Hillary Clinton pushed back at the corruption accusations that have clouded her 2016 presidential run in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview on Sunday, saying that she is held to a standard that other politicians are not expected to meet.
“I will take responsibility for any impression or anything I’ve ever done that people have legitimate questions about,” Clinton said in her first joint interview with running mate Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA).
But Clinton mentioned the “concerted effort” to convince people that her actions were not always above board, saying “I often feel like there’s the Hillary standard and then there’s the standard for everybody else.”
Asked to elaborate, Clinton said last week’s Republican National Convention saw plenty of the “unfounded, inaccurate, mean-spirited attacks” that she is regularly subjected to.
“I don’t want to try to analyze the reasons,” she said. “I see it. I understand it. People are very willing to say things about me, to make accusations about me that are—I don’t get upset about them anymore, but they are very regrettable.”
Clinton affirmed that she “absolutely” made a mistake by using a private email server as secretary of state, but said there would “not be any such thing in the White House.”
Of the frequent calls to “lock her up” made at the GOP convention in Cleveland, Clinton said she felt not threatened but “sad.”
“I don’t know what their convention was about, other than criticizing me. I seem to be the only unifying theme that they had. There was no positive agenda. It was a very dark, divisive campaign. And the people who were speaking were painting a picture of our country that I did not recognize. You know, negative, scapegoating, fear, bigotry, smears. I just was so—I was saddened by it,” she said.
Sadly, it is an integral part of what passes for the modern GOP, deny, deny, deny; attack, attack attack. What makes it more egregious is that there is no filter on these attacks, no one in the media who will stand up and say, “But crime is actually going down” “Didn’t Colin Powell and Condoleeza RIce also use private email servers?” “There is no evidence that Hilary caused Benghazi”.
Without acknowledgement of the facts, these attacks, slanderous as they are, will simply continue.
Both Clintons have a knack for waiting too long to address false allegations.
But Clinton mentioned the “concerted effort” to convince people that her actions were not always above board, saying “I often feel like there’s the Hillary standard and then there’s the standard for everybody else.”
Bad move. I’m voting for Sec. Clinton in November. But even if she is correct in her analysis (and I think she is), the answer should be: “Politics is a tough game. If you’ve been at it as long as I have, you know a lot of mud is going to get slung your way. In fact, I probably know that better than just about anyone else. But I can handle it, because the issues we’re fighting over are much more important than whether I get to play on an even field all the time.”
I agree, but maybe she has tested this response on focus groups already.
Seems like whining. Maybe the idea is to provoke Trump by the appearance of weakness into an insane tweetgasm of insults.
C`mon Girl , you can do it .