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Democrats, reveling in President Donald Trumps plummeting popularity and the Republican Partys civil wars, are looking forward to September. Except for one thing: the rollout of Hillary Clintons next book right after Labor Day.

Clinton has promised to let my guard down in the book, What Happened, explaining her shocking loss to Trump in November. She has already offered up several explanations, blaming Russian interference, former FBI Director James Comey, and misogyny, while also acknowledging tactical errors by her campaign.

Many Washington Democrats, though unwilling to criticize her in public, wish shed move on, as Minnesota Sen. Al Franken has put it. They fear that her complaints help Trump make his case that the controversies surrounding him flow from the Democrats bitterness about their 2016 loss.

They prefer the approach taken by Al Gore after his equally controversial loss in 2000. Gore didnt really criticize the administration of President George W. Bush for almost two years even though he, like Clinton, won the popular vote while losing in the Electoral College. (Gore lost when the Supreme Court stopped a vote recount in Florida.) Gore went on to start a new career, winning a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award for his work on climate change.

Associates hoped Clinton would also find a way to make a different contribution, perhaps as a university president or foundation head. There have even been suggestions that she move overseas for a couple of years.

Clinton could make a contribution speaking out selectively on important issues, drawing on her wealth of experience.

But she remains haunted by her defeat. The gist of her message next month, based on her public statements and accounts of private conversations from people whove talked to her, will be: I accept the blame for what happened, but the bigger problems were Russian meddling, Comeys on-again, off-again handling of the FBIs probe of her private email server, the Democratic Party, and maybe even some of her own campaign staffers.

The Clintons, associates say, are convinced that the election was stolen. They may be right; well find out soon enough whether theres proof that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. If investigations by congressional committees and special counsel Robert Mueller turn up new facts, thatll provide a better basis for analyzing the impact.

But Clinton is the wrong messenger. She just comes across as a sore loser.

Or as Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer told The Washington Post last month: When you lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity, you dont blame other things Comey, Russia you blame yourself.

She could take a lesson from another prominent Democrat, one who has kept a relatively low profile since January. Thats former President Barack Obama, who has mostly resisted the temptation to strike back at repeated Trump cheap shots. Today, surveys of voters have found, hes the most popular American politician. Some Democrats want him to take on Trump a bit more, and are pleased hell be out campaigning for a few Democrats this fall.

By contrast, Clinton has moved from being an admired former New York senator and secretary of state to becoming a divisive and unpopular figure. In last months Bloomberg national poll, 58 percent of respondents rated her unfavorably compared to 39 percent who gave her favorable marks. More than one in five people who voted for her in November now regard her unfavorably. That was even worse than Trumps standing in the same poll.

Indeed, the only figure with higher negatives in the survey, which was conducted by the Iowa polling firm Selzer & Co., was her old nemesis, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

E-mail Albert R. Hunt at ahunt1@bloomberg.net. Follow him on Twitter: @AlHuntDC

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BY: David Rutz August 15, 2017 12:00 pm

The longtime game show "Jeopardy!" trolled Hillary Clinton on Monday night with its category entitled "Baskets of Adorables."

The category depicted answers with pictures of cute animals like cats and sloths in baskets.

Host Alex Trebek drew laughter when he read out the category name. He added "uh-oh" after stating the title.

The category was a reference to Clinton's infamous remarklast September that half of Donald Trump's supporters belonged in a "basket of deplorables."

"To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," she said. "Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it But that other basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down. Nobody cares about them."

Clinton later said she was "wrong" to make those remarks.

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former U.S. presidentBill Clinton shook hands and posed for photos with people on the streets ofNorth Hatleyin Quebec's Eastern Townshipson Tuesday.

The pair, along with their daughter Chelsea and two grandchildren have been staying at Manoir Hoveyresort on the shores of Lake Massawippi this week.

"We're having a wonderful time, thank you, it's so beautiful," said Hillary Clinton.

Bill Clintonsaid the lake impressed him.

"It's beautiful, very interesting what's developed, what's not. And you know for most people it's a very deep lake, because it's a glacier lake," he said. "These are relatively rare.There are only a few lakes in America as deep as this. It's quite beautiful."

Radio-Canada reporterMarie-HlneRousseau asked him if he would be seeing former prime ministerJeanChrtienduring his visit.

"I haven't heard back from him, but you know, we're very close friends andI just was with him not too very ago, so I'm hoping he can come and be with me on my birthday," he said.

Clinton will be turning 71on Aug. 19.

