Democrats should ask Clinton to step aside

Chicago Tribune ^ | October 29, 2016 | John Kass

[MichaelCorleone]

“I didn’t think I would live to see the day when Hillary Clinton’s hometown paper turns on her like this.”

I guess saying she’s proud that the Cubs are in the Super Bowl didn’t go over well in Chi-town.

[LucyT]

[grey_whiskers]

It's not the editorial board; it is one writer; and he gets mocked for it in the comments.

Nonetheless, like reading Pravda of old, one may infer from this which way the winds are blowing: it is a Chicao paper, which is Obama's adopted home town (after where-ever-the-hell-in-Indonesia), and in Chicago NOTHING gets done that isn't okayed...so this may be a trial balloon by the Chicago machine to decide if they can push her out entirely.

There has never been any love lost between the Obamas and the Clintons.

[volunbeer]

This is just a sidebar issue.

Where to the hell is Carville, Begala, and Icies?

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They are still steering the good ship S.S. Corruption

[justa-hairyape]

The Never Trumpers are Hillary. They covered for her and they encouraged her. In fact, she implemented their foriegn policy for them. They all are the Corruptocrats. Corrupt to the core and unsalvageable. That is what Globalism and it’s ideals do to national politicians. It corrupts them against their own nation.

[rfp1234]

Yeah, being the Democrats they’d probably go for another “historic” candidate. The first nonagenarian President!

[CivilWarBrewing]

Hillary OWNS ALL OF THEM, INCLUDING COMEY. This is the problem from day one, about 30ish years ago. She lures them into her lucrative money-laundering profits, THEN BLACKMAILS THEM TO STAY ABOARD HER SHIP.

THEY CAN'T LEAVE. Vince Foster tried, and he was made an example of what happens to mutineers.

[grey_whiskers]

...she’s accepted tens of millions in bribes and influence peddling dollars from some of the shadiest, most dangerous people on the planet.

If she and her husband don’t deliver the White House to them, they’re toast. Literally.

The cognitive dissonance if Hillary is found to have committed suicide by multiple gunshots to the back of the head, in, say, Fort Marcy Park, or to have accidentally been asphyxiated by a barbell crushing her windpipe, will be *almost* as much fun as the internecine battles within the Dem party which will follow from it (Bill is old and as sick as Hilary; Obama is still young and spry).

[rfp1234]

The Torch is alive, and only 65.

[Repeal 16-17]

Nonetheless, like reading Pravda of old, one may infer from this which way the winds are blowing: it is a Chicago paper, which is Obama's adopted home town (after where-ever-the-hell-in-Indonesia), and in Chicago NOTHING gets done that isn't okayed...so this may be a trial balloon by the Chicago machine to decide if they can push her out entirely.

If the Chicago Tribune disagreed with this writer, this op-ed would never have been published. The Tribune agrees with him, but doesn't have the guts to make this editorial officially that of the paper's editorial board.

[matthew fuller]

Holy Crap, Batman, that’s her hometown newspaper!

[Talisker]

This is a needle indicating an earthquake.

[Kickass Conservative]

A guy I know on Fakebook keeps posting stuff from a Hillary lover / Trump hater.

Used to be one of my Vendors and we were pretty tight way back when.

I’m waiting to be unfriended since I ALWAYS eviscerate the guy he links to. Already had an old coworker send me to the Cornfield because I am obviously a Bad Man. LOL

[rdl6989]

This speaks volumes.

[Talisker]

If this article was from sixteen years ago, it would be pertinent. But they couldn't bring themselves to ask her to step aside when she took a $100,000 bribe laundered through the cattle futures market, when she tried to turn the White House into her own personal piggy bank by firing the Travel Office Personnel and then lying about it, when she sent thugs out to threaten the lives and destroy the reputations of any woman who accused Bill Clinton for his history of sexual harassment and assault, when she refused to provide evidence demanded by a subpoena for two years, when she and her husband got hold of hundreds of unredacted FBI files on their various enemies... Her thirty years of "public service" have been a history of failure and corruption which she has parlayed into a quarter of a billion dollars in her own personal fortune through racketeering, influence peddling and pay-to-play schemes. And now they want her out? Now?!

Exactly right, Fred. Which is why the real question is, what the HELL just happened behind the scenes?

[Billthedrill]

This is dorm talk. We've 10 days until the election and there is no way on God's green earth that Hillary will be prevailed upon to willingly give up on her life's goal this close to the finish, and, worse, with her media allies telling her she's a slam-dunk for the victory. That's the downside to believing your own propaganda.

She has one chance, only one, and that is to create a media hate-storm sufficient to drown out the groaning of her sinking ship. And she has one very powerful argument in favor of staff solidarity: somebody will go down for this or she's going to be spending the next four years dodging bullets. Someone will be sacrificed so they can pretend closure, and not with a slap on the wrist. Serious prison time. And they know how she works, and it will be whoever she figures it needs to be up to and including BJ Billy himself, who would be wise not to take out any long-term magazine subscriptions even now. If Tony Weiner hasn't found a safe house in Uzbekistan by now it may already be too late.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Dead tired, just like the last time you posted that.

[Enchante]

wrong, this is one conservative columnist, he does not speak for the Chicago Tribune

I wish ppl would learn the difference between one op-ed writer and the editorial board and/or publisher of a newspaper.

[pepsi_junkie]

"Interesting. A certain group of dems seem to think this whole event is being perceived as a witch-hunt..."

Well, she is a witch...

[Enchante]

It is ONE conservative columnist. Most papers have a token, it doesn’t mean anything about the editorial board or the paper as a whole.