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The Blumenthal affair is unfolding like Watergate (Original Post) Skink May 2016 OP
It's a bit concerning...and does have the tone of Watergate. libdem4life May 2016 #1
You Are SOOOO Right! CorporatistNation May 2016 #42
Lol! zappaman May 2016 #2
"Its a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" Vast, I tell ya, Vast. bahrbearian May 2016 #4
It's so vast it spread to include teh Obama DoJ and the FBI, the Inspector General of Intelligence pdsimdars May 2016 #33
LOL, " Do you mean wiped , like with a cloth?" bahrbearian May 2016 #36
Jesus I can't believe she said that. nt vintx May 2016 #38
Only it is 100 times more devestating yourpaljoey May 2016 #3
To coin a well-known Democratic phrase..."It's the Foundation, stupid" libdem4life May 2016 #5
10,000 a month is where I would start Skink May 2016 #7
Peanuts, mere peanuts. libdem4life May 2016 #9
Post removed Post removed May 2016 #6
Wassergate MisterP May 2016 #8
... libdem4life May 2016 #10
+100 amborin May 2016 #12
Today, my friend, you win the intertubes! hootinholler May 2016 #30
No. It is not. randome May 2016 #11
Watergate took 2 years and encompassed an election too. Waiting For Everyman May 2016 #13
+ ∞ Juicy_Bellows May 2016 #14
Yet they accuse BSS of being self-centered and unreasonable farleftlib May 2016 #16
I talked to a few Republcians during my graduate school days nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #21
This message was self-deleted by its author artislife May 2016 #44
oh dear you forgot to present any evidence to support your contention nt msongs May 2016 #15
Oh hell, who needs evidence to post these days? The boards are chock full COLGATE4 May 2016 #18
Hubris EndElectoral May 2016 #17
It's the cover up stupid Skink May 2016 #19
You mean like with a cloth? CentralCoaster May 2016 #20
*snort* farleftlib May 2016 #35
Which is worse? "Like, with a cloth?" Or "depends on what the definition of 'is' is." vintx May 2016 #39
Can you explain to those who don't know what the fuck you are talking about, what the fuck madinmaryland May 2016 #22
I'm gonna guess... MrMickeysMom May 2016 #24
I hate it when people post shit without any verbiage or even links! madinmaryland May 2016 #25
This is what's been going on all day! MrMickeysMom May 2016 #26
It's been going on for months. . . where have you been? pdsimdars May 2016 #34
Didn't Bernie Sanders say something to the effect that who gives a rat's ass about Hillary madinmaryland May 2016 #37
Well, then it's a vast RW conspiracy that included the Obama DoJ, the FBI, the Inspector General pdsimdars May 2016 #40
Like a freight train. Chugging along. Chugging along. There is a familiarity to it. (Do we follow dinkytron May 2016 #23
Gotta ask - Were you alive during the Watergate scandal? tonyt53 May 2016 #27
I was a kid but later I saw the movie Skink May 2016 #43
Always seemed to stink badly. Best to get it concluded, one way or the other. highprincipleswork May 2016 #28
Paul Thompson's Clinton email timeline website: merrily May 2016 #29
Why don't you just pull something outta yer ass and post it as fact? Lil Missy May 2016 #31
Drip, drip, drip. Cybergate? Sure makes Debbie-gate pale in comparison. nt silvershadow May 2016 #32
Who? blue neen May 2016 #41
 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
1. It's a bit concerning...and does have the tone of Watergate.
Tue May 10, 2016, 12:31 PM
May 2016

Just substitute shredded papers and missing minutes on a casette tape for wiping servers and a shady Foundation ... so much more.

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
33. It's so vast it spread to include teh Obama DoJ and the FBI, the Inspector General of Intelligence
Tue May 10, 2016, 07:03 PM
May 2016

and the Inspector General of the State Department, ABC, CBS, NBC, it's so vast it includes EVERYONE except Hillary and her supporters. Wow!

yourpaljoey

(2,166 posts)
3. Only it is 100 times more devestating
Tue May 10, 2016, 12:38 PM
May 2016

This will be the biggest scandal of many a year.

Looks like the Hombres predicted this back in 1967!!!

"Eatin' a Reuben sandwich with sauerkraut
Don't stop now, let it all hang out"

It is all bubbling up.

