Letter to the editor

It is fatiguing to read continually where women (and some men) bemoan Hillary Clinton's failure to win the presidency, because she is a "woman." Clinton lost because she is Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The ruling oligarchy Democratic Party run by plutocrats and headed by the Clintons, anointed HRC the party's nomination from the beginning. No one told 75 year old Bernie Sanders, as if such an admonition would have phased the curmudgeon. The arrogant oligarchs laughed initially over Sanders' candidacy until it no longer was a laughing matter. It speaks volumes about the weakness of HRC as the “trotted-out" party nominee that Bernie Sander's campaign soon vaulted to the level it ascended, catapulted by wild populace enthusiasm that party members finally had input into a democratic process and not spoon-fed a nominee decreed by party elite.

America is ready for a woman president, but not a stale woman president named Hillary Rodham Clinton oppressed with heavy freight.

If the Democrats had nominated another fresh, vibrant, skilled woman with charisma, then many more independents, moderate Republicans, white women (and men) would have voted for the Democratic nominee. The fact that almost half of women voting (45 percent) did not vote for HRC shouts the fact of which I write. HRC lost the election not because she is a woman, but because she was the wrong woman nominee.

— Jerry W. Doyle

Alexandria

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