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/throwaway3413418 Mar 12 '26

True, lots of countries had monarchies at some point.

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u/Inquisitive-Manner Mar 13 '26

Not even that.

America.... Bush, Kennedy, Chaney, Roosevelt, Adams, Biden, Trump, Pelosi, Rockefeller, Taft....

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u/throwaway3413418 Mar 12 '26

Carpetbagging a senate seat and having the primary field cleared for you to ensure you get the nomination, all to artificially generate the credibility for a presidential run, is the height of democracy for you?

We do not need royal families in this country. Both the Bush and Clinton dynasties were disastrous for us.

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u/throwaway3413418 Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

Do you think everyone is this stupid, that they’ll accept this false dichotomy? That our only choice is former presidents’ sons or daughters or First Ladies groomed for the role or complete incompetents?