Yesterday, from Hillary Clinton:
With their votes to make the American president accountable to no one, Republican senators have put the interests of one president over the interests of all Americans.
The only remedy now is for us all to vote in overwhelming numbers to replace them—and him—in November.
Amen.
Or imagine how good it will be to get rid of this president, you can watch Howard Stern’s long interview with Hillary Clinton. He’s a very big fan of hers, so he gushes a lot, but as human beings or leaders go, she beats the Toddler hands down.
For the most important part of the interview, go to the brief Russian Meddling & 2020 Election section in part 4 further down the page.
This is part 1.
0:00 – Therapy & Religion
4:24 – Family & Upbringing
15:39 – College Years & Obama
20:35 – Meeting Bill Clinton
0:00 – Favorite President
5:08 – Falling in Love
12:55 – Investigating Nixon & Meeting MLK
18:32 – Becoming First Lady & Public Scrutiny
0:00 – Life in the Public Eye
9:33 – Economy & Bin Laden Raid
18:31 – Russian Meddling & 2020 Election
0:00 – “The Book of Gutsy Women”
12:17 – Nelson Mandela
21:01 – The Beatles & the Rolling Stones
Ezra Klein, the editor-in-chief of Vox, interviewed Hillary Clinton for 51 minutes this week. I thought she avoided answering one question. It was something like, how would you rate American voters in general? Aside from that, I was tremendously impressed. It is a tragedy that she lost.
A few topics discussed:
16:00 How the media handled the presidential campaign
17:45 Healthcare, including the important distinction between universal care, which should be our goal, and single-payer, which is only one way, and probably not the best way, to get universal care
26:30 American politics today
36:00 The 2016 election
42:00 How women voted
44:50 The effect of the Comey letter plus the Electoral College, voter suppression and dangers ahead.
And that’s a good thing. She was interviewed at a conference in California yesterday. There was also a Q&A session.
She talks about the election and the challenges we face, including what she calls the “weaponization” of social media. She doesn’t mince words. I thought she could have answered one of the questions better, and I disagree with one thing she said, but after listening to her speak for an hour and 17 minutes, I came away feeling better about America and the future. Maybe you will too.
The video and a transcript of the whole conversation are available here at the Recode site.
Hillary Clinton was interviewed today at a “Women for Women” town hall. The story making news is that, after admitting she made many mistakes in the 2016 campaign, she repeated what the statisticians who have studied the election say: if the election had been held ten days earlier, before the Comey letter was leaked, she would be President. That’s true, but apparently she’s not supposed to bring it up, according to some observers. Those observers can go to hell.
When you lose the Electoral College by 80,000 votes in three states, there are lots of reasons why. But we should never forget that interference by Russia and the FBI, along with the bizarre attention paid to Clinton’s emails by the corporate media, were major factors in putting a buffoonish but dangerous con man in the White House.
Here is the interview:
