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The Clinton Contamination
New York Times ^ | July 9, 2016 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 07/10/2016 5:55:15 AM PDT by Pinkbell

WASHINGTON — IT says a lot about our relationship with Hillary Clinton that she seems well on her way to becoming Madam President because she’s not getting indicted.

If she were still at the State Department, she could be getting fired for being, as the F.B.I. director told Congress, “extremely careless” with top-secret information. Instead, she’s on a glide path to a big promotion.

And that’s the corkscrew way things go with the Clintons, who are staying true to their reputation as the Tom and Daisy Buchanan of American politics. Their vast carelessness drags down everyone around them, but they persevere, and even thrive.

In a mere 11 days, arrogant, selfish actions by the Clintons contaminated three of the purest brands in Washington — Barack Obama, James Comey and Loretta Lynch — and jeopardized the futures of Hillary’s most loyal aides.

It’s quaint, looking back at her appointment as secretary of state, how Obama tried to get Hillary without the shadiness. (Which is what we all want, of course.)

The president and his aides attempted to keep a rein on Clinton’s State Department — refusing to let her bring in her hit man, Sidney Blumenthal.

But in the end, Hillary’s goo got on Obama anyhow. On Tuesday, after Comey managed to make both Democrats and Republicans angry by indicting Clinton politically but not legally, Barry and Hillary flew to Charlotte, N.C., for their first joint campaign appearance.

Obama was left in the awkward position of vouching for Hillary’s “steady judgment” to run an angry, violent, jittery nation on the very day that his F.B.I. director lambasted her errant judgment on circumventing the State Department email system, making it clear that she had been lying to the American public for the last 16 months.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: clinton; hillary
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Holy cow! The NYT goes in. I am trying to figure out why, and I think it might be that it has affected Obama negatively and that her actions make it more difficult to get another Democrat in the White House. A scathing article, though. I recommend reading the whole thing. She gets some good one liners in there.
1 posted on 07/10/2016 5:55:15 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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Clintons contaminated three of the purest brands in Washington — Barack Obama, James Comey and Loretta Lynch

LOL!

2 posted on 07/10/2016 5:56:58 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: Pinkbell

The NYT living in denial. Denial is NOT a river in Egypt.


3 posted on 07/10/2016 5:58:39 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Pinkbell

So, bets on who the Clintons get this time to play the Michael Douglas role in the next iteration of “how do we get MoDo to shut up”?


4 posted on 07/10/2016 5:58:48 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Cowboy Bob

Clintons contaminated three of the purest brands in Washington — Barack Obama, James Comey and Loretta Lynch
LOL!

Yes totally lol


5 posted on 07/10/2016 6:01:30 AM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new treason. Treason is the new patriotism)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Wow, the purest brands! This is delusional on steroids!


6 posted on 07/10/2016 6:01:45 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Pinkbell

God is continuing to grant Jeremiah Wright his prayer.


7 posted on 07/10/2016 6:02:50 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Hahaha!


8 posted on 07/10/2016 6:06:14 AM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Well pure something that’s for sure.


9 posted on 07/10/2016 6:08:55 AM PDT by xp38
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Please. It's a horrible article, nothing but an apologia pro Obama mea. It's a sickening mealy-mouthed screed. Dowd's anger at Hillary is not that she endangered national security, nor recoil at her manifest venality, rather that she committed lèse-majesté: she made King Barack the Inevitable look bad.

Dowd's a nitwit, but she's a consistent nitwit and a principled one. Her overriding principle is "Obama Good". Any evidence to the contrary is a delusion, anyone who makes him look bad is evil, anyone who opposes the One is racist.

10 posted on 07/10/2016 6:10:21 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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11 posted on 07/10/2016 6:11:55 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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We’ve been held hostage to their predilections and braided intrigues for a long time.

Who is this we, this hostage, that Mo speaks of?

The Clinton's could have been taken down in the 1990's if the MSM had Nixonized them. Instead they covered up for them,vilified anyone who spoke out against them and minimized every scandal while slobbering over Bill and Hill. The slobbering continues to this day

12 posted on 07/10/2016 6:13:17 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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I’ve been watching this 12 Monkey’s SyFy meme and I think I’ve come to the realization that the Army of the 12 Monkeys is really a metaphor for the Clinton Dynasty.


13 posted on 07/10/2016 6:13:45 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Fightin Whitey

Somewhere in my feeble old fart brain rests the inescapable memory that this lovely was once one of Bennie Hill’s HILLS’s Angels. Am I wrong?


14 posted on 07/10/2016 6:16:06 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Fightin Whitey
I love Mo Do threads, they are so stimulating!


15 posted on 07/10/2016 6:16:45 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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Ahh... Someone who knows the rules.


16 posted on 07/10/2016 6:20:39 AM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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In a mere 11 days, arrogant, selfish actions by the Clintons contaminated three of the purest brands in Washington — Barack Obama, James Comey and Loretta Lynch — and jeopardized the futures of Hillary’s most loyal aides.

Wow... that is seriously delusional...

The Comey brand was self inflicted...

17 posted on 07/10/2016 6:23:12 AM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I tend to agree....but consider this. At this stage of the game, let’s be grateful the NYT has Hillary in their crosshairs.

The thought of the Clintons dodging the bullets of the Mighty Mo is delightful.

Lynch IS a displaced person (an affirmative action know-nothing running our DOJ), but Mo is essentially saying....Bill screwed-up on the tarmac.


18 posted on 07/10/2016 6:26:10 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PACE A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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19 posted on 07/10/2016 6:26:10 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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That’s always a good one.


20 posted on 07/10/2016 6:28:01 AM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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