2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Reading this forum is like reading "Red State" with a big splash of Alex Jones. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)it promotes lies. Hillary Clinton was 19 years old when Nixon sabotaged the 1968 peace talks, 20 when Kissinger became Nixon's National Security Advisor. Later on she was a whole 27 when she was an attorney for the Senate Judiciary Committee investigating Watergate.
She was a kid in college at the time and in no way involved in the crimes of that era, yet this pretend outrage is all a device to associate her with them.
As for associating with Kissinger, yes, all our top leaders of that era should have gone to prison, along with all the many millions of Americans who supported our murders in various countries. I don't know how old you are, but millions of Americans were knowingly complicit in and even passionately supportive of our crimes. To send a few to prison for our crimes would have required admitting they were crimes, and America was entirely unwilling.
As a result, Kissinger has been honored then and every decade of Hillary's adult life by generations of leaders of America and the world, who choose to focus on his very real, great contributions and avoid other, very unpleasant truths. That includes every president since that era, every Secretary of State, and so on, by the thousands. They even awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize.
As for associating with him, people who work at that level ALL associate with others of that level. That's the way it is. Sanders probably never did more than shake hands with Kissinger, if that, because for a Senator he was really on the outside and not very powerful. We know the Sierra Blanca Senator's ethical standards can be quite, flexible shall we say?
But you turn doing what every leader and every representative and host and hostess have always done into a personal crime committed by Hillary Clinton that makes her lower than the rest of us, all for shabby partisanship. And, Armstead, it doesn't matter how many articles you copy in to support your slanderous manipulation, IMO it is contemptible.