A tale of two leaders of the left: New books by Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton

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125. Revisionism can be so amusing.

Mrs. Clinton's memoir will be released tomorrow. She has made two excerpts available, one concerning the Trump debate stalking incident and the other concerning her marriage to Bill.

https://www.vogue.com/article/hillary-clinton-memoir-what-happened-how-bill-clinton-helped-her-cope-2016-election-loss

The purloined page in the twitter post that engendered privileged umbrage and righteous indignation to the degree that a book-burning was recommended was not an excerpt released by the publisher or the author. Funny how it quickly became the focus of the third party spoilers.

This is especially odd because the very first personal memoir on the 2016 presidential election was rather insensitively released on November 9 to maximize publicity and profits, which might explain why the easily outraged glossed over this page:

Link to tweet

How very inspirational and statesmanlike! How measured, mature and self-reflective! Of course it is perfectly reasonable for a candidate to absolve himself from any personal responsibility whatsoever for an electoral loss; after all, he had only been inside the Beltway for the past 26 years. It's difficult to forge meaningful collegiale relationships in a scant two and a half decades.

As for the wisdom of sourcing the budding literary critic cited in the OP, well she was clever enough to urge others to support and vote for Jill Stein, while insuring that she reserved self-serving plausible deniability about having done so herself. It is the very essence of a profile in courage.

Because she is the "expert" you site, you clearly take Ms. McClellen seriously. I thank you for the compliment of not putting me in the same company as the self-serving, short-sighted, and shallow. It is exactly as I would want it.