Clinton said his plans were to do as little as possible on the tripexcept play with grandchildren and have a good time.

On Tuesday, Clinton strolled outside in North Hatley, stopping to shake hands, while Hillary Clinton browsed in some shops.

He was even drawn into a conversation about the U.S. politics, and emphasized the need for a high voter turnout in the next U.S. election.

"Hillary'sin there spending the money," a woman standing on the steps outside a shopteasedtheformer president as he went in an antiques store to find his wife.

"It's a good thing, it's her money too," he quipped back.

Author Louise Penny, who lives inKnowlton,invited theClintonsto the Townships for a visit.

Hillary Clinton has said she is a fan of Penny's murder mysteries, featuring InspectorGamache,a fictionalSretdu Qubecdetective. Penny was spotted with the Clintons on Tuesday.

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Following a white nationalists rally that turned violent on Saturday in Charlottesville, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton issued a statement on Twitter condemning white supremacists for inciting violence that may have led to the death of one person.

In a string of tweets, Clinton expressed empathy for residents of the Virginia town, home of the University of Virginia, writing: My heart is in Charlottesville today, and with everyone made to feel unsafe in their country.

Unlike President Donald Trump, who refused to pin responsibility of the violent exchanges between white nationalistgroups and counter-protesters, Hillary blatantly blamed white supremacy for the spread of hatred in America.

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But the incitement of hatred that got us here is as real and condemnable as the white supremacists in our streets. Every minute we allow this to persistthrough tacit encouragement or inaction is a disgrace & corrosive to our values, she wrote, adding, Now is the time for leaders to be strong in their words & deliberate in their actions.

Trump offered an official statement in regards to the altercations that ensued in Charlottesville on Saturday, writing on Twitter that there was no place for this kind of violence in America hours after Virginias Governor Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency in the town, putting an end to the rally. However, Trump failed to acknowledge white nationalists' role in the savagery that resulted in the injuries of multiple people in the small town.

Instead, during a press conference, the president said he condemns in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. The comment and Trumps refusal to directly name white supremacist groups for inciting violence in Charlottesville--where a person drove a vehicle into a crowd of people injuring 19 people and killing one person--has resulted in a wave of criticism from all sides regarding his inability to stand up to racist white hate groups.

No matter our color, creed, religion or political party we are all Americans first. We love our country, we love our God, we love our flag, were proud of our country, were proud of who we are, Trump said. so we want to get the situation straightened out in Charlottesville and want to study it and see what were doing wrong in this country. We have to respect each other, ideally we have to love each other.

Following Trumps comments, a number of people took to social media to point out that the president has been vocally tougher on his Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and a number of other people than what he has been on white supremacists and neo-nazi groups.

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This is the email Hillary Clinton's pastor, the Rev. Bill Shillady, sent her on the morning of November 9, 2016, the day after she lost the presidential election to Donald Trump.

It is Friday, but Sunday is coming. This is not the devotional I had hoped to write. This is not the devotional you wish to receive this day. While Good Friday may be the starkest representation of a Friday that we have, life is filled with a lot of Fridays.

For the disciples and Christ's followers in the first century, Good Friday represented the day that everything fell apart. All was lost. The momentum and hope of a man claiming to be the Son of God, the Messiah who was supposed to change everything, had been executed.

Even though Jesus told his followers three days later the temple would be restored, they had no idea of what that Sunday would be. They betrayed, denied, mourned, fled and hid. They did just about everything BUT feel good about Friday and their circumstances.

For us, Friday is the phone call from the doctor that the cancer is back. It's the news that you have lost your job. It's the betrayal of a friend, the loss of someone dear. Friday is the day that it all falls apart and all hope is lost. We all have Fridays. But, as the saying goes, "Sunday's coming!"

Today, you are experiencing a Friday. Your Friday is what happened in the last few weeks and last night in the tragic loss. But Sunday is coming!

Jesus completed the excruciating task of giving up his life as a sacrifice for the sins of the world. It was his faith and belief in his heavenly Father, that gave him the grace and peace to submit to Friday. While death had seemingly won, Jesus knew better. When he said, "It is finished," it wasn't meant to be a statement of concession. It was a declaration that a new day was on the way.

Friday is finished. Sunday is coming. Death will be shattered. Hope will be restored. But first, we must live through the darkness and seeming hopelessness of Friday.

You know one of my favorite sayings is "God doesn't close one door without opening another, but it can be hell in the hallway." My sister Hillary. You, our nation, our world is experiencing a black Friday. Our hope is that Sunday is coming. But it might well be hell for a while.

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