There are big books and then there are 'yuuuuuuge' books

As regular readers will know, I am something of an expert on big books because I have been quietly bragging on this blog as I work my way through Andrew Roberts' biography of Lord Salisbury.  I have reached about halfway but I decided to give myself a break, not just because of the huge amount of Victorian detail but because the damn thing weighs a ton!  However, having, so to speak, girded my loins, I am nearly ready to start again which is pretty good timing because in the next week or two an absolutely 'ginormous' book is going to thud into the bookshops of the world where, I suspect, most of the copies will remain!  It is called "What Happened?" and it written (allegedly!) by Hillary Rodham Clinton - yeeeeeees, quite!

Actually, 'Hillbilly', darling, I can answer that question for you - YOU LOST!  And even worse, you lost to 'The Donald', of all people!  By doing so, of course, you have deeply upset all those intellectual, influential cognoscenti who write Left-wing crap for the newspapers. Speaking with their heads rammed firmly up their own backsides, they were all unanimous in their complete faith that you would walk it - as indeed were you!  Well, like every loser there ever was there is only one phrase echoing in that empty space between your ears - someone is to blame!

According to Ms. Maureen Callahan at The New York Post, the list of those to blame is fairly long and includes:

Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, “rash FBI director” James Comey, Obama, the Russians, sexism, and, finally, the American people for not liking her enough.

Ah, yes, "the American people", all those ghastly "irredeemables" who should be deposited in "a basket of deplorables", they are high on her list of those who are to blame.  Then there's Bernie Sanders, 'the enemy of the people' who, according to 'HillBilly' is not even a Democrat:

Sanders, she writes, had the gall to run against her even though he’s not a Democrat.

“That’s not a smear, that’s what he says,” she writes. “He didn’t get into the race to make sure a Democrat won the White House, he got in to disrupt the Democratic Party.”

The nerve of the man, to run for office in a democratic nation during a democratic election in which the will of the people is tested!  How dare he?!  Then there was that 'uppity black' in the White House:

"Obama, she says, was no help, telling her “to grit my teeth and lay off Bernie as much as I could. I felt like I was in a straitjacket.”

Oddly enough, there were moments in that election when I thought she required a straight-jacket!  Anyway, Ms. Callahan sums it up thus:

The subtext here — and the reason she was such an epically bad two-time candidate — is that we should feel sorry for her, not the other way around. It’s the problem with her campaign writ large: at a time when millions of Americans were economically hurting and afraid of being left behind, she thought “I’m With Her” was a galvanizing slogan. If anything, it should have been “She’s With Us.”

But such is her narcissism, blinding Clinton to what most Americans saw: not a campaign but the would-be coronation of someone thoroughly convinced it was her turn.

Her total inability to see 'the bleedin' obvious' continues to this day because she is, apparently, building up funds in preparation to run again in 2020.  Anyway, the book will only cost a mere $30, er, well, for the first week because thereafter it will be on the 'Remainder shelves' for a fraction of the price.

 

 

Comments

[Whitewall]

For her, the fact she lost to Trump is the most galling thing of all. That was a message she refuses to get. That the same Trump beat at least 15 'normal' Republicans is also a message they refuse to get.

At least maybe now the Clintons can do the world a favor and go the hell away! Help OJ Simpson find the "real killer" or something useful. Let's have done with their miserable breed!

[Bob]

I've agreed with Henry and now Whitewall. Hell is indeed solid ice. The self-indulgent, smarmy, too-cute-and-clever-by-half Clintons can't get offstage fast enough.

[Whyaxye]

Whitewall, I entirely agree. But didn't some of Bill's vital juices escape the dry cleaners, and isn't young Chelsea making ominous-sounding political noises? It might not be over yet...

[The Jannie]

"It might not be over yet..."

Indeed. The Clinton crime family are like shit on America's shoe . . .

[Michael F Adams]

It is widely alleged that Billy Jeff's vital juices contain no vital components, and that poor Chelsea is the product of a liaison between Hillary's law partner and "the Hill". The facial resemblance between the man and the young woman is striking.

A truly embarrassing aspect of American political life is that the private campaign funds amassed by a candidate can be used in subsequent campaigns. I have no quarrel with that part. The alternative is government funding, which elects Leftward-leaning office holders, BUT when a politician retires, s/he gets to keep the loot. Many of the more public-spirited politicians, and yes, there are some, arrange to donate the money to a Party structure, to another up and coming candidate, to a charity. People were observing, as far back as de Tocqueville, that we have many such voluntary associations, so there is no problem finding a suitable recipient.

However, what are the chances that the Clinton Foundation will donate its vast funds to some worthy charity? They dipped deeply into the money well for, e.g. Chelsea's wedding. The Clinton Foundation creates an entire political dynasty, a malignancy on our body politic beyond my actuarially calculated life span. What everyone in Arkansas and surrounding states has known about Clinton corruption for almost a half century shows no signs of self reform. It was bad enough in the boonies of Arkansas, but now that cloud is settled over New York.

Ironically enough, even a Federal prosecution and conviction will be dismissed as a political witch hunt. I can see little that we can do.

[TheBigHenry]

David, WW, Bob, WXYZ, TJ, MFA,

Ditto.

[Whitewall]

Whyaxye...yes Princess Chelsea might try but she is not cold blooded like Hillary or the natural born pol like Bill.

With all this wide spread agreeing going on...what's next? Potatoes and onions living in the same box?

[TheBigHenry]

WW,

"Kumbaya My Lord"

[Michael F Adams]

There actually does exist, a politically viable solution. If the recent tragic Queen of Dysthymia could be convicted, and then her sentence commuted to time served or some other slap-on-the wrist, she would serve no time, but, as a convicted felon, could not run for office again. A pardon would allow her to run, but a commutation would simply allow the seventy year old witch to live out her days in comfort. Yes, they'd keep the loot, and that would likely serve as a political slush fund to support Chelsea's political ambitions, although, as others have noted, it is not so very clear that Ms. Chelsea has those ambitions.