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Why Clinton lost

Your guest columnist, Nick Berry, could not have been more wrong in his analysis of why Hillary Clinton lost the presidency (The Capital, Dec. 14.) People revolted, Republican, Democrats and independents.

Lets analyze Hillary first. Well-qualified Democrat, you think so? But the rest of the country did not think so.

1) The Democratic primary. Bernie Sanders, as you mentioned not a Dem, wasnt going to get the votes needed to win the Dems primary let alone the general election. So the fix was in, literally for Hillary, people understood that.

2) You started with well-qualified for Hillary. For one, she signed government documents to get her clearances (perhaps multiple times in her career in government) and then went about breaking laws. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse for breaking the law that all of us must endure. Qualified, where does that apply for her? First lady, senator, secretary of state, and she still breaks laws.

3) You are right about the Dems message, a real joke. President Barack Obamas term was over and good riddance. No more apologizing for the United States of America. And telling us what we knew was wrong. High unemployment; looking like Europe rather than looking like the greatest country on the planet; a leader of a declining country for eight years. No more, please.

So Hillary was the Democrats Bob Dole sacrificial lamb. I get it. And, yes, the Republicans were unified behind one candidate, Donald Trump, even with all his so-called flaws. The people were willing to try something different than the run of the mill politician (from either party) telling us what was good for us.

The people united behind someone that would show them how the sausage is made because it was time to expose Washington for what it is, a swamp. Both parties are responsible for this. And, the way its going it will only stop if and when both parties are held to the same standards regular people are held too.

No private slush funds, no party cronies giving them immunity from prosecution, and no phony charges made to fit the crimes for others. Provable, fact-based real crimes. And, then those at the top going to jail for the crimes they commit. Equal justice for all

Stop explaining the excuses and let the country move on. I think it is doing fine now, perhaps write about all the positives going on now. But that doesn't fit your narrative, does it?

PATRICK ZGURI

Annapolis

You are the Redskins director of player personnel. You should have the ability to fix the quarterback position.

You are the first African American quarterback to win a Super Bowl. You hold the record for the best one quarter in Super Bowl history And you are an outspoken advocate for civil rights.

You follow in Bobby Mitchells groundbreaking entry to the Redskin roster.

So hire Colin Kaepernick He has the ability to fix the Redskins quarterback deficiency and win.

Who knows someday he may follow you to a Washington victory in a Super Bowl.

MICHAEL RAUH

Parole

I understand Bill Zambiasi s exasperation with todays double standards and ever-changing rules of political correctness, but I do not accept his premise that God impregnated Mary against Her will ( The Capital, Dec. 13).

Christians believe and profess the unalterable Truth that the inviolate Mother of Jesus Christ humbly consented to the honor of Divine Maternity with Her Fiat Be it done to me according to Thy Word.

There was no coercion, only purest Love. Blessed be Our God and His Holy Mother Mary.

MARY ANN MAWN

Centerville

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Hillary Clinton's one big party animal -- it's just what it takes to hang when you're attending a traditional Indian wedding ... that costs $100 million!

The former Presidential nominee just arrived at a wedding reception Wednesday evening in Mumbai for the ongoing celebration of Isha Ambani's nuptials. The bride's father, Mukesh Ambani, is the richest person in India with a reported net worth of around $42 billion. The Clintons are friends of the Ambani family, but Hillary attended with Huma Abedin ... not Bill.

As we reported ... Beyonce performed at the shindig earlier this week but attendees didn't just get down to Bey. A lot of Bollywood music was blaring, which brought out Hillary's best moves. Former Secretary of State John Kerry (who clearly didn't get the memo on attire) also joined the fun.

Priyanka ChopraandNick Jonaswere also seen arriving at this reception. Remember, traditional Indian wedding celebrations can last up to a week. Priyanka and Nick survived theirs-- we're guessing the Ambani fam will too.

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Awkward: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton share same pew at Bush funeral

The moment couldn't have been more awkward: Two fierce political rivals forced to share the same pew at the funeral of former President George H.W. Bush.

But that's how it played out Wednesday morning at the National Cathedral in Washington as President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger in the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton, sat just feet from each other.

Former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were seated with their wives in the first pew when Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrived. After he's seated, a photo shows Trump exchanging a handshake with former first lady Michelle Obama while a few seats away, Hillary Clinton stares icily ahead.

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The stern look on Hillary Clinton's face was a big change from the smiles, hugs and kisses she had for others in the first two rows, including the current and former vice presidents and their wives.

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Carl Golden Published 10:37 a.m. ET Dec. 5, 2018

Like an aging vaudeville duo whose act has grown stale and whose once-adoring audiences have diminished to a nostalgia-driven handful, Bill and Hillary Clinton have taken to the lecture circuit in their obsessive quest for relevancy and, of course, money.

