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ORIGINAL: bounty44

anyone who is fair minded and has been paying attention to the whole situation knows there are unanswered questions that have arisen totally because of the Hillary Clinton email scandal.

if she had been forthcoming, honest and integrity filled from the beginning, this conversation wouldn't even be occurring.

as to the congressman's using the word "admit" here---as opposed to "this is my opinion." the former implies he is somehow "in the know," and theres absolutely no evidence of that other than "here's what I think"---which lands him rather squarely in the camp of "this is my opinion."

to blame the committee for seeking answers to questions they legitimately have, is to play the very type of partisan game liberals are accusing republicans of.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

anyone who is fair minded and has been paying attention to the whole situation knows there are unanswered questions that have arisen totally because of the Hillary Clinton email scandal, as well as her blatant lying over the deaths of the workers there.

if she had been forthcoming, honest and integrity filled from the beginning, this conversation wouldn't even be occurring. the "server management" issue is part and parcel of the whole. and the enquiries/concerns pre-date Clinton's running for president.

as to the congressman's using the word "admit" here---as opposed to "this is my opinion." the former implies he is somehow "in the know," and theres absolutely no evidence of that other than "here's what I think"---which lands him rather squarely in the camp of "this is my opinion."

to blame the committee for seeking answers to questions they legitimately have, is to play the very type of partisan game liberals are accusing republicans of.

quote:

ORIGINAL: bounty44

anyone who is fair minded and has been paying attention to the whole situation knows there are unanswered questions that have arisen totally because of the Hillary Clinton email scandal, as well as her blatant lying over the deaths of the workers there.

if she had been forthcoming, honest and integrity filled from the beginning, this conversation wouldn't even be occurring. the "server management" issue is part and parcel of the whole. and the enquiries/concerns pre-date Clinton's running for president.

as to the congressman's using the word "admit" here---as opposed to "this is my opinion." the former implies he is somehow "in the know," and theres absolutely no evidence of that other than "here's what I think"---which lands him rather squarely in the camp of "this is my opinion."

to blame the committee for seeking answers to questions they legitimately have, is to play the very type of partisan game liberals are accusing republicans of.

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy


Negative campaigning and negativity are (1) and (2) in their playbook. Now, more than ever, I understand Gail Collins remark that "the only person Mitch McConnell hates worse than Barack Obama is Ted Cruz."

That gang of 40 "freedom" caucusers is killing the Republicans from the inside. Hillary looks like a white angel next to them.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

Yes it explains that negative campaigns are any ad that MENTION an opponent, not ones that talk ABOUT the opponent.

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy


Negative campaigning and negativity are (1) and (2) in their playbook. Now, more than ever, I understand Gail Collins remark that "the only person Mitch McConnell hates worse than Barack Obama is Ted Cruz."

That gang of 40 "freedom" caucusers is killing the Republicans from the inside. Hillary looks like a white angel next to them.

They must have borrowed from Obama's and Bush's play books:

...Luckily for the republic, both parties love negative campaigns. According to the Wesleyan Media Project, in 2012 Barack Obama ran the most negative campaign in recent presidential history, with 58.5 percent of his broadcast and cable ads being judged negative. That eclipsed the previous leader, George W. Bush, who scored 55.4 percent negative. Academics and the occasional journalist may squeal in horror over the demise of campaign civility, but as Frank Rich wrote for New York magazine in 2012, negativity is in the great American political tradition.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/in-praise-of-negative-campaigning-120151

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

Yes it explains that negative campaigns are any ad that MENTION an opponent, not ones that talk ABOUT the opponent.

That's semantic B.S., Lucy...you're better than that. But, just in case...

...As Mattes and Redlawsk explain, the standard political science definition for negativity in campaigns is “talking about the opponent.” The scholars at the Wesleyan Media Project who track, among other things, campaign negativity, likewise embrace this definition, stating that ads are negative if “they mentioned an opponent.”

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Patricia Smith, whose son, Sean was killed in the Benghazi attack stated Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is “anti-mother” and Benghazi Select Committee Chairman Representative Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) is “doing a good job” on Tuesday’s “America’s Newsroom” on the Fox News Channel.

Smith said, “Benghazi was her territory. She allowed it to happen. She did not give the security over there. Everything — this was her bailiwick. She was the State Department. Now, she caused all of this to happen, why shouldn’t she have to give an answer? I want to know what happened there. She promised me when the caskets came in in Washington, DC she promised me to my face that she would call and tell me what happened, because I don’t know exactly what happened. She has never called. Her office, not only has not called, but they gave out information that I was not to know anything because I am not a member of the immediate family…

She concluded, “Trey Gowdy told me that he’d give me answers once this thing is done. I’m waiting for those answers. I think he’s doing a good job. I think he’s trying to find answers. I think that Hillary and her department ought to stop sitting on the pot, and give answers to some of these things instead of saying, oh, it’s not my fault.”

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

anyone who is fair minded and has been paying attention to the whole situation knows there are unanswered questions that have arisen totally because of the Hillary Clinton email scandal, as well as her blatant lying over the deaths of the workers there.

if she had been forthcoming, honest and integrity filled from the beginning, this conversation wouldn't even be occurring. the "server management" issue is part and parcel of the whole. and the enquiries/concerns pre-date Clinton's running for president.

as to the congressman's using the word "admit" here---as opposed to "this is my opinion." the former implies he is somehow "in the know," and theres absolutely no evidence of that other than "here's what I think"---which lands him rather squarely in the camp of "this is my opinion."

to blame the committee for seeking answers to questions they legitimately have, is to play the very type of partisan game liberals are accusing republicans of.

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Mr. Gowdy tried to push back on the mounting criticism of the committee for using the Benghazi attacks as a way to undermine Mrs. Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Mr. Gowdy said the committee was focused on the Benghazi attacks, not Mrs. Clinton or her personal email account.

And he sharply criticized two members of his own party — the House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy of California, and Representative Richard Hanna of New York — for their recent statements that the committee had succeeded in its purpose of weakening Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.

“I have told my own Republican colleagues and friends: Shut up talking about things that you don’t know anything about,” Mr. Gowdy said. “And unless you’re on the committee, you have no idea what we have done, why we have done it and what new facts we have found.”