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2016 Postmortem

Proud Liberal Dem

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1. Non-stories

Reply to UMTerp01 (Original post)

Tue Aug 23, 2016, 07:14 AM

Aug 2016

It's the Republican speciality. Yet they can do whatever they want- torture, indefinite detention, incompetence- and sometimes, maybe, they're held accountable. Yet they will investigate the s**t out of anything with the slightest whiff of scandal if it involves a Democrat and when one "investigation" doesn't turn up something, they'll do another fishing expedition. It never ends.

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As long as foreign/corporate donations to Clinton Foundation didn't influence policy there's no issu [View all] UMTerp01 Aug 2016 OP

Non-stories Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2016 #1

you seem concerned. stonecutter357 Aug 2016 #2

Never raj4770 Aug 2016 #3

I'm glad Clinton is--and I say this as a strong supporter--belatedly recognizing that the foundation geek tragedy Aug 2016 #4

James Carville explains - DURHAM D Aug 2016 #10

I understand that it's doing a lot of good. geek tragedy Aug 2016 #11

The Clinton Standard? vs. DURHAM D Aug 2016 #12

I really don't want to take this side of the argument. geek tragedy Aug 2016 #13

Doug Band didn't work for Hillary. DURHAM D Aug 2016 #15

he pretty much ran the Clinton foundation, so it's hard to say he didn't work on behalf of Bill and geek tragedy Aug 2016 #16

It isn't ammunition, its spaghetti DURHAM D Aug 2016 #17

I agree. Handle your people better. UMTerp01 Aug 2016 #19

+1 nt riderinthestorm Aug 2016 #21

If it wasn't this or the emails, they'd come up with something else. OnDoutside Aug 2016 #5

They have. It's Hillary's health "issue." MoonRiver Aug 2016 #6

Exactly, so it makes me wonder whether it makes sense to "placate" the media attack dogs like OnDoutside Aug 2016 #7

If only we had an organized response team to attack the media when they do this. LiberalFighter Aug 2016 #8

Repubs stomping their feet and holding their breath duncang Aug 2016 #9

I don't agree that the optics look bad. As Carville said spooky3 Aug 2016 #14

Not ONE mention of the hundreds of million Trump owes to foreign banks! csziggy Aug 2016 #18

"Turn over the Clinton Foundation Emails!" ..wait for it misterhighwasted Aug 2016 #20

As with every single other Clinton "scandal," BlueMTexpat Aug 2016 #22