Hillary Clinton: Classic or Dud?

Mea culpa, I mispoke from my memory of the Kurt Eichenwald piece:

Then there’s the fact that Sanders was on unemployment until his mid-30s, and that he stole electricity from a neighbor after failing to pay his bills, and that he co-sponsored a bill to ship Vermont’s nuclear waste to a poor Hispanic community in Texas...

That Eichenwald piece was ridiculous.

It mostly just seemed like an excuse to rail against Sanders and his supporters. He provided no real evidence that it was those myths that cost the Democrats the election. I don't even really see how myth #2 would have done so: if anything, if Democratic/left/anti-Trump voters thought HRC was less of a strong candidate against Trump, that should have motivated them to come out in greater numbers. And a lot of that ostensible opposition research seems trivial to me, including the latter two points you quote. I don't think writing a dumb porny work of fiction 45 years ago would play as equivalent to the Secretary of State using a private server for classified communications.

i recommend turning off your tv the next time hillary is on it

i'm too poor for cable and an antenna gets nothing; the folx i work for have CNN on (always) in the lunchroom and dat election ain't NEVER gonna be over dere

vast majority of his voters were delusional, racist, misogynist, or some combination thereof. I don't want them in our party.

i have some bad news for you about millions and millions of people who are already in your party

Trump just tweeted about Clinton.

Clinton earlier: "Better that than interfering in foreign affairs, if he wants to tweet about me..." pic.twitter.com/hA82VrzG1Q

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 3, 2017

I mean, it must be hell for you, Morbs, but I can't think of anyone who can piss of Trump as much as a returning Hillary Clinton can, so...

And yeah, Trump then tweeted about her.

david axelrod is a brocialist!

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/331714-axelrod-on-clinton-it-takes-a-lot-of-work-to-lose-to-donald-trump

It's true, Donald Trump is indestructible teflon and also super easy to beat in elections.

"If I were her, if I were advising her, I would say, 'Don't do this. Don't go back and appear as if you're shifting responsibility.' ... She said the words 'I'm responsible,' but the — everything else suggested that she doesn't really feel that way," he said.

good use of eyes and ears

Here: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/

The impact of Comey’s letter is comparatively easy to quantify, by contrast. At a maximum, it might have shifted the race by 3 or 4 percentage points toward Donald Trump, swinging Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Florida to him, perhaps along with North Carolina and Arizona. At a minimum, its impact might have been only a percentage point or so. Still, because Clinton lost Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by less than 1 point, the letter was probably enough to change the outcome of the Electoral College.

so an estimated 1-4 percentage points. in this article from days before the election he characterized 2.7 percentage points as "Just A Normal Polling Error"

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-just-a-normal-polling-error-behind-clinton/

right but she didn't lose those states by 2.7

the email server thing, while trivial, was an actual criminal investigation by the fbi. it is the candidate's fault for doing something in the first place - that peers such as obama found stupid and mystifying - which could so needlessly cause them to be under-investigation by the fbi during an election.

also never owning the email server thing - admitting that it was wrong, admitting that top secret emails were sent through it etc. sometime quite a long time before the election, like i dunno, june or something, might have helped just a tiny bit

BUT HER EMAILS was a bullshit controversy cooked up by her opponents, it was mostly a media trap specifically designed to give Hillary no good options or way out.

Arguing that it could've been refuted somehow gloss over the fact that the accusations were nonsense contrived in bad faith to begin with.

Basically a "when did you stop beating your wife" frame.

She called it a mistake and apologized several times for it. I agree that she trivialized the whole thing more than she should but she was getting raked over the coals for it day in and day out. I'd probably avoid the subject too.

btw I don't think the argument was that the email thing was ok, it's that there were at least 20 bigger fires in the Trump camp that were getting like 1% of the attention. including an active criminal FBI investigation for crimes a bit more serious than "mishandling of classified data"

The real guilty party (as Silver touches on) was the media for taking the (click)bait

also Comey seemed to deliberately make it sound like Clinton was getting special treatment because of who she was, which really did fire people up

She called it a mistake and apologized several times for it. I agree that she trivialized the whole thing more than she should but she was getting raked over the coals for it day in and day out. I'd probably avoid the subject too.

she sort of half apologized for it and didn't mention top secret emails aspect until it came out in the press. not being more forthcoming made people - must throw a bone to the libs here, these people are mainly dumb - imagine there was more there than there was.

there are so, so many political controversies which have caused someone's electoral campaign or career grave damage that were ultimately trivial indiscretions. reacting to them is part of the game.

hillary was held to a higher standard than trump by the media and lots of other people because we live in a bullshit sexist society. (see our president, for example.) the whole thing stank. that a young James Comey served as deputy special counsel to the U.S. Senate Whitewater Committee is icing on the chocolate cake

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/james-comey-fbi-accountability-214234

^^^

sexism definitely played a big part but I think being the Candidate of Destiny/"Most qualified candidate ever" up against the TV Ratings Clown Candidate was even bigger. everyone expected Clinton to win and therefore she got criticized like someone who had already been in office for several years. Trump got positive press just for staying silent for a day.

