Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to her book “What happened”, Hillary Clinton’s biggest regret was joking about putting coal miners out of business because climate.
Hillary Clinton: Here’s the misstep from the campaign I regret the most
ELIZA RELMAN
SEP 7, 2017, 12:30 AM
In her new book “What Happened” — officially out on September 12 — Hillary Clinton wrote that her biggest regret from the the campaign trail was saying that she would put coal miners out of business.
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Clinton made the remark during a town hall in Columbus, Ohio in March 2016, during which she touted her plan to replace fossil fuel-based energy production with renewable systems.
“I’m the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country,” she said. “Because we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
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Clinton later called the comment a “misstatement” that she mistakenly made “out of context.”
But the remark sparked a backlash against Clinton and haunted her throughout the campaign, which Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump worked to center around the suffering of white working class Americans, with a particular focus on struggling coal miners.
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Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/hillary-clinton-biggest-campaign-mistake-2017-9
Coal mining is a big deal in Pennsylvania. According to Better with Coal, the coal industry provides approximately 36,200 jobs, 13,000 of which are directly related to coal mining. Coal mining average wages are about $30,000 higher than the average of Pennsylvania private sector jobs.
Pennsylvania also currently casts 20 electoral votes in Presidential elections. In the six elections prior to 2016, Pennsylvania voted Democrat. President Trump only won Pennsylvania by 0.7%.
If Hillary Clinton identifies hostility to the coal industry as her biggest regret, it really makes one wonder what conversations are occurring behind closed doors in the upper echelons of the Democratic Party. States like Pennsylvania are winnable – providing the Democrats tone down their green rhetoric, and remember that some of their supporters have real jobs.
Perhaps the climate movement has fewer friends than they thought.
As all experienced politicians know, telling the truth can be a terrible mistake.
I’m assuming you mean she was being honest about her intentions not expressing a “Truth”?
Coal is a resource used in thousands of products.
The actual issue “Truth” — USA Politics no longer represents the true needs of the People.
Their methodology and intent negates progress.
Why were we so foolish to “Believe” they are “Statespersons “….
John M, they are the real “deplorables”
(I feel that word turned many voters against her.)
She made that comment, the one about ‘deplorables’ ( applicable to the same people basically) in a broader context where the coal mining and other mid west industrial States were being and had been for years sneeringly referred to as ‘the Rust Belt’. Her disconnect was much greater than she lets on. She may as well have lit a match in a kitchen with a gas leak that had been running for hours.
All she has done is clearly illustrate the utter arrogance of the US ‘beltway elites’. Beltway scum is far mor accurate.
Good riddance to her I say. Goodby Hillary, your career was a giant fart that finally caught fire.
Warmunists are really racing to the bottom now: They used the winning Miss America contestant as a shill to bash Trump for pulling out of Paris. This is really a new LOW. They tried to box other contestants into answering “questions” the only “right” answer to was bashing Trump as well. If that’s what they’re resorting to, this “narrative” is on the ropes indeed! Time to deal it the knockout punch.
Why human condition when the topic is coal as a resource?
I think this has reached a point where it works against them now.
More often than not, they fail to recognize the truth in favor of false truths that fit a political narrative.
What “Truth” — there isn’t anything approaching a “Truth” in this post — so far.
Telling the truth is known in DC as “a Kingsley gaffe.” (He defined a gaffe as occuring when a poln told the truth.)
“Clinton later called the comment a “misstatement” that she mistakenly made “out of context.” ”
It is impossible for a speaker to “speak out of context” as they are the one making the context. She is even a terrible liar.
Just make sure we hang the coal statement around their necks as we know the left hates coal. Her “mistake” is still who she is, as it is for all Democrats. THEY HATE COAL, oil and gas.
She was lazy and arrogant. She didn’t even campaign in some states. The world dodged a bullet.
+1
There are many bullets to dodge like Al Gore for President etc.
Perhaps instead of POTUS, AlGore should run for SGOTUN. If he did, and won the seat, the next Ice Age would surely begin regardless of the atmospheric concentration of CO2.
I don’t know what a SGOTUN is but I wouldn’t consider him for a SCROTUM.
Secretary General Of The UN.
John,
Never confuse Being one with Having one
I probably think less of Al Gore than you do but I never thought of sending him screaming into a pit of fire. Clinton is true evil. Gore was just a politician.
How true!!
Arrogance is a keynote of this article and of her downfall and of her privileged position as ex-first lady and grifter in chief. There is no honest contrition in this admission of error. She claims it was a mis-statement or misunderstanding when it was no such thing. She was jubilant about the prospect of demolishing the coal industry.
She is a chronic liar. Now she says she was going to create great jobs by eliminating great jobs. What a farce! It only reveals what she thinks of people who do tough jobs at the base of the economy upon which she is a parasite.
Classic blame the voters not your policies.
