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sheshe2

(83,669 posts)
Tue Nov 15, 2016, 11:55 PM Nov 2016

Appreciation Thread For Hillary Clinton. She broke that ceiling.

Okay, you can love or hate her. However I believe that the hate is misplaced and sexist.

She ran an amazing campaign against all odds. The odds, so many men refuse to accept a woman as an equal. She was held to a different level of acceptance by the media. She was trashed by them all.

She broke the ceiling as the first woman to ever become our Presidential Candidate For the United States. FIRST AND SHE BROKE IT.

Then...then she won the popular vote by over a million.

Raise your hand please.

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Appreciation Thread For Hillary Clinton. She broke that ceiling. (Original Post) sheshe2 Nov 2016 OP
I will give her a kick. sheshe2 Nov 2016 #1
She has my admiration forever. northoftheborder Nov 2016 #2
She did a great job, against many many factions. Our champion, and I will never forget that. Bongo Prophet Nov 2016 #3
Hillary won the vote. No one should be allowed to say "She lost," or to pontificate... Hekate Nov 2016 #4
My hand is raised. herding cats Nov 2016 #5
We are here, herding cats. sheshe2 Nov 2016 #6
sheshe2, you touch my heart. herding cats Nov 2016 #8
we do this together. there is no other way. sheshe2 Nov 2016 #9
K & R SunSeeker Nov 2016 #7
I am so proud of her..... Little Star Nov 2016 #10
Raises hand Starry Messenger Nov 2016 #11
She is my President DemonGoddess Nov 2016 #12
Yes shenmue Nov 2016 #13
She's behaved with her usual grace since last week. LisaM Nov 2016 #14
A great American and a magnificent human being Ellen Forradalom Nov 2016 #15
WHAT hate? BootinUp Nov 2016 #16
To Hillary!! radical noodle Nov 2016 #17
I was thinking that today. She was the first woman to become a major party nominee. wisteria Nov 2016 #18
1000 sheshe2 Nov 2016 #20
Hillary fleabiscuit Nov 2016 #19
Here! Aristus Nov 2016 #21
Thanks Aristus! sheshe2 Nov 2016 #23
She won more votes than any white male presidential candidate ever did. athena Nov 2016 #22

Hekate

(90,565 posts)
4. Hillary won the vote. No one should be allowed to say "She lost," or to pontificate...
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 12:18 AM
Nov 2016

....with long faces on "How she lost it for the Democrats," or any of that bullshit.

SHE WON, and every Democrat who appears in the media in any capacity should be honor-bound to make those the first words out of his or her mouth in any discussion of the way forward.

The Electoral College has got to go. Senator Barbara Boxer put forward a bill to that effect today. It will go nowhere in the moment, but we the people need to take it up.

Furthermore, there should be a law, and I mean a LAW, against allowing the media to call a presidential election before the absentee ballots are counted. They are still being counted, and Hillary is adding to her total all the time. A presidential election is not some form of entertainment for the financial benefit of the television stations. It's deadly serious.

Gods, it's good to be back home. I love our other home, but even so.

herding cats

(19,558 posts)
5. My hand is raised.
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 01:06 AM
Nov 2016

My heart is with her. Even though, now I'm still in shock, to be honest.

I've been lost, I'm glad to be back amongst friends.

I took all your voices for granted I think, and I'm so very sorry. When you were cut off from me, I realized how much reading you, all of you, meant to me. I want to thank you all collectively.

I appreciate you one and all.

herding cats

(19,558 posts)
8. sheshe2, you touch my heart.
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 01:20 AM
Nov 2016

You make me feel so much less lost and alone in this.

I can't thank you enough right now. Honestly, I can't.

Little Star

(17,055 posts)
10. I am so proud of her.....
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 01:52 AM
Nov 2016

But that electoral college has got to go! Elections should be won by popular vote.

LisaM

(27,794 posts)
14. She's behaved with her usual grace since last week.
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 03:02 PM
Nov 2016

I'm afraid we're going to have to hide in this forum again. The PostMortem is getting ugly.

radical noodle

(7,997 posts)
17. To Hillary!!
Thu Nov 17, 2016, 01:12 AM
Nov 2016

I love her. What a wonderful role model she is. I would never have been able to take all the abuse and still keep going. She never gives up, she always does the right thing for others and it will be a very long time before anyone does as much for this country and the world as she has.

Our hearts are broken, but not because of her but for her.

 

wisteria

(19,581 posts)
18. I was thinking that today. She was the first woman to become a major party nominee.
Thu Nov 17, 2016, 10:10 AM
Nov 2016

Constant, small cracks in that glass ceiling. It is going to come crashing down one day. (and I hope it is on Trump's head.)

athena

(4,187 posts)
22. She won more votes than any white male presidential candidate ever did.
Mon Nov 21, 2016, 05:48 PM
Nov 2016

The only person who won a larger number of votes than she did was President Obama.

I am so heartbroken that this country will not be benefiting from her talents, experience, intelligence, honesty, and hard work over the next four years.

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