and these crimes you speak of? they're proveable? charges have been brough, evidence has been reviewed, and she's been found guilty?

with all of the republicans trying to pin anything on her for 25 years, you'd think some of these crimes would have led to charges and guilt in a court of law.

more "hillary is the devil" over-reaction nonsense.

The email server thing is probably easy enough to get a conviction over, but its also the kind of thing I'd hazard no one ever gets prosecuted for or goes to prison (and a lot of the evidence is out in the public domain, so inadmissible in court any how).

Especially as I'd be astonished if she actually set the server up and installed the software, connecting it to a restricted access network by her self.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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If anything, this election has proved quite clearly that America does not know what's good for America, and that most of it doesn't care either.

If the performance artist behind Bush and Trump succeeds in getting Trump elected, he's going to have to really struggle to top that.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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I can't help but feel that, come inauguration day, Sacha Baron Cohen is going to pull off the mask, apologise, and say he really didn't mean for his joke to get quite so out of control

The email server is only an issue because it's the only thing from the endless Benghazi investigations that had even a hint of stink which could be attributed to Clinton. Multiple Secretaries of State before her - including Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice - had similar arrangements. It was a non-issue for them, it's only an issue here because it's Clinton, and they knew back when they started the Benghazi crusade that she was the likely Democratic nominee.

Republicans have even admitted as such.

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Now, I don't like Clinton. At all. She's a craven politician whose moral compass - if she has one - is subjugated to whatever it is she thinks people want to hear. In that, she is most certainly not unique. However, she is politically savvy and I trust her to be able to handle the job of President even if I do not think I will like everything she does.

Trump, on the other hand, is a complete fraud and a walking bag of mental issues. His claims of competency seem to be a combination of being very rich, having "a good brain", being able to make great deals and hire "the best" people. My take on these things is that:

(1) he got a head start on being rich from his dad and isn't as rich as he claims to be;

(2) his "good brain" does not seem capable of forming coherent thoughts or sentences, remembering facts - or even things he has said - from one day to the next, or even staying on topic for more than a minute at a time;

(3) with multiple bankruptcies and 3,500 lawsuits in his background, it seems that a lot of his deals aren't so great; and

(4) he has fired and replaced his campaign management three times now.

All this is somewhat moot as Trump is getting buried in the polls nationally and, more importantly, in the individual States (the electoral college being such that state-by-state results matter, not the nationwide vote tally - see Bush vs. Gore). Trump is losing not only in the traditionally Democratic "blue" states, but in all the traditional swing states and now even in some of the traditionally Republican "red" states. He's on course for a sweeping loss the likes of which hasn't been seen since Reagan beat Mondale in 49 of 50 states.

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We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

But that's because he makes completely outrageous statements that he knows will, and may I add intends to, grab the headlines. Ignoring what a person says and how they behave in order to arbitrarily include an equal number of positive and negative stories about Clinton and Trump is a very subjective and slanted understanding of what being unbiased means.

Edited by blackpalacefan (20 Aug 2016 7.01pm)