Quote (ThatAlex @ Aug 22 2016 09:39am)
Hillary Clinton is so dishonest. She lies repeatedly, and about dumb and easily disprovable things, too.
She's going to make for an extremely untrustworthy president. But hey...she's better than Donald Trump, so I guess that's all that matters.
What's so funny about Clinton and her history as a public figure is that this has never been even true, it's merely an inaccurate meme kept alive by uninformed people regurgitating it ad nauseum over the years. It's basically a lie that's become conventional wisdom through repetition, like how "undecideds go to the challenger" in an election. It's not even remotely true. There might be two, maybe three legitimate instances over this 25-year period when Hillary Clinton has lied to an audience.
It's precisely because she's so careful with her words that prevents her from being sloppy and loose with her language, which is what causes Donald Trump, Mitt Romney-esque politicians to tell a lot of lies in their presentation.
People can't have it both ways. They can't criticize her for being insular, (rightfully) distrusting of the press and critics but then at the same time criticize her for being loose with her language. They have to believe she either veers towards being overly cautious with how she presents herself or that she doesn't; she can't magically be at opposite ends of the spectrum simultaneously so that whichever criticism it's convenient to lob at her at the time is easier to fit to her.