It’s OK To Mourn For Our First Female President

[Ray From Cleveland]

How come it only counts when it's a liberal Democrat? In the name of liberal equality, shouldn't rag weed posing as a rose shed equal tears for Trump's ass-kicking of Fiorina? Seriously, I'm uncertain where and when to play the woman card.

Agreed. Or how about the first female Vice President? Not only was there no pity by the left for Palin, they continued to attack her for the next several years.

 

[SavannahMann]

We saw what happens when a woman dares to seek power. It was heartbreaking.

Six months ago I lay in bed with tears in my eyes. I was staring at my tiny iPhone screen, watching a larger-than-life woman stand before a packed crowd in Brooklyn, dressed all in white like some kind of goddess wizard, making history as she officially became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

For the first time, a woman had a shot at real political power. For the first time, we could tell our daughters: You could be anything! And it would actually be true. As autumn approached, you could feel the excitement. Women were on the brink. On the morning of Election Day, they dressed in pantsuits and welled up, holding their little girls’ hands at the voting booth, posting adorable photos.

That night was a devastation. Ambitious women and girls across the country didn’t get a new role model. They got a smackdown.

Six months ago I lay in bed with tears in my eyes. I was staring at my tiny iPhone screen, watching a larger-than-life woman stand before a packed crowd in Brooklyn, dressed all in white like some kind of goddess wizard, making history as she officially became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

For the first time, a woman had a shot at real political power. For the first time, we could tell our daughters: You could be anything! And it would actually be true. As autumn approached, you could feel the excitement. Women were on the brink. On the morning of Election Day, they dressed in pantsuits and welled up, holding their little girls’ hands at the voting booth, posting adorable photos.

That night was a devastation. Ambitious women and girls across the country didn’t get a new role model. They got a smackdown.

Though the sexism behind Clinton’s loss has hardly been a secret, it’s taken me awhile to truly grapple with what lays at the bottom of those election results. Clinton’s loss isn’t simply about emails or Russian hacking or James Comey or the perils of the Electoral College or the struggles of the so-called white working class. Underneath that, her loss has everything to do with the different expectations men and women face in our country. Her loss is about what we do to women who dare to seek power.

This struck me as I read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ incredible essay on Barack Obama’s presidency. “To secure the White House,” Coates writes in The Atlantic, “Donald Trump needed only money and white bluster.” This is the simplest evidence you need to understand that of course racism played a role Trump’s election, Coates writes.

Immediately, I realized, Coates missed something.

It wasn’t just money and bluster.

Trump is a man.

Much of the country went for the guy. Sure, technically she got more votes, is winning the popular vote by millions, but a huge percentage of the country went for him. Obama voters switched sides. He won.

With his utter lack of government experience, track record of lies, without disclosing his taxes, with his hateful comments about women, his boast about sexual assault. For all that, Trump was seen as more “authentic” than her. More likable.

That’s sexism. You can dress it up in as many ill-advised email servers or Benghazi hearings as you like.

Time and again, men get a pass.

More: It’s OK To Mourn For Our First Female President

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Mourn? I'm celebrating the fact that we prevented the corrupt and Inept from taking office. I could care less about her Gender, it is her performance and record that I object to.

 

[westwall]

We saw what happens when a woman dares to seek power. It was heartbreaking.

Six months ago I lay in bed with tears in my eyes. I was staring at my tiny iPhone screen, watching a larger-than-life woman stand before a packed crowd in Brooklyn, dressed all in white like some kind of goddess wizard, making history as she officially became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

For the first time, a woman had a shot at real political power. For the first time, we could tell our daughters: You could be anything! And it would actually be true. As autumn approached, you could feel the excitement. Women were on the brink. On the morning of Election Day, they dressed in pantsuits and welled up, holding their little girls’ hands at the voting booth, posting adorable photos.

That night was a devastation. Ambitious women and girls across the country didn’t get a new role model. They got a smackdown.

Six months ago I lay in bed with tears in my eyes. I was staring at my tiny iPhone screen, watching a larger-than-life woman stand before a packed crowd in Brooklyn, dressed all in white like some kind of goddess wizard, making history as she officially became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

For the first time, a woman had a shot at real political power. For the first time, we could tell our daughters: You could be anything! And it would actually be true. As autumn approached, you could feel the excitement. Women were on the brink. On the morning of Election Day, they dressed in pantsuits and welled up, holding their little girls’ hands at the voting booth, posting adorable photos.

That night was a devastation. Ambitious women and girls across the country didn’t get a new role model. They got a smackdown.

