Ok, so on my way out the door I grabbed Hitchens' book on the Clintons and I've only gotten through the preface and half of the first chapter and I'm already more disgusted with them than I had ever been before.

dirtyplotte, I highly recommend you read it.

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That was a great article.

well that's a hyperbolic and inaccurate statement on so many levels. it completely (conveniently) ignores a lot of the other statements i made. just because i disagree with you on some issues does not mean you have to polarize my opinion. that's a misrepresentation in itself.

my main message is: question every rumor. to question it is not to say that it's false.

This is exactly it.

Anyone who runs for the highest political office in the country successfully is going to have an ego. Leaders govern/rule people. So having a high opinion of oneself would naturally go with the nature of running for office.

In the course of competing for the position in either a democracy or a republic, the leader must win the favor of the voters, which means you must be able to manipulate the opinion of the populace. You can accomplish that through charm and wit, or discrediting your opponent, or various combinations of that. It seems that the Clinton campaign, particularly in recent weeks has unfortunately resorted to the latter approach -- but they're getting what they deserve for that behavior by losing in South Carolina.

I see nothing wrong with discrediting an opponent. But doing it with lies and insults (no matter how subtle) is down right nasty.

I should clarify, insults based on things beyond your control, such as race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. You can insult someone's record all you like and then it's up to the rest to make informed decisions on it.

__________________
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."

"I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. "

-from the goddess that is Anaïs Nin