Posted on 07/24/2016 6:47:24 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Hillary Clinton said Republicans have created a “Hillary standard” that has contributed to the negative impression many people have of her, giving her first joint interview with her newly announced running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine.
"I often feel like there's the Hillary standard and then there's the standard for everybody else," the presumptive Democratic nominee said in the interview on CBS News' "60 Minutes."
Clinton explained that there has been a "concerted effort" by Republicans to portray her in a negative light, and described the double standard she believes is set for her as “unfounded, inaccurate, mean-spirited attacks with no basis in truth, reality, which take on a life of their own."
Clinton also she will not respond to the repeated name-calling from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump or make a name for him, the way he calls her "Crooked Hillary.”
"I don't call him anything, and I'm not going to engage in that kind of insult-fest that he seems to thrive on," Clinton said. "So whatever he says about me, he's perfectly free to use up his own air time and his own space.”
Kaine chimed in to say that while Clinton is letting the "water go off her back on this," that's not the way he feels.
"When I see this, you know, 'Crooked Hillary,' or I see the, 'Lock her up,' it's just ridiculous. It is ridiculous," he said. "I just, you know, it is beneath the character of the kind of dialogue we should have. Because we got real serious problems to solve. And look, most of us stopped the name-calling thing about fifth grade."
Throughout their first joint interview, the two running mates appeared relaxed and at ease -– praising and encouraging each other.
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It’s the FBI that has the “Hillary Standard”.
“Crooked Hillary” is mild compared to what I call her!
LOL
she just loves to make herself seem so important -I’m starting to think she really has brain damage from seizures and falls
She certainly didn’t create it!
Crooked Hillary and Manny Kaine
The Democrat Felon running for president created her own crooked standard.
Kaine seems easy to get along with. Now, as for his running-mate,.....
“She who smelt it, dealt it.”
And people are catching on to that fact!
We sure do. And right now she's serious problem number one!
When the head of the FBI said you did it, but they would not recommend prosecution because there was no intent, but if another (regular) person did this they would be prosecuted there is a double standard.
You would have to be a total idiot to not figure this out.
The hitlery standard: the bar set for the limbo finals height.
It’s that darn, vast right-wing conspiracy, out to get Hellary, again.
This witch has never taken responsibility for her own failures.
It is like a smelly pile of dog excrement saying it really smells good, and trying to blame the dog for telling you that the pile smells bad......
I wish you prison Hitlery. You deserve it and more.
The old witch got it right
If there is a “Hillary Standard”, it would be complete absence of responsibility for any felony criminal acts or national security violations.
24 years. 24 YEARS we've had to suffer this miserable, dishonest, criminal crow. Of course, she's actually been making people miserable since at least the days of Watergate...
Those are seriously awful answers to interview questions. Seems to me that Hillary stating she’s held to a different standard is true, but most people hearing that won’t think she’s being held to a higher standard, but just the opposite.
To have your running mate just uttering the words “crooked Hillary” is a huge mistake. Those words just reinforce the impression that Trump has so successfully tagged her with.
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