School me on Hilary Clinton (Page 4)

I think Trump and Carson are great examples of social media influence.  Facebook, twitter, youtube, instagram are all free and extremely powerful.  Obviously Trump has a ton of money, but neither of them are spending a penny on advertising because they can get their message out to just as many people for free.  The big special interest folks dump money into campaigns so they can spend money on advertising, but thew advertising world has changed significantly over the past decade.

I totally get where Jackemy1 is coming from and agree that we have to allow the big dollars, but I still don't like it.  I also think that due to the social media climate the power of the big dollar in politics has been diminished.   Bush can spend $100M on an add campaign running it on every station in the country and Trump can send out a quick tweet to a youtube for free to successfully rebut it.  10 years ago, the defending candidate would have to have the $ to counter big dollar ads with their own big dollar ads.  If they didn't have the money then they didn't compete.

Twitter is the home of the illiterate, gullible, and dumb.....and if you use it and one of those traits does not describe you, stand by.....you'll inherit at least one just by going there and using it as a source of information. 

Now, get off my lawn.

I use twitter...  what are you trying to say?  lol

I think it's fine for play......but it's now morphed into what many consider a "news source".  That' some of the dumbest crap in the history of dumb crap. 

For the record...I don't think you're dumb, and you're certainly not illiterate.....so.........  

The country is always anti-establishment a year before an election. There's nothing at stake so we can vent about what a horrible job Washington is doing. It's why Ron Paul was able to poll so well in 2007 and 2011. But once the primaries start nearing, the attitude will change from who do we really like to who has the best chance to beat our opponent. And once that happens, people like Trump, Carson, and Sanders will all fade away and we'll be left with Bush/Clinton or some other rank and file Rep/Dem candidates.

That's why a third party candidate will never have a chance. The two parties have bamboozled the country in to embracing the whole 'us against them' mentality. I really thought Libertarians had a chance in 2012 to make a dent in the election (not win, but get enough votes to receive campaign financing for 2016). But in the end, people from both sides who supported libertarian ideas were too afraid of throwing their vote away, so they voted against the guy they hated.

that's bad... OK, I laughed, but it's still bad.  lol

Could you imagine another Kerry Bush election... 

edit... woops, posted the hanging chad guy, but that was bush/gore.  oops, i must be getting old

I know it was bad...but it was low hanging fruit....it was too easy

let the crow eating begin

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-leader-accidentally-tells-the-truth-about-benghazi-committee

I came to this thread to post the same thing.  Yes- Kevin McCarthy (the GOPs next Speaker), has admitted what we all already knew.  That the Benghazi hearings were all about just tarnishing the image of Clinton.  It's simply a smear campaign at taxpayer expense.  

When I've brought up stuff like this in the past on other political forums, my right wing counterparts basically said, 'yup, that's fair game'.  We're in control and we get to use the government any way we want."  Basically, I got nobody on the right to admit that this was in any way immoral or inappropriate.  That it's just all part of the political game.

Just wondering- are my conservative friends here OK with using the power of a majority in congress, to use the legislative body they control to intentionally smear a political candidate?  There have already been seven investigations, 13 hearings, 50 briefings, and 25,000 pages of documents have been released on the subject.  After the initial investigations resulted in a clear report with a couple dozen actions, all of which Clinton accepted, this has been nothing but a politically motivated smear.  It serves absolutely no purpose other than to generate negative sounding press against an opponent.

Go ahead.  Please share your morality with us.

Not sure if it's a moral thing, but I think the Republicans have beat the Benghazi horse so much that it makes them look stupid at this point.  So, no I don't think it's appropriate.  There's not a person who doesn't know already that we screwed up in Benghazi by not recognizing the security threat that there was.  We also didn't do very well responding during the events that led to the ambassadors death.  The administration did it's best to try and spin the story which backfired on them somewhat.  End of discussion.

I completely agree that the Republicans are trying to continue the witch hunt for political reasons at this point.  I also feel that it's so obvious that it's backfiring on them from a political standpoint.

On a positive note, I will say that I'd rather the lawmakers were doing this than passing more bills to spend more money we don't have on stupid stuff.  So there is a silver lining.  

You know, once somebody on either side of the isle starts talking about "inappropriate and immoral" I just quit listening.  Neither side has a corner on that market.

Seriously, that's just lame.   Point out that it's wrong and move on without the commentary about what anyone needs to consider immoral or inappropriate.....that's the exact point where stupid starts.

bullchit LB.  The conservatives make a huge (or as trump says YUUUUUGE) deal out of crap, when they are exposed to have wasted tax dollars on furthering their own political ends, we get to call them the eff out.  When you run on a platform of so called fiscal responsibility, you should be HARSHLY criticized and dragged through the trail of BS that you've left when you do this.

You're missing my point.  Tell me out what you think is right or wrong and save me from the "moral good people".....that's a forking joke. I'll take the information and evaluate it for myself.  Make no mistake, both sides are just as guilty.  I'm not taking sides......because like I said, once someone starts trying to stand on a platform or morality and appropriateness I just start laughing and stop listening.