Tuesday, May 3, 2016

"That" Clinton!

Hillary Clinton will think twice before entering coal country again. From Fox News:

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was confronted Monday at a campaign stop in West Virginia by a laid-off coal worker over previous comments she made that “we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” 
Clinton was attending a panel discussion with residents and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin in Williamson, W. Va. when she was asked a question by Bo Copley, who told her he was a laid off worker in the coal industry. 
“I just want to know how you can say you’re going to put a lot of coal miners out of, out of jobs, and then come in here and tell us how you’re going to be our friend, because those people out there don’t see you as a friend,” Copley said, sometimes breaking into tears, as the chants of the protesters were heard outside. 
Clinton however said her comments in March were a “misstatement,” and that she has been talking about helping out coal country “for a very long time.” 
Then Clinton launched into this classic statement:

“What I was saying is that the way things are going now, we will continue to lose jobs...That’s what I meant to say, and I think that that seems to be supported by the facts. I didn’t mean that we were going to do it, what I said was, that is going to happen unless we take action to try to and help and prevent it.”
Nowhere in that mish-mash does she state the truth: The green agenda espoused by the Democrats and currently being run by Obama is what is killing the coal industry.

Did you notice she used the word "that" six times in that statement? Here is the definition of "that" from Google:

 pronoun
1.
used to identify a specific person or thing observed by the speaker.
"that's his wife over there"
2.
referring to a specific thing previously mentioned, known, or understood.
"that's a good idea" 
determiner
1.
used to identify a specific person or thing observed or heard by the speaker.
"look at that man there"
2.
referring to a specific thing previously mentioned, known, or understood.
"he lived in Mysore at that time" 
adverb
1.
to such a degree; so.
"I would not go that far" 
conjunction
1.
introducing a subordinate clause expressing a statement or hypothesis.
"she said that she was satisfied"
2.
literary
expressing a wish or regret.
"oh that he could be restored to health"

I think that last conjunction definition applies to Clinton's statement, because she seemed to feel six "that's" of regret. Oh that she could only tell the truth...

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