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Originally Posted By: 'CHSdawg'
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Remember when Donald Trump once tied a 13 year old girl to a bed and raped her?
http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/10/...ump-child-rape/



Love how no one has talked about how Donald Trump was accused of raping a child. Of course it was posted by a right winged media site, so I'm not surprised it's ignored.

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Meh.

Better chance that gets talked about than the fact Trump wants 4 black and 1 Hispanic males to be put in prison for a crime they clearly didn't commit. Maybe this is what Trump meant by getting tough on crime. To him if it's brown put it down.

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He's a fan of stop and frisk. That should tell you enough about his "tough on crime"

Stop and Frisk showed little to no results. The majority of people who were stopped ended up being minorities, and an overwhelming number of them ended up as innocent.

But...this fails to fit the narrative. Remember Candy, feelings are more important than facts in the year 2016. Just imagine if feelings were more important than facts when we tried to launch astronauts to the moon.

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Swish mentioned it earlier, John Kasich is the biggest winner in all of this. He has never endorsed Trump. He never really got into mud slinging during the primaries. He has the support of Ohio. He's a true conservative which will appeal to his base. Him and Paul Ryan will be the front runners for 2020 if Trump loses.

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I've got no problem with people voting Trump if it's to support the Republican Party and conservative values. That makes rational sense. Hell, do it if you believe in Mike Pence. However, I can't understanding actually endorsing this guy.

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You know candyman, I believe you're like the rest of us, deep down you don't really care for Hillary either! thumbsup

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I don't care for Hillary at all. She's a corrupt war hawk who will lose in 2020 (if she wins). I hate using the term hate for someone I don't personally know. However, she is pretty damn close. I could create a pretty long list as to why she's awful. Just off the top of my head:

-Pay for play
-TPP
-Shes a Citizens United trust fund baby
-Emails
-Situation with Bernie

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he really thinks these guys are still guilty?

see, it's his stances on things like this which is why he won't get any minority votes come election day.


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Originally Posted By: Swish
he really thinks these guys are still guilty?

see, it's his stances on things like this which is why he won't get any minority votes come election day.



He tries really, really, really hard to give Hillary ammo for her commercials. You'll see an ad on this in a few days. Hillarys ad team might have the easiest job in the world. All they have to do is just copy and paste whatever Trump says.

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pretty much.

i mean it's crazy. they don't have to make anything up. they don't have to speculate about what he's saying.

everything comes freely out of his own mouth. verbatim, and then he does a press conference and doubles down on it.

I hope he has a plan of attack tonight. a viable one.

here's the problem with a viable attack: he's painted himself into a corner. his only way out....is to mud sling. he has to come out with straight up reality TV-level dirt.

he can't fake be presidential anymore cause while everybody else already knows that's laughable, his supporters are-somehow- just figuring it out.

like...i really don't know what his debate strategy is gonna be. every angle he attempts can and will be countered, and with some heavy punches.

he has to really make sure he nails the questions about the economy.

but even then, his own economy plan is getting ran into the ground by other conservatives.

i mean how on Earth will you build a wall, increase border patrol, and then another MASSIVE increase to agents for your deportation force, make the military BIGGER, which means increasing the budget,

all while cutting taxes?

people like to talk about Hillary's plan like "who's gonna pay for all that"

well who the hell is gonna pay for all of THAT, what trump wants to accomplish?

obviously the wealthy ain't gonna help that much, he plans on slashing their rates like Verizon has a sale going on with a cell phone and data package.

real quick: you see what i did? i brought this back to policy, and he's still not better than Hillary.

so for debate strategy, he better HARP on the trade deals. that was his only shining moment, and he better get his base motivated again by talking about it.

but he also has to come up with a viable alternative.

you can't go "your plan sucks", but then not offer an alternative solution that would actually work.

and that's not even touching all the other domestic-social and foreign policy issues.

what's his strategy going into tonight, Candy? Haus? hell anybody?

Cause just surviving isn't gonna cut it anymore. he got away with surviving the first debate. he actually has to come with SOMETHING to win. surviving isn't gonna cut it.

just from a purely campaign strategy perspective, Clinton is gonna try to end this thing tonight. he better have something up his sleeve.




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He doesn't have a strategy and I've said that for months. He's benefited from Hillarys plan being terrifying to republicans.