Though the sexism behind Clinton’s loss has hardly been a secret, it’s taken me awhile to truly grapple with what lays at the bottom of those election results. Clinton’s loss isn’t simply about emails or Russian hacking or James Comey or the perils of the Electoral College or the struggles of the so-called white working class. Underneath that, her loss has everything to do with the different expectations men and women face in our country. Her loss is about what we do to women who dare to seek power.

This struck me as I read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ incredible essay on Barack Obama’s presidency. “To secure the White House,” Coates writes in The Atlantic, “Donald Trump needed only money and white bluster.” This is the simplest evidence you need to understand that of course racism played a role Trump’s election, Coates writes.

Immediately, I realized, Coates missed something.

It wasn’t just money and bluster.

Trump is a man.

Much of the country went for the guy. Sure, technically she got more votes, is winning the popular vote by millions, but a huge percentage of the country went for him. Obama voters switched sides. He won.

With his utter lack of government experience, track record of lies, without disclosing his taxes, with his hateful comments about women, his boast about sexual assault. For all that, Trump was seen as more “authentic” than her. More likable.

That’s sexism. You can dress it up in as many ill-advised email servers or Benghazi hearings as you like.

Time and again, men get a pass.

More: It’s OK To Mourn For Our First Female President

Amen! If you liked the above, you should read the other half of the link.

Marrying Bill could only take her so far, but she did ok considering she had nothing of her own to offer.

She earned three times more than Bill when he was governor...

That's easy to do when you're a criminal and without ethics or morals. Bill was merely amoral and a skirt chaser. The shrilary is truly evil. Power is her only motivator.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

haha I love all these responses to this thread. The main thing we have to remember is the fact that first of all, she is not the first woman to have a place in political power. I must say that all of the other women that hold political positions now, and all of the ones in trumps new cabinet, worked for it. Clinton married someone who was famous and thats the only thing she's got. She's a 3 time loser, she didn't appeal in 2008 and she still doesn't appeal to the american people. Obama decided to give her the position of secretary of state and she never even showed us that she could potentially be a good presidential candidate, because she never got anything done.
Lastly, the funniest part about all of this is that even almost 2 months later, people on the left are still throwing temper tantrums. from trying to get the electors to change their vote, or blaming the russians for their loss, its embarrassing.

Simply put, the woman doesn't know how to conduct herself.

She spent a lot of time sitting home getting drunk while Donald was doing multiple appearances across the country. She showed her true colors when she categorized people as a basket of deplorables. When she came here to Cleveland, she was invited to meet with the Cleveland police and she declined. Instead, she met with leaders of Black Lies Matter. Her entertainment that day looked like something off of the Black Entertainment channel, and then she wonders how she lost the white vote.

She couldnt come out on election night because she was in a drunken rage in her hotel room. Her secret service WOULD NOT allow her to leave the hotel and speak to america because she was throwing a tantrum. I have read multiple articles on this, she began throwing things and breaking mirrors, shouting profanities. So instead they had to send out our favorite frog; John Podesta because this candidate was in an uncontrollable rage! But yeah....lets mourn her loss....

I heard she threw a wine bottle through the television.

Welcome to USMB by the way.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

We saw what happens when a woman dares to seek power. It was heartbreaking.

Six months ago I lay in bed with tears in my eyes. I was staring at my tiny iPhone screen, watching a larger-than-life woman stand before a packed crowd in Brooklyn, dressed all in white like some kind of goddess wizard, making history as she officially became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

For the first time, a woman had a shot at real political power. For the first time, we could tell our daughters: You could be anything! And it would actually be true. As autumn approached, you could feel the excitement. Women were on the brink. On the morning of Election Day, they dressed in pantsuits and welled up, holding their little girls’ hands at the voting booth, posting adorable photos.

That night was a devastation. Ambitious women and girls across the country didn’t get a new role model. They got a smackdown.

Six months ago I lay in bed with tears in my eyes. I was staring at my tiny iPhone screen, watching a larger-than-life woman stand before a packed crowd in Brooklyn, dressed all in white like some kind of goddess wizard, making history as she officially became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

For the first time, a woman had a shot at real political power. For the first time, we could tell our daughters: You could be anything! And it would actually be true. As autumn approached, you could feel the excitement. Women were on the brink. On the morning of Election Day, they dressed in pantsuits and welled up, holding their little girls’ hands at the voting booth, posting adorable photos.

That night was a devastation. Ambitious women and girls across the country didn’t get a new role model. They got a smackdown.

Though the sexism behind Clinton’s loss has hardly been a secret, it’s taken me awhile to truly grapple with what lays at the bottom of those election results. Clinton’s loss isn’t simply about emails or Russian hacking or James Comey or the perils of the Electoral College or the struggles of the so-called white working class. Underneath that, her loss has everything to do with the different expectations men and women face in our country. Her loss is about what we do to women who dare to seek power.

