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Index:
1. Hillary at campaign office and fundraising event in Seattle: “People need to start looking after each other again.”
2. Hillary on Ellen
3. Danny Elfman wrote horror score to Trump stalking Hillary at the debate
4. Barack Obama campaign rally for Hillary in Cleveland, Ohio
5. Don’t Let Trump’s Toxic Masculinity Overshadow Hillary’s Historic Achievement
6. Hillary Clinton Is Organizing Muslim Voters. They Could Decide The Election
7. Hillary's Gay 'Nephew': ‘Aunt Hillary’ Helped Me Come Out
8. Respected election handicapper Charlie Cook calls election for Clinton
9. Miami Herald endorsed Hillary
10. Orlando Sentinel endorsed Hillary
11. Bill Clinton campaigns in Cincinnati, Ohio
12. Elayne Clift: The Archetypal Journey Of Hillary Rodham Clinton
13. Hillary Clinton is tapping into the unstoppable power of joy
1. Hillary at campaign office and fundraising event in Seattle: “People need to start looking after each other again.”
The Seattle Times reports:
Hillary Clinton in Seattle: ‘This election is incredibly painful’
“This election is incredibly painful. I take absolutely no satisfaction in what is happening on the other side, with my opponent,” the Democratic presidential nominee said in a brief speech to a packed, cheering room at a Madrona campaign office.
“I am not at all happy about that because it hurts our country, it hurts our democracy, it sends terrible messages to so many people here at home and around the world,” she said. “Damage is being done that we’re going to have to repair. Divisions are being deepened that we’re going to have to try and heal.”
Speaking next to Gov. Jay Inslee and Sen. Patty Murray, both of whom are up for re-election, Clinton stressed the importance of voting in down-ballot races as well as her own.
“It goes without saying that you’re going to have maybe the biggest turnout of any state,” she said to huge cheers.
The brief stop followed a fundraiser at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Seattle featuring a performance by Seattle hip-hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
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Video of event in Seattle, WA:
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She said she wanted people “to start looking after each other again,” and that people needed to support each other at the end of an acrimonious campaign season.
“I need your help not just to win this election but to govern and to heal the divides that exist in our country right now,” she told donors.
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Hundreds of people waited in a driving rainstorm for more than an hour, happy to pay the monetary and meteorological price to see Clinton.
“So make no mistake, we do have to repair the damage which he has done, which we will do. But on both domestic and national security grounds, repudiating his candidacy sends exactly the right message,” she said.
While she said she doesn’t want “to get ahead of ourselves,” she also nodded toward possible postelection challenges.
“I hope you understand what I feel is the real mission here,” she said at the campaign office. “We want to win the election, that’s the first thing, but then we really, really want to get a lot done.”
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KUOW.ORG:
They're with Hillary, even as Seattle storm rages on
Braving a major storm, around 2,000 Hillary Clinton supporters waited in line in rain and wind to see their candidate in downtown Seattle.
Even shelling out at least $250 for the event at the Paramount Theatre didn't dampen their enthusiasm.
“I have never paid this much for a rock concert ticket," said Paula Blake, who drove in from Port Orchard. "She’s a rock star in my eyes."
Seattleite Eileen Simpkins agrees.
“I like that she doesn’t give up," Simpkins said. "I like that she’s proud of her nerdiness. I like that she owns being smart and being a policy geek.”
There was also Nick Harmer, the bass guitarist for the alternative rock band Death Cab for Cutie.
“I’m a new father, and I have a daughter," Harmer said. "I’d like her to grow up in a world where she can see that a woman can hold the highest office in the land.”
2. Hillary on “Ellen”
On Friday’s “Ellen” show Hillary started off with a shimmy, and she relived the debate as she commented that Trump “literally stalked me” on the debate stage, saying “I would feel this presence behind me. And, I thought, Whoa, this is really weird. I was trying to stay focused.”
Ellen stated, matter of factly: “It is like debating a teenager. He just says things, and then he goes “Makes me smart”. What is wrong with you?”
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There is a hilarious dance segment with Hillary and Ken Bone from the debate we all must have missed. It starts at around 7:40 minutes into the video.
TIME:
Hillary Clinton on Ellen: Donald Trump ‘Literally Stalked Me’ at Debate
"He was really trying to dominate and then literally stalk me around the stage”
Some viewers of the second presidential debate felt that Donald Trump’s pacing onstage led him to appear menacing or looming behind Hillary Clinton while she spoke. And it seems Clinton herself agrees.
