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In one of the great scenes in American cinema, Jake Blues (John Belushi) of the Blues Brothers, explains at gunpoint to his ex-fiancee (Carrie Fischer) why he left her at the altar.

"I ran out of gas! I had a flat tire! I didn't have enough money for cab fare! My tux didn't come back from the cleaners! An old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! It wasn't my fault! I swear to God."

I kept thinking of that scene as I watched Hillary Clinton on Wednesday run through all of the reasons why she lost the 2016 presidential race.

At a conference hosted by Recode, Mrs. Clinton said, "I take responsibility for every decision I make but that's not why I lost."

The real reasons for her defeat include, but are not limited to: FBI Director James Comey's handling of the investigation into her email server, the institutional ineptitude of the DNC, Facebook, Macedonian "fake news" websites, real news (in the form of unfair coverage from TheNew York Times and other mainstream outlets), voter suppression in Wisconsin, low-information voters, the billionaire Mercer family and the deep-seated sexism of the American people.

Now, from one perspective i.e., hers she's right.

When you lose a very close presidential race almost any factor can be isolated and credited with the reason for your defeat. It's like a football game that ends in a squeaker. Every fumble and interception can be highlighted in isolation as the reason one team lost or another team won. But it's rare to hear losing coaches explain away their losses by singling out the individual mistakes of the players. That's because they understand that you have to look at the game in its totality.

Hillary Clinton got more votes than Donald Trump. But Trump won the Electoral College by squeezing a 10,000-vote margin of victory in Michigan, a 22,000-vote margin in Wisconsin and a 46,000-vote margin in Pennsylvania. According to Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio, were it not for five counties four in Florida and one in Michigan Hillary Clinton would be president now. Rather than vent about "misogyny" or Macedonian masterminds, she would be on firmer ground by simply saying, "We lost because we didn't put enough resources in Macomb County, Michigan and in Southern Florida."

But that doesn't support Clinton's martyr complex. Which is why she acts like a sprinkler system of excuses, spraying them all around. It doesn't matter that she is to blame for many of her excuses. If she hadn't ignored rules for handling classified information, Comey would never have needed to investigate her and the media wouldn't have had that story to cover. If she discovered that the DNC's data collection was so terrible a claim the Democratic Party's own data guru describes as untrue in profane and scatological terms she should have compensated. And as for her whining about negative media coverage, it's not like her opponent was lavished with praise from the Times.

Perhaps the most ridiculous claim is that she lost because she's a woman. Hillary Clinton has convinced herself she is an avatar for all womankind. Talking about her allegedly unfair treatment, she said "And at some point it sort of bleeds into misogyny." Male politicians get treated unfairly from time to time as well (you can look it up). Is that proof of anti-male sexism? Was her husband a victim of misandry? If Hillary Clinton earned one thing in her long and less than fruitful political career it is this: the right to be criticized or praised on her own merits or lack thereof.

The East German poet Bertolt Brecht once wrote sardonically that when the government lost the faith of the people: "Would it not be easier in that case for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?" Hillary Clinton has been running for president for much of her adult lifetime. She lost twice because, like Jake Blues, the electorate left her at the altar. If she had merely won among the voters who cast ballots for Donald Trump and Barack Obama, she'd have won. She didn't, preferring to call many of them "deplorable." Now she claims that many of them were sexist and ill-informed. I'd call her the Brecht Girl, but that would be cited as more proof of the misogyny that did her in.

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In case you missed it late Sunday night Egypt, the United Arab Emirites, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Bahrain all cut diplomatic ties with Qatar. The decision came after the officials from the Arab countries concluded the Qatar government has been funding terrorist organizations in Yemen, Syria and bolstering terrorist organizations working for Iran. There are also questions over the government's support for the Muslim Brotherhood.

"(Qatar) embraces multiple terrorist and sectarian groups aimed at disturbing stability in the region, including the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS (Islamic State) and al-Qaeda, and promotes the message and schemes of these groups through their media constantly," Saudi state news agency SPA said.

It accused Qatar of supporting what it described as Iranian-backed militants in its restive and largely Shi'ite Muslim-populated eastern region of Qatif and in Bahrain.

A quick trip down memory lane reminds us that 2016 Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton raked in $1 million from Qatar for the Clinton Foundation while she was Secretary of State. From Reuters:

The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments.

Qatari officials pledged the money in 2011 to mark the 65th birthday of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton's husband, and sought to meet the former U.S. president in person the following year to present him the check, according to an email from a foundation official to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta. The email, among thousands hacked from Podesta's account, was published last month by WikiLeaks.

