Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
Her trade deal flip flop, oh Im sure you will use the "she's a politician."
Frankly, I simply don't care that much
Funny you always have an excuse to save your people.
I don't think "I name multiple major policy areas I support and view her as massively better than her opponents," fits any definition of 'excuse.'
Nor do I think, "Much of your accusations are factually wrong," really qualifies as an 'excuse.' The idea that "if someone says accusations are wrong or not all that bad, that's bad and they're just making excuses" is a bad thing is only true if the accusations aren't actually wrong or not all that bad. E-mail server? Not proper procedure, not a security breach, not something that affects national policy. Why do you care so much about it, let alone why should I care?
Benghazi? Non-partisan fact check on the results of Benghazi probes: "Clinton’s number is correct: there were seven previous congressional probes into the Benghazi attack. Saying these committees were led "mostly by Republicans" is also a fair assertion: the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs were the only two committees not led by Republicans. As for her comment that there was no overt wrongdoing, just room for improvement, that’s a rosy assessment. But it is also largely accurate. We rate this claim Mostly True."
So, that's true too. Need for improvement, but it is accurate that 5 Republican and 2 bipartisan probes found no wrongdoing.
Is that an excuse? You may count it as such, but insisting that I treat it as a crime or some horrible thing is more inaccurate.
Overall it is quite worth noting that according to statement fact-checkers who list every single issue they rate so anyone can independent confirm, Hillary's statement accuracy rating is higher than Trump's, Rubio's, or Carson's.
So if in your view I'm making excuses for Clinton, what does that make you? It sounds to me like you're supporting people who do significantly worse in those same areas. Does it only count as 'making excuses' if it's a Democrat, even if they're actually more honest than the Republicans? Are you the one brushing off more and making more excuses?
Simply put, you support your candidates despite their flaws- as do most people, that's normal. "Accusing someone of supporting someone despite them not being perfect," is not much of an accusation, as that's what everyone does, weigh the good and bad.
It's you who decided that if Hillary isn't perfect that she must be horrible and turned against / that everyone who supports her must be ok with everything she does, rather than simply weighing her positives and negatives and noting, oh hey, she's much better on these areas, and those things aren't all that big, and thus she adds up into the positives.
You're trying to say I must follow your standards or that's bad/just making excuses, when really, I'm just following my own consistent standards that I apply to every candidate. Policy first, rating in the order that I care about specific policies, civil rights and economic stance being up front. Scandals only override if they're big and real, though no scandals is preferable.
I love how Obama has basically done nothing for the transgender community yet you don't say shit about it.Hide, run, deflect, change the story all you want. Wont work. [/B]
In addition to being flat-out false there, there is the matter that the Republicans are much more actively opposed to transgender rights and support.
One doesn't have to be a shining star to be better than the other side, I'd take even neutral over bad, but, you're wrong, there's been active movement by the administration.
Also in general, "Hah! (Democrat X) isn't perfect on LGBT issues! You should turn against them!" is one of the weakest arguments out there when the other side, y'know, actively supports changes in laws designed to persecute LGBT people. Why would even a Democrat who had done nothing on the subject not be miles better than a Republican?
"Hide, run, deflect, change the story all you want."? More like, call your story out on being false.
You can't change my story, no matter how much you want to. The facts do not support you. Not on Hillary, not on Barack. Your attempt to push a false narrative simply doesn't stand up to the facts.