I agree completely with this perspective. I have re listened to her speech and she is NOT joking! The ‘mistake’ was therefore her JUDGEMENT where that statement was assumed to be what the coal belt voters wanted to hear. REALLY BAD JUDGEMENT! It is proof that the voters agreed that she has very bad judgement and refused to elect her. We are all very lucky she said it. Thank you Hillary!
She meant what she said, just that it was a “mistake” to say it. She had every intention of continuing with Obama’s misguided anti-fossil fuel, coal-killing policies.
Obviously, but they no longer talk to people, only heads of advocacy groups count and they will accept it as a “mistake” for a favor of course.
That is the Correct analysis Bruce. Agree completely.
She meant and believes what she said, she just regrets being candid about it.
Further, even if she didn’t fully buy into it (shutting down coal), her rabid eco-wingnut supporters would have held her to it. She would have been forced to nominate more econutters and renewable energy cronies to all hundreds of the various agencies and department posts where energy, environment, land use, transportation rules and regs are made and enforced.
Yes, politicians can get into real trouble when they’re candid about their true beliefs. That’s why they hire experts and conduct poling to help them craft their message when running for office. You can find video of both Hillary and Obama saying they believed marriage was between a man and a woman. Yet today, Hillary claims she always supported gay rights and gay marriage. Perhaps she did and just didn’t have the courage to tell the truth when she thought it might cost her votes. And Obama didn’t just ‘evolve’ his views after becoming President, as claimed. He gradually revealed his true beliefs after it became safer to do so.
In a private setting before he ran for President, Obama expressed his view that he wanted energy prices to “skyrocket.” But he didn’t repeat that remark during his presidential campaign. He was smart enough not to tell the truth while campaigning. Hillary, when it came to her true views about coal, not so much. Public deception is part of politics, yet voters are often the last to believe that the person they voted for deceived them.
Absolutely, I’ll bet she didn’t think the coal industry would hear her, but she meant every stinking word.
This reminds me how glad I am she lost.
Did you really need a reminder?
Please never again forget.
That woman is setting back women’s equality 100 years. Every time a lady runs for office, or applies for a job, everyone’s going to visualize a long, long season of WHINING for every loss or deal gone wrong. Would you hire someone who comes in with a chip on their shoulder, is waiting like a spider for a crooked look or “microagressive” word so they can freak out and SUE? Whose every blurting and freak-flag sartorial choice is “protected” in the name of “self-expression?” I for one sure wouldn’t! When “activist” recent collegiate SJW’s start interviewing, a lot are going to find their names in the “round file!” If there’s any doubt, think of Hillary and consider!
In her case this quote might be appropriate:
“The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
Her book will be used in future clinical psychology classes.
This is a very good read:
http://counsellingresource.com/features/2009/02/27/blame-game/
…and I encourage anyone who needs a doorstop, or booster seat to buy it as well!
Bulls-eye!
There’s always this:
Saturday or Sunday was the 1st anniversary of her “deplorables” comment. It immediately converted me from being opposed to Clinton to enthusiastically supporting Trump.
This is funny…
Is she saying that she took her own quote out of context?
Is a misstatement mistakenly made, a double-negative?
That is funny, because true!
Not just PA is a coal state. The key swing state of OH is, too. WV used to be a swing state, but hasn’t been for a long time, because God and guns, even before coal. Ditto KY. The only eastern coal state Clinton carried was VA.
Virginia is a very, very minor player in the coal industry. Deep-blue NOVA is what drives the state nowadays.
Unfortunately.
Yes, VA is getting ever more “Progressive”, thanks to the unbridled growth of the federal monstrosity.
As of 2014, VA had sunk to #15 among coal-producing states. In 2015, the Top 15 were WY (42% of total), WV (11%), KY (7%), IL (6%), PA (6%), MT, TX, IN, ND, CO, OH, NM, UT, AL and VA.
Wisconsin gradually turned red in the last 20 years. Scott Walker has changed and fixed Wisconsin. The Midwest is getting redder and redder.
Most of the Virginia area is red, but the high population density of northern Virginia that borders DC is pure Democrat blue. That is why Trump was leading in Virginia for awhile, until the north end vote came in.
PS:
His strong field of opponents included former or current governors of the 2nd (TX), 3rd (FL), 4th (NY) and 7th (OH) largest states and a host of US senators from states much more populous than VT, such as TX and FL.
Governors
Bush, Christie, Gilmore, Huckabee, Jindal, Kasich, Pataki, Perry, Walker
Senators
Cruz, Graham, Paul, Rubio, Santorum
Private Sector
Carson, Fiorina, Trump
On top of that… Jeb Bush had raised well-over $100 million before the campaign even got started. Bush might have been able to carry VA, CO and NV… But I don’t think he could have won PA, WI and MI… And OH would have been a toss-up instead 10-pt GOP win.
Bush might have had a shot at NH, too, but for all those college kids from MA. IMO the fact that Trump trounced Hillary in OH suggests that Bush might have been able to eke out a victory there, too, especially if ran with RINO Kasich. Prescott Bush was born in Columbus.
