Mark Patricks – Readers may be aware that since her loss in the election of 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has had a series of high-profile speaking engagements and interviews, during which she’s taken opportunities to blame any number of people and factors for her embarrassing electoral rout.
On June 1, Clinton spoke at the venue where she was supposed to have given her concession speech on Election Night — the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. But that fateful night, Clinton never appeared. Instead, she sent her campaign chairman John Podesta to deliver the bad news to her waiting supporters, who were crushed by the candidate’s poor showing against Republican Donald Trump.
In her recent talk at the venue, for the 2017 BookExpo, Clinton was promoting a new tome she’ll be releasing in September about the election, which still lacks a title (and probably real substance). Clinton went off about hindsight and “taking herself out of the equation.” “It’s not about what happened to [me],” stated Clinton. “It’s about what happened to us.”
Clinton went on to blame the nation’s poor attention span, the Russians and various “challenges” for her loss. “You just get up every day and do the best you can… This book is, for me, a really personal, deep experience, and I also have to say an emotional catharsis,” she grumbled.
On May 31, Clinton spoke at a computer conference called Code 2017, sponsored by website Recode (which is owned by Vox Media) and hosted by journalists Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Clinton’s unpaid appearance at the tech event seemed the perfect moment to enumerate a long list of excuses for her poor electoral showing. In fact, Clinton appeared to be very upfront about that. “I take responsibility for every decision I make, but that’s not why I lost,” she stated early on.