When will Hillary Clinton give up her candidacy ?

I wish John Kerry were on her list!

The FBI wants to make sure voters know what Clinton did regarding FOIA laws and national security.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/05/opinions/hillary-clinton-email-fbi-probe-opinion-cox/?iid=ob_mobile_article_footer_expansion

Her senior staff should not get security clearance, nor should she.

The vast majority of the approximately three dozen veterans of Mr. Bush’s administration contacted for this article indicated that they would not cast a ballot for Mr. Trump.

In the last decade Lash has done a full 180 on her most deeply held beliefs.

Well, deep for her. She's sort of like a kiddie pool at a 3 year olds birthday party. Lots of splash but little depth.

After Mr. Fleischer announced his support on Twitter for Mr. Trump in May, one of his former colleagues, Tony Fratto, responded: “Then we don’t have anything to say to each other.”

In an interview, Mr. Fratto, who served in the Bush Treasury Department and White House, was still angry. “You were the White House spokesperson when Trump said the president lied the country into the death and maiming of people unnecessarily,” he said of Mr. Fleischer. “How can Ari be O.K. with that?”

Such a betrayal, Mr. Fratto said, was “unforgivable.”

Quick napkin calculation of the number of responses to Lash over the last decade which have produced no change in her thinking or in her personal posting style.

67, 823

But I'm sure one or two more attempts will bear fruit.

The passages in question came near the beginning of Mrs. Trump's roughly 10-minute speech. Her address was otherwise distinct from the address that Mrs. Obama gave when then-Sen. Barack Obama was being nominated for president.

In Mrs. Trump's speech in Cleveland, she said: "From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise, that you treat people with respect. They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily life."

In Mrs. Obama's 2008 speech in Denver, she said: "And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: like, you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond, that you do what you say you're going to do, that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them."

This morning, predictably -- oh so VERY predictably -- the Party of Responsibility is laying responsibility for Melania Trump's duplicity on everybody but the woman who delivered the speech and claimed it as her own.


Conservatives are at this very moment cranking the rationalization machine into overdrive. The responses range from outright denial to word salads of justification and dismissal to outright conspiracy theories blaming variously Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for "sabotaging" the speech (which, you know, would tend to hilariously show how clever they are and how damned stupid the Trumps are, but I digress).


Now, you expect that, the bullshit rationalization, from the various spokesmen and the politicians and the flacks. You do. They can NEVER ever be wrong, they are pathologically incapable of it. It they could admit error and take responsibility for it, they wouldn't be in the business in the first place. No, that's to be expected and I'd be shocked by anything else.


But see, here's the thing: Neither Trump himself, the man who would be President, nor his porn princess of a wife are able to admit error either.
This morning the Trumps are going to try and bull it out, blame others, redirect, play the persecuted martyrs.


And that, well, you know that's just goddamned pathetic.


It's terribly terribly sad how vain and shallow these people are. The Trumps, all their wealth, all their fame, all their looks and jewels and private jets and limos and all their billionaire friends, and they are so utterly insecure in themselves that they simply can NOT admit error in any way even when caught in a lie, a provable and obvious and DUMB lie, in front of the entire world.


If these people were the people they claim to be, that they want to be, they'd take responsibility. They'd own that speech and give the critics nowhere to go.