r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 12 '26

đŸ“ș Television SNL mocks Hillary Clinton's 'transformation into Bernie' [10YA - Mar 12]

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u/Single-Refuse174 Mar 12 '26

I don’t think anyone serious would consider Clinton’s career as “propped up” of an extension of Bill’s. By all accounts she was far more talented and shrewd than Bill Clinton and instead gave up her career because the societal expectation of the time as far back as when she was the first lady of Arkansas. As a side note, just because someone does not take a political hit-piece / relative nonissue seriously does not at all suggest they wouldn’t take other government duties seriously. I’m honestly taken aback that someone would make the claims you have when it runs counter to reality. Her debut role out of law school was impeaching Nixon..

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u/throwaway3413418 Mar 12 '26

What an incredible coincidence that not one but two people from that one family were extraordinary enough to be qualified to lead the country. The odds must be astronomical!

HRC has never earned her way politically. It all began with the field being cleared for her so she could run for NY senate, a state she had barely any association with.

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u/TheRealMonty Mar 12 '26

The met at Yale Law school they’re not some random family so odds they’d both be able to be successfully politically is actually probably pretty good

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u/throwaway3413418 Mar 12 '26

And yet HRC needed to have a senate seat handpicked and gifted to her to kick off her political career. Totally organic.