(May 29, 2016 at 1:55 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Except the POTUS doesn't handle affairs like the State department does. You think Obama sends emails? Types emails? Do you think the President is tasked with handling and transmitting sensitive material of any kind at any time? No. The President has people to do that for him. If you think Hillary is at risk of blurting out classified information in public and you think Donald Trump is a lesser risk, then I don't know what to say, that's just lunacy.
No, I'm more concerned about her compromising national security by not doing her job and following proper protocol because she thinks she's too god damn smart and important, and/or because she's weird about hiding things. Trump might blurt things out, sure, but he's also not our only other option.
Also, what you're conveniently forgetting is that Hillary ALSO would have had a full-time online security squad watching her ass if she had done her job right. If she didn't properly utilize the manpower at her disposal while in her current office, why should I expect her to be capable of that as president?
Quote:You think this email thing has any bearing whatsoever to the job of the President?
Do I think it matters that the president has the proper awareness of and respect for national security protocols? Do I think it matters that the president does not cut corners at the potential expense of the entire country, especially just to keep her dust under the rug?
Yeah, actually, I do. Shouldn't I?
Quote:It doesn't.
Oh. Thanks for clearing that up. I guess I'll just forget about all those totally legitimate concerns then.
Quote:It proves she's untrustworthy and out for power. Tell me a politician who isn't.
I realize I risk sounding like a naive young person to most of you hopelessly jaded old people, but I'm a grown-ass man, so I'm gonna say it anyway.
I've been doing the research, and I'm having a very difficult time finding reasons to call Bernie Sanders "untrustworthy." He was arrested for being involved in the American Civil Rights Movement, and he attended an event in 1985 that some people are calling an "anti-America rally." If that's all the "dirt" anyone has been able to dredge up, I feel very safe betting that Sanders is at least more trustworthy than Trump or Hillary, and even that he's probably pretty trustworthy in general.
Quote: The way this was handled suggests that she did some things that were either shady or politically damaging and wants to hide it.
Yeah, I guess it can be pretty damaging to a presidential campaign when you illegally and wilfully shit a bunch of national secrets into cyberspace. Life is so unfair.
Quote:I don't like Hillary any more than the next guy, but I'm not going to be the guy who gets spoonfed the media hype and parrots it back out.
You're dangerously close to being told to go fuck yourself. Just a heads up.
Quote:Hillary's political track record is a good one. She was very popular with her constituents as a Senator. She did an amazing job as Secretary of State, by all accounts except the one Faux News trotted out every day for 4 years. Bernie has even pulled her to the left, which is great in it's own right. We're just in month 18 of dragging her faults through the political spin cycle, and now we all hate her. Even Bernie is starting to look like a bit of an ass after 12 months of campaigning. No one looks good. Least of all Trump, but you are suggesting that a private email server is the capital crime that should mean that Trump will be the next president.
And you're suggesting that ice cream should be illegal, and that soup kitchen workers are fags.
Now that we're done putting words in each other's mouths, no, that is not what I'm suggesting. I'm suggesting that this whole fiasco should knock her out of the race so we can run the candidate who is beating Trump by over 10 points still (last time I checked, anyway).
Quote:Supreme Court nominees. People want to ignore that, but it is so fucking monumentally important. At least 2, probably three. Lifetime appointments made by Donald Fucking Trump.
I was actually just talking to someone about that the other day. I am not ignoring that. It's huge. I, for one, don't think I want either Trump or Hillary making those calls, and Hillary has gone dark enough during this primary season that I simply refuse to vote for her on principle. I will not give my vote to someone who disrespects it by rigging elections. If she wants to win on dirty tricks instead of votes, then she's welcome to do that in November.
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
