"I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND..." I've said this more in the last 4 months...

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than in my entire life!

In fact, nearly very day something comes out of the Clinton campaign that triggers another "I just don't understand..." remark. And when I see it, I feel like Evelyn (Kathy Bates) watching the young girls in a volkswagon sneak into a parking place for which Evelyn had been patietly waiting for someone to pull out. "I just don't understand it" laments Evelyn, and it is almost the cry of an innocent for whom the world has turned darker than she ever believed it could. How could somebody do that and live with themselves?

The behavior of Hillary and Bill, and some of their supporters...it seems every day the do something new that defies comprehension (and I can comprehend some pretty dark things).

"I just don't understand" how they could do it, is how it usually goes for me. I just don't understand how Hillary and Bill can do what they do. I just don't understand how Bill Clinton could destroy his legacy. I just don't understand how (previously) well-respected people, such as Wes Clark, can support Hillary and her campaign. I just don't understand why someone as beautiful and brilliant as Wasserman-Schultz can defile her persona with the Clintons. I just don't understand how people can continue to support Hillary.

But sometimes, in my dark hours, it's "I just don't understand how I didn't see this before."

I'm not gullible, I'm not stupid, and I'm well educated. I research like a fiend on steroids. I am usually the first one in my activist crowd that sees conspiracies because I try to be pristinely objective and base my opinions on actions and not words, and certainly not on what I want to believe.

So why didn't I see this about the Clintons before?

I just don't get it. AAAGH! See, there I go again!

[Mike L]

1. Because she can win the GE and Obama can't. em

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2. Feel better? n/t

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3. At least someone responded to your post. LOL! em

[KAZ]

4. K& fn R

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5. PA, it's because you have a deep moral keel which prevents that sort of behavior in you.

  You can't imagine those things because they are not part of your own thought processes. You are not gullible.

PB

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6. "you are not gullible"--no kidding. I lost a couple of long-time...

political-activist colleagues friends right after 9/11 when I came flat out and said that the Bush administration and the CIA were behind the attacks. To me, it was logical. The only people who benefited from it was Bush, his criminal pal KennyBoy Lay, and the rest of the Bush lackeys.

Right before 9/11 the press was hot on outing Enron's bad financial status. At that time, and up until right before they filed in December, Enron (and KennyBoy Lay) was telling the world (including their employees who were investing in Enron stock) that Enron was financilly sound.

It turns out that AT LEAST by early Fall Bush Jr actually knew that Enron would have to file for protection, but kept silent while Enron continued to lie to the world that Enron was financially sound. That makes Bush Jr a co-conspirator in investor fraud, at least.

After 9/11 investgation on Enron largely stopped, until they filed in December. By then it was too late as millions of extra money had been swindled from investors by then. There was such fear about how this would impact our economy that media who were working on the story were loathe to adde extra stress on the economy.

I had worked with these colleagues FOR YEARS. But they, like many Americans (including apparently Scott McClellan) were so traumatized that they needed the blankie comfort of believing that a sitting president could not have just allowed it to occur...despite all the evidence to the contrary.


Anyway, sometimes speaking out causes you losses. But my mother was a political activist and I was raised to look for patterns and strategy in politics, not what the politicians or saying and certainly not what I want to believe they are saying. And I can't be quiet about what I see.