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daybranch

(1,309 posts)
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 08:38 AM Jan 2016

Is the best qualified meme just an

attempt to portray Hillary as being denied her earned positions because , because she is a woman. Many women have ben denied many things they deserved in this country, but it is extremely difficult to see how this millionaire woman, has had any similar situation. I find this whining that I would have the job if I was a man very non-compelling and yes she sure ain't my grandmother whose husband died of black lung in Appalachia as she tried to make ends meet after most mines closed. How many of her neighbors kids had no shoes? How many stuffed their shoes with plastic wrapped cardboard to avoid the cold water in the mines.
Lets face it, Hillary has enjoyed all the benefits of white privilege. She just ain't like us and she cannot understand or just does not want to understand. She said she went on a listening tour but all I see is a loud authoritarian telling us she always knows better.

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Is the best qualified meme just an (Original Post) daybranch Jan 2016 OP
I don't know exactly what 'best-qualifies' her. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jan 2016 #1
She is not the best qualified so it does not matter to me. SamKnause Jan 2016 #2
This article with notes by Obama's 2008 strategist, (who HRC hired this time) Benenson, GreatGazoo Jan 2016 #3

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
1. I don't know exactly what 'best-qualifies' her.
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 08:55 AM
Jan 2016

After her time as SoS, the world is a far worse mess than before it, and we've since learned that she was one of the ones pressuring President Obama into some of the worst mistakes that help make it worse, rather than heal the nightmare that W unleashed. Constantly goading him into being more of a warhawk, unleashing more death, more misery.

She's learned since 2008 - she's learned how to campaign more effectively, how to tell more people what they want to hear now, while planning to ignore them completely once she gets what she wants. But as she showed us in her stint as SoS, she's still the same person she was then, interested only in padding her own resume to become a 'forever' part of history by being the first female president of the United States. The 'ultimate' privilege she feels she deserves because of how 'exceptional' she is, not because she actually gives a damn about anyone else.

SamKnause

(13,091 posts)
2. She is not the best qualified so it does not matter to me.
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 08:57 AM
Jan 2016

She has proven time and time again she has very poor judgment.

People die when she in wrong. (Iraq and Libya)

I am a 62 year old female.

I do not want her to be the first U.S. female president.

She will be a disaster.

She is chomping at the bit to get us into war with Iran.

GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)
3. This article with notes by Obama's 2008 strategist, (who HRC hired this time) Benenson,
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 09:24 AM
Jan 2016

says a lot about how they think her strengths and weaknesses are. In 2008 the HRC thinking was that because of 9/11 voters wanted someone experienced from day 1. They sought to tear down Obama on that basis. It didn't work and HRC finished 3rd in Iowa:

The kill-Hillary strategy began with an October memo that was written by several top Obama officials, including Axelrod, Grisolano, Pfeiffer, the campaign manager David Plouffe, and Joel Benenson, Obama’s pollster. “Joel Benenson was a key contributor to how we stack up against her message-wise,” Grisolano said.
...
The next section was headlined, “The Fault Line: Hillary’s the Problem, Not the Answer,” and the strategists laid out the case against Clinton in stark terms, explaining that everything in Obama’s campaign, including his slogan—“Change you can believe in”—was meant to provide a contrast with Hillary, not on policy, but on character:

“Change you can believe in” was intended to frame the argument along the character fault line, and this is where we can and must win this fight. We cannot let Clinton especially blur the lines on who is the genuine agent of change in this election.

• The reason Clinton can’t be trusted or believed when it comes to change is that she represents, to a great degree, the three sources of discontent formulated in our premise.
• She’s driven by political calculation not conviction, regularly backing away and shifting positions on issues ranging from war, to Social Security, to trade, to reform.
• She embodies trench warfare vs. Republicans, and is consumed with beating them rather than unifying the country and building consensus to get things done.
• She prides herself on working the system, not changing it—rebuffing reforms on everything from lobbyist donations to budget earmarks.


http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-to-beat-hillary-clinton

The Obama campaign successfully flipped HRC's strengths into liabilities and here we are 8 years later. Hillary is still Hillary...
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