Still failing.

I mean, it’s good that he’s addressed Alicia Machado and Rosie O’Donnell, but he needs to show leadership on all the other women in this country whose bodies are unacceptable.

He should nominate Barron for Secretary of Cyber.

(a) no you don’t, and (b) talking about demographic data is not “over-generalization”.

Oh, look, a white person who is offended to see his demographic discussed in the way every other demographic is routinely discussed.

*shakes head sadly*

Do you think he makes Heidi call him “Mister President” in bed?

Sure, but she was also part of the team of people who made decisions on foreign policy. The ultimate responsibility was Obama’s, but by all the accounts I’ve heard, she was consistently one of the most hawkish voices in the administration, which is entirely consistent for her.

I actually think it’s more down to some nihilistic impulse that holds that the actual facts don’t matter and can be whatever you want them to be rather than deliberate lying; i.e. it’s a failing that’s down to a defective epistemology on the right.

Yeah. Exactly. It’s frustrating that she does these things that create a terrible appearance of impropriety for what seems like no real upside. She couldn’t be that desperate for money, so why do it?

Eh. I actually reject the idea that “being careless with some goddamn emails” is something that we should overlook, since it’s so easy not to fuck that one up. We actually have no idea whether or not foreign powers accessed her email server, but they easily could have done so, and we will never have any way of knowing…

well were u aware that all taxation is theft

I mean, I don’t buy for a second that she bought Colin Powell’s shit about there being WMDs... she’s way too smart for that.

But nobody looking at Vogue for the clothes will give a shit.

Goddamn those are legs.

It’s pretty well-known (outside of the comments at The Slot, anyway) so it’s not like he didn’t take the political risk. At any rate, twenty Democrats in the U.S. senate (along with Lincoln Chaffee, “a mild-mannered gecko whom I long to take home and place in a well-lit terrarium environment”) voted against the war in…

I’m happy to hold her responsible for her own actions. And while she eventually has acknowledged that the vote for the war in Iraq was a bad move, it took years and years of equivocation and bullshit from her to do so. I am not inclined to give her partial credit on that basis when she continued to try to defend that…

The email scandal is her biggest self-inflicted wound in recent years. And it goes to a larger tendency of hers to do things that are momentarily convenient despite having enormous, predictable downside risk later on. Unfortunately experience appears to have made her double down on that bad tendency rather than…

Sure, but Obama publicly advocated against invading Iraq, and he was in a less powerful position at the time.

Right, but the subsequent military entanglements she supported haven’t exactly resulted in smashing successes either.