May 3, 2017

Hillary Rides the Blame Train

Clinton continues to blame everyone but herself for losing the election. Comey, the Russians, misogyny — you name it.

“I was on the way to winning until the combination of Jim Comey’s letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off,” Hillary Clinton bitterly complained in an interview on Tuesday at the Women for Women International event. “And the evidence for that intervening event is, I think, compelling [and] persuasive.” If by compelling and persuasive she means pathetically wrong.

When has it ever been considered a virtue of leadership to reject personal responsibility and embrace the status of a helpless victim? Well, besides Barack Obama. While it may be human nature to blame others for our own failures, those individuals and leaders we most admire are those who refuse to fault others for the failings they experience. Unadmired and disliked Hillary Clinton has repeatedly refused to admit her own failings and rise above that childish instinct to point the finger at others.

“I take absolute personal responsibility,” Clinton insisted. “I was the candidate. I was the person who was on the ballot.” Except she went on to immediately shift blame to Comey and the Russian hack of John Podesta’s emails for her loss. “There was a lot of funny business going on,” she said. Yes, there was — it was called her private email server on which she illegally sent and received classified information. Comey didn’t make her do that. The Russians didn’t plant it. Clinton herself made that decision, and then she lied about it every step of the way. Even Comey’s last minute effort to exonerate her a second time failed because no one trusted her.

One thing to be gleaned from the interview is that Hillary still craves relevancy. Clinton stated, “I’m back to being an activist citizen — and part of the resistance.” And she gave yet more evidence that she has still not come to grips with the loss, asserting several times, “Remember, I did win more than three million votes [more] than my opponent.” There may not be a more ringing endorsement for the wisdom of the Founding Fathers’ installation of the Electoral College than that. If Hillary, were truly interested in what’s best for the nation, she would own the loss and move on. Few liked her to start with, and no one likes a sore loser.

Who We Are

The Patriot Post is a highly acclaimed weekday digest of news analysis, policy and opinion written from the heartland — as opposed to the MSM’s ubiquitous Beltway echo chambers — for grassroots leaders nationwide. More

What We Offer

On the Web

We provide solid conservative perspective on the most important issues, including analysis, opinion columns, headline summaries, memes, cartoons and much more.

Via Email

Choose our full-length Digest or our quick-reading Snapshot for a summary of important news. We also offer Cartoons & Memes on Monday and Alexander’s column on Wednesday.

Our Mission

The Patriot Post is steadfast in our mission to extend the endowment of Liberty to the next generation by advocating for individual rights and responsibilities, supporting the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and promoting free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values. We are a rock-solid conservative touchstone for the expanding ranks of grassroots Americans Patriots from all walks of life. Our mission and operation budgets are not financed by any political or special interest groups, and to protect our editorial integrity, we accept no advertising. We are sustained solely by you. Please support The Patriot Fund today!


The Patriot Post and Patriot Foundation Trust, in keeping with our Military Mission of Service to our uniformed service members and veterans, are proud to support and promote the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, both the Honoring the Sacrifice and Warrior Freedom Service Dogs aiding wounded veterans, the National Veterans Entrepreneurship Program, the Folds of Honor outreach, and Officer Christian Fellowship, the Air University Foundation, and Naval War College Foundation, and the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. "Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for his friends." (John 15:13)

★ PUBLIUS ★

“Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!” —George Washington

Please join us in prayer for our nation — that righteous leaders would rise and prevail and we would be united as Americans. Pray also for the protection of our Military Patriots, Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic's Founding Principle of Liberty, that the fires of freedom would be ignited in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.

The Patriot Post is protected speech, as enumerated in the First Amendment and enforced by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, in accordance with the endowed and unalienable Rights of All Mankind.

Copyright © 2024 The Patriot Post. All Rights Reserved.

The Patriot Post does not support Internet Explorer. We recommend installing the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome.