Hillary Clinton Is An Amazingly Brave Woman

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49. Ah yes. There are always those for whom Let's-Dump-On-Hillary is the favorite indoor sport.

Won't be me. And if she's not allowed to blame him, then I will be very glad to step in and handle that job. Besides, I'm sorry to break it to you, but she happens to be right on this one. AND she HAS taken responsibility for whatever mistakes might have been made in her campaign - even though her campaign was NOT the mess that some wish to portray it as being. NO campaign is perfect, INCLUDING Bernie's. But hers was mighty enough, and effective enough, to have won the popular vote, free 'n' clear and unquestionably, AND by a substantial amount. There isn't a politician alive who wouldn't give anything for an almost three-million-vote majority over his or her opponent.

I've loved and admired Hillary Clinton since I first started hearing about her at the start of Campaign 1992. She had me at "well, I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies..." And after that, when she declared she wasn't simply another wife "standin' by my man like Tammy Wynette", I almost flipped out. How on earth did she know and understand me so completely - while never having met me nor even being aware that I existed? I was astonished by how much I found myself relating to her, and realizing how much we had in common.

She was a new kind of woman, the same kind of woman I myself was trying to be, back then, as an accomplished professional in her own right, and then also as a working mother. That's exactly where I was, at that time, too. It was an electrifying and deeply validating realization for me. Whatever it was that I was trying to do, she was actually doing, in spades, with bells on, and with a cherry on top. And if I noticed people around me who were threatened by me and whatever small-time achievements I could claim to have made (and you better believe I DID notice!), then I can only imagine the exponentially and grotesquely larger situation that she faced from opponents who were jealous and resentful of her success. She was earthshakingly magnificent - then AND now. And she has more guts in one eyelash than trump and his entire weasely family and entourage could dream of acquiring.

She's still One Humdinger of an inspiration. To me, and to my daughter's generation, as many of them have told me.