Gleaning Facebook: Nothingburgers

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I am sick of the right-wingers' failure to deal with real issues but instead trying to smear this good woman. She is not perfect. She will tell you about some of her mistakes. But her so-called "scandals" have all turned out to be, as Mike so eloquently labels them, "nothingburgers".

From Mike Luckovich and Kevin Drum:

For the record: Whitewater was a nothingburger. Travelgate was a nothingburger. Troopergate was a nothingburger. Filegate was a nothingburger. The Vince Foster murder conspiracy theories were a nothingburger. Monica Lewinsky was Bill's problem, not Hillary's. Benghazi was a tragedy, but entirely non-scandalous. The Goldman Sachs speeches were probably a bad idea, but otherwise a nothingburger. Emailgate revealed some poor judgment, but we've now seen all the emails and it's pretty obviously a nothingburger. Humagate is a nothingburger. Foundationgate is a nothingburger.

Bottom line: Don't let Donald Trump or the press or anyone else convince you that Hillary Clinton is "dogged by scandal" or "works under a constant cloud of controversy" or whatever the nonsense of the day is. That constant cloud is the very deliberate invention of lowlifes in Arkansas; well-heeled conservative cranks; the Republican Party; and far too often a gullible and compliant press. Like anybody who's been in politics for 40 years, Hillary has some things she should have handled better, but that's about it. The plain fact is that there's no serious scandal on her record. There's no evidence that she's ever sold out to Wall Street. There's no corruption, intrigue, or deceit. And if anything, she's too honest on a policy level. She could stand to promise people a bit of free stuff now and then.

If you don't believe me, then for God's sake, at least believe Jill Abramson. If she thinks Hillary is "fundamentally honest and trustworthy," then you can probably bank on it.

Comments

Howard Smith
You can't oppose Trump's racist and sexist statements and still support him. He's not your crazy old uncle who thinks the past was the "good old days". He wants to be president of the United States. That's scary.

Ruth Baird Shaw
Hillary Clinton major problem is Pres. Bill Clinton. I am not
up" on Politics but do you think a majority of voters will want to put Bill Clinton back in the White House?

Terrell Shaw
Bill Clinton was re-elected in 1996 with 379 electoral votes a larger total than 1992. His average second term approval ratings were the best of any president since Gallup got started. He left office with 65% approval.
But he isn't running for President. Hillary is.
Remember, you asked. 

Wendy Davis
good stuff!

Ray Barton
Bill Clinton's presidency were the best economic years of my lifetime. I'd love to see him back in the White House!

Terrell Shaw
Hillary has indicated that she would ask Bill to make the economy his primary "cause" as First Gent.

Ray Barton
I think that would be a brilliant idea as I have heard many people express the same sentiment about the economic prosperity of his presidency.

Keith M. Padgett
It's no secret I have no love for Hillary. That being said. I will support her as long as Bernie doesn't run 3rd party. However, I understand that presidential spouses always have causes and are doing things. Which is great. But, I do believe that there should be a nepotism clause stating that the president cannot appoint any family member (including spouse) to an official position. I've heard that she may appoint him to a position which i disagree with.

Ruth Baird Shaw
President Bill Clinton was also impeached. He also lied about it , but it was proven that he had sexual relations in the Presidents office with a girl only a couple of years older than his daughter also...etc...

Terrell Shaw
Mother, I hate to disagree again with someone who is my heroine, but I must respond.
Yes, those things are true. And they are irrelevant to this campaign, in my opinion. Hillary Clinton is not responsible for her husband's misbehavior decades ago.
We have two remaining choices for president and "first spouse".

• We have the personally and publicly honorable Hillary Clinton and her reasonably self-aware and publicly repentant sinner husband.
• Our other choice is the proud womanizer, racist, misogynist, xenophobic ignorant (Two Corrinthians!!) Donald Trump and his publicly nekkid third wife. 

Many of our American leaders, some huge heroes of mine, have been guilty of sexual misconduct. Jefferson, Franklin, Cleveland, FDR, Ike, JFK, John McCain, Newt Gingrich, and (the grand champ of them all) Donald Trump have all been involved in affairs outside of marriage. Bill Clinton is the only one of these who has expressed regret, as far as I know. He & Hillary Clinton managed to work through his infidelity and save their marriage. Bill Clinton was (in my opinion) a near-great president whose personal life was a royal mess. He wasn't the first, nor likely the last. Unfortunately for him he was president during an age of 24 hour news and a very different press corps than the one that looked the other way for Ike or JFK.
I can't believe we are rehashing this, but Bill Clinton is not running, Hillary is.
The real question is whether we want Nekkid Melania's husband, who has spent decades bragging unabashedly about his sexual conquests and who has never to my knowledge expressed regret for ANYTHING he has done, and who has an explosive, narcissistic, and psychologically fragile personality, in charge of the nuclear codes.
As you know I love my country and take my citizenship very seriously. I will not be quiet with anyone, even my beloved mother, who suggests that we allow a man I consider something mighty reminiscent of a fascist to become president. As much as I bitterly oppose his policies, I would vote for a George W. Bush over a dangerous and unstable man like Trump.
Luckily I admire the person and the program I have already voted for in the primary and will vote for again in November.

Ray Barton
I didn't vote for Clinton as the religious leader of this country, only as the business leader. At that, he did an incredible job.

Ray Barton
Donald Trump keeps making lustful comments about his own daughter. I find that much more revolting
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Donald Trump Joked About Dating His Own Daughter-Truth!
Donald Trump Joked About Dating His Own Daughter-Truth!

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