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Hillary's Armor
Townhall.com ^ | May 6, 2015 | John Stossel

Posted on 05/06/2015 5:12:46 AM PDT by Kaslin

"This vast right-wing conspiracy," Hillary Clinton said, "has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced." That was the "feminist" first lady's response when her husband was accused of having sex with a 21-year-old.

Bill was more lawyerly. He said things like, "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is."

The Wall Street Journal's Kim Strassel suggests that the Clintons must have a Scandal Manual: "The standard operating procedure never changes."

Forty years ago, Hillary would have us believe that she wasn't just the wife of a man running for Arkansas governor -- she was a lucky or brilliant investor who in less than three weeks doubled her money. No, tripled! No, wait -- quadrupled ... no, actually, much more!

"Clinton made almost $100,000 in the cattle futures market," reported Tom Brokaw, and "many wondered whether that was a sweetheart deal arranged for the governor's wife."

Of course it was.

In less than three weeks, Hillary turned $1,000 into $16,427. "I don't understand how that could have possibly occurred," she said. "My husband and I missed the fact that we had actually made some money."

A hundred thousand dollars -- twice what her husband made as governor. Who remembers trivia like that?

That was around the time of the Whitewater scandal, in which friends of the Clintons got sweetheart land deals. Seven people went to jail, but not the Clintons. Their records disappeared.

Hillary came on "20/20." Barbara Walters asked her, "How did you get into this mess where your whole credibility is being questioned?"

Hillary answered sweetly, "I ask myself that every day, Barbara, because it's very surprising and confusing to me."

It is confusing to me, too.

Travelgate and Fostergate were also confusing, as is the Democrats' sudden indifference to a president getting oral sex from an intern, deaths in Benghazi and, most recently, violation of State Department email rules.

"It would've been better for me to use two separate phones and two email accounts," Hillary testified. "I thought using one device would be simpler."

Except it turned out she did use two devices: "iPhone, OK, in full disclosure, and a Blackberry."

She also said, "I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public."

Except that wasn't true either. She turned over only emails she claimed were relevant. The rest were wiped clean from her home server -- a private server government officials aren't supposed to use. Then she refused to give that server to a third party for an independent review.

Consequences? Punishment? No.

New revelations in the book "Clinton Cash" about the Clinton Foundation accepting billions from foreign governments and people doing business with our government brought out the same "Aw, shucks" replies from the Scandal Manual.

Bill told a reporter, "I asked Hillary about this, and she said, 'No one's ever tried to influence me.'"

Anyway, the Foundation money went to charity. Hillary said, "I am very proud of the work the Foundation does."

But what "work"? In 2013, a measly 9 percent of the money went to charity! Charity Navigator, the biggest charity rating service, won't even list the Clinton Foundation in its rankings. This is repulsive. If a Republican candidate ran a charity that did that, it would be a scandal. But the Clintons must be immune.

Brian Williams "misremembers" his helicopter coming under hostile fire and loses his job. But Hillary says, "I remember landing under sniper fire ... we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles." That was total fabrication, but when Hillary was caught, she just told reporters it was a "minor blip."

"I say a lot of things -- millions of words a day -- so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement."

Misstatement? I call it a self-promoting lie. But the Clintons are Teflon. In the presidential race, Betfair lists Hillary as the overwhelming favorite.

"Political language," George Orwell wrote, "is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clintoncrimefamily; hillary2016

1 posted on 05/06/2015 5:12:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

“Hillary would have us believe that she wasn’t just the wife of a man running for Arkansas governor...”

Killary is right. She is a “married cover” for a sexual fiend. And yet, the world’s smartest woman took all the affairs without a peep. Where was her feminist indignation?


2 posted on 05/06/2015 5:23:14 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Kaslin

Dorothy Parker would say of Hillary: “Everything she says is a lie, including “the” and “and”.


3 posted on 05/06/2015 5:25:32 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Kaslin
For liberals and increasingly for regular folks, there is no truth, there are no facts. Reality is different for different people. What people say about Mrs. Bill's perceived improprieties and what she says about them are simply different realities and Mrs. Bills reality is less sordid than that of her accusers so it is preferable and is accepted.

In the case of a traffic accident with witnesses who saw different aspects, causation can seem to be all he said/she said. With liberals, whether the accident happened at all is a matter of he said/she said.

4 posted on 05/06/2015 5:33:06 AM PDT by arthurus (it's true!)
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To: Kaslin

5 posted on 05/06/2015 5:34:10 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin
Fostergate...

Call me an eternal optimist, but I'm still hoping Vince Foster's murder is hung around the Clintons' necks.

6 posted on 05/06/2015 5:39:27 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Kaslin

It Takes a Crime Syndicate to Raze a Republic.

Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat

http://www.usdebtclock.org


7 posted on 05/06/2015 6:05:00 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Rockitz

or Ron Brown’s murder...

Or the assorted Arkansas “suicides”...


8 posted on 05/06/2015 6:08:20 AM PDT by LadyBuck (....and we're off to the rodeo......)
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To: Kaslin

I’m surprised that she has not gone on Oprah or “The View” in order to soften her image and kiss up to the Peg Bundy types who watch that garbage and would believe every last thing she’d tell to the cameras.


9 posted on 05/06/2015 6:08:30 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: Kaslin
Anyone who has the slightest inclination to do anything that will add to the Killary's treasure chest (including being POTUS) should read these two books first. Both are by Barbara Olsen, an incredibly talented Conservative that died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks when the plane she was on crashed into the Pentagon:

Hell to Pay, published in 1999

and

The Final Days, published posthumously on Oct 1, 2001.

Yes, these books are ancient history, written well over a decade ago. But Killary's MO was established even then. Read these books and compare her criminality back then with her criminality now. Little difference.

With Killary, you always get a criminal.

10 posted on 05/06/2015 6:55:17 AM PDT by upchuck (The current Federal Government is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V)
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To: LadyBuck

...and the list goes on.


11 posted on 05/06/2015 6:59:14 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Kaslin
"Clinton made almost $100,000 in the cattle futures market," reported Tom Brokaw, and "many wondered whether that was a sweetheart deal arranged for the governor's wife."

Only fools in the press 'wondered' - the rest of us knew it was corruption ....

12 posted on 05/06/2015 7:56:06 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Rewarding the angriest and most violent made the Middle East unstable"...Baltimore too. -D.G.)
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To: Kaslin

Hillary Clinton said, “has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced ————————

That was actually from the Today Show way back in 1998, long before the intern.


13 posted on 05/06/2015 6:25:03 PM PDT by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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