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Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumHRC "If a person seems to be an unlikely fulcrum for forces much larger than herself, ..she is.
Esquire has a re-run of a story they initially published in February, It Is Hillary Clintons Destiny to Defeat Donald Trump, which is even more timely now. I encourage you toread the whole thing, because it really is good.http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a44169/hillary-clinton-esquire-profile/
The article describes the showdown between Clinton and Trump in almost cosmic terms. The stakes really are that high, and Hillary Clinton might just be the hero we need:
Okay, maybe you're not so excited that Hillary Clinton is running for president. After all, she's been around for a long time, there's always some kind of controversy swirling around her, she's no spring chicken, she's married to Bill, she wears those jackets, she's got that midwestern accent, plus she's so serious and wonky all the time. What's left to be said? You've already made up your mind about her. She might not be as crazy as those guys on the other sidebut that doesn't mean that you have to be happy about the prospect of another President Clinton.
But what if the story isn't about what you know but rather about what you don't? Politicians always say that "there's never been more at stake in an election"when it happens to be the election in which they're running.
But what if, this time out, that's true? What if this is, like, IT, the main event, the conclusion of a long-running series, the climax of a nearly metaphysical battle that started before most people had ever heard of her?
Think of a story you read once upon a time in which someone is selected for a fate more profound than anybody suspectsthink Harry Potter but with Hermione, the grind, the perpetual A student, as the one scarred by the Dark Lord's lightning.
Sure, Hillary Clinton is an unlikely prospect for such a heroine. She's so familiar.
What she says might change but she's always the same.
But you've read the books.
"If a person seems to be an unlikely fulcrum for forces much larger than herself, that only means...she is."
"As we like to say around here: #ImWithHermione".
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HRC "If a person seems to be an unlikely fulcrum for forces much larger than herself, ..she is. (Original Post)
misterhighwasted
May 2016
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Mika
(17,751 posts)1. Narnia with unicorns. eom
Cha
(298,139 posts)2. I can't read it now.. just want to give it a Kick, mister.. thank you!
but I am excited about Hillary running.. all of us are!
ismnotwasm
(42,030 posts)3. Damn that's good
Beautifully written as well
Now, this will not surprise anyone who believes that what has always distinguished her is the overweening quality of her ambitionher willingness to say anything, do anything, countenance anything, and above all endure anything in her quest for power. And yes, an argument can be made that the determination and resolve she has exhibited since announcing her candidacy originates in the simple fact that this is her last chance. But that's just it: She is not just the first person targeted by the right wing; she is, right now, the last person with the chance to stop it. It is one thing to want to win as a matter of ambition. It is another to feel that you have to win as a matter of responsibility. She is the only candidate with a chance of winning the presidencyfrom either partywho speaks of preserving what we have rather than tearing it down and starting over. She is the only one who rejects the language of radicalism in her speeches. She is, indeed, the only instinctive moderateleft-leaning though she may be. The candidate who has a chance to become the first woman president turns out to be the last optimist at the apocalypse.
"Usually in time of crisis, the country comes together. After 9/11, I was a senator from New York and I spent a lot of time with George W. Bush. He was very supportive of what we needed to do in New York, and when it came to 'You know, we need to get help,' he basically said, 'What do you need and here you goget it.' Instead, we have these two terrible incidents, and you have Republican candidates just excoriating our president and insulting people who had nothing to do with the terrorism we were watching unfold, and who don't have realistic ideas, don't have any grounding in foreign policy or national security, and they just go off saying what they think will get a rise out of an audience. It's really distressing, because that's not how we should conduct ourselves."
I had always wondered when she was going to say, These guys aren't in my freaking league. Now she had come pretty close, and the expression that I saw animate her narrowed eyes and her tightened lips was not one of anger, or even frustration.
It was one of contempt
I had always wondered when she was going to say, These guys aren't in my freaking league. Now she had come pretty close, and the expression that I saw animate her narrowed eyes and her tightened lips was not one of anger, or even frustration.
It was one of contempt
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)4. She is true to the soul isn't she.
I enjoyed the read also.
ismnotwasm
(42,030 posts)10. Yeah she is
An incredible woman.
lamp_shade
(14,853 posts)5. Bookmarked. Thanks.
IamMab
(1,359 posts)6. Remember, without Hermione...
...Harry would have died in Book 1, either crushed by a troll or strangled to death by a plant, take your pick.
Just sayin'!
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)7. True! #I'mWithHERmione
Girls rule anyway
IamMab
(1,359 posts)8. Awesome hashtag!!
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)9. Yes that is a good story.
Esquire is one of the few subscriptions I still keep.