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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary Clinton: 'What is more uncivil than taking children away?'
She tells me she has raised $1.5m in the days before we meet, to flood the border with lawyers, interpreters, experienced social workers, psychologists. We just have to get as much expertise down there to force the federal government to give us everything. Its the kind of resource-focused, pragmatic response we would expect from someone with a reputation for technocratic efficiency, so Im a bit taken aback to see tears fill her eyes. When the MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow broke down and wept on air while reporting plans to build tender age detention facilities for infants, didnt that make you cry? Clinton challenges me. Well, I felt exactly the same way. Dabbing her eyes, she lets rip.
I mean, you just who thinks like that? Who does these things? How can anybody look in the mirror? How can they actually live with themselves? If you heard about it in some third-world banana republic, youd say: Thats horrible! Stop it! Who would do that? Now its happening in our country, and its just so distressing. I think a lot of us keep waiting for the bottom and it just seems to be bottomless.
Throughout the presidential campaign, Clinton was criticised for exercising a degree of emotional self-control that looked cold and inauthentic, while Trumps volatility was taken as evidence that he meant what he said and really cared. Lately, however, Democrats have been provoked to condemn the president with a passion some on the left warn is becoming uncivil. Im curious to know what Clinton thinks of this.
Oh, give me a break, she erupts, eyes widening into indignation. Give me a break! What is more uncivil and cruel than taking children away? It should be met with resolve and strength. And if some of that comes across as a little uncivil, well, childrens lives are at stake; their futures are at stake. That is that ridiculous concept of bothsideism. She adopts a mockingly prim voice. Well, you know, somebody made an insulting, profane remark about President Trump, and he separated 2,300 children from their families, thats both sides, and we should stop being uncivil oh and, by the way, he should stop separating children. Give me a break, really, she growls, rolling her eyes. I mean, this is a crisis of his making that will damage kids for no good reason at all, and I think everybody should be focused on that until the children are reunited.
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If she decided to call it a day, I begin to say, no one would blame
I would, she interrupts. I would blame me. Yes. I would. It feels like a duty. It feels like patriotism, and it feels necessary. Im not going anywhere.
I mean, you just who thinks like that? Who does these things? How can anybody look in the mirror? How can they actually live with themselves? If you heard about it in some third-world banana republic, youd say: Thats horrible! Stop it! Who would do that? Now its happening in our country, and its just so distressing. I think a lot of us keep waiting for the bottom and it just seems to be bottomless.
Throughout the presidential campaign, Clinton was criticised for exercising a degree of emotional self-control that looked cold and inauthentic, while Trumps volatility was taken as evidence that he meant what he said and really cared. Lately, however, Democrats have been provoked to condemn the president with a passion some on the left warn is becoming uncivil. Im curious to know what Clinton thinks of this.
Oh, give me a break, she erupts, eyes widening into indignation. Give me a break! What is more uncivil and cruel than taking children away? It should be met with resolve and strength. And if some of that comes across as a little uncivil, well, childrens lives are at stake; their futures are at stake. That is that ridiculous concept of bothsideism. She adopts a mockingly prim voice. Well, you know, somebody made an insulting, profane remark about President Trump, and he separated 2,300 children from their families, thats both sides, and we should stop being uncivil oh and, by the way, he should stop separating children. Give me a break, really, she growls, rolling her eyes. I mean, this is a crisis of his making that will damage kids for no good reason at all, and I think everybody should be focused on that until the children are reunited.
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If she decided to call it a day, I begin to say, no one would blame
I would, she interrupts. I would blame me. Yes. I would. It feels like a duty. It feels like patriotism, and it feels necessary. Im not going anywhere.
Obama continues the work. Hillary continues the work. Bill continues the work. Carter continues the work. Thats what presidents do.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/29/hillary-clinton-on-trumps-child-detention-policy-it-keeps-me-up-at-night
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Hillary Clinton: 'What is more uncivil than taking children away?' (Original Post)
ehrnst
Jun 2018
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spanone
(135,884 posts)1. K&R...
PunkinPi
(4,878 posts)2. K&R for the real POTUS...
still with her.
northoftheborder
(7,574 posts)3. Good for her. So proud of being a supporter of hers, forever.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)9. We weren't fooled by the propaganda.
SunSeeker
(51,726 posts)4. K & R
pazzyanne
(6,558 posts)6. I'll take Hillary's patriotism any day over the tRump style patriotism.
I just wish people would wake up to what true patriotism is because what passes for patriotism these days is not the patriotism our forefathers fought for.
Cha
(297,722 posts)7. Tweet: Hillary Clinton's response to "incivility":
Link to tweet
Mahalo for your thread on Hillary's take on this whole civility thing or not. Great response.. much better than Schumer's, Pelosi's or BSanders.
Takket
(21,634 posts)10. if you believe the media.... asking SHS to leave a restaurant is at least equal