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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Tells Another Sniper-Fire Level Tall Tale About An IOWA VOTER, YESTERDAY!
Yesterday, Hillary told a story to NBCs WHO TV in Iowa this wonderful tale about how an Iowa Voter expressed an analogy of retroactive speed limits to her private server holding classified documents (isn't that cute):The best explanation I heard of this I heard yesterday in Des Moines from a man I was shaking hands with. He said, This is like you drive through the same intersection for four years and the speed limit is 35. Then you move out of town and they change the speed limit to 25. And then they start sending tickets to people who drove, while the speed limit was 35, they drove over 25.
The above is a transcript from the video at http://whotv.com/2016/01/31/the-insiders-january-31st-edition-part-2-clinton-explains-her-top-secret-emails/
about 1:04 into the video.
But this sounds almost exactly what she told the Des Moines Register just on Jan 11, 2016:
You know itd be like somebody in the Department of Transportation setting speed limits that had cameras where cars were going down a road, and pictures of license plates were being taken and lets say the speed limit was 35. And then retroactively the police say that speed limit shouldve been 25, so lets go back and look at anybody who drove down that road and exceeded 25.
Video of the Jan 11 Des Moines Register interview here:
In other words, she's validating her story by using a lie that an IOWA VOTER TOLD IT. Regardless of what you think of the email scandal, this is downright the problem with Clinton: she has no ability to be honest and will do or say anything to get elected.
Not only is she telling a tall tale of an Iowa Voter saying the very words she told the Des Moine Register less than 3 weeks ago, she's using an anti-government rhetoric to sell herself. As another DUer has said recently: "The Department of Transportation is the heavy in her little story and the complaint is a familiar Republican one: government agencies screwing things up for the people."
Does she not realize everything she says publicly is recorded and put on the Internet? Has she not learned from telling lies like the Bosnian Sniper Fire or the story about her signing up for the military on veterans day burn her badly enough not to try to pull this crap. Simply disgusting.
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Hillary Tells Another Sniper-Fire Level Tall Tale About An IOWA VOTER, YESTERDAY! (Original Post)
berni_mccoy
Feb 2016
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tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)1. Meh.
She's terrif. Awesome possum. 23 skidoo and a cat in pajamas.
sarcasm
cui bono
(19,926 posts)2. I thought only Republicans were dumb enough not to understand technology at this basic level.
Maybe she really did think you use a cloth to wipe a hard drive?
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tecelote
(5,122 posts)3. Maybe when Bernie is elected, people will begin to realize...
that government is not all bad. In fact, it can benefit all Americans (it already does but few seem to notice).
'Time to stop hating the government!