If it hurts you that a majority thinks you are not honest and trustworthy...

[Punkingal]

then stop lying so much.

[Armstead]

1. Bingo!

[krispos42]

2. To be fair, a chunk of that is from a generation of relentless...

...negative campaigns by certain right-wing media sources that have permeated the country.

But only part of it.

[morningfog]

4. She gives them so much material.

[krispos42]

6. Just enough for their fantasies to run wild, unfettered by reality.

Because reality has a well-known liberal bias.

[Press Virginia]

7. Or it could be the lying and constant games she plays with the actual truth

[Scootaloo]

3. she COULD stop lying so much...

...But would that end racism?

[boomer55]

5. Things I trust more than Hillary just went exponential after tonight

[kath]

8. Pretty freakin' simple, eh?

Why anyone would want to vote for her is utterly beyond me.

[Punkingal]

9. It gets harder to contemplate every day.

[bigdarryl]

13. People have a right to vote for who ever they want to.

If it's between Trump picking the next Supreme Court nominee and Hillary it's not even close as to who I'm supporting.

[Jackilope]

10. I don't even believe her when she said it was painful to hear.

The only thing that I see that causes her any pain is someone getting in her way to the White House.

[Ino]

11. She gave such a bizarre answer to that question...

She says she takes responsibility... but doesn't think she deserves it or something. And it's hard to do what's right?

QUESTION: Secretary Clinton, a Washington Post poll just yesterday found that only 37 percent of Americans consider you honest and trustworthy. Now, when you've been asked about this in the past, you have said that this is the result of many, many years of Republican attacks upon you. But Americans have also had 25 -- more than that -- years to get to know you for themselves.

Is there anything in your own actions and the decisions that you yourself have made that would foster this kind of mistrust?

CLINTON: Well, first Karen, obviously it's painful for me to hear that. And I do take responsibility. When you're in public life, even if you believe that it's not an opinion that you think is fair or founded, you do have to take responsibility. And I do.

And I also have, you know, very much committed to the best of my ability my energies and efforts to helping people. That's something that I care deeply about. And I will continue to do that, to demonstrate by my past actions and my present levels of commitment and plans that people can count on me.

That is certainly what happened to me in New York, where people got to know me. They saw me in action. And they did.

Look, I have said before and it won't surprise anybody to hear me say it, this is not easy for me. It's not easy to do what I think is right, to help people, to even the odds, to hear a story like the woman's story we just heard. And to know that I can make a difference and I want to in every way possible.

I am not a natural politician, in case you haven't noticed, like my husband or President Obama. So I have a view that I just have to do the best I can, get the results I can, make a difference in people's lives, and hope that people see that I'm fighting for them and that I can improve conditions economically and other ways that will benefit them and their families.

[thesquanderer]

15. It was a strange answer...

...which in a sense, reduced to "I'm not as good at spinning things as I'd like to be" (not a "natural politician&quot ... IOW, she gets caught. I wrote more about this at http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511461901

[HereSince1628]

18. I still don't understand the not a natural politician thing.

What was she trying to tell us that relates to trustworthiness?

[floppyboo]

12. Ah damn - cut it out

you're all making feel sorry for her. She isn't good at crowds of people (like a nation), and someone should have told her to cut it out a long time ago - do the one on one helping thing. Nothing wrong with that. Sending her some love and best wishes in private life.

[Punkingal]

14. I wish her nothing but the best in her private life.

I just don't want her to be President because I don't trust her, beginning with her Iraq war vote.

[Avalux]

16. But but...it's because she's not a politician!!

It's really hard for her to do this you know, so people mistake her honesty for dishonesty. She's so misunderstood!!

[Punkingal]

17. Yeah, I almost cried.

[Skwmom]

19. It's the lying, being called on it, and then repeating the same lie again, and again, and again.