In their recent opening night in Toronto the first stop on a 13-city, six-month tour the Clintons played to a half empty hall of true believers who cheered their attacks on President Trump, clucked sympathetically and cursed the bad luck that had befallen Hillary in her loss to Trump.

The former first couple is singing to the choir; no one is apt to shell out anywhere from $75 to more than $700 a ticket in the hopes of learning something new. They filed into the Toronto venue because it was an opportunity to reinforce their fealty to the Clintons, swoon over their political heroes, and come away convinced the country is on the road to ruin because, among other things, the American people failed to elect the nations first female president.

Packed houses are unlikely for the remainder of the tour, but the Clintons wont be deterred or embarrassed; the money will continue to flow (once Hillary left office, Bills quarter million dollar speaking fees dried up) and the media will cover their appearances the twin goals of the ex-president and ex-first lady, U.S. senator and Secretary of State.

The distraction the two represent is the last thing the Democratic Party needs or wants as it struggles to accommodate the rising voices of a crop of new, young, ambitious and aggressive activists demanding an overthrow of the party establishment and a dramatic change in thinking.

The Clintons are quintessential establishment figures who stand for small, incremental steps toward change rather than the upheaval demanded by the restless newcomers.

Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who has become the symbol of the new wave for change, was three years old when Bill Clinton won the presidency. Neither she nor her contemporaries have any emotional attachment to his administration, policies or style, nor any desire to follow the same path. The Clintons are throwbacks in her mind, appreciated for their service but to be obeyed or emulated no longer.

While the traveling Clintons berating Trump is consistent with party strategy, many worry the tour is a precursor to muscling Hillary into the mix of potential presidential candidates in 2020, a prospect that produces agita among those who blame her for booting away a sure thing two years ago and who remains a polarizing, divisive figure.

Her recent interview comment Sure, Id like to be president sent shivers up the spines of party regulars whose optimism about 2020 grows with each new Trump pronouncement and Twitter commentary, not to mention the potential for the investigation into allegations the Trump campaign dealt with Russian operatives to influence his election spilling into the Oval Office.

Hillary Clinton, however, is not the object of their optimism. The blue tide that swept Democrats back into control of the House was an anti-Trump phenomenon, but one which someone other than Clinton is best equipped to take advantage of.

The Clintons, though, dont seem concerned with the partys future; only their own.

Her defeat at Trumps hands wasnt simply the loss of an election it was a personal humiliation, a stinging rejection of her principles and values, a beatdown administered by an individual she disdained as inexperienced and unprepared with a volatile and erratic temperament.

Her tour with her husband is a stab at regaining relevancy, but a striving for redemption as well,dramatic proof that her loss was a colossal mistake committed by the American people.

The tour also fulfills a uniquely Clintonian need to occupy as much public space as possible, a relentless effort to remain the center of attention and the object of media and popular appeal.

Raking in considerable sums of money at the same time another uniquely Clintonian trait is an additional and welcome benefit.

Their decision to spend six months traveling the country is an unmistakable sign that, if the party wants them to retire gracefully, it will be forced to push them offstage. Self-absorption is in their DNA and theyre not about to leave voluntarily.

They may be a fading vaudeville act in peril of seeing their names in small typeface near the bottom of the theater lobby card, but the show must go on and they are convinced they deserve starring roles.

Carl Golden is a senior contributing analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University in New Jersey. You can reach him at cgolden1937@gmail.

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Bill and Hillary Clinton's Sugar Land tour stop rescheduled

Bill and Hillary Clinton's speaking event in Sugar Land has been rescheduled for a later date due to former president George H. W. Bush's death, the event organizer announced Monday.

The Clintons, initially scheduled to speak atthe Smart Financial Centre Tuesday evening, instead will fly to Washington, D.C., to "pay their respects to President Bush and his family," Live Nation Marketing Director Brian Birr said in an email.

Bush, who Bill Clinton defeated in the 1992 presidential election, died Friday at age 94. His remains are being transported Monday to the U.S. Capitol, ahead of a memorial service Wednesday morning at the National Cathedral.

Live Nation and the Clintons have yet to announce a new date for the Sugar Land event, which was scheduled to be the third stop in a 13-city tour. It kicked off in Toronto, where the duo did not sell out the nearly 20,000-seat Scotiabank Arena.

After Tuesday's event, the Clintons do not have a scheduled tour stop until April, when they will resume at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. The tour wraps up in May 2019.

At initial stops in Toronto and Montreal, the Clintons have rebuked Trump, who defeated Hillary Clinton about two years ago. Before the tour began, Clinton said in an interview she would "like to be president," but has not indicated whether she plans to run again.

Bush and Bill Clinton maintained close ties in the years following the 1992 election, and Clinton in a statement said he was "profoundly grateful for every minute" he spent with Bush and "will always hold our friendship as one of my life's greatest gifts."

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