burlydee wrote:Bascitball wrote:One of the things that really shows how Clinton thinks of voters is her willingness to continue lying about the same topic like we're too stupid or powerless to matter. It's telling of what she thinks of average people IMO.
My example is the sequence of lies related to the private email server (ok, so 67% will stop reading as soon as they see this topic - that's your prerogative). It's not just the lies, it's the sequence that I'm intrigued by. And I don't care what others did - that's off topic. I care about her choices. She acted like a child caught stealing a cookie and began with small lies. As the parent sees through them, the child tells more and more lies instead of just coming clean (except coming clean for Hillary would mean prison - and that is not an exaggeration or a scare tactic - it's the penalty for what she did).
I'm too lazy to look this stuff up right now, so this is from memory:
1. When the private server questions surfaced, her first response was that it was for convenience - one device. (pretty clearly not true since she used many devices simultaneously)
2. She then claimed it was permitted by law to have a private server (because she thinks we're dumb).
3. When that wasn't good enough she claimed that all her work related emails were turned over and the only thing left were yoga schedules and wedding plans (which she and her staff deleted, bleached, and smashed devices with hammers - no red flags are raised by those that support her?)
4. When that response wasn't ending the controversy, she moved on to say that there were no emails marked classified at the time they were sent or received (how is this possible for a person in her position? She did not have a state department email account to separately handle classified information, so is she saying that she never dealt with classified info at all?) Also, according to law, they don't have to be marked classified, a person in that position is required to determine this based on the content, but whatever.
5. Then it was proven that some emails were marked with a [c] for classified, and her sad response was that she didn't know what that meant (wow). She said she thought it was like a list a, b, c. OK, where was the a and the b in those emails then? (just another lie that shows how stupid she thinks we are)
It's just spin, deflect, outright lie, play dumb - anything thrown against the wall (just like the kid caught red handed stealing). Any person with integrity would not have run for office after all this.
Add to all this Bill and Lynch meeting on the plane (do any of you believe this was a chance encounter?)
If this is how Washington thinks of us average citizens and how Washington works, a protest vote against the establishment is well deserved. If Trump has even a 1% chance of going to Washington and knocking things around - that's worth a shot. We know Clinton has 0% chance of ending the corruption.
If the government is unwilling to hold politicians to a high standard of ethics (even when caught with plenty of evidence), then my vote is the only voice I have to "prosecute" the corrupt politician.
I don't care about the email server b/c the underlying crime she is being accused of is having an additional email server. Who gives a ****? And if integrity is so important to you, why would you vote for Trump.
According to politifact, a nonpartisan organization, a full 70% of Trump's statements have been lies. The vast majority of his statements rate as "mostly false" "false" or "pants-on-fire".
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/lists/people/comparing-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-truth-o-met/
So please, stop pretending like you care about the comparable integrity of the two candidates. By every independent measure, Clinton has been found to be significantly less misleading than Donald Trump.
Simple question: Why have statutes and laws if they are not enforced?
