Ok, unpopular pro-Hillary perspective incoming, I'm bracing for the downvotes:

Ok, unpopular pro-Hillary perspective incoming, I'm bracing for the downvotes:

So I will disagree that Clinton was a bad candidate, unlikable, etc. People seem to forget everything she did and how popular she was up until mid-2014. So what happened? I believe Clinton will go down as one of the most wrongfully railroaded Presidential candidates in American history, one whose reputation was destroyed in the now fact-free era of social media and the 24/7 right-wing propaganda machine. Don't worry, I'll get to the "scandals".

But first, lets consider the following.

1. Only 3 years ago, after she left the State Department, Hillary Clinton was one of the most popular figures in American politics at the time. In Feb 2013 her favorable ratings were 19 points higher than Joe Biden, and she even far outperformed Obama and Biden at the time as well. She was IMMENSELY popular and liked only 3-years ago. Whats more, during her time as Senator, she was very popular as well.

2. Hillary was one of the most experienced figures in American politics. Former First Lady, 8-years Senator from New York, one of the longest serving Secretary of State. She lived and breathed policy. Detail oriented, knowledgeable, and formidable. Few people could of stood the 10 hours of testimony in front of a biased and hostile benghazi committee witchhunt committee, but she did it and it left them reeling. ((more on benghazi shortly))

3. She was swiftboated, 2004 John Kerry style. The republicans managed to take John Kerry, who honorably served in Vietnam and received multiple medals and commendations, and successfully made him out to be a trooper-hating piece of shit. This is what happened to Clinton. Benghazi, meails, all manufactured scandals designed to sow doubt into the minds of useful liberal idiots who were gullible, and energize their base.

4. The emails. So what happened with the emails? (cont.)

>downvotes

(cont.) The IG report revealed that nothing she did was beyond the standard (but not greatest) practice of her predecessors (Rice, Powell, etc). In addition the FBI looked at it all and found that nothing she did rose to the level of a crime. Contrary to the fake-news articles and all the BS floating around, she never withheld emails, never refused to turn them over, etc. The GOP congress issued subpoenas after she had already turned them over simply to create headlines that "Congress Subpoenas Clinton to turn over emails", etc. Republicans did to emails what they did to Benghazi. Speaking of which....

5. Benghazi. So what happened here? Have a look.

Number of congressional committees investigating previous terrorist attacks:

0 - Embassy Bombing in Tanzania & Kenya. 200+ dead

0 - Oklahoma City Bombing . 168 victims

1 - Boston Marathon bombing. 5 victims

2 - Sept 11th, 2001 attacks. 2977 victims

2 - USS Cole bombing. 17 victims

2 - Kobar building bombing (housing US troops). 19 victims

9 - Benghazi

Number of congressional hearings on previous terrorist attacks:

5 - Boston Marathon bombing

8 - USS Cole bombing

9 - Oklahoma City bombing

12 -Embassy bombing

14 - Khobar building bombing.

22 - Sept 11th, 2001 attacks

33 - Benghazi

Let these numbers sink let. Look at what was standard-practice not to long ago, and compare it to what happened in Benghazi. NINE investigations and THIRTY-THREE congressional hearings. This is the sheer extent republicans went to in order to make something out of nothing. To keep it in the news constantly and never let it go. And it wasn't like they didn't make their efforts and goals known: GOP House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to Sean Hannity (in interview, 2015): "Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.". (cont.)

Other criticisms of her include: 1) taking money from wallstreet. At the end of the day the wall street transcripts revealed nothing controversial, it was a dead issue. Also the fact that she and the organizations she spoke at/to agreed upon X price (whether it was $200,000 for 20 minutes or more) is irrelevant. Both parties agreed to this, but this was another made-up scandal. 2) The DNC rigged the election against Bernie. Say what you want, but at the end of the day Hillary received more votes than Bernie in the primary. She and Bernie had nine debates and twelve public forum engagements. Did the DNC talk shit about Bernie in emails? Sure did, like how the RNC undoubtedly talked shit about Trump and didn't like him. But we will never know for sure because the Wikileaks and the Russians weren't working on Hillary's behalf. Odds and ends: Combine the above with Wikileaks, Russian hackers, an avalanche of fake news, contrived conspiracies, manufactured bullshit, etc.

The result was in three short years, Hillary Clinton who had gone from 65-70% favorable ratings in 2013, a point where she was much higher than Biden or Obama, had been reduced to rubble by the above swiftboating efforts which operated 24/7. And despite her receiving 2+million more votes than Trump in the election, the above still proved to be enough to get people to wrongfully associate her name with "liar" and "corrupt", despite these being actual characteristics of Donald Trump. This isn't an indictment on her character, it's an indictment on the utter stupidity of the American voter and their fundamental lack of history and their inability to identify fake or contrived bullshit.

>I believe Clinton will go down as one of the most wrongfully railroaded Presidential candidates in American history, one whose reputation was destroyed in the now fact-free era of social media and the 24/7 right-wing propaganda machine

This couldn't be fucking truer

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Please understand how much you deserve to die

she deleted some with bleach bit

She lied to the families.

