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Question for Hillary
“Mrs. Clinton, you have been a feminist, and a champion of women’s rights and issues for as long as any of us can remember.
“Given that you have intimate, painful, personal experience of the effect on a man’s reputation and career of a woman’s false report of sexual assault, do you think it’s time for feminists to admit that ‘crying rape’ is a real phenomenon? Shouldn’t we tighten the rules of evidence for a woman’s claims of sexual assault, and punish those who abuse the criminal justice system by falsely accusing men — especially prominent or wealthy men who depend for their livelihood on their good reputation — of these terrible crimes?”
That’s one of the questions I’d like to ask Hillary. What other questions do you have for the current crop of candidates?
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Oh man, that’s great.
I’m picking yours.
Kate Braestrup passed away earlier today. She suffocated holding her own breath waiting for an honest answer from Hillary Clinton.
Kate, you post and comment around here and give the impression that you are such a nice person, but…
…that was fiendish!
I approve.
Excellent point, Kate. But as our David Deeble put it, Questioning Hillary Clinton under oath is like looking for gold teeth in the mouth of a donkey.
I know. But it’s fun to fantasize…
Okay, can you say enabler. Repeat after me en- abler. Or for the Leftist elite, three syllables en-ab-ler. For the therapist Wien-er syndrome, as in An-thony. If only Anthony had an I-phone.
Seriously—which I mostly am—it isn’t Hillary’s enabling that bothers me. It’s Gloria Steinem’s. And all the other “feminists” who were so quick to throw Juanita Broderick under the bus. Poor old Juanita still serves as my go-to example for the thought-experiment posed to liberal friends: “if George W. Bush had done this, what would you have done?”
Too funny! Love it.
For many people it all comes down to who committed the crime, not the nature of the crime.
Right. They’re completely unprincipled, and therefore very, um, disappointing. Not to say loathsome.
Weirdly, my father used to have lunch now and then at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, where he was the editor of the Wilson Quarterly, and she was doing something…finishing a book? I wish I could have been a fly on the wall as my Dad—a combat Marine, combat correspondent, and self-described “old fart” was eating Cobb Salad with his pal “Gloria.” (When I’d write editorials for the student newspaper at Georgetown, he’d bring clippings for Gloria’s entertainment.)
I miss Dad. Don’t really miss Gloria, though.
I read this sentence, and my heart stopped. Don’t scare me like that!
I know I didn’t come up with this, but I can’t remember where I heard it: “Madame Secretary, how many genders are there?”
Madame Secretary, how has white privilege affected you?
Not to worry, iWe! Still kicking!
Ms Clinton, two questions: Do you think the handling of classified information in e-mail is a national security issue? Do you think the FBI’s subpoena of Apple for an encryption backdoor is a national security issue?
Are such questions still asked to candidates? If they are I feel a bit better. I’m use to people interrupting each other, and sounding like a pro wrestler’s interview segment.
Senator Clinton, can you say, “Tax cut?”
Can you say, “Spending cut?”
Eric Hines
This is why we need to bring back waterboarding.
By the way, I don’t think it would be all that hard to come up with a better photo of Ms Clinton. If Ricochet expects civility from its commenters, maybe a little civility in the picking of photos of persons such as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump would be in order.
Madam Secretary- how, exactly, is the Clinton Foundation different from a money laundry?
Photo = Who are those guys with handcuffs and guns ! I am not dressed for this – Sorry, but the visuals are important.
Your question is spectacular, Kate, and I can’t believe I haven’t seen the point made before. A lot of people have pointed out the hypocrisy of the left in not listening and believing when it was politically expedient not to. The genius of your phrasing is it shows that if the Clintons’ counterattack on Broderick is true, then they still deserve scorn.
I hope whoever is the GOP nominee will have the guts to press Hillary on the issue. “The American people can see that you were either willing to turn your back on a rape victim to further your political ambitions or you only care about false accusations when your husband is the target. If you want to be their president, you owe the people an answer to which one describes you.”
Who else’s breath would she be holding?
I agree about the picture (s), TR. Thank you.
Secretary Clinton, we all know how important income equality is to you. When you give a speech for $200,000+, do you split it 50/50 with the speechwriter?
“Mrs. Clinton, are there any cases where you think abortion should be outlawed? And if there are none, how do you square that with surveys that regularly show that women are opposed to abortions in the third trimester?”
Source (one of many): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/08/02/guess-who-likes-the-gops-20-week-abortion-ban-women/
Senator Sanders, as mayor of Burlington you presided over sister-city programs with cities in the Soviet Union and Nicaragua. Famously, you traveled to the Soviet Union the day after your wedding, and you have also visited Cuba. By almost any objective measure, these countries – and others such as Venezuela – have been abysmal economic failures under socialist/Marxist/communist leadership. Was that because of inherent flaws in socialism or because “true” socialism was not implemented in those countries?
Sorry, but I absolutely adore that picture.
What’s the matter with the picture? It’s not photoshopped. An honest picture is somehow uncivil, now?
Eric Hines