Over the weekend, we got a nostalgic glimpse of what could have been had Hillary Clinton defeated President Donald Trump back in 2016. My colleagues Stephen Kruiser and David Manney both captured a uniquely "Hillary moment" that happened over the weekend. Here's how David described Clinton’s panel discussion appearance at the Munich Security Conference:
Hillary Clinton, a former all-star American leader, took the stage in Munich expecting a stroll on familiar ground. The setting felt friendly, the crowd leaned globalist, and the talking points seemed well-rehearsed.
Then a Czech politician, calmly stepping outside the approved script, asked a question that didn't flatter the room.
It was as if a thousand voices in the Force suddenly vanished; the room's temperature changed.
Czech Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka challenged prevailing narratives on sovereignty, migration, and Western leadership. He spoke; he didn't shout. He didn't posture, he simply disagreed.
Here’s how that turned out.
Now that Clinton’s political career is firmly in the nation’s rearview mirror, we can laugh, can’t we? I mean, those things she said and did that once scared the bejeebers out of us for our country, we can laugh about them now, right?
I think we can enjoy her best meltdown moments now because we know she lost, not just an election, but in attaining the kind of influence and power she always craved. With that in mind, consider this her “best of” album of her meltdown hit parade.
This is Clinton at a congressional hearing on the catastrophic Benghazi terrorist attack that left four American diplomats dead under then Secretary of State Clinton’s watch. The attack happened on Sept. 11, 2012. This hearing took place on Oct. 22, 2015.
Lest we forget, however, Clinton’s default mode is best described as loud, unhinged, and shrill. Rush Limbaugh had a theory that the one thing that would always sink her in the polls was that men would hear her shriek and whine and even nag the voters so much that they saw her as that woman, like an ex-wife, who they couldn’t bear to listen to day-after-day. I’m sure the shrillness turned off a lot of women, too.
This next one is the OG of Clinton moments. It’s from Mar. 16, 1992, while she was campaigning for her husband in his first run for president. She was in her hometown at Chicago's Busy Bee restaurant.
This line defined her and set the tone for the rest of her career in public life: “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do w to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life.”
While there are too many instances of heckling to show here, it seems word got out that you could really throw her off her game, if she had game, if you heckled her. Here’s one example of this: when she got called out while in the middle of trying to say her opponents don’t want to be called out.
On second thought, after watching Hillary Clinton in action, I’m not laughing. I’m once again feeling this deep sense of relief that she’s now on the sidelines and that even her own party has moved on from her.
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