Unless his plan is to just invade other countries I don't know where the money comes from. I've said from the beginning if his claim to fame is policy substance, he needs to start detailing it. His only recommendation I've seen is cutting regulations and the EPA. Well good luck with that brother, that's not gonna make a dent in the debt we owe.

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Originally Posted By: BuckDawg1946
I'm not surprised a region that endorsed slavery, and segregation, runs Trump out there. Gotta love the south

I live in NE Ohio where slavery never existed. It's a traditionally Republican community. We have good schools that perform well every year despite spending less than the state average per student. Crime is low and violent crime is virtually non-existent. People are generally upbeat, happy, and friendly. In this extended area I've seen about 50 Trump/Pence signs and exactly 3 Hillary signs.

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Originally Posted By: Haus
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I'm not surprised a region that endorsed slavery, and segregation, runs Trump out there. Gotta love the south

I live in NE Ohio where slavery never existed. It's a traditionally Republican community. We have good schools that perform well every year despite spending less than the state average per student. Crime is low and violent crime is virtually non-existent. People are generally upbeat, happy, and friendly. In this extended area I've seen about 50 Trump/Pence signs and exactly 3 Hillary signs.

Of course, once you get into Cleveland, most of this changes (putting it mildly.)

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I'm not surprised a region that endorsed slavery, and segregation, runs Trump out there. Gotta love the south

I live in NE Ohio where slavery never existed. It's a traditionally Republican community. We have good schools that perform well every year despite spending less than the state average per student. Crime is low and violent crime is virtually non-existent. People are generally upbeat, happy, and friendly. In this extended area I've seen about 50 Trump/Pence signs and exactly 3 Hillary signs.


lmao.

just so everyone is aware, we are now basing the level of support based on who has the most yard signs and #'s of people at a rally.

i seen more mitt romney signs in 2012 then i saw obama signs.

remind the board on how that turned out.

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This says it best-

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Here is Trumponomics, in a sentence: Create an unnecessary economic downturn by deporting 7 million workers while cutting taxes for the rich and requiring the United States to borrow trillions of dollars from creditors, whom Trump has now threatened to stiff, if he feels like it. It would be the greatest, dumbest recession in American history.

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Originally Posted By: Swish
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I'm not surprised a region that endorsed slavery, and segregation, runs Trump out there. Gotta love the south

I live in NE Ohio where slavery never existed. It's a traditionally Republican community. We have good schools that perform well every year despite spending less than the state average per student. Crime is low and violent crime is virtually non-existent. People are generally upbeat, happy, and friendly. In this extended area I've seen about 50 Trump/Pence signs and exactly 3 Hillary signs.


lmao.

just so everyone is aware, we are now basing the level of support based on who has the most yard signs and #'s of people at a rally.

i seen more mitt romney signs in 2012 then i saw obama signs.

remind the board on how that turned out.

Dude

You realize that not everything people post is argumentative, right? What I wrote above is just an observation. I did not say that I thought that Trump would win because my extended neighborhood and community lean heavily towards Trump, did I? That would be a pretty silly argument to make.

I think I've been pretty consistent in saying that I thought Hillary was favored or that it was too close to call, depending on when we are talking about. Right now I would unfortunately have to say that Hillary is the favorite. That tape is going to haunt Trump and I wouldn't be surprised if there was more where that came from.

About that tape with the lewd comments on it: he is going to get grilled on that tonight and rightly so. His best response would be an extension of the apology he released last night. Say they were mistakes, he should not have said them, and he does not feel that way. That he is embarrassed by them. This is not the time to tell people to get over it; it is the time for a real apology. That would go a long way.

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And I stated my observation.

I wasn't arguing with you. Cause there's nothing to argue about.

Anyway, it's gonna be interesting how much more stuff gets released.

And whats worse? The Dems don't have to rely on shady foreign hackers to provide the material; Trump himself provides it, since he's been in the public eye for about as long as Hillary has.


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So if Trump looks bad round 2, who abandons ship?

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The sides are already drawn up. We await the vote.

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Originally Posted By: Swish
And I stated my observation.

I wasn't arguing with you. Cause there's nothing to argue about.

Anyway, it's gonna be interesting how much more stuff gets released.

And whats worse? The Dems don't have to rely on shady foreign hackers to provide the material; Trump himself provides it, since he's been in the public eye for about as long as Hillary has.

