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OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 03:51 PM Dec 2016

Thank You, Hillary.

http://johnpavlovitz.com/2016/12/22/thank-you-hillary/



Dear Hillary,

I hope this finds you well. I’ve been meaning to write you for a while. I was thinking of you again today and I guess I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate you.

I appreciate how hard you’ve worked for this country for the past five decades.
I appreciate what you accomplished this year.
I appreciate your dignity in the face of the most undignified behavior.
I appreciate the seriousness with which you took the prospect of leading our nation.
I appreciate the campaign of diversity, equality, and shared strength you ran with such grace.
I appreciate you reminding America that it is already great.

You did everything you were asked to do this year, everything you were supposed to do:

You were prepared and balanced and cool under pressure.
You knew what you were talking about at every turn.
You saw the big picture, and you knew the countless small details that your opponent could never be bothered with.
You endured a relentless flood of misinformation by continually, plainly speaking your truth.
You had your character assassinated over and over—and in response you simply showed that character.
You shouldered the kind of expectations that no man aspiring to the position has ever had to contend with.
You had to be both strong and sensitive, tough and warm, fierce and likable—and you were.
You never talked in nonsensical sound bites, never ranted like a lunatic at your detractors, never viciously attacked citizens on social media—and you never stooped to the inhumanity of your opponent.

Despite the unprecedented viciousness hurled at you, you never responded in kind; you just kept on being decent, intelligent, thoughtful—Presidential. You alone had the experience and the temperament and the maturity to do the job of leading this country. That should have been enough. I’m sorry that it wasn’t.

I’m sorry that my 7-year old daughter won’t get to see you sworn in as the first woman President and won’t get to watch you represent her so beautifully each day; that she’ll instead have to see a man who has complete contempt for her shape her future.

I’m sorry that my 11-year old son will be reminded every day that you can treat women with total disregard, that you can be a vile, filthy bully—and be well rewarded for it.


Much more at the link above
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Thank You, Hillary. (Original Post) OKNancy Dec 2016 OP
K & R 50 Shades Of Blue Dec 2016 #1
I appreciate her work. Glad I supported her and yes I cried very hard bravenak Dec 2016 #2
I didn't cry but I was GWC58 Dec 2016 #26
Devastating ailsagirl Dec 2016 #29
ALL of these, above. calimary Dec 2016 #40
K&R mcar Dec 2016 #3
So true. mahina Dec 2016 #4
Very nice sentiments mtnsnake Dec 2016 #5
I was hiking the trail myself, the other day. As i rounded the corner, i heard a familiar tune being dionysus Dec 2016 #17
That's really cool! ailsagirl Dec 2016 #30
Very well written apcalc Dec 2016 #6
So am I. calimary Dec 2016 #41
this BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2016 #42
K&R. In a JUST World, we'd brush the Rs aside and we'd have you, the rightful PEOTUS ffr Dec 2016 #7
Simply beautiful. sheshe2 Dec 2016 #8
I still awake with 2naSalit Dec 2016 #9
a very wonderful state wildman76 Dec 2016 #10
Great letter. Thanks for posting it. spooky3 Dec 2016 #11
KNR Thank you! Lucinda Dec 2016 #12
Wish I could Rec. a thousand times. northoftheborder Dec 2016 #13
thanks for posting this terrific letter! nt iluvtennis Dec 2016 #14
It breaks my heart to think of all we have lost radical noodle Dec 2016 #15
K&R ismnotwasm Dec 2016 #16
You can follow the author here: OKNancy Dec 2016 #18
Oh dear... lamp_shade Dec 2016 #19
Thank you Madam President! mfcorey1 Dec 2016 #20
Kick. I can't think of anyone else who could have withstood what she withstood. She is amazing. Squinch Dec 2016 #21
Thank you Madam President elmac Dec 2016 #22
Very well done. brer cat Dec 2016 #23
I've read it several times and cry each time. Thanks for posting this. nt lamp_shade Dec 2016 #24
k and r niyad Dec 2016 #25
You have my heart. Guilded Lilly Dec 2016 #27
She's my President True_Blue Dec 2016 #28
Hillary 2020!! Nt AllenJordan Dec 2016 #31
It Coolest Ranger Dec 2016 #32
K&R! gademocrat7 Dec 2016 #33
K&R meow2u3 Dec 2016 #34
Two things... retrowire Dec 2016 #35
Post removed Post removed Dec 2016 #36
K&R. She's my President. (nt) Paladin Dec 2016 #37
K & R ...... nt Wounded Bear Dec 2016 #38
+1,000 NastyRiffraff Dec 2016 #39
Preach shenmue Dec 2016 #44
Amen shenmue Dec 2016 #43
KNR AgadorSparticus Dec 2016 #45
She won the PV, she was more popular than President Dipshit. Rex Dec 2016 #46

calimary

(84,365 posts)
40. ALL of these, above.
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 12:37 PM
Dec 2016

And with all the casual, tweet-y, nuking-up talk (AND the spinning and excuse-making of the Steve Cortes/Jodyanne Jerkmeoff crowd) now is confirming some of my worst fears.

I remember when we had an army of spinmeisters jumping onstage at every turn, "interpreting" what the so-called President said - "what I think he's saying" or "I think what he really meant was..." Shit. We had that with both the fucking dim-bulbs reagan and dubya. And I'm not fully convinced that either of them fully knew or understood what THEY were saying. Maybe reagan a little bit, but he came from the "Real" World of Pretend, Hollywood. He'd been brought up in an environment where the guy in the white hat always won. As for dubya, he was just hopeless. And he had cheney's hand up his back, moving the levers of his mouth so he'd say whatever cheney wanted.

