I can say this year something I don't think would have occurred to me to say before, that I genuinely like Hillary Clinton while I genuinely disagree with her on several issues, one or two of those quite important issues. I can also genuinely say that the treatment of her by the media has had a large part in making me genuinely loathe the media, though it's hardly the only reason I loathe them.
Kevin Drum points out that Ezra Klein is saying something I've been saying about her for years, that she is the most thoroughly vetted and tested politician in the history of presidential politics and whatever she has done wrong is thoroughly and exhaustively known, especially as compared to Donald Trump. They consider her as compared to the massively dishonest and phony Donald Trump this way.
But basically she's a fairly ordinary politico—ironically, an unusually honest one. When she makes a deal, her word is good. When she talks about policy, she's careful not to overpromise. On the honesty front, she is Mother Teresa compared to Donald Trump.
Actually, I think that the testing, THE UNPRECEDENTED AND BRUTAL TRIAL BY ORDEAL which she has been subjected to reveals far more about the deepness of character in Hillary Clinton. I can't imagine any other politician in the history of this country who, knowing what they were going to do to her as a candidate for president and as president AND IS STILL WILLING TO WITHSTAND THAT, AGAIN AND AGAIN TO SERVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND DEMOCRACY is a pretty extraordinary politician.
I read this morning that the House Chair of the Homeland Security Committee is already promising Clinton will be impeached and removed from office because of the e-mails no one has read yet and which may have nothing to do with Clinton at all. Because reasons and presumption of guilty (not innocence) and "probable cause" and other buzzwords that obviously mean nothing to this man, but which sound like plausible grounds for "high crimes and misdemeanors." Which phrase, yes, is not strictly limited to actions while President, so why not, right?
ReplyDeleteCalling these people the "mole people" (as Pierce used to do) is too kind. Out of control partisans who think they have a right to run the country as they see fit, is more like it. Tyrants and anti-republic anti-democrats doesn't have much ring to it, but it's the more accurate description.
They hate Clinton because they hate the very idea of governance. They just want unfettered rule; just like....surprise! Donald Trump thinks he'll be entitled to!
It would be interesting to see how opening up "crimes" not committed while being president to being impeachable would impact Donald Trump. Of course since our idiot founders gave the power of impeachment to the House the present Republican-Fascists would apply any such novel theory of the law to favor their fellow fascists.
ReplyDeleteIf the worst happens I hope that in the aftermath the idiotic theories that favored lies and fiction over truth and fact, those freeing the corporate media to lie with impunity, those which have corrupted this country to where, even if he loses, the overtly fascist, rascist, bigoted criminal, Trump will get a huge number of votes, will be fixed.
As it is, I find ever more reason to see the wisdom in the people who wrote the scriptures, even the John Gospel, not my favorite book, with what it said about the truth and freedom. It is light years ahead of the neo-enlightenment view of life which is de rigueur in academia, the media and elite society.
"As it is, I find ever more reason to see the wisdom in the people who wrote the scriptures, even the John Gospel, not my favorite book, with what it said about the truth and freedom. It is light years ahead of the neo-enlightenment view of life which is de rigueur in academia, the media and elite society."
DeleteAmen.