Another scathing editorial against Team Cinton -- Chicago Tribune

[antigop]

Editorial: Emailing it in: Team Clinton struggles to recover as the FBI primary looms
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-president-clinton-trump-0601-jm-20160531-story.html

Now, Democrats are waking up to the possibility that they are the ones flirting madly with disaster. Hillary Clinton's flaws, once considered politically inconsequential, have been steadily magnified by campaign scrutiny and official investigations. Those flaws now loom bigger than Mount Rushmore. Last week's report by the inspector general of the State Department made clear that in relying exclusively on a private email server as secretary of state, she violated department policy, put security in danger and lied about what she had done.

It is a thoroughly damning document — all the more so because the inspector general who submitted it, Steve Linick, was appointed by President Barack Obama. Anyone groping to excuse Clinton's conduct eventually has to face the stark, infuriating fact: What she did served no purpose beyond letting her selfishly evade the rules and accountability demanded of everyone else. Her failure to cooperate with the inspector general's inquiry, at the department she led, iced the cupcake.
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For most of the past year, Democrats have been happily distracted by the GOP's apparent urge to blow itself up. They failed to notice they were walking into their own minefield without a map.

[IdaBriggs]

1. "...selfishly evade the rules and accountability demanded of everyone else."

[elleng]

12. Exactly.

Seems like there are a fair (?) number of these posting here:

[Ned_Devine]

28. Post #3 is a perfect example

[elleng]

31. Yes,

and 2.

[Ned_Devine]

32. #2 is invisible to me

I'm disappointed in myself for having so many people on ignore. I just don't know what else to do to make this experience enjoyable here.

[elleng]

33. You may have done the right thing;

I don't have anyone on ignore. I just ACTUALLY ignore!

[SidDithers]

2. Get 'em in while you still can...nt

Sid

[geek tragedy]

3. 16 days. nt

[Trust Buster]

4. The Chicago Tribune is the Wall Street Journal - West.

[reformist2]

11. Did the Wall Street Journal endorse Obama in the GE? Twice???

[Yurovsky]

25. Mic drop!

The Clinton folks have no response, just "blame the messenger".

Granted, the Tribune isn't "The Daily Worker", but it's typically been Democrat-friendly for as long as I can remember. Hillary's disregard for the law simply can't be ignored any longer.

[TimPlo]

35. Hell HRC think the Affiliated Press(AP) is fox news in print.

Because they wrote a article listing the facts about email server, IG report and Clinton's own quotes.

[Yurovsky]

39. I think Huma will have to limit HRC's inbox to ...

snippets from the Hillary Rodham Fan Club and Admiration Society newsletter.

[Press Virginia]

5. Evidently this whole story dies on the 16th or something

[Land of Enchantment]

9. I just found out about that. Ridiculous. We have a CONVENTION in July

and our voices should not be silenced.

[Press Virginia]

13. I guess it becomes just like that place, here, where only love and adoration

of a certain person will be permitted.

[Land of Enchantment]

16. heh, they will never get it from me.

She is the worst candidate of my lifetime and I first voted in 1972. The DNC could not possibly have dredged up a more dangerous candidate.

[barrow-wight]

17. The admins have wisely decided to support the presumptive nominee as of the 16th.

So anti-Hillary sentiment will be silenced.

[jeff47]

19. Because it's anti-Clinton sentiment on DU that's the problem.

When that goes away, suddenly the State IG's report will vanish!!!

[barrow-wight]

20. I don't think that's the issue.

I think the admins have decided that they don't want the anti-Clinton hate brigade to their website against her and potentially help Trump. What goes on elsewhere is irrelevant to that.

[840high]

23. DU is a tiny, tiny part of

the world. It won't be silenced every where else.

[TheFarS1de]

24. It's about to get a whole lot smaller

I wonder how they will entertain themselves .... self congratulatory speeches get old after a while one would think . Still if they want this site to fade into irrelevance they are fully entitled to run full tilt of that cliff .

[Yurovsky]

26. If they want an echo chamber, so be it...

I have neither the time nor the inclination to read ill-informed drivel strewn together by paid trolls or corporate toadies.

[grasswire]

29. exactly

well said.

[TimPlo]

36. It is sad

When a site like Sean Hannity forums allows you to post on there and talk negative about a GOP person, but DU is going to become the echo chamber. Odd how that is happening.

[Demsrule86]

42. It has always

been this way.

[Demsrule86]

43. We will work

to elect our Democratic nominee...many of you are pissed off and want Trump to win...we can see that...but we will work to stop that.

[barrow-wight]

34. Yes.

I'm sure you can find plent of places to support Trump.

[Demsrule86]

41. Yeah and you will not be able to post filth

like this article which is merely an opinion after all...on the 16th it is done...GDP gone...GE here...and you can stay or go...your choice.

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. Shit, Chicago is her home town!

That's gotta hurt.

[highprincipleswork]

7. Some people didn't fail to notice - Bernie supporters. But for some reason the swiftboating of

Bernie Sanders continues, against logic, against party unity, against the desire for true Progressive reform.

[OwlinAZ]

18. The oligarchs will do anything to avoid change

They own the media. Clinton has spent her whole life wanting to be one of them. She was easily bought.

[guillaumeb]

8. The Chicago Tribune has on their editorial board one

Kristine Mc Queary, a right wing hack who could better be called "Katrina" Mc Queary. She was the idiot who called for a hurricane Katrina to blow through Chicago. Either she is a racist or a fool, but she is still a board member.

[MADem]

10. LOL! I wouldn't wipe my ass with that rag. Here's the quality of their editorials:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-donald-trump-sheldon-adelson-endorsement-20160517-story.html

Commentary: Sheldon Adelson: Why I'm endorsing Donald Trump


If they don't like Clinton, that's reason for her to be regarded as BELOVED.

[Yurovsky]

27. Well you & Goldman Sachs are equally smitten with her...

Actual progressives, not so much...

[MADem]

30. Since Bernie will never have a need to release his taxes,

we won't know how smitten he and GS are, either.

And since Jane has disappeared ever since the story about Burlington College closing broke, there's no way to establish how she invested that 1 year salary plus $200K golden parachute windfall she enjoyed.

[Land of Enchantment]

14. The Chicago Tribune endorsed Marco Rubio but refused to endorse a Democrat.

All they said in their scathing review was a bunch of garbage about free stuff and HRC going left to copy Bernie on that issue. At LEAST they are starting to discuss real news.

[HereSince1628]

15. It's Tueday. The story is -still- in the news.

Last week it was posted, not by me but by an HRC supporter, that if this was still a story today, it had legs.

Either it's got legs or an HRC supporter doesn't know anything about legs.

[Demsrule86]

44. it does not have legs

Wishful thinking of BSSER's

[pmorlan1]

21. Not All Democrats

For most of the past year, Democrats have been happily distracted by the GOP's apparent urge to blow itself up. They failed to notice they were walking into their own minefield without a map.

Not all Democrats failed to notice but when we did and pointed it out we were attacked.

[MisterP]

22. everyone was so fixated on Trump "destroying" the GOP that we didn't realize he was

reshaping it in his image and that Clinton had fallen behind already

the GOP was "destroyed" or about to be in 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010 (and 2012 and 2014 and)

[AzDar]

37. K & R

[Babel_17]

40. Hmm, quite a bit of this going on recently ... CYA starting?

The viewership of these organizations that are now publishing editorials and articles like this might be getting prepared. These organizations won't ever want to look complicit in covering up what the public always had a right to know, and they a duty to report.