From The Hill
“Look, I made speeches to lots of groups. I told them what I thought. I answered questions,” Clinton said.
“But did you have to be paid $675,000?,” Cooper asked.“Well I don’t know,” Clinton responded. “That’s what they offered.”
The crowd burst into laughter as Clinton explained that “every secretary of State I know has done that.”
Cooper shot back that usually the secretary of State is not preparing to run for president.
“To be honest I wasn’t committed to running,” Clinton said. “I didn’t know whether I would run or not.”
Who could be so stupid as to believe this? Lie of the Year!
Its so early in the year, I just know this won’t be her best. How the hillites love to be lied to, hell they sit around making up lies for her.
I guess they must have been talking about the calendar year. It sure was not the lie of the past 12 months.
Let’s find out: Hillary had 2000 emails on her secret, private, unsecured server that contained unsecured classified information.
The list will appear shortly.
soon or later she is going to burst into fames-with the devil smiling behind her
@Randy:
I was thinking calendar 2016. She certainly has the opportunity to do better.
@mor 8541: I’d buy a ticket even better if there was a group hug at the time.
@DrJohn: Perhaps it should be tracked weekly.
Hillary is a boldface liar. She thinks she is above the law, and she cannot stop lying just so she can become the first lady president. Why does anyone want to back a person who continually lies one after another, etc…? She thinks Americans are so dumbfounded that she will continue to lie her way until she gets what she wants which is to become the first female president of the U.S. Her husband is a boldface liar, and they do not deserve another chance at the Whitehouse especially since Bill disgraced the entire country over his extra marital affair which took place in the Whitehouse. People will unbelievably continue to support them. Why, I cannot figure that out except to say they like being lied to???
@David: Well, considering that Obama was reelected, there are obviously a LOT of people that prefer to be lied to.
@David: Speaking as a Dem. HRC can and should be beat.
Trump is not the guy to do it—negatives as high as Hillary.
Cruz can’t get enough moderates to win nationally.
Rubio can beat HRC fairly easily–he’ll appeal to indies and the 17% Latino votes—anti HRC Dems like myself won’t vote for Trump or Cruz–we will vote for Rubio. He is not pictured as a divider like Trump and Cruz. He’s certainly not an old socialist like Bernie–Electable-brings must win Fla–think must win Ohio ‘s Kasich the right pick for Veep.
Note All bets off if HRC exits and Uncle Joe gets in.
She took their money. She didn’t sign a contract to do anything more than give a speech. Now listen to what she’s saying. So, which party to this arrangement made the stupid move?
Of course she could have said No thank you, I won’t speak to your organization for $675,000. That would have been brilliant. No doubt every republican contender would have turned down the offer, being so high principled and all. I’m sure none of them have ever accepted a nickel from any special interest group.
@Greg:
Greg, sometimes you crack me up.
Bill-you are right and its the sad truth! I guess all politicians lie at some point which should be expected and accepted to some degree…
@Rich Wheeler: Now that would be ideal-Uncle Joe on the go!
Is there a difference between a lie and a demonstrated lack of integrity?
Great Question…I think a lie could be told once or twice and then be forgiven. Someone who lacks integrity daily is more or less a person who tells a lie and then covers it up which brings to mind HRC throughout the course of life in and out of politics. Great focus Randy…
@David: I often wondered how people could blindly support dictators like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler. After the excuses people have been making for the current occupant of the WH, I wonder no more. It’s that cult of personality thing.
@David: There it is.
Did all of you FA Trumpists including Randy, Petercat, Nanny, Bill, Enchanted, Budvarker, Ditto—-see the way he personally destroyed Dr. Carson—I thought it was the sleaziest attack I’ve seen in over 50 years of watching political campaigns–that’s saying something.. Trumpist thoughts specific to that?
Is there any question why Trump is despised by so many?
It’s a matter of agreeing with a person’s political philosophy, supporting their political objectives, believing they can effectively communicate those objectives, and thinking that they’re actually capable of getting results.
It’s also a matter of consistency. In my opinion, no one can truly be a supporter of individual freedom who would empower the State to deprive half the population of sovereign control over their own bodies, based on religious views that not even all those of faith share. The implications of a failure to understand how this is fundamentally unconstitutional go well beyond differing views on that one issue itself. Because of that, it’s a hard won battle line that nearly all Democrats are totally determined to hold. Note that is was one of the final points Clinton mentioned during her town hall appearance and that she was totally unambiguous about her position.