Speaking to host Ellen DeGeneres on an The Ellen DeGeneres Show episode airing Friday, Clinton said she thinks Trump was trying to “stalk” her around the stage because he was upset about the recently leaked video in which he speaks very crudely about women.
“It was so odd, because I’d go to talk to somebody,” she continued, “and I would just feel this presence behind me, and you know, I thought, ‘Whoa this is really weird.'”
3. Danny Elfman wrote horror score to Trump stalking Hillary at the debate
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As we are at the topic of Trump’s stalking at the debate, famed composer Danny Elfman scored Trump stalking Hillary on the debate as a horror movie segment.
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The Wrap:
Watch Donald Trump Stalk Hillary Clinton to a Danny Elfman Horror Score (Video)
Forget “Jason vs. Freddy,” Donald vs. Hillary is your new Halloween nightmare fuel
Think the current presidential election couldn’t get any scarier? Allow Danny Elfman to fuel your nightmares, just in time for Halloween.
Elfman, the award-winning composer known for his work on “The Simpsons,” “Corpse Bride” and “Forbidden Zone,” has now turned his attention to perhaps his most frightening subject matter yet: GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump looming ominously behind and around his political rival Hillary Clinton during the presidential debate.
A video published on Funny or Die masterfully matches the images to the music, casting Trump in the same vein as famous movie baddies as Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger, menacingly wandering the stage as Clinton, seemingly unaware of the danger in her presence, attempts to explain the issues facing the American public.
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Watch out, Hillary, he’s right behind you!
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Rolling Stone:
Danny Elfman Scores Creepy 'Trump Stalks Hillary' Clip
Many viewers took notice of the menacing way that Donald Trump worked the stage during the second presidential debate, including the composer Danny Elfman. Elfman – best known as the man behind the themes for The Simpsons and the scores for most of Tim Burton's films – decided to set the movements to music, chopping up footage from the event that showed Trump on the prowl and soundtracking it with a creepy score.
"Watching Trump lurching behind Hillary during the debate felt a bit like a zombie movie," Elfman toldFunny or Die. "Like at any moment he was going to attack her, rip off her head, and eat her brains."
4. Barack Obama campaign rally for Hillary in Cleveland, Ohio
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Yesterday I blogged about Barack Obama’s great campaign appearance in Cleveland, OH at the Democratic dinner on Thursday, here:
Obama on fire: GOP=Swamp of crazy,“Trump didn’t build house by himself. Just slapped his name on it"
Well, a day after, on Friday, he held a full scale rally in Cleveland, Ohio, and it was almost as impressive a speech as the one he gave a day before. Check it out. “Come on, man.”
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Here is the video of the event:
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Newsweek:
U.S. FULL TRANSCRIPT: PRESIDENT OBAMA’S RALLY SPEECH FOR HILLARY CLINTON IN CLEVELAND
President Barack Obama on Friday spoke out against Donald Trump’s alleged inappropriate behavior toward women, during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Cleveland, Ohio. He even went so far as to compare Trump unfavorably with Mitt Romney and John McCain, the 2012 and 2008 Republican presidential nominees, respectively, against whom he ran. Obama said they each would have served honorably as commander in chief.
The previous night, at an Ohio Democratic Party dinner, Obama bashed Republican leaders for “riding this tiger” of conspiracy theories that created the conditions for the party to select Trump as its nominee.
This article contains the full transcript of Obama’s speech, if you want to read it.
5. Don’t Let Trump’s Toxic Masculinity Overshadow Hillary’s Historic Achievement
The New Republic has an insightful article that we must not let Trump’s toxicity related to his ridiculous idea of what “being a man” should look like overshadow Hillary’s incredible achievement for women and feminism.
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New Republic:
Don’t Let Trump’s Toxic Masculinity Overshadow Hillary’s Historic Achievement
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There’s no sadder commentary about gender politics in America today than the fact that the likely election of the first female president has become a horrific display of toxic masculinity. Hillary Clinton is on the verge of shattering the biggest glass ceiling in American politics, yet her rival has made the race all about male privilege and excess. This is not an accident. It’s a product of political choices made not just by Donald Trump, but by the Republican Party that has made him its standard-bearer.
Clinton’s challenge of the gender hierarchy in U.S. politics comes in the wake of President Barack Obama’s upending of its racial hierarchy. In Trump, the GOP is providing an answer to both Clinton and Obama in the form of a politician who is not just a white man, but an unabashedwhite man: a birther who boasts about grabbing women’s genitalia without consent. By making Trump the face of the party, the Republicans are saying, “Our answer to the diversity of the Democratic Party is a white man who knows how to keep women and racial minorities in their place.”
