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alyshadeshae 's review for:
What Happened
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
To start, I'm not a huge fan of Hillary Clinton. She just rubs me the wrong way. It's not that she's a woman, though, it's that she's a politician. Most politicians give me that same "eh" vibe and just aren't my cup of tea.
Reading this book, though, changed how I feel about her a bit. I do feel (and felt during the campaign) that she would have been a fantastic president. She definitely would have been better for our country than Trump. Even if she accomplished absolutely nothing as president, she would have been better than Trump who is actively hurting our country.
I think that if everyone were to have been able to connect with Clinton the way that this book allows people to connect with her, that there wouldn't have been an issue about whether she "wanted to be president for the right reasons" which is something I heard a lot down here in Louisiana. I think she would have won the popular vote by more than she already won and would also have won the electoral college (When are we demolishing that, by the way? What happened to one person, one vote?! The electoral college weights an individuals vote unnecessarily based on where they live.), too.
I was impressed throughout the book with how she took ownership of the loss, though. You hear constantly that she's "making excuses" for why she lost, but she really hasn't been. And she doesn't in this book. She literally has explained to multiple interviewers "this affected the situation, and this, but it was my job to get through that and I didn't" and she does the same in the book. "Yes, all these issues factored in to my loss, but I was supposed to cut through that and I couldn't."
I'm a bit more of a Clinton fan now that I've read the book. I do wish she would have left a lot of the God stuff out because that really does come across (to me, at least) as pandering, but maybe she really is that religious. Seems silly coming from such a highly educated and intelligent woman, but I'm aware of the necessity of politicians to at least appear religious (if not actually be religious) to the public masses.
Reading this book, though, changed how I feel about her a bit. I do feel (and felt during the campaign) that she would have been a fantastic president. She definitely would have been better for our country than Trump. Even if she accomplished absolutely nothing as president, she would have been better than Trump who is actively hurting our country.
I think that if everyone were to have been able to connect with Clinton the way that this book allows people to connect with her, that there wouldn't have been an issue about whether she "wanted to be president for the right reasons" which is something I heard a lot down here in Louisiana. I think she would have won the popular vote by more than she already won and would also have won the electoral college (When are we demolishing that, by the way? What happened to one person, one vote?! The electoral college weights an individuals vote unnecessarily based on where they live.), too.
I was impressed throughout the book with how she took ownership of the loss, though. You hear constantly that she's "making excuses" for why she lost, but she really hasn't been. And she doesn't in this book. She literally has explained to multiple interviewers "this affected the situation, and this, but it was my job to get through that and I didn't" and she does the same in the book. "Yes, all these issues factored in to my loss, but I was supposed to cut through that and I couldn't."
I'm a bit more of a Clinton fan now that I've read the book. I do wish she would have left a lot of the God stuff out because that really does come across (to me, at least) as pandering, but maybe she really is that religious. Seems silly coming from such a highly educated and intelligent woman, but I'm aware of the necessity of politicians to at least appear religious (if not actually be religious) to the public masses.