Posted on 07/09/2015 3:01:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Trustworthiness is a tricky thing in politics, a label that everyone demands but no one fully deserves.
So one must be careful not to pass too harsh a judgement on Hillary Clinton, for whom polls reveal a real perception problem when it comes to being honest or trustworthy. CNN’s national polling sample says 57% of Americans don’t think she is either. ABC News and the Wall Street Journal put that number at 52%.
In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton blamed the numbers on her political enemies.
Then she proceeded to demonstrate why voters may not ultimately come down on her side. While casting herself as the victim of false smears, she mischaracterized the circumstances surrounding her handling of records kept in a private email server Secretary of State.
How did Clinton get it all so wrong? Her campaign has not volunteered a response. But it is clear that she was recounting her email story as part of a larger effort to portray herself as a victim of political enemies. “This is being blown up with no basis in law or in fact. That’s fine. I get it,” she told CNN. “This is being, in effect, used by the Republicans in the Congress, OK. But I want people to understand what the truth is.”
There is an irony here worthy of Shakespeare. In fighting back against what she sees as unfounded attacks, she threatens to become the thing her foes always accused her of being—not someone who can be seen as honest or trustworthy.
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“...So one must be careful not to pass too harsh a judgement on Hillary Clinton....”
How could that possibly happen? An undefined concept.
She has lost Time magazine.
The progs know she is damaged goods....
“In fighting back against what she sees as unfounded attacks, she threatens to become the thing her foes always accused her of being—not someone who can be seen as honest or trustworthy.”
No sale, Herr Spindoktor. Hillary has been untrustworthy for at least 50 years. Calling her 50 years of continous lying, cheating, and perfidy “threatening to become untrustworthy” is a BIG LIE.
But it is ironic that Michael Scherer is threatening to become untrustworthy through his mendacious pretense that Hillary is only “becoming” untrustworthy.
“Liar...Liar...pantsuit on fire!
lif is lik a bx of chclts... Nce ldy... I trist hr.
She's been following this mo for as long as I can remember. Unfortunately, she's been halfway successful at it.
Poor Killary... the victim.
Nothing is ever her fault. She’s like the little kid not doing well in school who tells her parents “the teacher doesn’t like me.”
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