Democrats vote on issues, not on personalities, though it’s certainly understood that personality is a factor when it comes to achieving goals. Our candidates are quite specific about their intentions. When we vote, we know what we’re voting for. We also have a good idea what we’re voting against.
@Greg: Maybe they should be in control before they have and sex make a baby. Are there no pills, foam, diaphragms are there no condoms? There are plenty of people wanting to adopt a little oops.
That all of those things exist is not the point. The point is that the State has no business depriving a person of sovereign control over their own body and their own reproductive function. Period. What you or what I think about the choices they make concerning the exercise of that fundamental freedom does not enter in.
That is a firm position. If I want to claim fundamental authority over my own person, I must be willing to let others have fundamental authority over their own as well.
Rich is getting to be nearly as troll like as Greg. He always changes the subject of the post when confronted with the issues he can not refute. He did have some clarity, but is moving under the bridge rapidly.
@Greg: The problem is they are not controlling their bodies, they produce another human then have it murdered, the poor lil thing, heartbeat at 18 days, its not just a blob of tissue its a living growing baby. Just because its not made on purpose does that mean that human has no rights?When is it a human Greg when during gestation is it no longer right to murder it, or is it not a human til birth.
@Rich Wheeler:
How did you determine I was a Trump supporter? Because I am keeping an open mind and not denouncing someone based on prejudices?
@Greg:
At what point does a woman have to surrender “control of her own body” and respect a life? By the way, as long as Planned Parenthood conflates their abortion business with their health care business, taxpayer dollars are being used to pay for abortions. THAT is the issue. Selling the dismembered bodies of aborted babies is an issue as well. The fact that the left never seems to be able to set limits for themselves (though they are really good at setting limits for everyone else, including how much of their own money they get to keep and use) and enjoy their self-proclaimed “rights” judiciously is a MAJOR point.
@Greg:
Democrats don’t vote for personalities? What a joke. Obama was little more than a personality. HE HAD NO RECORD AND NO EXPERIENCE.
Did you vote for 9 trillion more debt even though candidate Obama railed against the debt piled up under GWB? Did you vote for a war in Libya where we attacked unprovoked? Something Democrats say we don’t do.
Maybe HRC could have donated her bounty for speaking to charity, you know, for the poor. But we all know she didn’t. Or maybe we should tax it a 90% to show good faith. But we know she’ll use every tax dodge she can to pocket as much as she can. Maybe next time she could give a speech on hypocrisy.
@Mully: That seems to be Hillary’s problem… she has no personality, except that of the bitter shrew. Her support derives from the fact that she is the current foremost liberal in the nation, not from a charismatic personality or, certainly, from any great accomplishments.
Bernie, on the other hand, has personality, though the persona of the nutty, crazed flake is not what should cause one to pick Presidential material.
@Bill: O.K.—Did you see what he did to Carson re his “history of violence.” Dropped him from a contender–25% nationally to also ran at under 10%–IMO worsr than what was done to Herman Cain in 2012.
Are you OK with his blasts at Cruz?
@Rich Wheeler: I’m not OK with any of the attacks unless based on a record or action. Once the candidate is chosen, those attacks are difficult to take back when supporting the candidate.
@Bill: Exactly Do you think Carson or his supporters will ever back Trump—how bout Cruz–or Bush–or Fiorina.
He’s burning bridges faster than Sherman—how can he win if he gets stuck at this 30% Republican support. I promise you Bill, the way this guy acts will get him little to no support from indies and moderate Dems not to mention most within his own Party.
How can he win Presidency—Rubio can beat HRC or Bernie with certainty. He’s running a smart race and picking up endorsements–momentum is with him as Trump becomes isolated
Trump will win N.H with just over 30%—Rubio 2nd with close to 20% Bush may get a surprise 3rd—Cruz then Kasich double digits–Christie disappoints and drops out.
On to S.C where top 4 including Bush–making possibly His Last Stand– will have real struggle.
Gotta love it
Carolina 24–Broncos 20
@kitt, #23:
The problem is that you have fanciful ideas concerning when a person comes about, that would, in fact, confer full constitutional rights on “a blob of tissue.” There’s a heartbeat, and sometime after that there are reflexive neural responses, but those don’t signify the presence of a person. Before organized higher brain activity has appeared, no second person yet exists to have any rights.
Believing otherwise is generally a religious position, and one that is held by some but not all religious people. In America we don’t allow the State to impose any particular set of religious views on people, as a matter of constitutional principle. People are generally free to choose what they believe, and free to conduct their own lives in accordance with their own religious views.
