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VET THIS

The other day I posted a piece about how I don't get how the Hillary camp can make the arguments either that she's been vetted --or that "vetting" even matters in regard to how the republicreeps will proceed in the fall.

As if on cue comes this piece in Slate magazine which should fan the flames of freeperdom. Apparently there are numerous rumors posited in a new book "Clinton in Exile" by Carol Felsenthal that Bill Jeff (as Carlin called him) has far from repented since the salad days of the mediocre Ms. M. In fact there are several accounts that BJC (oh the irony) has been tooling about with some bachelor buddies on their private jets in search of "cigar-boxes".

To be fair the piece in Slate makes it plain that the book over all is pretty boring and poorly sourced. But guess what? It doesn't matter how poorly sourced they are or w/r these rumors are true or not -the GOPbots will click into overdrive and they'll be wall to wall over the "info"-stream.

The result? "Ladies and Gentlemen the 44th President of the United States: John Sidney McCain III."

So a) HRC's being "vetted" is illusory at best and b) as John Avrosis says these allegations have certainly not been vetted.

...Sorry to interrupt -you may now return to singing "Gas Tax Holiday" Carols.


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Is this an example of the high-minded politics that Obama stands for?

Oh, a cutting and unpredictable rejoinder! Or it would be, if the Obama campaign had something to do with this book. Since it doesn't, replace "cutting and unpredictable" with "stupid and banal".

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Besides the rumor mill, Im sure if we tried we could amass a list of 101 HRC scandals which arent yet fully vetted or potentially exploitable by the Right. She said everything is in play, she made the vetted claim, so fair game. But we dont, we show some restraint. Appreciate it.

No. Its an example of the kind of bullshit tripe you and Hillary love. I thought she was vetted Auto?

Depends on what the definition of "this" is.

Just the facts, slurpy.

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