The article goes on to talk about Trump’s boasts about sexual assault, that Trump sees women only as sex objects, that he objectifies women, and that he goes as far as sexualizing teenagers (examples cited were comments he made about daughter Ivanka and to random 14 year old girls he had just met).
The article concludes with a salvo:
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But Trump’s dominance of the Republican Party makes sense when we realize that “family values” is just code for “patriarchy.” And Trump is patriarchy in its most unvarnished form, without even the mask of chivalry to humanize it. Faced with the prospect of a female president, Republicans decided not to embrace social change, as they could have done by nominating Fiorina, but rather by embracing toxic masculinity at its ugliest.
6. Hillary Clinton Is Organizing Muslim Voters. They Could Decide The Election.
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Huffington Post:
Hillary Clinton Is Organizing Muslim Voters. They Could Decide The Election.
Muslims are fighting Donald Trump’s rhetoric in the electoral arena.
Farooq Mitha has racked up a lot of miles in his job as Muslim outreach director for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. He’s met with Muslim communities in Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio to convince them to vote for Clinton in November.
Mitha’s job is unique: He is the first sustained Muslim outreach director employed by a major party’s general election campaign. In a year when Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has demonized Muslims and stoked Islamophobic fears of an internal threat, Clinton’s campaign is investing energy and resources into organizing Muslim voters to help her win key swing states.
“Reaching out to Muslim-Americans is not a numbers-driven game for the campaign,” Mitha said. “Muslim-Americans have been part of this country for centuries and have a long history here, and have been contributors to the United States across many fields ― entrepreneurs, job creators, teachers, firemen, police officers. It’s a community that’s very important.”
Muslims make up approximately 1 percent of the U.S. population, or about 3.3 million people. According to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which is undertaking a large voter registration drive, there were 824,000 Muslims registered to vote in June 2016. In states like Florida, Michigan and Virginia, Muslims are a large enough group that they can sway a close election.
The Clinton campaign also hopes that organizing in Muslim communities will help them in states like Ohio. In July, the campaign opened an office in Toledo, where Mohamed Gula leads organizing efforts for the Muslim community.
7. Hillary's Gay 'Nephew': ‘Aunt Hillary’ Helped Me Come Out
From “The Advocate” comes this touching story of how Hillary Clinton touched this young man’s life in a very positive way, gave encouragement and unwavering support at every stage of his life.
The Advocate:
Hillary's Gay 'Nephew': ‘Aunt Hillary’ Helped Me Come Out
Most people know Hillary Clinton as the former first lady or one of the few women to ever serve as secretary of State, but Colin Ebeling simply knows her as “Aunt Hillary.”
Ebeling is the son of Clinton’s childhood best friend, Betsy. The women met when they were sixth-graders at Eugene Field Elementary School in Park Ridge, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, and graduated high school together in 1965.
In a Facebook post that’s been shared over 5,000 times, Mr. Ebeling says that his mother and Ms. Clinton remained close over the years, describing her as “a warm, funny lady who taught me how copious amounts of hot sauce on your scrambled eggs will keep you healthy.”
The gay filmmaker said that Clinton, who spoke at his high school graduation and lingered after her speech to pose for pictures with the students, was extremely supportive of his sexuality. He writes that she “congratulated me when I came out of the closet, when I got my pilot’s license, when I married my husband and, when we adopted our baby girl.”
Here is Colin’s Facebook page where he discusses his experience with “Aunt Hillary”:
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According to Ebeling, Clinton has gone out of her way to show her acceptance of his relationship.
“Hillary has included me and my husband in countless events over the years and always greets us with warmth and sincere affection,” he writes. “Several times, we’ve had the privilege to sit down with her and swap stories and, let me tell you, this woman can tell one hell of a story. Her dry wit rivals some of the best sit-com [sic] writers I’ve had the pleasure to work with.”
Calling her “humble, personable and kind,” Ebeling claims that the woman he knows is totally different than how Clinton is portrayed by GOP candidate Donald Trump.
8. Respected election handicapper Charlie Cook calls election for Clinton
Charlie Cook is a great election analyst. I read him all the time. Lots of respect for the guy. He has called the election for Hillary, states “The race is now over.”
The Hill:
Respected election handicapper Charlie Cook calls election for Clinton
One of the most respected election handicappers in the country says the presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is now “over,” with victory assured for Clinton, the Democratic nominee.
“Take a close look at the new Fox News poll,” tweeted Charlie Cook, publisher of the Cook Political Report.
“This race is OVER.”
Cook has a reputation for cautious, non-partisan analysis, and he’s frequently consulted by both political parties.