When a second person is not yet present, the term murder is inapplicable. What is being murdered when someone argues otherwise is constitutional law and logic.
States have imposed restrictions that set time limits based on the possibility of viability outside the womb which have withstood constitutional scrutiny. That strikes me as being generally reasonable, though I believe exceptions should be made based on serious medical issues.
@Greg: Greggie, like the right to life??
@Common Sense, #31:
When no thinking, feeling person yet exists, a constitutional right to be one doesn’t yet exist either.
Pro-lifers are wanting to legally mandate that every fertilized egg must be allowed to become a person. What is their reasoning? It will probably come done to some particular religious belief.
So far as I know, all of the republican presidential hopefuls support such a legal mandate. That runs counter to my understanding of our constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religion.
@Greg: There is nothing that I know of mentioned in the bible about abortion, now quit trying to slime out of the question When is it a baby?
And if it isnt a human then why do liberals think its so horrible to chuck a baby in a dumpster, but not to snip its spinal cord as it emerges?
@Greg:
When is the moment that the embryo becomes what you consider a “person”? What is the moment that it is no longer safe to dispose of an unwanted blob of sells and an actual death occurs?
@kitt, #33 & @Bill, #34:
I’ve answered that question, in post #30. Before organized higher brain activity is present, no one is at home. There is not yet a person. There is still only a potential that a person will come into being. As a practical matter, the point at which life can be maintained independent of the mother’s body has often been taken by the law to be a significant consideration. To me that seems reasonable, in the absence of unusual medical situations.
@Greg:
I dont think my ideas are fanciful I have experienced 2 full term pregnancies, when I wanted no more children precautions were taken.
The eighth week of pregnancy is a special one, because at this point the precursors to all organs have been formed. Philosophers therefore argue that with the beginnings of a brain, the fetus now has the ability to think and react, and that marks the onset of life.
or
Those same groups which argue against the week 8 model suggest that life begins with the “quickening,” which is when the fetus begins to exhibit voluntary movement inside the womb, usually around 14-16 weeks. At this point the fetus is able to react to external stimuli, which is held as the standard for life.
At the tail-end of trimester two, your little one’s brainstem (heart rate, breathing, blood pressure) is almost entirely mature, resting just above the spinal cord but below the cerebral cortex (the last area to mature). By now, the fetal nervous system is developed enough so your baby is startled by loud noises outside the womb — and may even turn his head toward the sound of your voice! Another exciting development: At 28 weeks, fetal brainwave activity features sleep cycles, including REM (the stage when dreaming occurs).They are also harvested for parts and sold by PP
That is not what has been happening at all. If one disapproves of abortion, the slanderous distortions pitched by Center for Medical Progress have done far more harm than good.
This comment on the topic, from the New England Journal of Medicine, clearly states what that harm is.
They don’t tend to take positions for political reasons. Politics is not their main concern.
They also said this.
Here’s the entire statement the New England Journal of Medicine issued in response to the Center for Medical Progress video.
The Center for Medical Progress video was pitching lies and deliberate distortions, plain and simple. Every state that has investigated their allegations about Planned Parenthood has reached that same conclusion. Their credibility rating at this point should be somewhere close to zero.
@Greg: Greggie your criteria makes you eligible to be aborted, you haven’t had any original thought ever!!
@Greg: When is that point Greggie!! Demoncrats including Obola won’t even support prevention of 3rd trimester abortions!! Talk about sick!!
@Greg: What about right to life Greggie?? Where do you stand on 3rd trimester abortions Greggie?? Beating hearts, brains, and proven over and over again to be viable!!
@Greg: So them speaking on tape how they could alter the method of abortion to prevent damaging the desired parts does that not mean they become expert at the craft. Planned Parenthood, after the videos came out, announced that it would stop taking money for fetal tissue. What a racket charge for the abortion then sell the pieces. Why does a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization reporting approximately $125 million in revenue over expenses annually need a subsidy from the American taxpayer?
@kitt: There is a lot wrong in this country—-the people who went after PP have been indicted–they are zealots who went over the line—I personally oppose abortion with life of the mother. rape and incest as exceptions
I also oppose zealots wherever they appear.
The main reason I am against Trump
Off subject—how do you feel about the brutal slaughter of sentient non human animals? FACTORY FARMING
@Rich Wheeler: Yes zealots, but exposed the factory slaughter of babies.
