Why do people (still) like Hillary Clinton?

[mieastwick]

From the left, she's disliked by jfern types for obvious reasons. From the right, she's disliked by almost everyone for obvious reasons. From the center, she's disliked in general for obvious reasons. But she's still somehow the most admired woman in America. For what? Being a massive corrupt failure in life?

It makes no sense to me. Then again, it never made any sense to me that she won more than 1% of the vote in the 2016 Dem primary. Since this is a pro-Hillary site, I'm asking for your suggestions. I don't get it.

[ApatheticAustrian]

i wouldn't defend her if the attacks on her wouldn't be so ridiculous.

she is someone who believes in patriotism and duty and giving her life for the country and she worked hard, even while she is not a gifted politican, which makes this even harder.

a decent even while over-ambitioned woman at the wrong time at the wrong place.

[LLR]

She's the most accomplished female politician in America, almost unquestionably. She's been fighting for civil rights and women's rights for decades. I think her time is done, but she's an admirable person in terms of what she's accomplished.

[MT Treasurer]

This forum is hardly representative of the country as a whole.

[NeverAgain]

She's the most accomplished female politician in America, almost unquestionably. She's been fighting for civil rights and women's rights for decades. I think her time is done, but she's an admirable person in terms of what she's accomplished.

Most definitely this.

[Santander]

She's an imperfect person with imperfect judgement, but who isn't? I admire her unbridled ambition and dogged determination to get what she wants. In her mind, I think she believes she is doing mostly good things.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Do they?

[America Needs R'hllor]

She's the most accomplished female politician in America, almost unquestionably. She's been fighting for civil rights and women's rights for decades. I think her time is done, but she's an admirable person in terms of what she's accomplished.

[Beet]

Why would we stop liking her just because she was jibbed out of the presidency by Comey, the Russians, and the Electoral College?

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

This forum is hardly representative of the country as a whole.

[TDAS04]

Why would we stop liking her just because she was jibbed out of the presidency by Comey, the Russians, and the Electoral College?

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I do think she is unfairly blamed for a wider failing of the democratic party in the Obama era.

[Mr. Smith]

I do think she is unfairly blamed for a wider failing of the democratic party in the Obama era.

This.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Kneejerk partisanship

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

I do think she is unfairly blamed for a wider failing of the democratic party in the Obama era.

This.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Kneejerk partisanship

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

On the whole, people who have harsh words for Clinton yet who have vanishingly few points of criticism with regard to Obama and other party leaders of his era aren't thinking hard enough about what is happening to the Democratic Party today. Particularly now that Obama is cashing in with a $60M book deal and drifting from private island to private island pitching for money toward his presidential library and philanthropic "initiatives" that are really more about political action and self-promotion.

In retrospect, it was bafflingly obvious that Obama and his ilk were dazzled far too much by the lives of the beautiful people. I mean, he even sent his children to a fee-paying private school (i just found that out the other day), which is always a betrayal for ostensibly "centre-right" politicians.

[Santander]

In retrospect, it was bafflingly obvious that Obama and his ilk were dazzled far too much by the lives of the beautiful people. I mean, he even sent his children to a fee-paying private school (i just found that out the other day), which is always a betrayal for ostensibly "centre-right" politicians.

To be fair, it'd be distracting and problematic for him to have sent his kids to a DC public school with the Secret Service and all. I don't know where the Obama kids went to school in Chicago.

[fhtagn]

Kneejerk partisanship

[Cory]

She's the most accomplished female politician in America, almost unquestionably. She's been fighting for civil rights and women's rights for decades. I think her time is done, but she's an admirable person in terms of what she's accomplished.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Kneejerk partisanship

[RI]

She's the most accomplished female politician in America, almost unquestionably. She's been fighting for civil rights and women's rights for decades. I think her time is done, but she's an admirable person in terms of what she's accomplished.

Hillary's accomplished virtually nothing in her life that wasn't a direct result of her husband's political success. Virtually every time the onus has been on her, it's been a complete disaster.

[Antonio the Sixth]

encouraging Bill to sign the third Republican welfare reform bill

Ugh, I had no idea she had a hand in this too.

[Beet]

Lol, only men could take a look at the record of the most admired woman in America for 20 years straight who has gotten further than any other woman in politics and say she "accomplished virtually nothing in her life that wasn't a direct result of her husband's political success". The definition of sexism right there.

[Beet]

Lol, only men could take a look at the record of the most admired woman in America for 20 years straight who has gotten further than any other woman in politics and say she "accomplished virtually nothing in her life that wasn't a direct result of her husband's political success". The definition of sexism right there.

It's true, that characterization is somewhat unfair. If not for Bill Clinton, it's very likely that Hillary Clinton would have made a name for herself as one of the most stunningly successful real estate investors in her time.

Without James Smith, Woodrow Wilson would have made a name for himself as one of the most stunningly reformist presidents of Princeton University, but you don't hear Smith's name brought up much in evaluations of Wilson.