For once, she was just being honest.
Clinton clearly showed that she had fallen victim of the green maffia. Such people do not belong in the White House. Fossil fuels cannot be missed before 2100 and to do so much research is needed.
The ironic part is that this is a Clinton being honest.
Honest for a book fee of course. Each new book deal has to have an edgy twist to it. In this case it’s a little bit of honesty splashed around. A lot of Clinton supporters reside at the nursing home now or at the cemetery. They just don’t show up for automatic support the way they used to.
In her case, she hardly drew any crowds. The Dems would had better luck with Bernie. Unfortunately the DNC along with Clinton prevented that from happening.
Hah! Honesty for shock value! Unbelievable level of hypocrisy.
Being dead has never been much of an impediment to Democrat voters.
That random act of honesty probably made her go into withdrawal.
That’s the problem when your real self is so despicable and you reveal too much.
Constant conniving is necessary to fool people.
Look at the DNC emails. Nice people huh?
Like Wasserman Schultz?
Not a mistake but the real intent and not just isolated. Glad we heard about it before the election. Everybody seemed to brush a similar comment by then candidate Obama 9 years before when were were told to expect higher and higher energy costs from his policies and nobody seemed to care…
No, the Russians made her say those words in Ohio by slipping in a faked script for her to read at the last minute. sarc
Give her some credit. She seems to be taking the blame for this one. Question is, was she reading prepared remarks or was she speaking her own mind?
It was an Obama overreach script that she foolishly used in campaign mode without the executive powers already in hand. Only a rube would give a speech from California in Ohio. You’re supposed to feed the green crap out west and union benefit plays in Ohio and social security fear mongering in Florida.
“Give her some credit. She seems to be taking the blame for this one.”
Should one be given credit for “taking the blame on this one” when the error she claims to have made was to tell the truth?
“was she speaking her own mind?”
Objection; counsel is assuming facts not in evidence.
Nonsense! She sees it as a tactical error. She still can’t or won’t admit that it was economically and ethically wrong, wrong, wrong!
Joel: Hill didn’t get as far as she got speaking her own mind, starting with “I do”. She never “speaks her own mind”, or it would sound like this- “Do as I say, ’cause I’m way smarter than you, and you, and you…” as she pointed to each person in the room, one by one. It would not be true, but it would be an honest thought for her. I’ll give her this much, she has lied so often and so deeply, she may no longer have the capacity to know her own mind.
I recall that she also said to coal miners in West Virginia “..don’t worry, we’ll take care of you.” It may have been an ad lib, but from my experience with coal miners, they don’t want taken care of. They want to work, and will do a dangerous job to support their families.
“Don’t worry”, hissed the snake.
Yes, she may have also said “we’ll take care of you” to James McDougal, Mary Mahoney and Vince Foster
The hands that build rarely have their hands out.
She seems to have forgotten about saying she was going to raise taxes on the middle class and then lumping everyone who disagreed with her into a basket of deplorables.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idrgiAEk2Vs
Shhhh, already! Please just let them keep saying these things openly, OK?
Yes, you would think leaking rational comments in a post battle analysis would tip their hand. But then there is a repeating pattern of arrogance and stupidity that bubbles up with each campaign from her Party. Trump just being there will trigger it all again. It’s a personality flaw that repeats on a national scale.
Consider the numbers of red-state fine, upstanding men who watch the Miss America pageant. Those leading “questions” trapping contestants into Trump-bashing just alienated about 98% of them. Way to go, MSM . . .
She wasn’t joking, and the only thing she regrets is actually telling the truth about something for once in her life.
“joking” !! ??
Perhaps she’ll admit that she was also “joking” about running for president.
/snark
Is this book being written in real time to keep it edgy? A release in e-book format only would facilitate that approach. But then with this crew, they could be releasing multiple versions for different audiences.
Joking? That is a total lie. She wanted to kill coal. Period.
She didn’t give a rats ass about coal or anything else. It’s what she believed her voter base wanted. She has no moral base only ambition. A lying scheming old hag that smells of sulfur and old lady.
Well, she is wrong about that. It was her second biggest mistake. The biggest mistake was calling half of Trump supporters a basket of deplorables. That insulted far more people who ultimately embraced the phrase as a badge of honor.
Trump is a president of the working class. Not smooth, not a skilled liar, not a gentleman.
What she means is it was a POLITICAL mistake to make the statement.
“Lying Crooked Hillary”….tell the truth often enough, people start to believe it!
That was the first time in her life! Let’s not get carried away!
It’s so typical of the liberal leftist elite. It’s not just Clinton.
I wonder how long it will be before it becomes clear to the MSM that she didn’t (and still doesn’t) have the physical stamina to be President?
Exactly 1 year ago, they completely tried to hide her 9-11 collapse in NYC under very mild conditions and a cream puff campaign schedule. It hadn’t been for that single onlooker cell phone video, she probably could have gotten away with it.