How can you make up stuff like this?


Hillary Clinton, in an interview with a British newspaper this week, appeared to compare herself to wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill while responding to a question about being a polarizing figure.

“I’m sure they said that about Churchill between the wars, didn’t they?” she told The Guardian when asked if she should withdraw from public life to help heal divisions in the U.S., given her reputation.

The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee then immediately claimed she wasn't actually comparing herself to Churchill, before going on to elaborate on the analogy.

Churchill went into the political wilderness between the two World Wars and during that time was a key voice criticizing then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement toward Adolf Hitler. He would go on to become prime minister himself and help lead the Allies to victory in World War II.

The Guardian report notes that Clinton made the Churchill reference “a fraction too quickly for the line to sound spontaneous.”

Clinton continued: “I mean, I’m not comparing myself, but I’m just saying people said that, but he was right about Hitler, and a lot of people in England were wrong. And Churchill was a pain. He kept popping up all the time.”

Clinton indeed has remained a polarizing figure, with her popularity falling since the election, as she has stayed in the public eye with her book tour and media interviews.

She told the Guardian she is not going to “call it a day” anytime soon.

“It feels like a duty. It feels like patriotism, and it feels necessary. I’m not going anywhere,” she said.

Clinton also used the Guardian interview to comment on the separation of families at the border in the wake of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance policy” that ordered that all illegal border crossers be prosecuted. Trump has ordered the separations to be stopped, but critics are still fighting the prosecutions and other detentions.

Clinton said that she is worried that some of the minors may never been reunited, saying that that question is “keeping me up at night.”

“Absolutely I worry about that. I’m worried that some children will not be reunited,” she said.

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I love the comparison between herself and the PM but find it a rather odd comparison of the current handling of illegal immigrant minors and their parents to WWII concentration camps.

It must a great to give your brain a lifetime off from critical thinking and be a liberal.

Churchill could shit a more coherent speech than Hillary will ever manage.

She is so pathetic. This woman thinks she's due something. Chris

The only similarity that comes to mind is a shared affection for adult beverages, but even there, I suspect Mr. Churchill was far superior in both taste and capacity.

I was gonna say - there's some good whiskey over there, isn't there?

Comparing Hillary to Churchill is like comparing Hitler to Eisenhower.

When Hillary does it, it is a sign of delusion, mental disorder.

He could walk without falling down, she not so much.

I can't imagine any person with the temerity to compare themselves to Churchill in any way.

He was certainly one of the great men of the 20th century. You better be damn careful when invoking his memory.

They may not find some of the kids because they were purchased as props to get people into the US. Then they were discarded or abandoned or the sex trade.

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I can't imagine any person with the temerity to compare themselves to Churchill in any way.

"I would really have liked to have met him" is about as close as I can get, myself.

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I can't imagine any person with the temerity to compare themselves to Churchill in any way.

I'm fatter than Churchill, and I do speak a form of English.

Maybe she self-identifies as a Churchill-type. Democrats can be anything! Any race or gender they pick!

I thought Churchill was despised by the left. Obama took his bust out of the White House.

Another excuse for Hillary,Obama removed me from the White House.

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She told the Guardian she is not going to “call it a day” anytime soon.

“It feels like a duty. It feels like patriotism, and it feels necessary. I’m not going anywhere,” she said.

I find this more troubling. Apparently she feels that running around promoting herself and trying to stay in the limelight feels just like patriotism!

The only thing she has in common with Churchill is both are former politicians.

Cigars figured in both their lives.