Hillary Clinton: Classic or Dud?

lol you people are all full of shit

but like... did you and do you

jesus christ adam

once again my lyft driver who started off bitching about clinton and maddow and eventually asked me if i had heard of pizzagate comes to mind. male psychosis is a real thing

I hope Adam has earned a shitload of FPs for whatever the fuck he thought he was accomplishing here

dumbass

I think at this point, given her history and people's personal feelings toward her, a good faith conversation is just not possible

no I think rational people in a good mental state could still have one but there's not many rational people and most of them have been stressed the fuck out for over a year now

i strongly dislike hillary clinton but adam's opinion of her criminal defense work is such a bad one

WHAT'S TRUE
In 1975, young lawyer Hillary Rodham was appointed to represent a defendant charged with raping a 12-year-old girl. Clinton reluctantly took on the case, which ended with a plea bargain for the defendant, and later chuckled about some aspects of the case when discussing it years later.

https://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-freed-child-rapist-laughed-about-it/

i know im being so mean calling out this person for doing something they actually did

and once again adam shits his pants live on ilx and we all get to watch and slam our own foreheads in sympathy

she actually did represent a person competently? and he pleaded guilty? ok

That, and she cackled about the fact that he went free, as the snopes article Adam definitely read all the way thru and understood clearly says

Finally, Hillary didn’t “free” the defendant in the case. Instead, the prosecuting attorney agreed to a plea deal involving a lesser charge that carried a five-year sentence, of which the judge suspended four years and allowed two months credit of time already served towards the remaining year:

pretty lenient sentencing! i imagine her being friends w the judge who initially requested her had an impact on this sentence. as for the plea bargin:

The victim says it was her mother, who had recently been abandoned by her husband, who pushed for a quick plea deal to avoid the humiliation of having her daughter testify in open court. The mother, who died several years ago, was so eager to end the ordeal she coached her daughter’s statements and interrupted interviews with police, Sgt. Dale Gibson (the department’s lead investigator) recalls.

“We both wanted it to be over with,” the victim told Newsday. “They kept asking me the same questions over and over. I was crying all the time.”

this is appalling.

stop

Eight years later, in 2016, the UK’s Daily Mail identified the victim (who had previously spoken anonymously to the Daily Beast) as Kathy Shelton and quoted her as saying that she “cannot forgive Hillary Clinton for defending her rapist” and that she was unaware for many years that Hillary Clinton was the person who had represented the defendant in her case:

‘It’s put a lot of anger back in me,’ said Shelton, now 54, in an exclusive interview at her Springdale, Arkansas, home. ‘Every time I see (Clinton) on TV I just want to reach in there and grab her, but I can’t do that.’

For decades, Shelton said she had no idea that Clinton was the same woman as the lawyer who defended her rapist in 1975.

It's appalling to use a real person's trauma as a prop to grind your stupid axe on

stop

― k3vin k., Saturday, January 27, 2018 11:04 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i guess if you get accused of rape get a lawyer who won't try too hard

http://is5.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music118/v4/68/ba/d6/68bad65a-5f05-f2fd-06f3-85226e4dd329/source/600x600bb.jpg

going back a ways here but, adam, i just want to clarify that i do think what happened to that child is worse than what hillary has endured by the media, obviously, and that's not the definition of tragedy i was using. i thought i made it clear but i want to be explicit so you don't think i am a monster.

We should have a Times Squares-esque FP countdown for shit like this.

Idk he is being over the top but let’s leave him alone. It’s just coming from a place of despair and anger at the leadership class of this country and what a trash heap they’ve turned it into

i think we should leave him alone so he stops talking about it but despair and anger is not an excuse to be wrong

It’s not, you’re right. And he is wrong. But I just take no joy in pile ons these days.

it's good he has an advocate like you to defend him

lol

! i imagine her being friends w the judge who initially requested her had an impact on this sentence

For ten points please circle the key word in this sentence. HINTS: It begins with "i" but is not "I."

classic

I do enjoy when my libertarian/green party friends randomly post an anti-Hillary meme on fb to absolutely no comments or likes. It's like their fart in the wind to remind us that Trump isn't their fault.

hard to think of a more definitive dud that isn't actually a wet firework or the maginot line

this thread revive rules

more on this thing if you hate yourself

https://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/hillary-clinton-let-him-stay-women-say-his-harassment?utm_term=.nokB7Bl23V#.vr80A0EOp4

it's the least important part of this story but yes of course the Democrats' well-compensated go-to Faith Adviser is a white Southern Baptist and not a representative of the many religious communities that actually support Democrats

— slackbot (@pareene) January 28, 2018

I did wonder about that. (Actually, my first thought was "why tf does a Presidential candidate need a 'faith advisor'?")

it's just so unbelievably on-brand it hurts

this thread revive rules

it's just so unbelievably on-brand it hurts

Also true of every post in this thread.

Thoughtful people often display a consistent character. It's not a bad thing really. Totally unpredictable people are exhausting.

Thoughtful people often display a consistent character.

Morbius and Bruneau, too!

I say nothing about the quality of the thoughts. All those militia types who carry pocket constitutions show themselves to be thoughtful people, too. At least with thoughtful people you can figure out who you are dealing with and act accordingly.

sorry, i have no idea who/what the subject of this thread is. #TheRealUnperson

it's emails iirc

cantaloupes and ballastics

ballistics

Please don't explain it to him...

https://i.imgur.com/Zr1MiZy.jpg

please tell me thats real

oh HELL yeah

remote login failed, gonna have to make a trip down to the server room, probably be back up i dunno june, july, sorry, best i can do, i'm out of the office all spring