Listening to Hillary. She is SO smart. We could have had one hell of a president

[demtenjeep]

Obama was brilliant and it could have been awesome for the USA to follow with Hillary


now we have a buffoon hell bent on undoing anything with Obama's name on it

God it makes me ill

[flamingdem]

1. I thought the same

[still_one]

2. yes we do, and I feel the same way as you

[american_ideals]

3. Why did she come across so poorly in the media?

Every time I hear her speak she is great. Including at he DNC.

But she gets torn apart in the media, who never cover the substance of what she says.

[guillaumeb]

5. She uses big words and speaks in complete sentences.

So both are seen as elitists by Trump voters.

[apcalc]

7. Because she is female and doesn't kiss up to them.

[pnwmom]

9. Most of the time the media didn't bother to cover her speeches.

They were too busy covering his rants and waiting for him to do something crazy.

[leftofcool]

14. Because the only thing the media was interested in was her emails.

[american_ideals]

16. Why? And how do we take back the media?

[guillaumeb]

4. But a stupid President makes uninformed voters feel better about their own stupidity.

Reagan and Bush also come to mind.

[JHan]

8. In all seriousness, that is an important point..

the aversion towards cogent, intellectual types among conservatives. I think it's because honest intellectual exploration leads to an appreciation of liberalism, and conservatives are threatened by that fact.

[guillaumeb]

10. Agreed. I was not trying to be funny.

Anti-intellectualism has a strong and long history in the US.

[JHan]

12. yep. It's frightening to go through the rise of it at this time..

this post-modernism where truth and objective facts don't matter, just "narrative" and "optics".

[Different Drummer]

11. Excellent post! n/t

[brer cat]

17. Excellent post, JHan. nt

[leftstreet]

13. Very true

[guillaumeb]

18. Agreed. eom

[amuse bouche]

6. Yup, she would have been awesome

[BigmanPigman]

15. I've been SOOOOOOO depressed since I saw this 5 hours ago.