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KR (OH)'s avatar

I’m not sure I understand you correctly. You’re saying that class and race divisions at your women’s college were Hillary Clinton’s fault? I’m guessing it wasn’t Wellesley since you don’t say so, so she likely wasn’t even there. This is a woman who has spent her entire career battling class and race and gender divisions. You’re also saying that her efforts to keep her family intact were all a front so that she could become a senator more than a decade later? Can you see how none of that makes the slightest bit of sense?

Marriages are private places. None of us can or should judge the compromises and forgivenesses people make in their marriages, especially when there are children. Not even hers, and not after her public humiliation. Don’t be so quick to cast judgement on something you likely know nothing about. None of us do, only the two of them do, and it’s none of our business. Her decision to stay in her marriage wasn’t an insult to anyone. Reducing what was almost certainly an agonizing decision to Clinton’s sexual prowess speaks ill of you, not her.

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Laura Thomas's avatar

You know what didn’t “make the slightest bit of sense,” KR? Her deciding to move to suburban NY (not from there, never lived there, dodn’t work there; it was demographically selected) and decide she was owed a Senate seat from there, expensive “listening tour” the state, and sit back and be given that little bauble just like an NBA wife recently sported some “I’m sorry” bling. We’re a welcoming people to immigrants, New Yorkers, but how about acknowledging the truth?

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Tom's avatar

Cough cough Bobby Kennedy in 68 cough cough

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Laura Thomas's avatar

And: what else would make a woman of substance set the example to a daughter and Our nation’s daughters that you put up, shut up, and parade your family so that you keep what’s coming to you? What they said to each other is THEIR business but what they used OUR country’s political pomp/pageantry given OUR nation’s press documenting every gesture is fair visual rhetoric for analysis and what it says about me is that I understand verbal and non-verbal Presidential rhetoric, KR.

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Gail Adams VA/FL's avatar

I find this offensive. This was breaking while I was in the middle of an harassment suit against my company. The choices I made were for self preservation considering the times. It’s easy to judge through a mis shaped lens.

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Laura Thomas's avatar

She wasn’t battling race and class divisions when she had people like Carville say things like “drag a $20 bill through a trailer park” and let the dogs our on (white and bipoc) women to whose bodies her husband allegedly helped himself without obtaining consent.

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KR (OH)'s avatar

Laura, none of that is anything she herself did. I get it, you don’t like her. Because Bernie, neo-lib, blah blah blah. I hope you’re never in the position of having to decide to save your marriage or bail after your husband’s infidelity, do it publicly, and have people 25 years later judging you for it. I’m going to go work in the garden. It’s too nice of a day to spend it arguing with you.

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