It should never have come down to Comey. Hillary had 57 newspaper endorsements to Trump’s 2, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 20 million+ registered voters (IIRC,) Hillary had perhaps 20x the political experience of Trump, did better in all the debates, etc.
Hillary should have been leading far ahead in the polls. Tiger Woods doesn’t blame some outside factor for losing to a never-golfed-before newbie.
He didn’t used to. These days… I don’t know!! 
And if I were a penguin I’d live near the South Pole.
This is so sad watching this woman twist herself into knots with what ifs. The election is over and she lost. She will never be the President of the United States because the Democrats will never run her as a candidate again. Her goal now should be to do everything in her power to help her party recapture the Presidency next time around.
Hillary just cannot accept that it doesn’t matter at all why she as a candidate couldn’t muster the requisite majority in the Electoral College. Who cares if Comey lost her the election or if she lost it herself? It won’t matter at all in 2020.
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Stranger
She needs to let the past go and start working on fucking up her next run.
Aaron Blake with the Washington Posts take on it:
This is also a her trying to gin up sales for her upcoming book to be published in the Fall.
Or maybe she just needs to pass Go and Collect $200, and be thankful that she didn’t have to GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL.
Seriously, the best thing Hillary could do for the Democratic party is fade into the background and use her influence to raise campaign funds for viable candidates. But she won’t because in her own way she is just as much of a narcissist as Trump.
Stranger
That might be true, but it did not need to be this close.
I think democrats need more perspective on why things tipped towards Trump. I do not doubt that the Russian hacking of the DNC and resultant drip drip drip of anti Clinton info and anti democratic establishment info did damage, or that it was targeted towards one side. I do not doubt that Comeys announcements did damage, they could have even tipped the scales to Trump.
But The democrats should have won against Trump. Hillary was telling us in public why Trump was bad, and the times when she was making a positive case was not being amplified. SAnders, with every fiber of his being, was making that case non stop. That is what was missing.
I don’t think she’s entirely wrong. Comey’s intrusion likely was enough to make a difference. But she has plenty to blame herself for- she didn’t nail down the rust belt states, she tried to spike the ball by campaigning in Arizona instead. Essentially, being in the public eye and being lied about for a generation did her in, plus the incredible stupidity of the electorate. She can do fundraisers and do charitable work now, let her content herself with that.
You don’t win an election on bashing your opponent with nothing on your side to stand on. She had nothing but I’ll be the first woman, just like Obama was the first African American. That wasn’t enough. The Hope and Change message of Obama, had worn thin after 8 years, and she was trying to ride on his coattails.
And Stranger is correct, she is every bit as much a narcissist as Trump. As evidenced by her words today.
I sincerely hope that, going forward, we do have a woman president. And that she is not the wife of some big-shot politician, but made her own way to the top.
Narcissus himself wasn’t as much of a narcissist as he is.
To be fair, Hillary had a lot to do with getting Bill Clinton “to the top”, and she doubtless and understandibly felt that this was her time. But she’s a far better kingmaker than a king, and even her advocates couldn’t help but recognize her blatant sense of entitlement.
Stranger
Hillary: If the election had been held 12 days earlier, I’d be POTUS
And let us all give thanks to OG or whomever/whatever we worship that it wasn’t!
I mistakenly read, “Fail”.
Eh, still works.
There’s one in every crowd, I guess.
Stranger
Comey’s decision to keep quiet about the investigations into Trump, while making showy reveals about the investigations into Clinton, permitted Trump to loudly proclaim that Anyone Being Investigated By the FBI MUST Be a Crook.
It was that imbalance that invited masses of voters to rationalize a vote for Trump, or rationalize staying home and not voting for the Democrat.
So it’s not just Comey’s last-minute intrusion into the elective process (with the Weiner laptop story)----it was, even more, his choice to keep mum about the ongoing investigation into Trump.
Clinton did make mistakes. But she’s quite correct in pointing to Comey’s choices as having been major influences on the November 8 outcome.
Well, yes. But the point is that without Clinton’s fuck up over servers Comey wouldn’t have had any choices to make in the first place. Everything comes back to Hillary Clinton herself and the choices she made.
As a non-HRC fan I was holding my nose and voting for Hillary. The email thing had been beat to death at that point. Comey’s announcement was meaningless. The choices were so stark between Trump and HRC 10 days out the notion that one more tidbit about the email was going to matter is abject nonsense as is the notion that any substantial number of people were really all that much “on the fence” about Trump vs HRC.
Clinton’s attempt to deflect blame for an awful campaign is almost Trumpian. One thing she and Trump share as personality traits is an inability to admit they were wrong and to apologize. Part of the reason the email crap dragged out so long is that HRC resisted taking any millimeter of responsibility for the decision to install the server for the longest time despite her aides urging her to just apologize for the screw up and get past it early.
The masses you describe don’t sound like they were enthusiastic Hillary supporters to begin with if at that late date it only took one thing for them to rationalize voting for Trump or rationalize not voting at all.
I didn’t vote for Trump, I didn’t vote for Clinton but I did vote the remainder of my ballot.