Ibanez wrote:UNI88 wrote:She knows. She, like Trump, just thinks we're all rubes who are gullible enough to believe her BS. Unfortunately for her Trump is a better showperson and did a better job of selling his BS.
I honestly thinks she believes she's above it all and everything is truly "them against us."
I had to go back and read the full quote as I remember not being offended by it at the time and didn't vote for Hillary for entirely different reasons.
"In too many places still, LGBT Americans are singled out for harassment and violence. You can get married on Saturday, post your pictures on Sunday and get fired on Monday. That's why we've got to continue the forward march of progress."
"And we cannot do it alone. I cannot do it alone. I'm not like Donald Trump, who says, 'I alone can fix it.' I've never quite figured out what it is he alone can fix. But that's not what you'll hear from me. I think we have to do this together. So, together we're gonna pass the Equality Act to guarantee full equality. We're going to put comprehensive quality affordable healthcare within reach for more people, including for mental health and addiction. We're going to take on youth homelessness, and as my wonderful, extraordinary, great daughter said, we are going to end the cruel and dangerous practice of conversion therapy. We're going to keep working toward an AIDS-free generation, a goal that I set as secretary of state, and with your help we're going to pass comprehensive gun laws. ..."
"I know there are only 60 days left to make our case -- and don't get complacent, don't see the latest outrageous, offensive, inappropriate comment and think, well, he's done this time. We are living in a volatile political environment. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic -- you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people -- now 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks -- they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America."
"But the other basket -- and I know this because I see friends from all over America here -- I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas -- as well as, you know, New York and California -- but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."
She was literally singling out about 20% of the population who would never vote for her anyway. Since everything team Clinton does is calculated I can see how they might have thought at the time that this sentiment wouldn't hurt. You could make a case that it should have helped, defining the opponent and making independents not want to side with THAT guy and those people.
In any event, it should have been far less offensive to far fewer people than Obama's 'clinging to their guns and bibles' quote. That clearly identified two groups with significant populations in the US but didn't cost Obama the election.
How many people thought 'Hey...I'm a deplorable! I ain't voting or her now!' Hillary was unelectable because she's unlikeable on so many other levels. Calling out people as deplorable is daily passtime on here yet somehow you are all deeply offended.
