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LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
Mon Sep 12, 2016, 05:39 PM Sep 2016

It's like they are pre-emptively swiftboating Hillary with THEIR negatives

A few weeks ago, it was all Clinton Foundation fiasco, and, like every scandal they throw at her, it is unfounded.

But then the Trump Foundation crime hardly made a blip on the monitor...

They bring up email when they want to obfuscate Russian ties...

And now, this 'health' scandal. Interesting that Don the Con left that ceremony early too, and no one is mentioning it

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Vinca

(50,278 posts)
1. No one is mentioning the number of people who would vote for Hillary's corpse over Trump either.
Mon Sep 12, 2016, 05:42 PM
Sep 2016

Trump is still Trump whether Hillary is healthy or ill. He's the Chief Deplorable who probably won't get through the first debate without calling Hillary a bimbo . . . or worse.

Jason1961

(413 posts)
3. They know they're losing
Mon Sep 12, 2016, 05:46 PM
Sep 2016

This election is Hillary's and it has been since 2008, she's guarded it pretty jealously thus far (sorry Bernie but you fell flat) so the Republicans, especially Trump use their only tactic, negative campaigning. Unfortunately it seems that forces are lining up to take it away from her, she's had the worst luck of any politician I can think of.

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)
4. The Trump team is on the defense
Mon Sep 12, 2016, 05:53 PM
Sep 2016

and losing. Just because they get a jab in
here or there doesn't mean a whole lot.
In totality, Trump is getting creamed.
A total choke artist.

vadermike

(1,415 posts)
5. So
Mon Sep 12, 2016, 06:12 PM
Sep 2016

Because this was here to win she has bad luck gets sick and is now going to
Lose automatically cause if this bukkshit ??? Geez if that's the case we are a more fucked up country than I thought

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
15. Yep. "They have a war hero and we have a draft dodger...."
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 09:02 AM
Sep 2016

"... so we have to attack his war record."

I'm just sitting back and waiting on that one, and in another twenty years, I'm going get to work to have the service records of every one of those Swift Boat Veterans permanently sealed for impugning the character of a fellow officer. For ever after, history will remember them as (name deleted for conduct unbecoming).

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
10. I'm serious. I bet he's hiding something health wise.
Tue Sep 13, 2016, 08:24 AM
Sep 2016

Watch what they attack her with...a few weeks later, THEY get shown for something *worse* but in the same wheelhouse, and it doesn't render even a blip.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
8. I really think she intended that remark to give them a "gotcha"
Mon Sep 12, 2016, 06:38 PM
Sep 2016

And being "deplorable" into the discussion.
If she said it doing a naked handstand they'd ignore it- but at a "private event"? Lol. She played them.

duncang

(1,907 posts)
9. It has been a tactic they use
Mon Sep 12, 2016, 07:02 PM
Sep 2016

The I'm rubber your glue bit. You could probably go back through his entire campaign including the primaries and see what his problems are. His repeated Little Rubio line comes to mind.

 

NoGoodNamesLeft

(2,056 posts)
13. That's how narcissists do...they project
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 07:53 AM
Sep 2016

That means anything they attack Hillary on they are most likely guilty of.

wishstar

(5,270 posts)
14. CBS headline online even says "Colin Powell rips Clinton, Trump in leaked emails"
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 07:54 AM
Sep 2016

And their headline paragraph starts with "Newly released emails reveal former secretary of state was irked by Clinton "hubris" over email controversy"- so even these revelations where he slammed Trump far more than Clinton, are presented with emphasis on what Powell said about Clinton, to neutralize the effect

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