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Clinton Campaign Considered Bill Gates, Tim Cook For Vice President (theverge.com)
WikiLeaks has been releasing thousands of emails over the past couple of weeks belonging to Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta. One of the more interesting tidbits revealed from the email dump was the list of potential running mates considered by Clinton's campaign. The Verge reports: Clinton's vice presidential candidates, while not altogether surprising, include some vaguely interesting choices like Bill and Melinda Gates, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and General Motors CEO Mary Barra. In the mail, Podesta says he has organized the list into "rough food groups," one of which includes all the people mentioned above. Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz are also in this "food group," along with Michael Bloomberg. With just under 40 names on the list, it's not immediately obvious how close any of these people came to actually being asked to take on the role (Tim Kaine is on the list).
> In short, the "story" here is that MoveOn was staging anti-Trump protests. OMG, you don't say? I never knew that ;)
They took credit for creating violence on camera. Exactly how do you think that was faked when they have the person and voice on camera, as well as contemporaneous evidence both that they were there and that they lied to the cops? And their pay stub from the FEC.
Also, if it's fake, why did they fire one of them just the other day?
I'm not *suprised* the Dems lumped candidates into buckets based solely on race and gender, rather than perhaps QUALIFICATIONS FOR JOB, but I do find it interesting and illustrative.
Exactly how does one use their genitals to perform the job of vice president? Whether or not a potential candidate has a penis is apparently the #1 most important consideration; does the SIZE of their penis matter?
I would hope that if someone like Paul Ryan was making the list his categories would be something like:
Legistlative Experience
Executive Experience (govt)
Executive Experience (private sector)
Foreign Policy Experience
Did you even watch the videos? They also discuss election fraud in the second one, as well as how to keep things off the record.
It's all on camera and there's corroborating evidence to tie them to the acts claimed in the video.
Should I ask how much CTR pays you? I mean, you spin things full time on every single political story as far as I can see. Go check my history, I have better things to do and I was for Obama originally. Should be able to see that assuming Slashdot hasn't completely horked all the old story comments. Guess you might not remember it with that UID, though.
Especially since its bullshit as the Wikileaks email drop shows Tim Kaine getting the VP was a quid pro quo for him stepping down as DNC chair so she could put her pal Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the seat which helped her control the primary.
That is one thing I have to give HRC redit for, she is an evil manipulated power hungry greedy bitch but she does think ahead and play the long game, reminds me of Francis Underwood in HOC.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
This is another bogus scandal that'll backfire badly. It tries to link Clinton with something she had no involvement in, and it raises more opportunities to (correctly and responsibly) link Trump's own words to violent behavior by his supporters.
Leaving aside the source, O'Keefe's is a stupid story that has no connection with Clinton herself. Even taken at face value, it's actually not even a sign that low level Clinton campaigners are bad per se: I mean, these guys are willing to risk injury and possible death exposing behavior they consider easily displayed by their opponents. They're morons, not evil.
Here's, FWIW, a video of a highly placed Trump activist who is promising to pay the legal fees for anyone who attacks anti-Trump protestors:
Video
Now, do you notice anything different about these two stories? In one, O'Keefe's, you have allegations that some Clinton supporters, unbeknownst to any Presidential candidate, might have tried to demonstrate that Trump supporters are actually violent.
In the other, you have a Presidential Candidate announcing, in public, he'll help out any violent supporter of his and prevent them from suffering the consequences of their violent actions.
O'Keefe has raised another opportunity for Trump's opponents to point out he is a bona fide fascist - in this case, demonstrating that he is willing to support violence against his political rivals, one of the attributes of fascism Trump displays.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.