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Clinton Urges supporters to 'Fight for our Values'

from politico

             “Please listen to me when I say this: America is worth it."


By GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI 11/16/16 09:42 PM EST

Hillary Clinton urged her supporters on Wednesday night to persevere in the face of her shocking electoral loss, speaking in Washington at her first public appearance since she conceded the presidential election to Donald Trump last week.

“I know this isn’t easy, I know that over the last week a lot of people have asked themselves if America is the country we thought it was,” said the former secretary of state, bringing the midsize Newseum auditorium to a standstill with her emotional address that she capped off by imagining a conversation with her now-deceased mother. “Please listen to me when I say this: America is worth it. Our children are worth it. Believe in our country. Fight for our values. And never, ever give up."


“Please don’t lose heart, don’t give up on the values we share. Look at the young people we are honoring tonight. If they can persevere, so can all of us,” Clinton said at the celebration of the Children’s Defense Fund, the group for which she worked when she was just out of college — and the exact celebration she and former President Bill Clinton attended first among all others after his 1992 election to the presidency. “I ask you to stay engaged. Stay engaged at every level. We need you, America needs you. Your energy, your ambition, your talent. That’s how we get through this."

Clinton didn’t mention the president-elect once during her roughly 20-minute speech, in which she thanked Children’s Defense Fund leader Marian Wright Edelman — one of Clinton’s mentors — extensively. But the ceremony was nonetheless politically poignant: Edelman introduced Clinton as the “people’s president” due to her victory in the popular vote of over 1 million votes, and members of Clinton’s campaign staff were strewn across the auditorium: her traveling press secretary, campaign videographer, press wrangler, trip director and two advance staffers among the bunch.

And Clinton herself quietly reflected on her past week, during which she has kept a low profile.


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“I will admit, coming here tonight wasn’t the easiest thing for me. There have been a few times this past week when all I wanted to do was curl up with a good book or our dogs, and never leave the house again,” she said, before invoking Martin Luther King, Jr. “The arc of the moral universe is long and it bends toward justice. Sometimes it can feel awfully long. Believe me, I know. But it does bend."

Addressing a crowd of Children's Defense Fund supporters, Clinton recollected her own work on behalf of young children and urged others to keep the issue front and center.

“I didn’t get into public service to hold high office. Forty-five years ago that would have seemed an absolute wrong-headed view. But I did decide to be an activist, to use my law degree, to help kids,” she said. “Despite the progress — and we have made progress under President Obama — more than 31 million children still live at or near poverty in America. And I hoped to have the opportunity to build upon the progress that President Obama has made, because I know we are stronger together when we are lifting each other up."

“Make no mistake, there are poor children of every race and ethnicity … the measure of success must be how many children and families climb out of poverty and reach the middle class,” she said. “We have to ask ourselves, what are we doing to give them the safe and healthy lives they deserve?"

But as the former Democratic nominee spoke, her party was starting to try and move on without her. Across town on Wednesday night, her primary election opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders mapped out his vision for the future under Trump while hawking his new book.


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And as the doors opened to Clinton’s event, the song “Lean On Me” began playing, the sound of Bill Withers crooning, “Sometimes in our lives we all have pain, we all have sorrow, but if we are wise, we know that there’s always tomorrow” filling the room.

Before long, a young cellist played on stage to formally kick off the evening — a far cry from the saccharine campaign playlist that opened Clinton’s public appearances for the last two years.

Less than two miles away, Sanders was fielding — and avoiding — a question. About the 2020 election.

‘What Trump represents isn’t crazy and it’s not going away.’ Peter Thiel defends support for Donald Trump.

from washingtonpost

By Steven Overly October 31 at 1:38 PM 

Peter Thiel says the Trump movement is 'not going away'

 

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Speaking at the National Press Club in D.C. on Oct. 31, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel said regardless of the 2016 election's outcome, what Republican candidate Donald "Trump represents isn't crazy and it's not going away."(National Press Club)

Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel reiterated his support for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump Monday morning, telling a room of journalists that a Washington outsider in the White House would recalibrate lawmakers who have lost touch with the struggles of most Americans.

Thiel said it was “both insane and somehow inevitable” that political leaders would expect this presidential election to be a contest between “political dynasties” that have shepherded the country into two major financial crises: the tech bubble burst in the early 2000s, and the housing crisis and economic recession later that decade.

The support Trump has enjoyed is directly tied to the frustration many across the country feel toward Washington and its entrenched leaders, and they shouldn’t expect that sentiment to dissipate regardless of whether Trump or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton wins at the ballot box on Nov. 8, he said.

“What Trump represents isn’t crazy and it’s not going away,” he said.

Thiel was clear Monday, as he has said in the past, that he does not support all of Trump’s actions and words. In particular, he called the “Access Hollywood” tape in which Trump made remarks about unwanted sexual advances on women “clearly offensive and inappropriate.” He said he didn’t support Trump’s words about Muslims “in every incidence.”

But Thiel also criticized the media’s coverage of Trump’s bombastic remarks. He said that while the media takes Trump’s remarks “literally” but not “seriously,” he believes Trump supporters take them seriously but not literally. In short, Trump isn’t actually going to impose religious tests on immigrants or build a wall along the Mexican border, as he has repeatedly said, but will simply pursue “saner, more sensible” immigration policies.

“His larger-than-life persona attracts a lot of attention. Nobody would suggest that Donald Trump is a humble man. But the big things he’s right about amount to a much needed dose of humility in our politics,” Thiel said.

Peter Thiel doubles down on his support for Donald Trump

 

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Speaking at The National Press Club, billionaire Peter Thiel doubled down on his support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday, Oct. 31. (National Press Club)

While the Silicon Valley tech corridor and suburbs around Washington have thrived in the last decade or more, many other parts of the country have been gutted by economic and trade policies that closed manufacturing plants and shipped jobs overseas, Thiel said, reiterating a previous talking point.

“Most Americans don’t live by the Beltway or the San Francisco Bay. Most Americans haven’t been part of that prosperity,” Thiel said Monday. “It shouldn’t be surprising to see people vote for Bernie Sanders or for Donald Trump, who is the only outsider left in the race.”

Susan Boyle, I Dreamed a Dream

from stylist.co.uk






One of the biggest viral phenomenon of 2009, Susan Boyle’s plain appearance and powerful voice wowed audiences in the auditions of Britain’s Got Talent, and worldwide as news of the video spread.