Good Lord. I'm no Clinton fan, but this is just too much.
One person on the Clinton staff was mean to me, I can't vote for her!
But that's not all! Prepare to be shocked....
Oh my God look what Clinton did 20 years ago! She has no soul!
This is getting out of hand.
Edwards and Obama seem to get infinite free passes on this site for anything they do (I'm not talking Rezko stuff, either; that's a non-story in reality and is a media-induced "scandal"), yet Clinton gets raked over the coals at EVERY opportunity.
On the Recommended list right now, we have diaries chastising Clinton for something she did (actually, apparently, mystically, something she DIDN'T do) 20 freakin' years ago.
We also have someone who didn't like the attitude of Staff Member for Clinton who he spoke to on the phone and thus conflated that towards Clinton the Candidate.
There are plenty of good reasons to dislike ALL the candidates, yet it seems that the reasons given for disliking Clinton run the gamut from vaguely irrelevant to overtly irrelevant.
Obviously some bullshit will slip through the cracks during Primary Wars (and by "slip through the cracks," I mean "flood the God damned basement"), but this is just too much.
All of the candidates have made mistakes in the past. ALL of them. Obama has. Edwards has. Yet the Two Holy Saviors haven't gotten nearly as much grief as Clinton does.
We all should be rational adults (or at least pretend to be). The Clinton Hate has reached Biblical levels. When she won New Hampshire by a wider margin than exit polls indicated, there were HOWLS of outrage and wild accusations of fraud. When Obama won South Carolina by an even LARGER discrepancy, nary a peep.
God damn it, kossacks. Dislike Clinton all you want if you must, but at least try and find a rational reason to do so. They DO exist, just as they exist for ALL of the candidates.
Just because the diary is anti-Clinton doesn't mean it's true.
It doesn't mean it has merit.
And it sure as shit doesn't mean it belongs on the Recommended list.
UPDATE Sigh. Some of the gems I've seen are really funny. NO, I'm not saying we shouldn't analyze past behavior. NO, I'm not saying Clinton is awesome. NO, I'm not a Clinton supporter. NO, I'm not saying we shouldn't analyze her words and positions. YES, I'm aware that all of the candidates have had hit pieces written about them.
I'm so sad that I actually had to write that, but too many commenters are turning what I said into a bizarre absolute. The bottom line is we have a handful of videos supposedly being representative of like 6 years worth of board meetings. We have one phone call beind used as a reason to support Clinton's opponent.
Sorry, but that's just idiotic to me.
And once again because I'm really tired of this: I AM NOT A CLINTON SUPPORTER.