Clinton To Everyone Who Voted Before March 4: You’re Just Human Resources!

Jarrett

How many more belittling, dismissive explanations can we hear from Hillary Clinton and her camp about why she's lost so many races? From TPM: On a conference call with reporters just now, Hillary supporter Evan Bayh offered an intriguing description of the contest thus far: "People have gotten through the initial job interviews. Now they're making a hiring decision." Not sure how the millions and millions of voters in contests before yesterday would feel about having their elections described as mere "job interviews." Presumably they thought they were making "a hiring decision" too, right? Good question. Here's one more: what would she be saying about the voters of Ohio and Texas today if she'd lost yesterday?

The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
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