something like:

"i will fix obamacare"

but instead said stuff like "the ACA has been a good policy that has brought many people to the ranks of the insured and has made possible the expansion of health care..." etc etc

"i will fix obamacare. more competition to drive the price down." but jeez, it's like, competition is a dirty word for some democrats.

also could have said:

"i will make college debt-free for the middle class"

but instead she'd say "many students today are struggling with student debt while lenders charge 10%, 12%, 14%.... " and eventually "no debt for anybody making under $250,000 a year"

that's shit that you put on a website not stuff that gets people on fire

like her campaign could have been... i don;t know. something

remember obama? "help is on the way" he'd do a call and response. "help is on the way".

what was hillary's mantra? nobody can tell you. forget the primaries, she could have launched a labor revolution if she had so chosen. instead all she offered were attacks-- attacks on wall street, attacks on trump, attacks on millionaires.

suchfriends for all his stubborn self-assurance was right in that she wasn't presenting a positive reason to vote for her. and we did the same here-- not "hillary is great" but "oh no how can you vote for a racist egomaniac"

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anyway here more eye-openers. including the mexican immigrant truck driver who voted for trump to save his job:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...2d1_story.html

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!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,683	by "she wasn't a good candidate" i didn't mean that she wasn't a good potential president. i mean that she wasn't a good candidate. she never won the love of the people the way that obama or bernie sanders did. and she was a terrible communicator. TERRIBLE. listen to her with the ears of your average TV audience. forget for a moment your egghead self and pretend you drive a dump truck for a living and listen to any of her speeches. it's like hearing the adults in charlie brown speak. and she rarely spoke frankly and directly or from the heart. e.g., whenever she was confronted with the emails, for example, she'd break into cautious legalistic sentences instead of saying "im sorry if fucked up, i'll do better" or something. sure she's a smart person, but not smart enough i guess to realize she had to come across as less cerebral, more passionate and decisive, not a hedger. voters wanted change and she offered a lot of dependent clauses. could have said something like: "i will fix obamacare" but instead said stuff like "the ACA has been a good policy that has brought many people to the ranks of the insured and has made possible the expansion of health care..." etc etc "i will fix obamacare. more competition to drive the price down." but jeez, it's like, competition is a dirty word for some democrats. also could have said: "i will make college debt-free for the middle class" but instead she'd say "many students today are struggling with student debt while lenders charge 10%, 12%, 14%.... " and eventually "no debt for anybody making under $250,000 a year" that's shit that you put on a website not stuff that gets people on fire like her campaign could have been... i don;t know. something remember obama? "help is on the way" he'd do a call and response. "help is on the way". what was hillary's mantra? nobody can tell you. forget the primaries, she could have launched a labor revolution if she had so chosen. instead all she offered were attacks-- attacks on wall street, attacks on trump, attacks on millionaires. suchfriends for all his stubborn self-assurance was right in that she wasn't presenting a positive reason to vote for her. and we did the same here-- not "hillary is great" but "oh no how can you vote for a racist egomaniac" -- anyway here more eye-openers. including the mexican immigrant truck driver who voted for trump to save his job: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...2d1_story.html
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