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2016-12-01 Home Front: Politix
The Real Reason Hillary Asked for a Recount
[EdwardKlein.com] Why did Hillary Clinton join Jill Stein, the Green Party’s oddball presidential nominee, in asking for a recount of the votes in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania when everyone knows that such a recount won’t change the outcome of the 2016 election?

Part of the answer is that people close to Hillary--Huma Abedin, Chelsea Clinton, and Sidney Blumenthal--encouraged her to ask for a recount as a way of lifting her spirits.
Has the woman never heard of opiate suppositories?
"She is weepy, looks ten years older and is very whiny," said one of Hillary’s closest friends. "She has been drinking whine wine pretty heavily, much more than usual. She mopes around all day",
Looking for her strawberries...
swimming in a sea of recriminations and complaining that her campaign managers were ’incompetent,’ Bill and Chelsea ’didn’t work hard enough,’ FBI Director Comey was ’in league with Trump.’

In addition, President Obama convinced Hillary that it was in the best interest of the Democratic Party if the Clinton legal team got involved with the recount and didn’t leave it to Jill Stein.

"The president felt that the progressives were acting stunned and helpless and had to rise out of their stupor and show that they weren’t going to take their defeat lying down," said the source. "Contesting the results of the election was the best and fastest way to stir the morale and fighting spirit of the demoralized party.

"Obama felt that a recount would plant a seed with the base that the election was somehow dishonest," the source continued. "He wanted to raise serious questions about the legitimacy of the Trump presidency."

And what did Bill Clinton--the man Charlie Rose called "the best political animal that’s ever been in American politics"--think of all this?

Said a close Clinton adviser: "Bill thinks the recount is going to backfire as a strategy because there are probably no more than a handful of questionable ballots and they could actually wind up adding to Trump’s numbers and validate rather than invalidate his election."
Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-12-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 "She is weepy, looks ten years older and is very whiny"

You would be too, if you had
'hanging, fat or pregnant chads'.
Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-01 00:52||   2016-12-01 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 ...A couple thoughts:

*It bears repeating that we dodged a bullet of downright Biblical proportions when the voters defied the expectations of Their Betters and voted for Trump. The FIRST time Malificent came up against a political argument - or worse, an international crisis - that didn't go her way, God alone knows what would have happened next.

*For all his horndog nonsense, Bill Clinton is still probably one of the best pure politicians we've seen in the last fifty years. Had Malificient's people listened to him - and had he not been so damaged himself by his past actions - we might be singing a very different tune this morning.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2016-12-01 05:18||   2016-12-01 05:18|| Front Page Top

#3 At the end of the day, Swil had about as much juice as Mel Carnahan's widow. But without the sad, sad widow's tale...
Posted by M. Murcek 2016-12-01 05:25||   2016-12-01 05:25|| Front Page Top

#4 ...M.Murcek -

True, but frankly, if she had thought it would help...

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2016-12-01 06:05||   2016-12-01 06:05|| Front Page Top

#5 She got to where she is by not listening to Bill, but it's not her fault. "Anyone else but me! Everyone else! I am not responsible!"

Wotta crybaby.
Posted by Bobby 2016-12-01 08:06||   2016-12-01 08:06|| Front Page Top

#6 
Part of the answer is that people close to Hillary--Huma Abedin, Chelsea Clinton, and Sidney Blumenthal--encouraged her to ask for a recount as a way of lifting her spirits.
"She is weepy, looks ten years older and is very whiny," said one of Hillary’s closest friends. "She has been drinking whine wine pretty heavily, much more than usual. She mopes around all day",
swimming in a sea of recriminations and complaining that her campaign managers were ’incompetent,’ Bill and Chelsea ’didn’t work hard enough,’ FBI Director Comey was ’in league with Trump.’

Another Downfall parody?
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-12-01 09:10||   2016-12-01 09:10|| Front Page Top

#7 She probably doesn't listen to Bill much since he's most likely been lying to her for YEARS about, shall we say, his peccadillos.

After a lifetime of living with a liar, you probably take nothing they would say seriously, and begin to believe that they're actually out to get you somehow. Especially in her 'fragile' mental condition.

I do agree with Mike, Bill was and still is the ultimate pol.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-12-01 09:19||   2016-12-01 09:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Wonder how much longer until her health starts really failing. Depression of this scale can't be good for her.
Posted by Charles 2016-12-01 09:47||   2016-12-01 09:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Procopious2k - I always felt that Shrillary's election night meltdown had that exact quality to it. It was her "die krieg ist verloren" moment and it confirmed what most of us feared.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2016-12-01 09:54||   2016-12-01 09:54|| Front Page Top

#10 She really needs to take up a hobby, get her mind off of the election. I recommend something gradual. Free climbing the face of Long's Peak in Colorado.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-01 09:56||   2016-12-01 09:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Ole Hill, Huma, and Sid are not out of the woods yet concerning the investigation.
Posted by Tennessee 2016-12-01 10:08||   2016-12-01 10:08|| Front Page Top

#12 She really needs to take up a hobby, get her mind off of the election. I recommend something gradual. Free climbing the face of Long's Peak in Colorado.

Hey....free diamond!
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-12-01 10:28||   2016-12-01 10:28|| Front Page Top

#13 "Part of the answer is that people close to Hillary--Huma Abedin, Chelsea Clinton, and Sidney Blumenthal--encouraged her to ask for a recount as a way of lifting her spirits."

And if the recount fails (as everyone suspects because you'd need to steal 10K votes) she's back to where she was. I suspect at this point Huma and Sid are probably just hoping to give her a stroke so they can be free of her.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-12-01 10:37||   2016-12-01 10:37|| Front Page Top

#14 Buying time to transfer money out of the country and line up extradition free lodging for the whole crew.

I'm thinking Paraguay.
Posted by AlanC 2016-12-01 12:30||   2016-12-01 12:30|| Front Page Top

#15  Besoeker for Snark-o-the-day
Posted by 3dc 2016-12-01 12:53||   2016-12-01 12:53|| Front Page Top

#16 The photo needs updating. "I'm Ready" was the 2008 slogan> The arrow should point to her 2016 slogan: "I'm with Mish"
Posted by regular joe 2016-12-01 14:25||   2016-12-01 14:25|| Front Page Top

#17 "The president felt that the progressives were acting stunned and helpless and had to rise out of their stupor and show that they weren’t going to take their defeat lying down"

Remember that Mr. Obama will also be around and doing this shtick for at least another 25 years.

Posted by Pappy 2016-12-01 15:49||   2016-12-01 15:49|| Front Page Top

#18 Pappy, well hopefully he'll lead the left to the kind of victories they earned this last election.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-12-01 16:57||   2016-12-01 16:57|| Front Page Top

#19 The real reason is because someone wants to remind the world that everytime a Clinton opens their mouth, lies come out.
Posted by Jeremiah Schwarzeneggar2836 2016-12-01 17:02||   2016-12-01 17:02|| Front Page Top

#20 
Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-12-01 19:30||   2016-12-01 19:30|| Front Page Top

#21 I'm anticipating biggo's time at the shtick will be much less Pappy.
Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-01 20:57||   2016-12-01 20:57|| Front Page Top

#22 Free climbing the face of Long's Peak in Colorado.

Yeah. Starting from the top.
Posted by gorb 2016-12-01 23:42||   2016-12-01 23:42|| Front Page Top

#23 You guys just wanted to use that image again.
Posted by KBK 2016-12-01 23:56||   2016-12-01 23:56|| Front Page Top

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