Hillary Clinton

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Karen_J, Oct 1, 2015.

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  1. Meliai

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    Hillary will continue on with typical American foreign policy, which is hawkish by nature

    Who knows what Trump will try to do, however he doesn't have very much congressional support even among Republicans so there's always that. Yay, checks and balances
     
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  2. pensfan13

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    just because trump is the biggest hawk around dosnt make cliton less of a hawk.

    did anyone see her say she is raising taxes on the middle class? probly just enough to make everyone except the rich to be poor.
    people actually cheered that. i mean its a dream to be poor and hope to be rich.
    but it is realistic to be poor and become middle class, now these poor people have nothing but dreams of moving up in the world, and are happy about it.
     
  3. MeAgain

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    Yeah, nothing there. As usual.

    Here's her tax plan.
     
  4. newbie-one

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    No, I am unconcerned with the question of whether ACORN was bad or wrong, which I've already stated. It is not my point that Breitbart and Peter Schweizer are infallible sources, or any other nonsense that I haven't said that you would like to claim is my position.

    Let me break this down:

    You made the following statement
    That statement insinuates the following argument:

    1. Peter Schweizer's criticism of HRC can be discredited, because he writes for Breitbart

    2. Breitbart can be discredited, because they released the ACORN videos

    3. The ACORN videos can be discredited because they "wrongly accused ACORN of misdeeds"

    Therefor if one can reasonably conclude that the ACORN videos rightly demonstrated misdeeds by ACORN staff, your argument collapses.

    My point is that one can reasonably conclude that ACORN was rightly accused of misdeeds, and therefor your argument is invalid.

    That one can reasonably conclude that ACORN was rightly accused of misdeeds is supported by the following evidence:

    From wikipedia:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy

    ...and since your keen on the "five investigations" which you suggest "know all the facts", here's a link to a PDF of a report from the California Office of the Attorney General about ACORN and the videos
    https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/n1888_acorn_attachments.pdf

    ...which corroborates the validity of the quotes from wikipedia above.


    The five investigations made no claim to knowing "all the facts". Your claim is unsubstantiated, and therefor your argument is invalid.

    Further, the investigations were about prosecutable offenses, not "misdeeds". I've already made that point.


    Your statement was that Breitbart "wrongly accused ACORN of misdeeds". Prosecutable offenses and "misdeeds" are not necessarily the same thing.

    If you would like to argue that it can not reasonably be considered a "misdeed" for a government-funded organization to give advice on how to run an underage prostitution ring and evade detection by the police, please do. That way I can have a good laugh and be done with this tedious argument.

    The video indicated that ACORN staffers gave advice on various aspects of running an underage prostitution ring, which in fact, they did.

    What it comes down to is that you insinuated that criticism of HRC should be dismissed out of hand, because the guy who wrote it writes for Breitbart, and we should dismiss Breitbart because they "wrongly accused ACORN of misdeeds". I have argued successfully that one can reasonably conclude that Breitbart rightly accused ACORN of misdeeds. Therefor we can not dismiss either Breitbart or Peter Schweizer out of hand on that basis.

    The five investigations did not investigate Breitbart's legitimacy as news organization, your statement is false.

    I made no particular claim about the Clinton Cash video.

    When I responded to 6ES's video that suggested that HRC had a seizure on camera, I noted that according to Snopes, the accusation was unsubstantiated. Much to his credit, 6ES did not belabor the point, or accuse me of being an HRC supporter, or any other nonsense that I didn't say.
     
  5. MeAgain

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    First, let me congratulate you on doing research..not much of that around here.

    As to my argument, let me rephrase it backwards:

    The ACORN videos can be discredited because they "wrongly accused ACORN of misdeeds".
    Breitbart released the videos, therefore they can not be trusted as a valid news service.
    Peter Schweizer also posted a video on Breitbart, and since Breitbart can not be trusted as a valid news service, the Schweizer video is also suspect.

    So first let's assume that ACORN was completely guilty of everything that the video claimed, which they aren't. Now I'll even use guilty to mean "they done wrong" not in a criminal manner but based on someone's morals.

    ​My argument does not collapse as you have left out important factors.
    First Breitbart didn't know what was in the video, by his own admission...yet he posted it anyway.
    Second he did no cross checking of facts.
    ​Third he had a vendetta against ACORN
    Fourth the video was intentionally edited to make ACORN look bad, whether they were "wrong" or not.