Asked by The Hill to explain what it was about the Oct. 13 Fox News poll that caused him to declare the race over, Cook said it was a number of factors.
“Poll was devastating for Trump, from start to finish,” Cook said via email on Friday.
“Trial heats, favorable/unfavorable, candidate attributes, trust on handling issues, role model for children — all horrific for Trump.”
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Polls not only show Hillary ahead of Trump by 8% in the aggregate, they also show a terrible fav/unfav picture for Trump, lots worse than Hillary’s, and they show Hillary leading Trump on all issues. Trump also loses big on all character questions, temperament questions, fitness to be president questions, etc.
I have to concur with Charlie Cook here.
9. Miami Herald endorsed Hillary
A pair of potentially important newspaper and media endorsements from the Sunshine State:
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Miami Herald:
The Miami Herald recommends Hillary Clinton for president of the United States
Let’s make clear what the 2016 presidential election isn’t about:
It is not about choosing between a bad candidate and a worse one. The narrative that Hillary Clinton is the lesser of two evils is patently wrong. Ms. Clinton is a pragmatic, tough-minded woman of accomplishment and political conviction with a demonstrated mastery of policy. She is politically flawed. However, Donald Trump is a damaged human being.
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For her part, Ms. Clinton has used her insider status to work aggressively on behalf of the disenfranchised, here and around the world. She has not won every battle, but she fights the good fight, and she fights the right ones in the name of equality and democracy.
It’s far more important for Americans to understand what election 2016 is about: Most starkly, our values, our national identity and even the enduring power of the Constitution are in question — and at stake. Most simply, Americans will define just who we are.
And Hillary Clinton is by far the best person in this race to lead us to a definition of which we can be proud. She will protect the best interests of this nation, its standing on the world stage and even democracy itself.
This great endorsement article goes on to lay out a very detailed set of reasons why they are FOR Hillary, and as detailed a dissertation why Donald Trump is the wrong choice.
It concludes:
The priority of every voter who cares about standards of honesty and decency, not to mention the future and direction of this country, is to reject what Donald Trump represents. America does not need an arrogant, self-absorbed charlatan in the Oval Office. It needs a steady hand in perilous times, a voice of compassion in pursuing policies that help, not hurt, the disenfranchised; a leader capable of narrowing, if not healing, this nation’s divisions.
For all these reasons, the Miami Herald recommends HILLARY CLINTON for president of the United States.
10. Orlando Sentinel endorsed Hillary
Orlando Sentinel:
Hillary Clinton for president: Orlando Sentinel endorsement 2016
Like her or not, Democrat Hillary Clinton is well qualified to be president. RepublicanDonald Trump is not. Whether it's experience, knowledge, judgment or temperament, Clinton transcends Trump.
A contrast in resumes
Clinton has been a public-interest lawyer, a congressional staffer, an executive adviser and policymaker as first lady of Arkansas and the United States, a U.S. senator and the nation's top diplomat as secretary of state. She has mastered the details of domestic and foreign policy.
Clinton has a record of accomplishment to go along with her public service. After spearheading a failed bid to reform health care during her husband's first term, she bounced back and worked with congressional leaders in both parties to launch the Children's Health Insurance Program, which now covers 8 million kids.
Most of her bills as a senator had Republican co-sponsors. She worked across the aisle to get federal funds to rebuild New York after the 9-11 attacks and provide health care for first responders. As secretary of state, she met with leaders in 112 countries, brokered a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, rallied other world powers to impose sanctions on Iran and continued her career-long advocacy for the rights of women and girls.
The Orlando Sentinel usually sides with Republican candidates, is, overall, a more conservative paper. They could not bring themselves to endorse Trump, choosing Hillary instead.
A disparity on debt
Four years ago, we cited economic stewardship when we endorsed Republican Mitt Romney over President Obama. We faulted the president for not seizing opportunities to reduce the growing national debt. Rising interest payments on that debt will squeeze out more productive investments that would make America stronger and more prosperous.
Trump has denounced the debt in his campaign. However, according to the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the massive tax cuts he has proposed would deepen the red ink by $5.3 trillion over the next decade.
Clinton's budget also would add to the national debt, according to the CRFB, because her proposed tax hikes on corporations and the wealthy wouldn't fully pay for her spending plans. But her debt increase, $200 billion, is a fraction of Trump's.
Such numbers, like the arguments, point us to one candidate in this year's race for the White House. We endorse Hillary Clinton for president.
11. Bill Clinton campaigns in Cincinnati, Ohio
Underscoring how “All In” Hillary’s campaign team is in Ohio, Bill Clinton also held a rally in this pivotal state, this one in Cincinnati, Ohio. Barack Obama was also in Ohio on Friday, in Cleveland.
