The Secretary and The Foundation

[4est_4est_Gump]

The Clintons take in money for the Clinton Foundation from foreign sources, many not friendly to women. The Foundation then pays a lot of money to promote women's issues while Hillary is busy as a bee maybe running for President on the Foundation's dime (this allows her to set on her war chest until we get closer to the elections). It smells like pay to play. Meanwhile, she has to go from campaigning based on the premise, "Isn't it about time we had a female President?" to her women's week designed to boost her credentials with women being overshadowed by her private email accounts and private server. Now, like the Rose Law Firm billing records, we are only being allowed to see what Secretary Clinton wants us to see and like the IRS, everything we actually want to see no longer exists. Then she had the temerity to stage a press conference with preselected questions and answers.

Is having a woman as President so important that you can overlook all of this, or, is all of this insignificant and just political attacks in order to prevent Secretary Clinon from breaking through that cracked glass ceiling?

Here is a wonderful take on the issue: http://www.nationalreview.com/node/415207/print

Hillary has only two comfort zones: deep in a bunker or high on a pedestal. Drag her out of the former or knock her off the latter and she’s at sea.

In her very brief press conference Tuesday, she essentially admitted to the transgression she’s been accused of for the past week. She admitted to deleting thousands of e-mails. She turned over the public e-mails she deemed safe to give to the public and kept the rest, saying they were private, anointing herself to be the sole arbiter.

“I fully complied with every rule that I was governed by,” she said. And: “I have no doubt that we have done exactly what we should have done.”

This hints at the attitude that binds her and her husband: the belief that they are governed solely by what they choose to be governed by and what they do is right because they have done it.​

 

[RobDownSouth]

"Now watch, Soon Yi, as I pivot effortlessly from bashing a black man on a daily basis to excoriating a white woman! And just think, once you turn eighteen YOU can do this on Literotica each day too!"

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

stfu racistDownSouth who actual pledged SAE...

 

[RobDownSouth]

"Pay attention here, Soon Yi. This is a teachable moment. You see one of my political opponents has entered this thread. Let's take a quick look at what is unpopular in the news today. ISIS? No, it's been done. Ah....here we go! Racism at SAE fraternity in Oklahoma! Now watch as I equate my opponent with an SAE member! See how easy it is? And just think, when you turn eighteen, YOU can do this on a daily basis too!"

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

http://admin.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2015-03/194235_5_.jpg

And I'm the stupid one?

She admits that she can only do one thing.

She also said she emailed Bill.

He says otherwise...

Only sent 2!

But at this point, who's paying any attention?

I mean, at this point At this point, what does it matter?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

First, Clinton claimed that her decision to rely on a single email account was so that she could carry a single phone. This, she said repeatedly, was for "convenience." Many of her emails, she noted, were sent to government employees at government addresses and recorded that way. At the time the decision was made, it "didn’t seem like an issue."

...

It’s also more than a little bit difficult to completely believe—not only because it’s common for government employees to carry multiple devices in order to manage multiple accounts, but also because, in a video taken just a few weeks ago, Clinton said she has two different phones: an iPhone and a Blackberry.​

http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/10/hillary-clinton-says-she-used-one-phone

Who's stupid now?

 

[Lancecastor]

Is having a woman as President so important that you can overlook all of this, or, is all of this insignificant and just political attacks in order to prevent Secretary Clinon from breaking through that cracked glass ceiling?

I don't think there is any new ground being broken in the "email scandal".

Others have used personal email accounts, so it's a nothing issue.

Yes, the Clintons are highly skilled and are possibly more skillful than the multi-generational Bush Inc.

Controlling your data and records is a critical skill in politics.

Rosemary Woods went to her grave stalwartly defending Nixon's (erased) data.

There is nothing new in any of this...it's just Republican pre-electioneering.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Everyone has an opinion.



So, every politician should go dark and the people should be kept in the dark?

Because, you know, THEY ALL DO IT!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Submitted for further pondering:

Things are bad for Hillary and this is before we hear more of Bill and Jeffrey Epstein and Huma’s emails, Saudi donations, missing hard drives and God knows what else. I think it’s at least possible at this point that not too many weeks down the road Hillary will suddenly develop “health issues” and not run at all.​

Roger L. Simon​

Read more: http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2015/03/10/the-hillary-email-scandal-who-profits/#ixzz3U54DrVdv

 

[Lancecastor]

Everyone has an opinion.



So, every politician should go dark and the people should be kept in the dark?

Because, you know, THEY ALL DO IT!

If there were no wiggle room for the individual, I don't think anyone would run.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It is as though the Episodic Apologist has lost a certain faculty of the brain that allows him to recall, in the case of the Clintons, past transgressions. The Apologist approaches the Clintons with the best of journalistic intentions. He—or she—records every sordid detail of a Clinton scandal, and yet as time goes by they utterly forget. They behold the hated Republicans. The Republicans become the alternative to the Clintons, and the poor Episodic Apologists cannot see things clearly. They collapse in the fear that by pursuing the Clintons in scandal they will be complicit in a Republican triumph. Perhaps even a Republican Reign of Terror.
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.​

http://spectator.org/articles/62015/hillary-against-world

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If there were no wiggle room for the individual, I don't think anyone would run.

