American Politics the 2016 edition

Finnforest wrote: Nah, I honestly don't think many people expected charges, Scott.  Certainly some will feign outrage and act like they do, but I think most people expected it to end just this way.  A stern wrist slap about her lack of judgement on the matter, but no prosecution.  I cannot believe my country's major party choices in this election.  Both, are absolutely disgusting people to me.  Absolute embarrassment is what both parties should be feeling if they had any integrity.

I am in a leadership program at work wherein I have to attend monthly webinars.  Last Friday's webinar was regarding integrity and essentially the first thing that the instructor said was how low our integrity standards have come within the US and all that you have to do is look at the two political parties to see that these folks could definitely use a refresher course in what it means to have integrity.

I'm not the slightest bit surprised. The FBI's recommendation was absolutely appropriate: noting the carelessness (really they should all have known better) but absent criminal intent or ensuing harm criminal charges were not appropriate.

Given how many times that the IRS' website has been hacked and infiltrated, one wonders if it really would have been any safer to keep the emails and servers under government control.  I'm not sure who it was common knowledge to that she used separate servers.  I didn't know.  Maybe the Russians and Chinese did? 

Interestingly, while I agree that there was likely no criminal intent to share state secrets illegally with enemies of the state...that doesn't necessarily disprove that there wasn't intent (criminal or otherwise) to hide certain fundraising activities for certain Clinton foundations in exchange for favors.  (I'm not saying that this has or hasn't occurred, but I believe this to be the other "crooked" activity that she has been accused of). 

^  You can trace crooked politics a lot further back than 1960.

And like the first oldest profession it involves screwing people.

I had an escape plan incase the trash talking Trump is voted in as King of America, by the bigoted extremists, but that "escape plan country" seems to have gone the in the same direction. It's either total exclusion or globalization, and frankly, I'm too old for this nonsense. It's a sad state of affairs, but I hope that after Brexit, Americans will learn that votes do count and that everyone is aware of the stakes involved this time around.  

Oh yeah, I am sorry to say it but anyone who thought she would be indicted was delusional or just engaged in very wishful thinking. I'm not saying she should've been or anything, just was never happening regardless.

Edited by JJLehto - July 07 2016 at 02:10

47 people linked with the Clintons are dead, many just before testifying.

Good read, Brian....I would add that Mukasey's very public and different take from Comey is interesting. 

Btw I wanna say the Bill impeachment thing I don't hold against him and in fact, have always felt that was a shameful display of politics. Was it bad? Did he lie? Yes but c'mon...to try and impeach a PotUS over it?? Especially after so many big name GOPers had their own...sexual misgivings. How can we forget Mark Sanford? Or Newt, didn't he divorce his wife while she was in the hospital with cancer? Real family values to teach the kids there. So that's not really a scandal, nor is Benghazi to me. The emails are alot more questionable and disturbing, but yeah like I said it's been more $ tie scandals that have really disturbed me. This is rarely covered, and the GOP wont go there since they have their own $ ties of course

Edited by JJLehto - July 07 2016 at 11:27