WLWT.com:
President Bill Clinton campaigns in Cincinnati, Ohio
Former President Bill Clinton made a campaign stop in Cincinnati on behalf of his wife Hillary Clinton. He told the crowd of more than 1,500 people at Washington Park, he wanted to talk about what the 2016 presidential election means to them.
Clinton said, “You’ve got a choice, anger or answers. You got a choice, resentment or empowerment. You got a choice, conflict or cooperation.”
The former president focused on issues including college debt, affordable health care and the economy. He said his wife is the best change agent he knows.
Bill Clinton ended his comments by drawing more comparisons to the two candidates and urging the crowd to make sure Donald Trump is not elected.
He said, “If you don’t want a guy to drive a truck off a cliff don’t give him the keys.”
Cincinnati Enquirer:
Bill Clinton in Cincy: 'We're so close'
Clinton's rally, his second of the day in Ohio, was aimed at encouraging supporters to vote early. Voting opened in Ohio on Wednesday.
“I am telling you, we’re so close," Bill Clinton told the Cincinnati crowd. "But you’ve got to vote for the right kinds of policies and the right kind of leader.”
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But Kelly Burton, 60, of Over-the-Rhine, said she was in Washington Park to see Bill Clinton because of how much she thought of the former president.
Burton was quick to assure a reporter she had voted early for Clinton. She sees her as a "real person," she said. She mentioned Clinton championing the Children's Health Insurance Program while a U.S. senator representing New York.
Burton was excited to see Bill Clinton. She stood on a park bench for a better view.
“He’s a really good man, he loves his wife, he’s a family man," she said. "Get Donald Trump out of here. He’s a damn fool.”
12. Elayne Clift: The Archetypal Journey Of Hillary Rodham Clinton
VTDigger:
ELAYNE CLIFT: THE ARCHETYPAL JOURNEY OF HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
Like many other feminists, I tweeted and posted to Facebook at a furious pace after the second presidential debacle that was billed as a debate. “Whether Trump did or did not do what the infamous tape suggested – and I think we all know which is true – the act of celebrating sexual assault as male prerogative and patriarchal power is deplorable,” I wrote. I addressed Trump’s stalking, stuttering and snorting in lieu of substantively addressing policy issues, and I shared my astonishment at his having received good reviews while Hillary Clinton was judged to be off her game for maintaining a calm, polite, focused demeanor in spite of being stalked, verbally abused, threatened with imprisonment and confronted with the sick stunt perpetrated by her opponent.
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No sooner had I finished reading Traister's compelling article when my daughter called to make another stunning point. “I think Hillary is on an archetypal journey,” she said. “She has to go into that dark place and emerge on the other side intact.”
It was a brilliant observation. Think about it. Women have traditionally been denied The Quest or journey to enlightenment. Locked in their castles birthing future kings, or in convents, where they spent the better part of their lives invisible beyond the cloister gardens, they were denied their hunger for a wider world, their intelligence and courage continually hidden from sight and declared non-existent or illegitimate. Almost the same can be said of women relegated to post-war suburban isolation even though they were, in many cases, well-educated. Many of them who dared to seek a larger role than wife and mother were quickly admonished to go home and make babies when they bravely sought careers.
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Among the many symbols of the classic Archetypal Journey are mountains, water, serpents and rainbows. Hillary Clinton still has some murky waters to wade through, waters that are home to snakes continually lashing out at her. But when she finally gets to the other side of the river and ascends the mountain there is likely to be a rainbow of colors there. Many of us will be standing with her, relieved and hopeful once more, able to see the world as a place of safety and beauty again.
We will all be changed by the experience. Sometimes that’s all it takes to reach a more enlightened way of being.
13. Hillary Clinton is tapping into the unstoppable power of joy
Peter Daou writes for Shareblue.com:
Hillary Clinton is tapping into the unstoppable power of joy
In a campaign seething with rage, Hillary Clinton is channeling a much greater force: JOY. The joy of facing adversity with courage. The joy of being alive at an inflection point in history. The joy of arriving at the end of a long and difficult journey. The joy of making a choice. The joy of overcoming.
We’ve heard so much about frustration and anger this cycle that we forget the other emotion driving the 2016 election, the one we see in the faces of Hillary Clinton’s supporters.
The most underestimated person in the 2016 election is the Clinton supporter. And their least recognized (and most powerful) emotion: joy
As usual, I’ll close this Saturday HNV with the latest of Hillary’s inspiring and truth telling tweets:
Thanks for reading. Have a great weekend, enjoy.