I don't know the particulars of the email datasets the FBI had, but in my experience its not too hard to boil down emails to a MD5 hash value and dedupe one set of emails across another (weiner docs v. private server docs). Granted the hash values could be changed by Huma forwarding them to Weiner but I'd like to think the FBI has better resources than a mediocre sized law firm but I dont think it could have taken longer than a couple days to determine what exactly was in this stuff - or if it was just dupes of what they already had. The letter wasnt necessary, IMO.

* then again for all I know the broke ass government/fbi was reviewing this stuff in fucking paper form =|

on the merits, the email issue was of course pretty trivial. obviously, ideally a candidate wouldn't compromise her viability by exercising judgment poor enough to invite a legitimate FBI investigation. didn't help that the media seemed to treat her unfairly in comparison to trump. comey's letter obviously a disaster. plenty of blame to go around

* then again for all I know the broke ass government/fbi was reviewing this stuff in fucking paper form =|

― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries),

it was!

we get what we pay for =(

I dreamt she was President last night.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/26/new-william-gibson-novel-world-where-hillary-clinton-won-agency

The Woman In the High Server Farm

FBI search warrant for Clinton emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop made public

The discovery of the emails on the disgraced New York congressman’s laptop prompted the FBI director, James Comey, to briefly reopen an investigation that he had closed over the summer into Clinton’s use of the private server to handle emails she sent and received as secretary of state.

After getting court consent to delve into the newly discovered emails on 30 October, agents spent several days analyzing them before Comey announced that they contained no new evidence of any wrongdoing by Clinton.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/20/hillary-clinton-emails-anthony-weiner-fbi-search-warrant

some william gibson-level irony here. the only reason the emails had to come back up was because of the Weiner investigation and the them forwarding some emails at the wrong time essentially stepping on their own rake. wasn't this supposed to be part of the famous Russian plot? how unfortunate she lost the election over some dick pics.

no.

when an election progresses over 16 months and involves more than a dozen candidates and 100 million voters, the outcome hinges on something more than dick pics

not so. close elections hinge on thousands of factors

both otm

when an election progresses over 16 months and involves more than a dozen candidates and 100 million voters, the outcome hinges on something more than dick pics

― A is for (Aimless)

i know we'd like to believe this

Surely the point of that article is in the final paragraph:

In statement, E Randol Schoenberg, a Los Angeles lawyer who had sued to obtain the court papers, said on Tuesday that he saw “nothing at all in the search warrant application that would give rise to probable cause, nothing that would make anyone suspect that there was anything on the laptop beyond what the FBI had already searched and determined not to be evidence of a crime, nothing to suggest that there would be anything other than routine correspondence between secretary Clinton and her longtime aide Huma Abedin”.

That is to say, it wasn't some dick pics, or a rake of their own design. It was institutional failure at the FBI and the media, caused by bullshit both-sides-ism, that blew a story out of proportion and allowed people to paint Clinton as equally bad as Trump. Because saying both sides were equally bad were too many places seen as evidence of objectivity.

I'm a bit frustrated by the seizing of my liberal friends on the Ivanka world bank fund Saudi donation thing given how impossible it was to convince them that there was anything remotely unseemly about the Clinton Foundation (which, unlike this Ivanka thing -- a World Bank project -- is actually controlled by the Clintons). Really I see many more parallels between the Clintons and the Trumps, and the Clintons are somehow always given a pass - nepotism, conflicts of interest, even sexual harassment and rape.

cool lookin' book

http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/how-i-lost/

With a foreword by JULIAN ASSANGE

disgusting imo

yeah id prob skip the intro

in the words of the Democratic candidate and her close associates

but speaking of disgusting

"But her slaves!"

I was wondering when that was gonna cross over

idgi

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/06/the-clintons-had-slaves

Slaves make license plates. Slaves sew products for third-party companies. Slaves cook for other slaves.

The Hillary-Bernie online camp battles get more annoying by the day (even with her mini-comeback tour I don't think she'd run in 2020) but the way she wrote about that is pretty horrifying.

WHO GIVES A FUCK