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45. No, just one. The Republicans. Yeah, the Dems are more right than their counterparts in Europe,
Tue May 31, 2016, 04:58 PM
May 2016

but that doesn't make them right-wing conservative. That's just dumb.

I said in my last post, look at the issues. Can you find even one where the GOP is better, or even the same as the Dems? I can't. Maybe there is one, but I can't think of it. Maybe you can help me out.

On the issues you mention, there's a huge difference. Climate change you bring up, that's a big one. Guess what the GOP's policy is there? It's to deny that it exists. Guess what Trump wants? More fossil fuels and less regulations. If you can't tell that Clinton is way better on climate and environment than Trump, I have nothing to say. To me it's obvious. To the NRDC it is also. I guess not to you.

And the idea of Hillary going to prison for having non-classified information on a private email server, when Colin Powell and Condi Rice also had the same kind of non-classified info on private emails, it's just nuts, really. Yeah, I know, it wasn't a private server, but an aol account is just as non-permitted as a private server. Actually, even a state department email account is not supposed to be used for classified info. Did you even know that? Did your lawyer friend not mention it?

Yeah, classified isn't supposed to circulate by email, period. Now you know. As a practical matter, sometimes it does, especially info that's in the grey area or one department thinks its classified but not another, or retroactively classified like the Clinton stuff, but nobody ever goes to prison for that or even loses their job for it or anything. So enjoy your prayers to the email fairy and your false equivalence between the Dems and the GOP.

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it's like how they said Honduras was a coup but not a MILITARY coup MisterP May 2016 #1
And Brazil and Venezuela aren't economic coups either floppyboo May 2016 #4
Here's the whole quote annavictorious May 2016 #52
Being "slow to manage effectively the legal requirments" is not breaking the law. YouDig May 2016 #2
What "red tape" rule are you referring to? Press Virginia May 2016 #3
That she should have kept paper copies instead of electronic copies of her emails. YouDig May 2016 #5
She could have used the SMART system. Saved them Press Virginia May 2016 #6
Tsk tsk. She still saved them, but yeah she broke some little rule. YouDig May 2016 #7
The rule is in place because of a law Press Virginia May 2016 #9
That is not a little rule nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #11
The goal of the rule is preserving documents, and the documents were preserved. YouDig May 2016 #14
Under legal jeopardy two years after nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #18
Here's what's going to happen. The FBI will come back and say that she technically YouDig May 2016 #21
You realize there are folks doing hard time nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #22
No criminal intent. No classified material, except retroactively. There's nothing. YouDig May 2016 #23
Mens rea is not necessary in national Intel cases nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #24
Explained by a pro, huh? That sounds very credible to me. YouDig May 2016 #25
Yup a lawyer who specializes in these cases nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #29
So when the FBI doesn't recommend any charges, you can ask him to help you out with YouDig May 2016 #30
Frankly we will be surprised nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #33
Yes, a lot of Berners will be surprised. Happens a lot, Berners being surprised. YouDig May 2016 #34
Except that I am an American not a Berner nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #37
You can be both an American and a Berner. YouDig May 2016 #38
Sweet one for all you know I could be voting for her nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #40
Your vote is indeed your business. There we agree. YouDig May 2016 #41
Then you chose your party nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #42
You can have as much contempt for me as you want. That is your choice too. YouDig May 2016 #43
Two right wing conservative parties nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #44
No, just one. The Republicans. Yeah, the Dems are more right than their counterparts in Europe, YouDig May 2016 #45
Political science is not your strong point either I see... the DNC is now a RW party nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #47
Pretty strong, I'd say actually. YouDig May 2016 #49
So you are a fan of hte one we all make fun off? If you are what you say, nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #54
Better ask Bush II and Cheney about theirs too. tonyt53 May 2016 #26
In 2006 people were up in arms over that too nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #32
Wrote to Senator Leahy myself. Aerows May 2016 #48
and it took a lawsuit for her to comply with that "little rule" Press Virginia May 2016 #50
Hmm that is because she purposely avoided nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #8
Not purposely, she just didn't know. Didn't read all the minor technical red tape rules. YouDig May 2016 #10
That is not what the report says. nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #12
All 100 pages? I've read enough excerpts and analyses from others who have. YouDig May 2016 #13
Yes all of it. Include footnotes nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #15
No thanks. Others who know what they are talking about already have. Plenty of other YouDig May 2016 #16
Continue to live in the bunker nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #17
It is minor or the FBI would have at least gone to the trouble of talking to her scscholar May 2016 #19
They intend to interview her nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #20
So you're saying she is not very smart? notadmblnd May 2016 #27
Not very tach-savvy. Also had more important things to do than red tape. YouDig May 2016 #28
Smart woman like her- can't figure it out? Or she just refuses to? notadmblnd May 2016 #35
This is not the ballpark you are looking for. Aerows May 2016 #46
here it does mean more procedural, civil things treestar May 2016 #31
Good explanation. COLGATE4 May 2016 #36
It's true Dem2 May 2016 #39
thanks floppyboo May 2016 #53
Zzzzzmog Hillary drove 47 in a 45 !!!!!! Lol@hds uponit7771 May 2016 #51
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