The Unaccountable Clinton

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Real Clear Politics:

Hillary Clinton’s email scandal lingers as new emails pop up unexpectedly, she is less trusted than her opponent in many polls, she hasn’t held a press conference since before the primary elections and now new revelations -- in more new emails -- have called into question just how closely intertwined her tenure as secretary of state was to donors at the Clinton Foundation.

 

To mitigate the damage Clinton plans nothing but continued attacks against Donald Trump.

 

Standard Hillary Operating Procedure hasn’t changed. After all, bad news can stink, it can stun, it can outrage and overwhelm the news cycle, but Clinton is always loath to lance the boil. So despite even Democrats now calling for the Clinton family to shutter their problematic foundation should she become president -- something that could dilute Trump’s offensive against it -- no one should hold their breath.

 

An Associated Press story from Tuesday revealed that more than half of the non-government visitors who went to Mrs. Clinton while she ran the State Department had donated to the Clinton Foundation. Although Bill Clinton had already said he would step down from the foundation if his wife wins the White House, and that foreign donations to the group would no longer be accepted, the story panicked Democrats and electrified Republicans. The Clinton campaign reacted by unleashing its surrogates to impugn the AP story, and by having the foundation announce not only would Chelsea Clinton stay on as a board member but the largest project under the charity’s umbrella -- the Clinton Health Access Initiative -- would likely continue accepting foreign and corporate donations.

 

Clinton does defiance, denial and deflection but not accountability. Her persecution complex prohibits it, so she instead projects all sorts of terrible deeds onto unknown, even fictional Republicans, whom she has held responsible over the years for everything from her husband’s sexual affair with an unpaid White House intern to an Obama administration investigation into her rogue email server. And when situations call for specifics, like in an FBI interview, well it’s fair game to throw good people like Colin Powell under the bus.

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It's all catching up to her now, but will any of it ever stick?

[Draggingtree]

Colin Powell lies down with snakes and wonders why he got bit

 

By DrJohn 1 Comment Wed, Sep, 14th, 2016

A year ago Colin Powell stated that he is still a Republican and was remaining a Republican only to annoy conservatives:

 

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell joked that he identifies as a Republican to annoy the GOP’s right-wing.

 

“Yes, I’m still a Republican,” he said about his party affiliation during the Washington Ideas Forum in Washington, D.C., according to the Daily Mail.

“I want to continue to be a Republican because it annoys them,” Powell quipped to host Walter Isaacson.

 

For a guy who is supposed to be fairly intelligent Powell is mentally lax in conflating legal and illegal immigration:

 

“I think most Republicans understand that we need immigration, we are an immigrant nation [and that] it is in our best interest to do it,” he said.

“But there are pockets of intolerance within the Republican Party [and] the Republican Party had better figure out how to defeat that.”

http://www.floppingaces.net/2016/09/14/colin-powell-lies-down-with-snakes-and-wonders-why-he-got-bit/