This is what actual corruption looks like...

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  1. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    NOT the onion.

    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...ters-prefer-over-hillary-clinton-donald-trump

    Poll: 13 percent prefer meteor hitting earth over Clinton, Trump

    More than 1 in 10 voters say they'd prefer a giant meteor hitting earth over supporting Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

    The left-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP) offered the hypothetical "Giant Meteor" option in its latest survey. Forty-three percent picked Clinton, 38 percent picked Trump and 13 percent picked the Giant Meteor hitting earth. Another 7 percent were unsure.
     
  2. Denny Crane

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  3. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    There's only one little problem with your story. And I'm sure you know what it is, but somehow you forgot to mention it. Probably because of your busy hate-mongering schedule.

    The passports weren't actually issued. So someone asked for a special favor and didn't get it. That's quite a scandal you've got there.

    Oh, and you also forgot to mention why they wanted the passports - they wanted to go with Bill Clinton to North Korea to negotiate for release of a couple of Americans.

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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    In other polling news, Putin has an 82% approval rating.

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    Yes, but the real test is, how many would prefer the Gout over Trump? Any dumb ass knows they would never know the meteor hit unless it is a painless pebble.
     
  6. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    Just when YOU think you're right, the facts get in your way.


    http://thehill.com/policy/national-...on-foundation-exec-sought-diplomatic-passport

    It's unclear whether the request resulted in the acquisition of a diplomatic passport for Band or either associate. The State Department declined to comment on the individual case, citing the Privacy Act, but an official pointed to the standard regulations governing the issuance of diplomatic passports.

    “Diplomatic passports are issued to Foreign Service Officers or a person having diplomatic or comparable status because he or she is traveling abroad to carry out diplomatic duties on behalf of the U.S. Government,” the official said.

    “Any individuals who do not have this status are not issued Diplomatic passports. Even when issued, Diplomatic passports are only given enough validity to facilitate a bearer’s travel while in such status. After that, the passport expires.

    “The staff of former Presidents are not included among those eligible to be issued a Diplomatic passport.”
     
  7. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Well, the original reporting on the story said that the passports were not issued, but of course I have no first-hand knowledge of whether they were or weren't.

    Let's go with your version.

    So you are saying this is a scandal despite that according to your own source, it is unclear whether anything ever happened other than a request for a favor?

    You are not doing a very good job of appearing objective here, Deny.

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  8. bodyman5000 and 1

    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    Google it spelled that way, chances are you will get shit in Spanish before you find a link to this post or any of the 500 million posts on the internet with it used like that. I just did it and actually got a link to a youtube video but they used quotation marks in the title so it got past Google hiding it from us.

    There is actually a way to type it so it gets past the filters, I read about it a few weeks ago so I can't remember exactly what it was. Use a lowercase l instead of an i or something like that.
     
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    It's called an attempted bribe, and it's a felony.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Nope. Asking for help getting a passport is not called an attempted bribe. There's a book that explains all this, it's called a dictionary.

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    So no one likes either candidate but somehow they both won multiple small elections to become the choices? And im supposed to believe our voting system isnt rigged?
     
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    Well, she did give a speech on the floor advocating for it and making the same "weapons of mass destruction" case that W made.
     
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    This is shocking. Marzul was against the Iraq War from the start? The biggest Muslim-hater on the board? Amazing prescience.

    How come an antiwar guy like you always posts in favor of the war?
     
  16. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    So, a giant meteor is closer to getting into the debates than Gary Johnson is?
     
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    We don't know what happened on phone calls, but what the emails show is that there is both access to the Secy of State and State Dept for Clinton donors and that Clinton's staff were more than happy to get their requests done.

    It's also more than clear that she and her staff did foundation business on taxpayer time/money.
     
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    Hiliar lied to the FBI. Volumes of evidence. 22,000 emails of evidence.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hill...ent-classification-markings/story?id=41889151

    Hillary Clinton Defends Not Knowing State Department Classification Markings


    But... WikiLeaks has the actual emals.


    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...n-leaks-might-come-as-early-as-next-week.html

    According to official documents released Friday, Clinton claimed to have relied on the judgment of her aides and other officials to handle classified material appropriately. She even told investigators -- when asked what the “C” marking meant before a paragraph in an email marked “Confidential” – that “she did not know and could only speculate it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order.”

    The FBI document notes that the email was in fact marked “classified at the Confidential level.”

    Assange called her excuses absurd and held up a document on "Hannity" that he said has Clinton’s signature and had a marking on top of the page to determine that the document was in fact “confidential.”

    He added that WikiLeaks had released thousands of examples where she had used the classified marking and signed off on paper work with the marking and there were 22,000 other examples of when she received information from others with the marking.

    “It’s incredible for Clinton to lie about not knowing what (the marking) is. And it’s a little bit disturbing (FBI Director) James Comey is along with that game.”

    Clinton's server was found to have more than 2,000 emails with classified material. Most were retroactively classified, but Comey has disputed Clinton’s insistence that none of them were marked as such at the time.
     
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    I'm not understanding this thread, so Trump isn't doing anything wrong because.... Hillary's emails?
     
  20. Denny Crane

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    This thread is about what actual corruption looks like.

    Hiliar's emails are full of actual corruption in action.
     

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