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> thou candidate who despises half the country she supposedly wants to lead, Show me a candidate on either side who hasn't made these kinds of statements. This
by exelius 10y ago
> thou candidate who despises half the country she supposedly wants to lead,
Show me a candidate on either side who hasn't made these kinds of statements. This is more a symptom of our partisan divide than any one candidate.
> is above campaign finance law
You can't run for president without bending the campaign finance rules. Again, not ideal, but if we want to fix campaign finance let's fix it legislatively. Neither side wants to deal with it, so it never happened.
> above confidential documents law,
Again, she did no worse than any of the previous GOP administrations. Not saying we shouldn't hold her to a higher standard, but nothing she did here is truly shocking.
> is a child rapist enabler both in home life and professionally as an attorney
Ok, WHOA. I don't think either of these happened. You can't count professional work as a defense attorney because the lawyer is there to ensure that her client receives a fair trial. It's in everyone's best interests for her to mount a competent defense because it should clarify reasonable doubt. Just because she may have defended a child rapist doesn't mean she supports him -- she was an agent of the court playing a role in a system that ensures everyone has the right to a fair trial.
Bill may be a horndog, but that's beside the point. It's not his wife's fault; nor is it any of your business how they handle their marital problems. And I don't recall any allegations of him ever assaulting anyone underage...
> her death count in the middle east must be a million or so
Ok, just stop. Even if you were to blame Hillary for every combat-related death in the middle east and north Africa during and after her tenure as Secretary of State, they don't even add up to more than 500,000. Exclude Syria (you can only criticize Hillary for inaction here - and what exactly do we have to gain getting involved in a proxy war between Saudi Arabia, Iran and Russia?) and Libya (not gonna touch it with all the hate from the Benghazi witch hunt where no wrongdoing was found after a few rounds of congressional investigations, but needless to say you're giving Hillary way too much credit if you blame the entire situation in Libya on her) you don't even get to 10,000. Yes, the refugee crisis is real, but there's not much we can do about it from the US. The EU has to figure that one out on their own, unfortunately.
Honestly, the world is in an unprecedented period of peace right now. Major global conflicts are relatively low-burn affairs where the death count is measured in thousands per year rather than millions. Our goal should be to keep it that way, not go and start the next big war or escalate a smaller one.
- jazzyk 10y ago>And I don't recall any allegations of him ever assaulting anyone underage... Please google "Lolita Express" (one link here [1]). His friend, Jeff Epstein, who organized these trips is a convicted pedophile. In 2014, another young woman filed a lawsuit claiming that Epstein used her as a sex slave for his powerful friends—and that she’d been at parties on his private island with former President Clinton. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/14/bill-clinton-ditched-secret-service-on-multiple-lo/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/14/bill-clinton...
- dragonwriter 10y agoEpstein, Trump's-formerly-acknowledged longtime friend who he now denies knowing, is also the alleged facilitator in the case in which Trump is accused of repeatedly and forcible raping a young teen. So, I'm not sure reports that Bill Clinton may have been present at an Epstein party is exactly a damning indictment of how Hillary Clinton is somehow getting away with things worse than what Trump is accused of.
- exelius 10y agoIt's all unsubstantiated, honestly. I don't believe any of the rumors on either side, because both sides have a huge incentive to lie and insinuate bad things about the other. It's dirty politics 101, and the Clintons invented it (say what you want about them; but they are masters of dirty politics -- which you have to be to become president). I judge them based on what they've said; and Hillary has offered up some good ideas and a whole lot of rhetoric while Trump has spouted inconsistent positions, many of which are frightening to me. Furthermore, when you do even a cursory bit of research on their statements, it becomes clear that Trump either doesn't know the truth or simply doesn't care. Add to that the ease with which Clinton manipulated him in the debates (she goaded him into a fight which plays well to his 30% base, but makes him look very unpresidential to the rest of the voter base). If Clinton could manipulate him so skillfully, how would he react to provocation elsewhere on the international stage? Regardless of Trump's politics (which I happen to disagree with), he as a person has shown that he is unfit to hold public office at any level. He seems to have little regard for ethics and fair play -- his idea of "fair" is when everything goes in his favor, and everyone is conspiring against him when it doesn't. He is little more than a con-man reality TV star, while Clinton has lived a life of public service.