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In reply to the discussion: Clinton’s E-mail Mess Shows WE NEED A PRIMARY, Not a Coronation [View all]Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)The woman has so many scandals you need to categorize them just to get a handle on the volume, and many of them are quite substantial. The current one is just getting started, and it's not about the Open Records Act as her partisans are asserting. This isn't even her first scandal in the field of missing records! http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/06/us/elusive-papers-of-law-firm-are-found-at-white-house.html
Need I go over the extensive list of ugly topics extending all the way back to her youth, which would resurface long after we'd all hoped they'd been dead and buried? No other potential candidate has this (massive) liability or anything close to it - and I for one would like a campaign about issues that matter rather than a grueling rehash of the Rose Law Firm, cattle futures, all her associates who have ended up in jail, Vince Foster, snipers on the tarmac in Bosnia, the 1993 health care debacle, the intimidation of Nita Lowey, Benghazi Benghazi and more Benghazi, missing FBI files, "Hillary's War" in Libya, the dramatically failed "reset" with Russia, all of Bill's women and their non-marriage of convenience, the outrageous list of demands she issues along with her 200k "speaking fees", her conversion of political influence into massive wealth to a degree that's downright unprecedented....
If we nominate Hillary Clinton it is a virtual guarantee that the election will not be about issues that matter, it will be about her very ugly history. This country can't afford any more time wasted on that kind of thing.