    Anyone of these factors disqualified Breitbart as a valid news service and therefore makes the Peter Schweizer video suspect.

    Gotta go. I'll continue later.
     
  6. MeAgain

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    Alright...I'm back. So let me think this out.

    You're unconcerned whether ACORN was right or wrong.
    You're not claiming that Breitbart (the site) or Schwartz are infallible news sources. Whatever infallible means, I take it to mean you are not concerned that Breitbart (the man) or Schwartz are not real journalist or that they have (had) an agenda in relation to ACORN and Clinton.

    Then you attempt to demonstrate that ACORN was in fact wrong, even though you don't care. Even including a long reference and claiming that the investigation never claimed to know all the facts (which I agree no investigation ever can, I should have said they knew more facts than I believe you do).

    Then you point out that the investigations were about prosecutable offenses,not "misdeeds". But before you claimed you weren't concerned whether ACORN was right or wrong.So I don't understand your point here. Why are we even talking about whether ACORN was right or wrong if you don't care?

    Then again you point out that I used the term misdeeds in a criminal way and you are using it as a moral judgement, even though you don't care. See above.

    Then you proceed to say that advice on running a prostitution ring is illegal, when it was found not to be, as you stated above in your argument (it's wrong but not illegal). That was Breitbart's argument which was found to be erroneous.

    Next you claim that even though the Breitbart site has been found to be posting questionable stuff, we shouldn't question the Clinton Cash video "out of hand". Which I didn't. I included a site which listed the inaccuracies in the Clinton Cash video and reviews of the book itself. So I didn't dismiss it out of hand.

    I could go on...but I'm really at a loss as to what you are arguing here.

    Is the Clinton Cash video true or not?
     
  7. pensfan13

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    Those plans are all to get votes. When it's time to actually make shit happened things always change. And that's not a comment against clinton. That's against every president that has been in office since I been alive.
     
  8. newo

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    Ever since the conventions ended Trump's been in a downward spiral. I feel more confident now that he won't get elected, but I know Hillary could still blow it. Four years of Hillary. Hmmm. I hope we don't spend those years comforting ourselves by saying, "Well Trump would have been worse!"
     
  9. 6-eyed shaman

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    Haha how will Trump react to this news after the things he said? Yes I can laugh at all this as it isn't my country's politics. What a bunch of clowns on either 'side'!
     
  11. MeAgain

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    Man, another post with a dubious 'news' source from 6-eyed... Should have known better.
     
  13. 6-eyed shaman

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    I have yet to see concrete evidence that it was the Russians.
    So until I see the concrete evidence, Putin's involvement is still a baseless conspiracy theory.
     
  14. newbie-one

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    What Snopes claims to have discredited is that Seth Rich was en route to a meeting with the FBI when he was killed.

    It confirms, however, that he was killed without an apparent robbery motive (his watch, money, phone, and other possessions were not taken).

    Whether Seth Rich was the wikileaks source or not has not been established. He was a low-level staffer, yet Asange seems to have taken a particular interest in discovering who his killer was.
     
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    In an interview, Asange discounted the idea that the Russians were responsible.

    While he asserted that wikileaks never reveals its sources, he pointed out that the DNC has been hacked multiple times. He also claimed that wikileaks possessed documents that post-dated all known hacks of the DNC, including the hack by the Russians.

    He also noted that the Clinton people/DNC has not identified their so-called expert source linking wikileaks to the Russians.
     
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  16. Meliai

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    Seth Rich isn't the only person with Clinton connections to die under mysterious circumstances in the last couple of months

    I've never paid attention to the Clinton death trail conspiracy before, but the recent deaths are odd.
     
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  17. Asmodean

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    Of course, but same counts for your source. It's not concrete evidence. It works both ways. People should mind what they read and use as their source, and of course ideally also use some nuance in the comments accompanying their links. If it's not certain at all why pose it as such?
     
  18. 6-eyed shaman

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    Because my source has enough substantial evidence to back it up. Whereas the only evidence Hillary supporters have that Putin hacked the email server is the notion that he and Trump get along.
     
  19. Asmodean

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    So it is certain and your source is what made it certain? I thought it wasn't.
     
  20. 6-eyed shaman

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    Lets just say Julian Assange has been a more credible source of information than Snopes or Slate.com
     
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