This struck me as I read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ incredible essay on Barack Obama’s presidency. “To secure the White House,” Coates writes in The Atlantic, “Donald Trump needed only money and white bluster.” This is the simplest evidence you need to understand that of course racism played a role Trump’s election, Coates writes.

Immediately, I realized, Coates missed something.

It wasn’t just money and bluster.

Trump is a man.

Much of the country went for the guy. Sure, technically she got more votes, is winning the popular vote by millions, but a huge percentage of the country went for him. Obama voters switched sides. He won.

With his utter lack of government experience, track record of lies, without disclosing his taxes, with his hateful comments about women, his boast about sexual assault. For all that, Trump was seen as more “authentic” than her. More likable.

That’s sexism. You can dress it up in as many ill-advised email servers or Benghazi hearings as you like.

Time and again, men get a pass.

More: It’s OK To Mourn For Our First Female President

Amen! If you liked the above, you should read the other half of the link.

Mourn? I'm celebrating the fact that we prevented the corrupt and Inept from taking office. I could care less about her Gender, it is her performance and record that I object to.

When Democrats attack somebody on the right, it's not because of their race or gender. When Republicans do the same, it is.

 

[Lakhota]

Mourning in America - by 65,844,954 Hillary voters (2,865,075 more than Trump). We weep.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Mourning in America - by 65,844,954 Hillary voters (2,865,075 more than Trump). We weep.

Weep? I thought you were all moving to Canada!

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Mourning in America - by 65,844,954 Hillary voters (2,865,075 more than Trump). We weep.

Trump won where it counted.

 

[Lakhota]

Mourning in America - by 65,844,954 Hillary voters (2,865,075 more than Trump). We weep.

Weep? I thought you were all moving to Canada!

Canada? Why? Adolf Trump will likely be impeached within two years - if he doesn't start a nuclear holocaust before then.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Mourning in America - by 65,844,954 Hillary voters (2,865,075 more than Trump). We weep.

Weep? I thought you were all moving to Canada!

Canada? Why? Adolf Trump will likely be impeached within two years - if he doesn't start a nuclear holocaust before then.

Why? Because that's what the left was saying after he won. In fact the Canadian authorities were preparing for this slew of Americans to try and get into the country. I think they found like 20 or something like that.

 

[Lakhota]

Mourning in America - by 65,844,954 Hillary voters (2,865,075 more than Trump). We weep.

Trump won where it counted.

Yeah, thanks to NaziCon gerrymandering, voter suppression, conspiracy theories, fake news, lies, Comey, and Putin. You must feel really proud.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Mourning in America - by 65,844,954 Hillary voters (2,865,075 more than Trump). We weep.

Trump won where it counted.

Yeah, thanks to NaziCon gerrymandering, voter suppression, conspiracy theories, fake news, lies, Comey, and Putin. You must feel really proud.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Mourning in America - by 65,844,954 Hillary voters (2,865,075 more than Trump). We weep.

Trump won where it counted.

Yeah, thanks to NaziCon gerrymandering, voter suppression, conspiracy theories, fake news, lies, Comey, and Putin. You must feel really proud.

Nah you just ran an old corrupt loser hag, Sloping Brow. America is sick of your shit

 

[Bob Blaylock]

There were lots of women around who weren't liars, socialists, arrogant and power-mad.

Why didn't you pick one of those?

Probably because none of them are Democrats.

Assuming there aren't issues with her qualifying as a natural-born citizen (She was born in the U.S., but neither of her parents were citizens at the time.), I'd like to see Mia Love run for President some election cycles from now, after she's gained enough experience in lower offices.

You made the mistake of picking Hillary at about the time the country was getting sick of people like Hillary.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

President Trump. Write it 100 times and say it every day.

 

[Desperado]

When did we have a female President in the US?

 

[HenryBHough]

Sure our liberals said they'd flee.

Sure our liberals lie.

But we knew that so nobody's really disappointed.

We're just playing a little liberal ourselves and expressing mock outrage.

 

[Little-Acorn]

For the first time, a woman had a shot at real political power.

There were lots of women around who weren't liars, socialists, arrogant and power-mad.

Why didn't you pick one of those?

You made the mistake of picking Hillary at about the time the country was getting sick of people like Hillary.

 

[Lakhota]

For the first time, a woman had a shot at real political power.

There were lots of women around who weren't liars, socialists, arrogant and power-mad.

Why didn't you pick one of those?

You made the mistake of picking Hillary at about the time the country was getting sick of people like Hillary.

Sooo, you NaziCons chose a lying con artist. Good luck with that.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]