Hillary Clinton makes Bob McDonnell look like a chump

The Washington Post ^ | 7-11-15 | Jennifer Rubin

[afraidfortherepublic]

The Post reports, “A federal appeals panel court on Thursday unanimously affirmed the public corruption convictions against former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell, writing in an 89-page opinion that the onetime Republican rising star ‘received a fair trial and was duly convicted by a jury of his fellow Virginians.'” Of most relevance and interest to other pols, McDonnell’s attorneys argued he had not performed any “official acts” in exchange for bribes. The court nixed that complaint:

The appeals court panel disagreed, asserting that the government had “exceeded its burden” of proof on the topic of official acts. The opinion cited three particular ways in which McDonnell tried to use his office to help Williams: trying to get researchers to study Williams’s product, Anatabloc; trying to the state tobacco commission to fund studies of an ingredient in his product; and trying to get Anatabloc included in the health insurance plan for state employees.

So a mere favor for a donor, even to move along the bureaucracy, can be an official act. In that case, Hillary Clinton’s e-mails — both the destroyed ones and the ones turned over — raise the question: Why is McDonnell going to jail and Clinton going on the presidential trail?

[afraidfortherepublic]

for your list.

[Mobties]

Cuff her, Danno.

[fella]

Their cases are as totally different as the letters D and R.

[WHBates]

"Hillary Clinton’s e-mails — both the destroyed ones and the ones turned over — raise the question: Why is McDonnell going to jail and Clinton going on the presidential trail?

That's really a pretty silly question. Is anybody really stumped by this? This has got to be the most corrupt administration ever in our long history of corrupt and incompetent Democrat administrations. Are we really any different that most all banana republics, maybe it's always been this way and it just was never so obvious. The only time we see any public officials being held accountable, at all, is during Republican administrations. We really don't have an accountable government so must as an oligarchy kept in power by an elite incompetent bureaucracy to who our laws don't apply.

[Theodore R.]

McDonnell would have been better served if he had carried out his conservative commitments. He might even be senator today had he done so. Maybe not; it is VA.

[Theodore R.]

An oligarchy with the huge support of the American people

[FR_addict]

It doesn’t help that the Bushs treat the Clintons as family. They are actively supporting the Clintons for some reason. Republicans are being sent the message that “there’s nothing to see, move along please.”

[WHBates]

"An oligarchy with the huge support of the American people

Well when you have an unaccountable, elitist, incompetent and corrupt bureaucracy and press it's certainly not hard to make it appear that there is huge support of the American people.

[Vic S]

Hillary Clinton 2016

Prison or POTUS ???