Hillary Clinton may have lost the presidential election to Donald Trump, but she's in a strong position to bring home a gold medal in self-serving blame-storming -- though knowing her, she'll likely blow that large lead, too. If you're keeping score at home, feel free to tally the outward-facing excuses she offered in less than two minutes during an interview with CBS News' Jane Pauley on Sunday morning. Life is just so unfair:
But the laundry list in that clip excluded a cold, hard truth: Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate. She a corrupt, unlikable liar who managed to blow a gimme race against a profoundly flawed opponent whose unfavorable rating among the electorate was an extraordinary 61 percent. None of those inescapable truths are about Comey, or Putin, or voter ID, or identity politics. They're about her character flaws, Democrats' foolishness in stacking the deck for her, and the power of the voting public's
Good luck making sense of this
— Bill Scher (@billscher) September 7, 2017
+/- ratings, NBC/WSJ
Obama 51/35
Bush 45/30
Sanders 44/30
Trump 36/52
HRC 30/53https://t.co/OnI5crAKfv
It's almost as if people aren't enamored with whiny losers who reflexively reallocate blame and attack ideological allies who had the temerity to challenge them. Imagine that. I'll leave you with this, with a hat tip to Duane Patterson:
May she never, ever leave us.
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