She's got a wire loose, nice shitposting though.

How much cock can a single person swallow?

>3. She was swiftboated, 2004 John Kerry style

you're not wrong in your assessment, per se, but she left herself open to the stuff the Republicans beat her over the head with.

She ran in 2008. She knew she was running since at least 2003 when she was a senator in NY. So she had many years where she knew she was going to be under the very harsh spotlight of a presidential campaign. Did she wind up the Clinton Foundation or cut ties with donors that would create the appearance of a conflict of interest? No. Then on the campaign trail she and Bill kept talking about how you can't just stop the stuff the foundation does, it's too good for all the starving kids in Africa and all, and it takes years to close an operation like that down. You two HAD many years in which to do that, since you knew she'd be running. You didn't.

Same with the emails. When the scandal broke, did she admit it frankly, turn over everything, and put it behind her? If she had it could well have died within one week's worth of news cycles. No, she insisted she'd done nothing wrong, refused to turn over a bunch of emails saying they were personal, etc. Now even if everything she said was honest, I couldn't have possibly crafted a better strategy for her to make it *look* dishonest. And she really stuck to her guns on it. She didn't want to admit any fault once it'd happened, she helped keep it in the news.

for all her vaunted preparedness and planning, she seemed to have some really enormous blind spots regarding the optics of how she conducts her affairs.

Fuck off and most importantly for this board:

SAGE THE SHILLS

>People seem to forget everything she did and how popular she was up until mid-2014
the fuck are you talking about? you mean before she was a democrat?
what universe do you come from?
i have literally never heard someone say a kind thing about Hillary Clinton before this fucking election cycle

>fact-free era of social media

Are you saying people just go on the Internet and tell lies? And everyone believes it?

Bump.

When your sub mods tell you to go on Sup Forums pol to shitpost and you think it works like reddit

>downvotes

This is what happens when immense political power meets overwhelming scrutiny.
Utter defeat.
Whatever good she may have done,
Was vastly outweighed by the allegations and investigations she had on her.
Not to mention she is so out of touch with people.

>2. Hillary was one of the most experienced figures in American politics

Knowing how to wreck countries isn't a good type of experience

From an observers POV she's never been liked over here. Comes across too keen for power for power's sake. A hawk (even before Libya). Her positions change with the fucking wind. Sure, the same can be said for Trump but Clinton seems to have no single values that she has stuck to and will defend.

She's just fundamentally untrustworthy. She has form of sucking up to corporate interests and arab oil money. She guaranteed to maintain the US strategy towards Russia. Fuck that cunt. You dodged a bullet.

>downvotes
You have to go back.

Comments like this may as well be considered downvotes instead of a real contribution to the thread.

Bump.

Most popular until everyone read her email and saw what a dog shit human being she is. Clinton had had detractors her whole career it's not like she was universally beloved by all until 2014.

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can you just go back to masturbating over transsexual porn, so that we don't have to bother with your verbal diarrhea?

If I didn't like her then she was an unlikeable candidate.

It's the literal opposite of truth but hey close enough

Reported.
Also saged.

>This is the sheer extent republicans went to in order to make something out of nothing.
>murdering a US ambassador is nothing.

The CTR shilling and the media's compliance (Brazile and Blitzer) should raise alarms in any human being's head as to the possibly of a dangerous agenda being enforced.

The pay-to-play donations made to the Clinton Foundation (those which came under the spotlight or shown by wikileaks) just gets blown off by your argument, which shows extreme cognitive dissonance.

You can talk up her experience all you want, but her straight up lies about her email server and overall untrustworthiness, completely overshadow any of that.

Understand that Trump likely didn't 'beat' Hillary. He just wasn't Hillary.

>Former First Lady, 8-years Senator from New York, one of the longest serving Secretary of State. She lived and breathed policy.
She is the very example of a career politician. people got tired of the same old shit of politicians laying in bed with Washington and lining their pockets so they told her to fuck off. make sense?

>downvotes

Back to plebbit you go

does being first lady really count as political experience

Her supporters are still trying to blame Russia for the e-mails.

But here's the thing though. Who cares who leaked them (it's doubtful it was Russia anyway). What matters is that they existed! She never justified or made amends for that. Ever. She "apologized," as though that makes it all okay. She committed a crime, and deserves to be in prison.

Could it be that she was simply the shittier candidate all along?

>This is that paralLEL universe

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and on the topic- fuck the bitch xD she lost because people are sick of her fucking face and her fucking ego and the ego of obama thinking hillary was gonna shit on trump

hey obama, you dropped your phone mate lmao

>People seem to forget everything she did and how popular she was up until mid-2014.

Nice fucking meme. You couldn't possibly be older than 20 if you believe this or you're just highly ignorant of the past.

Forget the conspiracy stuff and look at what she did. What she did in the 90's should be enough to leave a nasty taste in people's mouths. No conspiracies, just solid evidence.

>People seem to forget everything she did and how popular she was up until mid-2014
Nah, I didn't forget Benghazi. She was a lying cunt then and she is a lying cunt now.

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>xD
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>mate