So, you would like to have a Canadian government where the public was not privy to how the government "makes the sausage?"

 

[Lancecastor]

I have no money on either horse and don't care which you elect.

Bush...Clinton...both equally crooked.

It's all a series of orchestrated lies.

About two weeks ago, Jeb Bush started talking about how all his emails are online for public viewing.

Then all of a sudden...surprise!....a story emerges about Hillary's "hidden" emails.

It's all a scam.

So, you would like to have a Canadian government where the public was not privy to how the government "makes the sausage?"

We've been operating that way since 1867.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Walker stands the best chance now, not Jeb.

So, I find it fascinating that the Canadian Government is allowed to operate in strict secrecy.

Do they release the results of votes in Parliament?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

“What they don’t realize is the world has changed,” Fournier said. “In the 15 years since there was a Clinton in the Oval Office, we have this little thing called the Internet. It changed the media landscape. Back in the ’90s there were 12 gatekeepers, basically. If we decided not to print something at the Associated Press where you and I worked, people didn’t find out about it. Now there’s 300 million reporters and researchers. They can see through the spin. They can see through the lies. They can see the conflicts of interest.”​

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journa...gatekeepers-lets-people-see-through-the-lies/

 

[RobDownSouth]

"Are you watching, Soon Yi? As you can see, things aren't going well for me here in this thread. Time to use Sensei K's "Shit and Run" defense: I'm going to paste snippet after snippet of non-sequitur quotes. Watch how everyone loses interest in this thread. Soon they will forget that I lost this debate. I WIN! Someday, when you are eighteen, you can do the same here!"

 

[Lancecastor]

Walker stands the best chance now, not Jeb.

So, I find it fascinating that the Canadian Government is allowed to operate in strict secrecy.

Do they release the results of votes in Parliament?

For the most part, everything in Canada is decided by a public (and televised) vote in Parliament.

The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and The Privy Council and The Cabinet each have the ability to do a range of things in (up to) complete secrecy.

Our current PM, (Conservative) Stephen Harper has expanded the day to day use of the PMO to further his and his majority Party's control over a number of issues.




Other:

We have an election every now and then (usually around the 4 year mark, sometimes sooner, sometimes as long as 5 years, it depends).

The election decides which Party forms the Government.

The Leader of that Party becomes Prime Minister.

There will likely be an election this Fall sometime.

That election will turn, in part, on Harper's conservative agenda and how he has implemented same.

Meanwhile, Canadians interested in politics take notes.

The various nuances and shifts are covered by our public broadcast network (the CBC) and private media as well.

The CBC takes on an unofficial "government watchdog" role when things get weird.

Which usually results in Government Funding to the CBC being reduced.

And so on.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It was rhetorical lance...



I find it simply amazing that your mild defense of Secretary Clinton is that politicians should and do keep their dealings secret and that's the way it should be. Keep in mind that President Obama ran against the secrecy of the Bush Administration promising the most transparent administration in history, but what we got in return was Gollum hiding in a cave with his Precious.

 

[Lancecastor]

It was rhetorical lance...



I find it simply amazing that your mild defense of Secretary Clinton is that politicians should and do keep their dealings secret and that's the way it should be. Keep in mind that President Obama ran against the secrecy of the Bush Administration promising the most transparent administration in history, but what we got in return was Gollum hiding in a cave with his Precious.

No matter how ubiquitous data becomes, decision-makers will find ways to negotiate in private.

It's like sexual preference...just because we can know how our elected officials like to get off doesn't mean we need or ought to know how they do it.

 

[cowslinger64]

It was rhetorical lance...



I find it simply amazing that your mild defense of Secretary Clinton is that politicians should and do keep their dealings secret and that's the way it should be. Keep in mind that President Obama ran against the secrecy of the Bush Administration promising the most transparent administration in history, but what we got in return was Gollum hiding in a cave with his Precious.

Isn't there a politics board for this?


If she's found in violation of the law, fine her, fire her, spank her or whatever... THEN spend as much time and energy letting all the important things going on in this country fall to the wayside, and spend every available dollar we have to investigate every single politician in Washington for the exact same things.

If there's gonna be witch hunts, do it to everyone.

 

[miles]

Let's all remember the best way to predict future behavior is to examine past behavior. She's a pathetic excuse for a human being.

 

[Pookie]

Let's all remember the best way to predict future behavior is to examine past behavior. She's a pathetic excuse for a human being.

Oh, the irony.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Isn't there a politics board for this?

Terms of Service don't apply when AJ is teaching that cvnt Laurel a lesson. You'll recall she disrespected his tribe back in 2000 when she was critical of the Bush administration. Skyfather knows that indignity must be addressed.

(The same "TOS don't apply" rationale is used by Chickenshit McFatass and Miles when they post copyrighted articles in their entirety here)

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

No matter how ubiquitous data becomes, decision-makers will find ways to negotiate in private.

It's like sexual preference...just because we can know how our elected officials like to get off doesn't mean we need or ought to know how they do it.

But should they be saving documents for the historical record or destroying them and since Canada doesn't really do much historically, is this why it doesn't matter?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Oh, the irony.

Irony my shirts!