Well nobody really knows who these hackers are. The Russians usually get blamed but I always thought it was funny how the groups that are completely oblivious to IT and security are somehow able to ascertain who the hackers are. It's a catch-22. If the Clinton Camp and the DNC actually knew enough to track these guys down, they wouldn't have gotten hacked in the first place. (Honestly, that is probably an oversimplification but I do think there is some truth to it.)

As to what releases are worse, a lot comes down to style vs substance. The Trump tape is easily digestible, we all know it sounds bad, and it is going to hurt him at the polls.

On the other hand, there is a lot of really shady stuff coming out about Hillary, the system, the DNC, etc. The thing is though that it takes a more thorough understanding of things to piece some of it together. It just can't be conveyed in a damning 30 second clip. There's no smoking gun email as far as I know anyway. It's just a consistent pattern of disturbing, corrupt behavior but each one can be explained away individually. That's the best way I can put it.

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I will be very surprised if Trump comes back from this latest debacle. And he took all the heat of Hillay for the wikileaks release. He really is his own worst enemy.

I just can't believe this is what this country has come to. Which candidate is the least likely to implode from scandals! ANYBODY else and Hillary is done, ANYBODY else and Trump is done... sad sad day in America.

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Originally Posted By: candyman92
So if Trump looks bad round 2, who abandons ship?

not me.

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His latest debacle was 11 years ago while Hillary is an ongoing debacle.

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Originally Posted By: 40YEARSWAITING
His latest debacle was 11 years ago while Hillary is an ongoing debacle.

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I agree 40, but he's getting hammered nonetheless. I heard it and I know it was bad, but it sounded like guys BSing about their sex lives to me. I've heard that kind of thing a million times in my life.

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Originally Posted By: OldColdDawg
I will be very surprised if Trump comes back from this latest debacle. And he took all the heat of Hillay for the wikileaks release. He really is his own worst enemy.

I just can't believe this is what this country has come to. Which candidate is the least likely to implode from scandals! ANYBODY else and Hillary is done, ANYBODY else and Trump is done... sad sad day in America.

Trump is fighting an uphill battle now for sure. We'll see what happens.

One thing that bother me a little bit is the fact that this tape was 11 years old. Take what CHS said earlier in the thread about Assange holding onto material and releasing it at the most damaging time. Fine, that's probably true. Well it's true here as well. Somebody had that tape for the last 11 years and probably sold it to the highest bidder.

There are other aspects to think about, like the ramifications about using unpleasant private matters against somebody 11 years later. Many of us have posted some very controversial opinions on this board. Imagine those comments being used against us in the year 2027. How far down that rabbit hole do you go? Can you use somebody's browsing and internet search history against them? I bet quite a few of us go to sites that we wouldn't tell our mothers about. On and on it goes. And again, I am in no way defending what Donald Trump said. I think it is worse than anything he has said during this election season.

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Originally Posted By: OldColdDawg
Originally Posted By: 40YEARSWAITING
His latest debacle was 11 years ago while Hillary is an ongoing debacle.

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I agree 40, but he's getting hammered nonetheless. I heard it and I know it was bad, but it sounded like guys BSing about their sex lives to me. I've heard that kind of thing a million times in my life.

I've heard it many times as well and it has always made me cringe. It's just not my style. More relevantly here, it is going to hurt him at the polls. It will hurt him with women the most and they are the majority (i.e. women make up more than 50% of the population and voters.)

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Y'all are unreal!

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I don't think he is getting hammered at all. The same people who have supported him still support him while many others are beginning to see to what new lows Hillary will stoop to in order to nail someone. First it was Bernie, now Trump.

The thing Hillary will never understand is the American People are wise enough to see through the curtain, to see the Press, The Republican establishment and Hillary herself joining together to stop Trump.

He is becoming the Great American Underdog and we Americans just love an underdog who wins in the face of a fixed game.

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Originally Posted By: Versatile Dog
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Y'all are unreal!

Yes, we get it, people take sides and blast away at the other side while being completely oblivious to the faults of their own.

This was actually shaping up to be a pretty decent discussion though.

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Originally Posted By: OldColdDawg
Originally Posted By: 40YEARSWAITING
His latest debacle was 11 years ago while Hillary is an ongoing debacle.

