Killary mercifully calls her career as an active politician over

Sputnik
Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:51 UTC

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In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, former frontrunning Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton announced that she is "done" being a political candidate but will still be involved in politics.

"Is your political career over?" interviewer Jane Pauley asked Clinton on the Sunday show.

"Yes," Clinton responded.

"As an active politician, it's over," she added, cited by The Hill.

Clinton elaborated that her career in politics will continue, but it will no longer be in the glaring spotlight of capricious public opinion.

Comment: She is certainly not done using her Clinton Foundation schemes and various other methods to influence politicians and American policy. But hopefully we won't have to listen or see her anymore.

"I am done with being a candidate," she said. "But I am not done with politics, because I literally believe that our country's future is at stake."

Clinton affirmed her continued involvement in politics by releasing a new book, "What Happened," within the next few days, describing her experiences during the 2016 presidential election.

In her book, Clinton takes responsibility for losing the 2016 campaign and reflects on how certain factors, including alleged Russian interference in the US electoral process and a federal investigation into her use of a private email server while US Secretary of State, contributed to her loss.

She also detailed priding herself on holding a conventional political campaign, noting that her rival, current US President Donald Trump, did not adhere to the tacit rules the game.

Comment: How rich. That's just you being a sore loser. Trump played fair and caught the eye of the American voting public, the same public that saw you as the untrustworthy liar that you are. That is why you lost, not because the "rules of the game" weren't followed. Do us all a favor and go away and never come back.

"We have a reality show that leads to the election of a president. He ends up in the Oval Office. He says, 'Boy, it's so much harder than I thought it would be. This is really tough. I had no idea,'" Clinton stated.

"Well, yeah, because it's not a show," she added, "It's real. It's reality for sure."

Comment: At a separate point in the interview, she also called using a private email server "her most important mistake", although the way it's phrased it doesn't sound like she thinks she did anything wrong, just that the public's reaction meant it became an issue:

"It was presented in such a negative way, and I never could get out from under it. And it never stopped."

Yeah, it's too bad she "couldn't get out from under" breaking federal law. Who would have thought politicians would be held to such a standard? One can imagine all the laws she's broken over the years led her to believe she no longer had to follow the laws of the country she wanted to lead. As she learned the hard way, public figures are held to a standard that she couldn't live up to.