But $1 million for Clinton is nothing compared to former Vice President Al Gore, who sold his Current TV network to Al Jazeera in 2013 for $100 million. Al Jazeera is funded by the Qatari government.

Former Vice President Al Gore has made himself a much, much richer man by selling his little watched cable channel Current TV to the Emir of Qatar-funded Arab news channel Al-Jazeera.

Gore netted $100 million with his 20 percent stake in the network when it was sold for a reported $500 million on Wednesday.

Iran is blaming the crackdown on President Trump's recent foreign trip, where he argued Arab countries needed to drive out extremism.

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Hillary Clinton with author and moderator Cheryl Strayed in New York.(Photo: Craig Ruttle, AP)

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. Theres a very familiar face at the start of the Ludovico Sculpture Trail in this town famous for its place in the history of womens rights. Theres no nameplate or inscription and no mystery. Its Hillary Clinton.

The bust was placed on the trail in 2013, when Clinton had already accomplished more than most people do in three or four lifetimes. Everyone knew, even then, that she would run for president, and right up until late on the night of Nov. 8, 2016, most of us would have predicted any plaque would start with the wordsFirst woman president of the United States.

That is not happening, and its time for closure.

It is easy to feel warm about Hillary Clinton when youre eating at places like Caf XIX (get it?) and stopping to grab a selfie with statues of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Amelia Bloomer.

But the real Hillary Clinton makes sure the warmth doesnt last. While I wandered around Seneca Falls, Clinton was driving a double-decker bus over her party.

She had previously blamed her defeat on James Comey, Russia, fake news, WikiLeaks and too muchmedia focus on her (shockingly sloppy) email arrangements while she was secretary of State. The latest scapegoat isthe Democratic National Committee. When she won the Democratic nomination, she toldKara Swisher and Walt Mossberg last week at a Recode conference, "It was bankrupt, it was on the verge of insolvency, its data was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong."

Not surprisingly, this did notgo down well with Andrew Therriault, the DNCs former director of datascience. And so another feud began, another backflip into the stagnant, poisonouswaters of 2016.

Bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton in Seneca Falls, N.Y.(Photo: Family photo)

You dont have to believe the DNC was a perfect vessel to want to move on. In fact, it always struck me as working well below capacity almost from the moment Barack Obama won the presidency. It was hard to find anyone who thought Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was doing a bang-up job, and hard to fathom why Obama never replaced her through all those years.

And that was just one of the many unfathomable, tremendously destructive DNC developments. Why was the party so dismissive of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders?Why didn't party functionaries and contractors at every single level go on red alert when the FBI clued them tothe Russia-hacking-WikiLeaks breach? Why on earth did Donna Brazile, the acting chairman after Wasserman Schultz stepped aside, send CNN debate questions to Camp Hillary?

There is blame and blame and blame and blame, from Obama to Clinton, from Comey to Russia, and many more. But why would Clinton choose to relitigate all of this, and now of all moments?We cant miss her if she refuses to be gone.

Now would be the time, after a terrible loss, that most people would retreat from the public stage to regroup, give the countrya respite, emerge later with a plan, a passion, a graceful or at least meaningfulway forward.The best role model for this is former vice president Al Gore.

Jill Lawrence in Seneca Falls, N.Y.(Photo: Family photo)

But that has never been Clintons style. She didnt do it when she left the State Department with a 64% approval rating. She hasnt done it after this devastating election.Instead shes out there talking about why she lost, about the book shes writing about why she lost, about her new organization called Onward Together. Imsorry, but that sounds like a slog. Make America Great Again is fallacious and superficial, but at least it doesn't sound like a march through quicksand to an unspecified goal.

Well be hearing from Clintonaround the clock when her book comesout this fall. If she must be present now, and apparently she must, she should discussthe future not 2016, not problems in the DNC, not sexism, not Russians and Comey and negative press and not even PresidentTrump. Every question about the past should be deflected with, "I'm looking forward, not backward. Let's talk about how more Democrats can win and more women can run."

Whether you love Clinton or really cant stand her, I highly recommend a visit to her bust on the Seneca Falls sculpture trail. Its an experience akin to recentering a map on your smartphone. The fraught present recedes, perspective snaps in, and Clinton takes her place in the tableau of history.

Her last chapter may not yet be written, butany plaque on that bust would be crowded even now: First lady, U.S. senator, U.S. secretary of State, first female presidential nominee of a major political party. Human rights are womens rights and womens rights are human rights. United Nations 4th World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995.

That is more than enough to put her in the pantheon along with Anthony, Stanton and the rest.

Jill Lawrence is the commentary editor of USA TODAY and author ofThe Art of the Political Deal: How Congress Beat the Odds and Broke Through Gridlock. Follow her on Twitter@JillDLawrence

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