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Not
long ago, I wrote something, I said she was and still is temperamentally fit to be President of the United States. Clare Forlan agrees with me
and as she wrote earlier, Clinton readily admits that campaigning
doesn’t come easily for her. “I am not a natural politician, in case you
haven’t noticed, like my husband or President Obama,” she said at a
Democratic primary debate in March. At the debate on Monday, she framed the
effort she has undertaken to run for president in a positive light. “I think
Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate, and yes, I did,”
Clinton said, after Trump commented that he had “been all over the place” while
she had “decided to stay home.” Clinton added: “You know what else I prepared
for? I prepared to be president. And I think that’s a good thing.”
It
may be very hard to take in but if there are chances to redeem the loss, maybe
Hillary Clinton should buy the recount rhetoric, if doesn’t give the
anticipated results though, there is a problem: “The second and more serious
objection is that frivolous recount requests could compromise public faith in
the election results. Throughout the campaign, Hillary Clinton stressed the
importance of accepting the results of the election. Skeptics worry that if
Clinton were to request recounts without any tangible evidence that the
original count was wrong, it could legitimize conspiracy theories and
ultimately undermine confidence in the election result — and the democratic
process more generally.”
Maybe there
is a catch, there were some irregularities. I may be wrong that she won the
election but my skepticism keeps getting a new reason to grow. She is leading
by a sizeable margin of the popular vote and there is this: “Clinton
needed to win all three states for an election victory. Wisconsin and
Pennsylvania went for Donald Trump by the smallest margins of all the states
that he won. The race in Michigan hasn’t been certified, but the state is
likely to go to Trump. A Clinton win in all three states would give her enough
Electoral College votes to claim the presidency. The activists, who have not
spoken publicly about their findings, presented their evidence to Clinton’s
campaign team last week. An aide to Clinton told HuffPost the campaign is “not
saying anything yet.”
Some data
scientists and political statisticians, including FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver
and The New York Times’ Nate Cohn, cast doubt on the claims, which compared
voting in counties that used paper ballots with those that used electronic
machines. Silver and Cohn said the suspicious results disappear when
controlling for demographic factors like race and education.”
If this is
done and the results match the ones we have, If it is not done and America
stays stuck with the option of giving Donald Trump a chance, there is one thing to remember: “She has been a pioneer throughout her life, and yet her
career cannot be easily reduced to one transcendent myth: she has been an
idealist and a liberal incrementalist, a glass-ceiling-smashing lawyer and a
cautious establishmentarian, a wife and mother, a First Lady, a
rough-and-tumble political operator, a senator, a Secretary of State. Her story
is about walking through flames and emerging changed, warier and more
determined. In her intelligence, in her gimlet-eyed recognition of both the
limits and the possibilities of government, she’s a particular kind of
inspirational figure, a pragmatist and a Democratic moderate.”. For People like
me that envisioned the tsunami of misogyny with Hillary’s presidency, we have
one option left, to be forever indebted to her :she has earned it and we
know for sure we are always Stronger together. In Martin Luther King’s words, I
will draw the curtain: “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends
toward justice”.
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