I aimed no condescension towards you. As your link points out in a roundabout way, Obama ran a better campaign in the rhetoric & the ground game.
This whole "trust" thing w/ Hillary tells us just how effective right wing propaganda can be. It even affects people who should see it for what it is.
Trust her to do what? Defend SS? Choice? The ACA? EPA? Civil rights? Regulation of the financial sector? Immigration reform? Better relations w/ Cuba? The Iran deal?
I trust her a helluva lot more than any Repub opponent she might face. Whether they believe their own bullshit or not, they'll be pandering to the right fringe, bet on that.
Well, Sah, in our exchange, I suppose we're preaching to the choir!
I got into an altercation with the fam-damn-ily today. The local paper, run by the OC Register's owners, has descended to monotone crassness in a 700,000-voter county with a mere spread between the parties of 30,000.
I read a letter which I will excerpt in a minute, and nearly went through the roof. Their letters-to-the-editor no longer offer counterpoint, and I've stopped issuing my submittals. I told the family I wanted to cancel our subscription and write a polite but stinging letter explaining why. Bro wants the sports page; Moms wants -- I don't know. They voted me down, 2 to 1.
Here's the latest rant:
[Title] "Hillary Lies Yet Again"
[1st & 2nd Para]
"Last Saturday, the Democrats held another hidden presidential debate. It was televised against an NFL game. As a result, it had a lower viewership rating than the undercard GOP debate for those candidates who cant break out above 7 percent in the polls. Hillary really stepped in it during the debate when she accused Donald Trump of being the best recruiting tool ISIS has.
"Hillary stated that there are videos out on the Internet where Trump insults ISIS, and this has resulted in more people joining ISIS. The network fact checkers immediately jumped into gear to find these videos the only problem was these fact checkers couldnt find any ... not one video. Donald Trump was asked to comment on Hillarys claims, and Trump told it like it is: Hillary is lying. Again."
The rest of it rants about the inaccuracies about her Serbian visit -- "under fire," -- worries about Chelsea in NY when 911 occurred . . . on and on.
Bold and underline I've added for your convenience.
This is way out of bounds. You KNOW what she said; conservative web-media QUOTES what she said; and she corrected her remark about "actual videos" when she spoke to researching Al Jazeera and other media.
And as I've said before even in the last 24 hours, they obsess over these absurd rules-of-thumb because they're clueless, they want to be told how to vote, and they seize on this trivia to justify their delusional nonsense.