Response to Skink (Original post)

hootinholler

(26,449 posts)
30. Today, my friend, you win the intertubes!
Tue May 10, 2016, 06:16 PM
May 2016

I wish that lil Debbie could be tied into the Blumenthal stuff.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
11. No. It is not.
Tue May 10, 2016, 01:30 PM
May 2016




[hr][font color="blue"][center]"Everybody is just on their feet screaming 'Kill Kill Kill'! This is -hockey- Conservative values!"[/center][/font][hr]

Waiting For Everyman

(9,385 posts)
13. Watergate took 2 years and encompassed an election too.
Tue May 10, 2016, 01:42 PM
May 2016

I remember Watergate well and it's very similar.

Before this is said and done, Mrs. Clinton's career will be over too. And like Nixon, it will be all of her own doing, a self-inflicted wound.

The question is, how far will we all be dragged down with her? Those who insist on taking this risk are forcing us who don't want to, to take the consequences of the bet they're making anyway. That's what I resent.

And they don't give a damn. Well I won't be sympathetic for them either when this blows up. And it will.

 

farleftlib

(2,125 posts)
16. Yet they accuse BSS of being self-centered and unreasonable
Tue May 10, 2016, 01:53 PM
May 2016

The Dem leadership has settled for a candidate who is so compromised and so loathed outside
of her little elite bubble, that she probably couldn't win this election without the scandals. She ran
a rogue State Department by ignoring the President and setting up a system that was supposed to
fly under the radar but is now being taken apart and examined bit by bit. She thinks she's above
the law but by everything I've read so far, it seems she's broken several and perjured herself too.

I hope and pray this is the last we ever see of her. I'd even get over a pardon if that would get rid
of her and her husband forever.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
21. I talked to a few Republcians during my graduate school days
Tue May 10, 2016, 05:28 PM
May 2016

they remember the way their parents (yes young republicans) could not believe this was heading that way. In the end some of the arguments were familiar, like a Republcians DOJ would never, ever, at all, go after a sitting president. They have been waiting, patiently, to get the opportunity to return the favor...

but the attitudes, when talking about Iran Contra, and the parallels was very eye opening. So the she is pure as freshly fallen snow, is not unlike Nixon and the hyper partisans who supported him until the very bitter end. A year after, you could not find one that would admit supporting Nixon. We will see something similar if this goes that way.

Response to Waiting For Everyman (Reply #13)

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
18. Oh hell, who needs evidence to post these days? The boards are chock full
Tue May 10, 2016, 05:16 PM
May 2016

with every half-assed conspiracy theory that can be invented, and usually seconded with great enthusiasm by others who, while they can point to absolutely no proof, they seem to feel liberated in being able to post that 'they too agree'. At times some of the stuff posted here makes the truly crazy RW sites look positively sane by comparison. Evidence, schmevidence. So long as it makes you feel good to bash Hillary it's all good.

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
22. Can you explain to those who don't know what the fuck you are talking about, what the fuck
Tue May 10, 2016, 05:44 PM
May 2016

you are talking about?

Thank you!

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
26. This is what's been going on all day!
Tue May 10, 2016, 05:54 PM
May 2016

I hate it when I decide to post a lot on my day off.

I'm gonna go live some life now and accept willful ignorance as the rule of the day. Thank goddess for a few other points of view!

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
34. It's been going on for months. . . where have you been?
Tue May 10, 2016, 07:06 PM
May 2016

go to youtube and search for hillary email scandal and do some watching. You may not like some of the people but they do have informaiton.

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
37. Didn't Bernie Sanders say something to the effect that who gives a rat's ass about Hillary
Tue May 10, 2016, 07:16 PM
May 2016

Clinton's emails.

This has been another vast right wing conspiracy (Not Bernie Sanders) to slur Hillary Clinton. They have been trying to get the Clinton's on one thing or another for nearly 30 years, yet the only thing they have been able to get on them is a lie about a consensual blow job. Last time I checked, no one died because of the lie.

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
40. Well, then it's a vast RW conspiracy that included the Obama DoJ, the FBI, the Inspector General
Tue May 10, 2016, 07:29 PM
May 2016

of Intelligence, the Inspector General of the State Department, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX. . . it is so vast that it includes EVERYONE except Hillary and her supporters apparently.
To dismiss it as a RW conspiracy shows you have not bothered to look into it. Hillary and her supporters do it at their own peril. Proceed.

dinkytron

(568 posts)
23. Like a freight train. Chugging along. Chugging along. There is a familiarity to it. (Do we follow
Tue May 10, 2016, 05:46 PM
May 2016

the money?)

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