This one was a test for America. Do you vote with your head, or with your gut? Your reasoning or your mad-on. You lead with cool rationality or hot-headed reactivity? Do you know anything about thinking before you speak, or looking before you leap? Or do you just lash out and figure everything will somehow magically, incredibly, simply sort-itself-out-somehow?

And this was an EPIC fail, America. You led with your anger. The only head-over-heart decision you made was with your lizard-brain.You threw a real good temper tantrum there. Broke everything on Aisle 5. And Aisle 4. And Aisle 6. Actually, you left the entire store in shambles. Oh - but NOW you're starting to get hungry and you barely even realize that you just ruined everything in the supermarket, and all the foodstuffs are rotting or covered with fly larvae, or they're in smears all over the floor amidst a lot of broken glass jars - that is, whatever the looters and other opportunists didn't already steal. Happy NOW?

Oh, but just wait! He's not even "president" yet. The "best" is yet to come! Cuz only HE can fix it, remember?

Oh, and one more thing. Plunging the United States into a nuclear arms race costs obscene bundles of billions of dollars. Even a trillion or two (or TWENTY-two. Or MORE). A very convenient way to plead poverty on all the social programs (and have to cut 'em way back or eliminate them entirely cuz they cost too much), 'eh? And, um, weren't you the ones sitting out there at the teabagger protests holding up signs saying "Don't Touch My Medicare"?

mtnsnake

(22,236 posts)
5. Very nice sentiments
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 04:01 PM
Dec 2016

I hope she and Bill can put all of this behind them and just be happy for the rest of their lives. Not that it would ever happen, but I'd love to take them on a hike with me in the mountains someday where they could just immerse themselves in nature and get away from it all.

dionysus

(26,467 posts)
17. I was hiking the trail myself, the other day. As i rounded the corner, i heard a familiar tune being
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 05:26 PM
Dec 2016

Played on an acoustic guitar. It was...

Brewer and Shipley!

One toke over the line, sweet mtnsnake, one toke over the line... hiking the trail with bill and hill clinton, one toke over the line....

calimary

(84,365 posts)
41. So am I.
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 12:51 PM
Dec 2016

I'm STILL with her. As are almost three million MORE Americans than fell for The Donald.

How long do you think it'll be before some of those dumb-asses finally wake up? How long do you think it'll be before we'll start seeing inklings of a "come to Hillary" moment, where at least a few of 'em start letting a few tiny little second thoughts see the light of day? Most of 'em, no. But I'll bet in muted conversations around a future Thanksgiving table or some such, you'll start hearing a few begrudging mea culpas. Maybe after they've watched their Medicare get cut, radically (or disappear entirely), with all the ensuing excuses about how we have to build up our military and everything else just has to get starved because we have to use every extra penny on building up the nuclear arms race. "Well, I dunno.. I guess maybe I shoulda voted for Hillary..."

And how many times will we hear choruses of "we WARNED you! We tried And TRIED to warn you!"

Then again, though, the one thing most people Hate-Hate-Hate to do is to admit they were wrong. Or worse, admit they've been HAD.

ffr

(23,127 posts)
7. K&R. In a JUST World, we'd brush the Rs aside and we'd have you, the rightful PEOTUS
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 04:12 PM
Dec 2016
Election stolen!

Was Rudy Giuliani At The Center Of An FBI-Trump Campaign Conspiracy To Steal The Election?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028391770

How James Comey and Loretta Lynch made Donald Trump the president of the United States
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512665096

2naSalit

(92,766 posts)
9. I still awake with
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 04:33 PM
Dec 2016

a case of nausea every morning. I'm thankful I'm old and not looking to make my future/career... but ten again, I went through exactly that when I graduated w/master's degree just 30 days prior to Sept. 11, 2001 so... I have yet to recover from that mess both professionally and monetarily, doubt I ever will at this point.

It was WJC's election that made it possible for me to stay in college once I got in and helped me decide what career path I was going to take only to have it demolished in moment along with and just like the Trade center towers after a decade of school.

wildman76

(292 posts)
10. a very wonderful state
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 04:35 PM
Dec 2016

I totally agree,I too appreciate her so much for standing up against a bully,I will miss her so much

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
22. Thank you Madam President
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 05:52 PM
Dec 2016

You are my president until 2020. You won the presidency by 3,000,000 votes. Thank you for running what probably will be the last, civil campaign this country will ever see and thank you for all your years of service.

Coolest Ranger

(2,034 posts)
32. It
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 07:25 AM
Dec 2016

breaks my heart she's not President elect right now. I would not be under as much stress and fear right now

retrowire

(10,345 posts)
35. Two things...
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 09:58 AM
Dec 2016

1. We owe elected officials nothing.

2. Hillary said, "let's give him a chance."

Thanks for what? Normalizing Trump on her way out?

Thanks for nothing.

Response to OKNancy (Original post)

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
39. +1,000
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 12:28 PM
Dec 2016

I'm still crying over what this country missed. As far as I'm concerned, Hillary Clinton is Madam President. Dump will NEVER be my president.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
46. She won the PV, she was more popular than President Dipshit.
Sun Dec 25, 2016, 07:38 PM
Dec 2016

And I will be saying that for 4 years, much to the chagrin of others.

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