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3. The comparison is not only offensive, it is very un-useful.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 11:29 AM
Oct 2015

The degree of power, self-actualization, control, strength, dignity, stamina, toughness, mental acuity, dominance of a situation, that was demonstrated by Hillary Clinton during that hearing was absolutely remarkable. It was stunning.

I cannot see any way that a comparison can be made to the hideous situation of rape, where one looses access to all of one's powers and is dominated by another person against one's will.

To compare that scene with rape, or even attempted rape, is to take away from the amazing sustained action that Ms. Clinton performed yesterday. This was a woman in her full power, bringing that power to bear in the world drawing on a lifetime of action and experience, in an arena where her enemies were giving no quarter.

It was not an attempted rape, it was a battle, one in which she freely engaged, and which she won.

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