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I agree 40, but he's getting hammered nonetheless. I heard it and I know it was bad, but it sounded like guys BSing about their sex lives to me. I've heard that kind of thing a million times in my life.


No, this is the latest debacle on tape. Do any of you think for one second he's not still like this?


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Originally Posted By: Haus
Originally Posted By: Versatile Dog
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Y'all are unreal!

Yes, we get it, people take sides and blast away at the other side while being completely oblivious to the faults of their own.

This was actually shaping up to be a pretty decent discussion though.

On second thought, maybe it really wasn't rofl

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It would not surprise me if more of this kind of Trump audio/video surfaced.

Heard it said that others have heard Trump say worse about woman than what was on this new tape.


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I will be very surprised if Trump comes back from this latest debacle. And he took all the heat of Hillay for the wikileaks release. He really is his own worst enemy.

I just can't believe this is what this country has come to. Which candidate is the least likely to implode from scandals! ANYBODY else and Hillary is done, ANYBODY else and Trump is done... sad sad day in America.

Trump is fighting an uphill battle now for sure. We'll see what happens.

One thing that bother me a little bit is the fact that this tape was 11 years old. Take what CHS said earlier in the thread about Assange holding onto material and releasing it at the most damaging time. Fine, that's probably true. Well it's true here as well. Somebody had that tape for the last 11 years and probably sold it to the highest bidder.

There are other aspects to think about, like the ramifications about using unpleasant private matters against somebody 11 years later. Many of us have posted some very controversial opinions on this board. Imagine those comments being used against us in the year 2027. How far down that rabbit hole do you go? Can you use somebody's browsing and internet search history against them? I bet quite a few of us go to sites that we wouldn't tell our mothers about. On and on it goes. And again, I am in no way defending what Donald Trump said. I think it is worse than anything he has said during this election season.


Of course you can. And you should.

The moment someone decides to be a public figure- or more specifically, a politician- then everything they say can and should be looked at, analyzed, and critique. That goes for message boards, tweets, papers written in college, all of it.

For example, and this is just a hypothetical, but a lot if conservatives like Pence. Hell, even I like his character.

But what if the media found out this guy post on Stormfront.

You don't think that should be used or brought up? That would be a HUGE deal. And rightfully so.

You have things that you can't look past on Hillary. You even bring up stuff from her past.

So why shouldn't Trump be held to the same standard?


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Well, you're using a pretty extreme example to prove your point but I do get your point. I guess it would depend on the details. I'm sure many of us visit many sites, or even search things in a devil's advocate sort of way where the goal is to learn new information and not necessarily because that is how we think. But again, it depends on the specifics.

I'm not trying to pick on you but you really should consider the ramifications on this. Think about some of the more incendiary posts you made about the police over the summer. I think you realize you made a mistake and you learned from it, and I wouldn't wish for you to lose out on a job or political office because young Reggie made a couple posts in an emotional time without thinking things through. That's just what I'm getting at. When you start taking someone's worst private conversations from 11 years ago as evidence of how horrible that person is, we're going down a really slippery slope there.

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So Trump just tweeted this link about the Clintons: http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidenti...g-brutal-rapes/

The debate tonight is going to make us DawgTalkers look civil in comparison.

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Originally Posted By: MrTed
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Originally Posted By: 40YEARSWAITING
His latest debacle was 11 years ago while Hillary is an ongoing debacle.

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I agree 40, but he's getting hammered nonetheless. I heard it and I know it was bad, but it sounded like guys BSing about their sex lives to me. I've heard that kind of thing a million times in my life.


No, this is the latest debacle on tape. Do any of you think for one second he's not still like this?


Ted I heard a group of women speaking this morning, they didn't know I could hear them and they were talking about the Trump tape. Some of them are for Hill and some for Donald.

They were saying "Gee, what would they say if they ever heard us talking about men the way we sometimes do?" They all giggled and nodded in agreement.

People aren't stupid and people are not so shallow.
They completely understand this is a dirty election.

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So Trump just tweeted this link about the Clintons: http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidenti...g-brutal-rapes/

The debate tonight is going to make us DawgTalkers look civil in comparison.


Hillary will just retweet this-

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/federal-judge-orders-hearing-in-donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-case/

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Originally Posted By: tastybrownies
Heck, she may even be a nice person in real life (I somehow doubt this). Just like with Obama. To me he seems like the type of person you'd like to sit down with and have a beer but she gives off this cold ice attitude and she's not relatable to AT ALL, and I mean AT ALL.