There are horrible factory farms, abuse of animals is rampant at them. How far we gone from raising our own food. Small family farms are going extinct. My uncle owns a AAAGrade dairy farm, he raises his own heifers, the cows spend long lazy days grazing, and each are curried when milked, cats run the barn keeping out the mice. The family dog not only brings in the cows but provides family protection. His milking herd is less than 100 head. They are not pets they are a business, but he tells me they each have their own personality, they dont have names they have numbers. They dont raise their calves the babies are bottle fed, the best stay at the farm the rest go to market.
To feed large a population the factory farms have their place, the lives of these animals is not like the family cat or dog. That does not mean I give up meat, I love a good steak, bacon and chicken. There is no excuse for the workers at these farms to abuse the animals, they should be fired. No one would know of the animal abuse if a zealot didn’t go to the farm and film it. The shouldn’t receive subsidies either.
@kitt:You make some good points—however we are not talking abuse at farms but at factory farms and slaughter houses where these sentient beings—pigs for instance are smarter than dogs, familial etc–are mercilessly and painfully slaughtered in the dark of night. Same think with cows—after years of being ARTIFICIALLY INSEMINATED by painfull methods ie a metal stick or full arm inserted in the vagin to produce milk–after birth male babies are torn from the mothers starved and slaughtered for veal within six weeks The mother’s fate after daily milking is the slaughter house
You know the drill on chickens—male chicks ground up alive.
If you get a chance watch farm to fridge.
@Rich Wheeler: Rich, I was born and raised in a farming community. I also worked on the Kill Floor at Iowa Beef Plant between high school and college. Does that make me some kind of zealot? My twins where delivers via C Section in their third trimester and lived. Would have been OK if we elected to abort them because we didn’t want them? Believe it or not there are people who elect to abort for that very reason. Is this acceptable because they would have died without treatment in the hospital? Just trying to get a read on your position here.
@Common Sense: I am against abortion with exceptions noted.
I am against the slaughter of ALL sentient beings. KISS
that’s it Doc.
@Greg:
Hmmm…. this could certainly describe some of those walking among us (and voting Democrat instinctively).
Since the left refuses to acknowledge the foundation of Planned Parenthood, it comes as no surprise that they would not acknowledge that however they regard the embryo and fetus of a pregnancy, there is definitely a time when a life, by every definition of the word, exists. Since they celebrate the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, as a great woman, one Hillary is in “awe” of, felt it her right to decide who has a right to live and who doesn’t (predominately based or race), understandable they would arbitrarily decide that it is proper to destroy such life right up to the day of delivery… and sell the parts.
So you deviate from the widely accepted support by the left of late term abortion, even up to the final day… or am I being presumptive? If so, how would you describe the late term abortion process when not necessitated by medical emergency?
I am not an anti-abortion zealot, though I ethically oppose it as a means of birth control. However, late term abortion is barbaric and, except in circumstances I mentioned, should be considered murder. The fact that money can be made from it should be inconsequential.
@Rich Wheeler:
Painfully? They are usually slaughtered with one blow to the skull, either a pneumatic or electric gun; painless. Mercy? What do you want, an apology to the pig? They are FOOD. This is what they were bred for. Just like energy, health care and gun control, the left seems intent on making certain things so expensive that either those in poverty are denied or the services have to be heavily subsidized. Your misguided concerns would do the same for food.
@Bill: Do not concur. I am vegan -70 years old -no meds–don’t consume animals–no need.Why kill any sentient being, be it dog, as they do in some countries or a cow or pig, to satisfy our taste?-Compassion over killing–that’s why like you I also oppose abortion–pretty simple really
BTW –I eat great–I’m strong and healthy lift weights–and best—I don’t consume violence.
See Farm To Fridge
World Peace Diet
Enjoy Super Bowl AND N.H Primaries–I see Trump 30 Rubio (our next Prez)-18 Cruz-14 Bush 12 Kasich 11 Christie 6–drops out Carson 5 Fiorina 4. On to S.C.
Bernie 62 HRC 38
@Rich Wheeler:
As it happens, I am NOT a vegan and do not share your views. Kill em and eat em, I say. It’s what they are for.
@Rich Wheeler: All calves are taken from the mother not just the males, all are bottle fed not starved, that includes the veal calves. Starving the veal calves would stunt the growth they are sold by the pound, would starving them make economic sense? You are recommending a movie made by zealots which you say you dont like.
Food production when it comes to animals isn’t pretty not everyone can farm, but we all have to eat.
Hillary still has lots of time this year to blurt out bigger lies.