Comey’s press conference goes a long way to the opposition’s painting of Secretary Clinton as someone who thinks the rules don’t apply to her, and demolishing her arguments that this is all just a partisan witch hunt like Benghazi. I have also never voted for a Democratic candidate for president in my life (for the record, I haven’t voted for the Republican since '88). However, out of the whole pack, I feel like she is still the best qualified to be president. I don’t feel like she will be especially great, but I am sure she isn’t going to wreck the country. Bernie is OK, but I don’t like his stance on trade, nor his willingness to demonize the rich. Granted, that’s not entirely without justification, but he and his ilk seem to feel the rich got that way by screwing the poor which is far too simplistic. Kasich was the best of the Republican pack in the sense that I could live with him in the White House.
I will be voting for her mainly because of Trump, who frightens me to my core, and it would take a lot to dissuade me from voting against him.
As I posted in another thread, even I who is an immigrant (already a citizen) coming from a tiny place already knows that classic line of:
"When the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him.” - Napoleon.
Or her, but unfortunately for the Republicans they wishfully expected a bigger payoff and told the rank and file about it. Can’t backtrack now telling their followers that they were responsible for this blunder so instead they are falling into full conspiracy mode as the solution, but that only shows them as being mad as hatters to many independents and Democrats.
Fine with me.
The point is that you can count on the Republicans to not stay away and they in turn become even more wrong that Clinton was expected to be. They do want to abuse their power now just because Clinton did not get a recomendation for indictment by now threatening to go after the FBI. It is clear that they do not think that the rules Clinton broke are enough for their political purpouses.
So why we should switch support when they themselves think what Clinton got is not enough? And why switch to the clearly neo fascist authoritarians?
There is that authoritanism that also looks to limit abortion, tople down other governmemnts that they do not want, torture people, limit freedoms, limit helath care, etc. And then add to that the spectacle of the Republicans in congress and Trump that are now not happy unless they get ahold of the idiot ball.
As a former Republican who “officially” switched after the debacle that was the George W era, I honest feel that Trump would be exponentially worse than G.W. ever was.
I will also say that in my 30+ years of adulthood I have never looked at a Presidential election as something that was REALLY critical to my happiness and my country. However the idea of a Trump presidency (and the fact that so people are supporting him) actually scares the hell out of me.
All bias removed the guy really is more of a crook than Nixon ever dreamed of, more of a warhawk than Reagan (for the record I actually do think Reagan was the President we needed for the time), as much of an isolationist as Buchanan and just falls short of the racism of a David Duke.
How anyone that is not a tycoon could support this man seems delusional.
I voted for the Republican candidate for president up through the 2000 election (though I held my nose voting for G.W. Bush, as I was a McCain supporter at the time, and I thought Bush was a dimwit). I was not a fan of the Clintons in the '90s.
It took the disaster of the Iraq War to open my eyes, along with the Republican economic theory of never-ending tax cuts along with increased military spending, regardless of the state of the economy or the deficit. I subsequently voted for Kerry in 2004, and for Obama in the next two elections.
Despite my earlier antipathy towards the Clintons, I am an enthusiastic supporter of Hillary Clinton today. I do think the whole email scandal was idiotic on her part, but also feel that the whole issue is being completely overblown.
I am far more concerned with the menace that is Trump. I don’t believe anything that he says, and I truly believe that he is a danger to our democracy.
I’m also on the club of former Republicans who were cured by GWB.
I’ve never been a fan of Clinton; I could go through the litany of reasons that I would have preferred innumerous other Democrats to her for our candidate. I agree this email thing is damning and shows a remarkable failure of judgment.
Still, for all her faults, she’s a competent and knowledgeable politician who is quite capable of being President, if not a stellar one. None of that is true of Trump. He would be a disaster, believe me.
I will be voting for Clinton with relish. Perhaps with even more relish after this email bullshit; I can’t wait to see heads explode after she wins. I half suspect the right wing will molt into one giant pulsating pile of froth with Hillary Fucking Clinton in the White House. I can’t wait!
That’s why nominating Trump is such a mistake. With a normal Republican. you can get some votes to switch and even more to stay home. Trump makes the email scandal strictly academic. We can condemn Clinton all we want, but in the end she’s still the better candidate.
No way. The more I read about Clinton the better I like her. I went from lukewarm support to genuinely respecting her. That woman is the epitome of grace under pressure, I feel.
She has been questioned, and questioned, and questioned. Every action of hers has been queried looked over and examined. I feel sick every time I think of how much money we wasted on the Benghazi trials (7.1 million). She spent all that time being questioned on reproductive rights and birth control.
During all of these things she has handled herself with a level of grace and aplomb that Donald Trump could not muster if someone kicked him! This is the man who started talking about his penis on national television! Who, when criticized by a woman, started whining about how she must be on her period!
I don’t understand anyone who thinks Trump will be good for our country. He is a whiny little bitch who can’t handle the least little thing going against him. And he and his supporters makes me feel unwelcome in the country I have been in since I was four years old.
So, no, there is nothing in the world that would induce me to switch my vote, ever.
Quite frankly, I can’t figure out why in the heck Hillary wants the job. She left Foggy Bottom with approval ratings through the roof. But by the time she leaves the oval office, I imagine the best she can hope for is 50%-- and that’s being optimistic-- and that’s after 4-8 years of absolutely brutal attacks from the GOP. She and Bill could’ve retired peacefully into their fundraising and speechifying and grandkids. The fact that she has gone through the ringer, KNOWS she will go through even greater ringers in the years ahead, and still wants to be president-- well, my respect for her continues to climb as well.
It’d be like Andy Dufresne climbing through the shit-filled prison sewer, finally getting out, and then going back in to get Red.
Telling lots of lies is “grace under pressure?” Obsessive secrecy for your own business, laxity towards national security secrets is “grace under pressure?”
If anything, the pressure has been getting to her and causing her to do really dumb things.
I’ve been a fan of the Clintons since their first stay in the White House. The way the right wing and left wing have attacked them proves to me that they are good leaders–finding solutions without succumbing to ideology.
To RINOs like me: if you want to be reassured about Hillary, go read the left-wing complaints about her. Their reasons they dislike her are the best endorsements she gets.
To Democrats who worry about Hillary: just assume that any complaint about the Clintons that’s been amplified by the right-wing is entirely false. Too many of you have sub-consciously thought “maybe there’s a kernel of truth”. Nope, it’s false all the way to the center.
The email “scandal” is much noise, but little substance. Yeah, her server was not as secure as it could’ve been, but the dirty “secret” is that it was typical of government servers of that time. Calling out Hillary is nothing more than partisan scape-goating (or this that goat-scaping?).
That’s a sign she’s sees not doing them as more politically valuable than doing them. “Can’t handle the heat” could be one reason, but there could be many, many more.
Considering how disastrous her last press conference was, it seems pretty clear she can’t handle them. It’s also political of course, she wants to draw a contrast with Trump, which would be hard to do if she kept on saying stupid things in unscripted settings.
It could be even better than that – while Donald Trump’s inability to control his piehole trashes the right wing’s political party, Roger Ailes’ inability to control a somewhat lower organ is trashing their propaganda platform.
She’d have to be nuts to do a presser now, why take the chance on getting a gotcha question that you flub the answer to? If I’m her, I take a page from the Dean Smith playbook and run the four corners offense and run out the clock. The only questions she needs to answer are from the moderators at the debates, and all she has to do is look more presidential than Trump.