I never really understood this argument. "Relatable". What does that mean? I don't know any politicians but, it wouldn't surprise me if they were un-relatable to my daily job and life. I mean, why would I hold them to this standard that is completely unrealistic and changes between person to person? Anyway, who I find "relatable" and who I am having a beer with you may have a different opinion of and think otherwise (and vice versa). To be honest, I could care less if I could sit down and have a beer with a President as long as they are doing a decent job.

AND...remember the last time folks voted for the guy they felt they could have a beer with? How did that work out? Hmm, well lets see: the worst attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor, two wars, one that was completely false and we should never have got into, the world losing much respect for the US after invasion of Iraq pt. 2, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and a huge chasm between Red/Blue/Lib/Rep.

So, yea...I guess, I will choose the person I think will do a better job and is more qualified to do the job rather than who I feel I can have a beer with or who is more "relatable".

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http://www.reportfeeds.com/2016/10/new-wikileaks-emails.html

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Wikileaks themselves highlighted emails related to the “Uranium One Deal,” where Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, signed away significant amounts, one-fifth, of US Uranium resources to Russia. Following the deal, millions of dollars were donated to the Clinton Foundation from individuals directly connected to the deal, including the Chairman of Uranium One, Ian Telfer. Clinton declined to publicly disclose this contribution despite an agreement with Obama to publicly identify all Clinton Foundation donors. In a press release of the leaks, Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange provides evidence that Brian Fallon, Clinton campaign spokesman, lied when he told the New York Times that Clinton’s involvement in the deal was “baseless.” This is based on emails between José Fernandez and Podesta which show that Fernandez, who was responsible for the State Department’s role in the deal, was also involved with the Clinton campaign before this statement was made and had been given an “extremely rewarding” position at Podesta’s think thank, the Center for American Progress.

However, the email that will likely cause the most damage to Clinton’s campaign is titled “HRC Paid Speeches.” This email exposes transcript excerpts from her paid speeches which were closed to the public and the press, including those given to Goldman Sachs. They confirm what many have long suspected about Hillary’s real political views. In the transcripts, which you can read here, Clinton expresses that she is both pro-KeystoneXL and pro-TTP (free trade) – positions she has declined publicly. Clinton’s speeches to Wall Street banks will likely be very difficult to “spin”, as she told Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank that Wall Street were held accountable for the 2008 crisis for solely political reasons and to appease the public.

Clinton said that the blame placed on the United States banking system for the crisis “could have been avoided in terms of both misunderstanding and really politicizing what happened.” She also said that public perception of the rigged system must be controlled in order to maintain public trust. She also said that financial reform “really has to come from the industry itself,” expressing her view that Wall Street should police itself. She also said she “did all I could to make sure [Wall Street] continued to prosper” after 2008 and also said that she depends on Wall Street money for funding.

Most concerning of all to Clinton’s campaign is that she explains away her misrepresentation of her views to public as being born out of the necessity to have “a private and public position on policy.” To quote directly from Clinton’s words: “If everybody’s watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position.” She said the public/private position dichotomy is “necessary to be successful, politically” and said this was true throughout all of American history. Essentially, Clinton admits that everything she says publicly is done so for political gain and does not reflect her true, “private” views.

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Originally Posted By: Haus
Well, you're using a pretty extreme example to prove your point but I do get your point. I guess it would depend on the details. I'm sure many of us visit many sites, or even search things in a devil's advocate sort of way where the goal is to learn new information and not necessarily because that is how we think. But again, it depends on the specifics.

I'm not trying to pick on you but you really should consider the ramifications on this. Think about some of the more incendiary posts you made about the police over the summer. I think you realize you made a mistake and you learned from it, and I wouldn't wish for you to lose out on a job or political office because young Reggie made a couple posts in an emotional time without thinking things through. That's just what I'm getting at. When you start taking someone's worst private conversations from 11 years ago as evidence of how horrible that person is, we're going down a really slippery slope there.


that doesn't make any sense.

if i ran for office, those post i made should ABSOLUTELY be up for criticism, regardless on if i apologized for it or not.

it doesn't change the fact that i said those things.

sorry bro but thats the standard. if it applies to him, it applies to me. no double standards my way.


“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

- Theodore Roosevelt
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