Anonymous wrote:OP, were you this outraged by the essay Bernie wrote?

What essay? Please post a link.

OP, were you this outraged by the essay Bernie wrote?

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Anonymous wrote:Hilary Clinton spoke with a Southern drawl on the tapes? She moved to the South in 1975 when she was already an adult. This doesn't seem a credible assessment of what is on the tapes. Sounds more like she was a lawyer who had a legal duty to defend her client, one who was assigned to her through her firm's pro bono agreement, not one she sought out.

are you surprised Hillary drags out her Southern drawl when it's convenient? She does it quite frequently.

I saw it, so phony like her.

The political ads this Fall should be fun.

Will not vote for her now.

She did her job, and did it well. I'm no fan of Clinton, but I am a huge supporter of defense lawyers, who are supposed to make sure that prosecutors really do prove their cases beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Anonymous wrote:Hillary took the case at the request of the court. In this country defendants are entitled to an attorney, and the attorney is obliged to do all they legally can to get the defendant acquitted.

She had to defend her client but she did not have to smear a little girl who got raped. That is really ugly.

How do you think you would have handled it if you had been in her shoes? Is it possible you would've felt deeply uncomfortable and conflicted, might have said something terrible and insensitive or otherwise handled it poorly?

This reporter has a bit of an agenda, too, but I will let that go.

Anonymous wrote:Hilary Clinton spoke with a Southern drawl on the tapes? She moved to the South in 1975 when she was already an adult. This doesn't seem a credible assessment of what is on the tapes. Sounds more like she was a lawyer who had a legal duty to defend her client, one who was assigned to her through her firm's pro bono agreement, not one she sought out.

are you surprised Hillary drags out her Southern drawl when it's convenient? She does it quite frequently.

Anonymous wrote:Hillary took the case at the request of the court. In this country defendants are entitled to an attorney, and the attorney is obliged to do all they legally can to get the defendant acquitted.

She had to defend her client but she did not have to smear a little girl who got raped. That is really ugly.

Anonymous wrote:Someone has posted this here several times before. I imagine it will happen more frequently as we progress through the election cycle.

I imagine it's true. In fact, I know it's true.

Hillary took the case at the request of the court. In this country defendants are entitled to an attorney, and the attorney is obliged to do all they legally can to get the defendant acquitted.

Hilary Clinton spoke with a Southern drawl on the tapes? She moved to the South in 1975 when she was already an adult. This doesn't seem a credible assessment of what is on the tapes. Sounds more like she was a lawyer who had a legal duty to defend her client, one who was assigned to her through her firm's pro bono agreement, not one she sought out.

Someone has posted this here several times before. I imagine it will happen more frequently as we progress through the election cycle.

Wow. This is horrific but not surprising.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/20/exclusive-hillary-clinton-took-me-through-hell-rape-victim-says.html

I can't see how Hilary can even say she's for women's rights.

On the tapes, Clinton, who speaks in a Southern drawl, appears to acknowledge that she was aware of her client’s guilt, brags about successfully getting the only piece of physical evidence thrown out of court, and laughs about it all whimsically.
“He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs,” Clinton says on the recording, failing to hold back some chuckles.

In her interview with The Daily Beast, she recounted the details of her attack in 1975 at age 12 and the consequences it had for both her childhood and adult life. A virgin before the assault, she spent five days afterwards in a coma, months recovering from the beating that accompanied the rape, and over 10 years in therapy. The doctors told her she would probably never be able to have children.