#STFUHillary Part 3
In the wake of the campaign, and Trump's at-turns tumultuous, at-turns disastrous first four-plus months in office, Clinton appears to have convinced herself that her role in her defeat was minor when compared to the various forces -- media, Comey, Russians, gender and societal stereotypes against women in power -- aligned against her. Even her own party's national campaign committee -- with political ally Debbie Wasserman Schultz at the helm!
"I'm now the nominee of the Democratic Party," Clinton recalled to Mossberg and Swisher. "I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party," Clinton said. "It was bankrupt, it was on the verge of insolvency, its data was mediocre to poor, non-existent, wrong."
The truth of the matter is this: Hillary Clinton's name was at the top of the campaign and signed on the checks her staff received. It was
her decision to set up a private email server and exclusively use it for her communications as secretary of state -- the first person in her position to do that.
She was the one who kept g
iving high-paid speeches to the likes of Goldman Sachs even after it was clear she was going to run for president. (
"They paid me," Clinton explained Wednesday.
)
She was the one who struggled to grasp -- despite the repeated warnings of her staff -- that the email issue was causing her major image problems on questions of honesty and trustworthiness.
She was the one who premised her entire general election strategy on the idea that once voters knew who Trump was and what he said, they would have no choice but to vote for her.
She's the one who decided against visiting Wisconsin even one time between the Democratic convention and the general election.
And she was the one who referred to 25% of Americans as "
baskets of deplorables"
While
Clinton says she takes full responsibility for her defeat, everything else she says about the election belies that rhetoric. What taking the full blame and responsibility actually means is saying this: There were lots and lots of circumstances outside my control that hurt my chances. But at the end of the day, it was my campaign and my name on the ballot. And that means I lost and I own that.
Clinton isn't saying that. P
robably because she simply doesn't believe it.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/01/politics/hillary-clinton-2016/index.html