- Imagine Hillary Clinton had been the clear favorite candidate of Vladimir Putin, Imagine she had extensive business interests in the country Putin dictates over
- Imagine during the campaign that she had infamously asked Putin to break U.S. law to help her campaign
- Imagine she had repeated her requests for Putin's help to win the election.
- Imagine Chelsea Clinton and her husband and senior members of Hillary Clinton's campaigns had met with surrogates for Putin and his cronies who had offered to give them dirt on Trump.
- Imagine some of all of those things were known to the FBI before the election and they didn't leak that information out of the New York office of the FBI, before the election.
- Imagine that other senior members of Hillary Clinton's campaign had had known and extensive and shady dealings with members of Putin's mafia during the campaign AND AFTER THE ELECTION WHICH HILLARY CLINTON WON.
- Imagine the Acting Attorney General went to senior members of the new Hillary Clinton administration warning that her new National Security Adviser was compromised by the Putin regime and, or figures around it and she and her top advisers didn't remove him immediately.
- Imagine Hillary Clinton arranged to meet with the director of the FBI and asked him to swear his loyalty to her, Mafia don style and to suppress any investigation into her compromised National Security Adviser.
- Imagine Hillary Clinton's new Attorney General, an active supporter and quasi-member of her administration found it ethically required that he recuse himself from overseeing an investigation into possible Putin regime interference into the election and possible Hillary Clinton campaign collusion with his effort.
- Imagine Hillary Clinton firing the Director of the FBI and shortly after giving an interview to Lester Holt in which she admits that she fired him over the investigation into Putin interference and collusion by her campaign and related matters.
- Imagine Hillary Clinton's newly named second in the Department of Justice finding it necessary to appoint an independent prosecutor to look into all of these things, IMAGINE THAT AN OLD AND RESPECTED DEMOCRATIC HAND WAS APPOINTED TO HEAD THAT INVESTIGATION.
- Oh, and while we'r imagining all of this, imagine the media which hasn't uniformly started howling for Hillary Clinton's impeachment doesn't start undermining the old Democratic hand and calling on his replacement on the basis of him being from the same party Hillary Clinton is. Not to mention that the second in the Justice Department, who she had just appointed being the one overseeing him.
- Let's skip over all of those intervening things we're going to have to imagine in which Hillary Clinton is president and the media isn't acting like they have when the most absurd and outlandish and false things have been thrown at her for a quarter of a century.
- Imagine that the report into her and her family and her report is issued AND HER THIRD ATTORNEY GENERAL,ONE HIRED ON THE BASIS OF HAVING AUDITIONED FOR THE JOB ON THE BASIS OF GETTING HER OFF IS THE ONE WHO GETS TO CHARACTERIZE AND SUPPRESS THE CONGRESS AND PUBLIC SEEING THE REPORT AND ITS SUPPORTING EVIDENCE.
- Imagine the reaction to all of that being like what has happened in the last several days, the media almost uniformly saying Hillary Clinton has been vindicated and members of her party are using it the way Republicans are using them.
Have you imagined enough impossible things for one morning?
I can imagine you offering the same excuses, qualifications and reasons why not that Republicans are saying if she had.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine you excusing a lot more of her behavior as well. Because good intentions.
Actually, no need, you've already done so, and said the only reason people didn't vote for her is because of racism, sexism, and pretty much every other -ism imaginable.
So you're imagining impossible things, too.
DeleteGet back to me when she did those things and I haven't condemned them.
I think a lot of people didn't vote for her because they were gullible dupes of the mass media, everything from the sewer of FOX and Sinclair up to and including The Nation, In These Times and the New York Times.
Here is the difference between you and me:
ReplyDeleteI ask people, "Why did you vote for Trump?"
You tell people, "You voted for Trump because..."
Per Hillary's past, well, I can assure you of one thing, you won't post anything wrong she did. Because it is "smearing."
You clearly have not read anything I wrote on that topic, you seem to have this imaginary version of me that has little to nothing to do what what I write and everything to do with your stereotypical "lefty" and "Northeastener" and who knows what else. I've been writing against people assuming they knew why people voted for Trump because there are obviously different reasons people voted for him. Lots of them are racists, though not all of them as there were "Obama voters" who voted for Trump, some of them were sexists, some were duped, some were stupid, some made a big mistake, some bought the nearly uniformly bad and frequently false reporting on her starting before Bill Clinton was elected president. If I was hesitant to critisize Hillary Clinton it is because 'tis a cruelty to load a woman being set up for a fall.
DeleteI've never held back in criticisms of the left, in general or in specifics.