Anyway, here is reply to Zen from the Runelords forum:
I'm not a fan of Hillary Clinton. I'm really not. She is not the woman or the Democrat I would have chosen, if I could have selected one. However, I would vote for her a billion times over before I'd elect the looneytunes she's running against, who might actually destroy the human world if his pro-espionage, anti-NATO bromance with Putin happens to go sour one day. And I'm impressed with Chelsea Clinton, so someone had to be doing something right during those years and we can be pretty sure it wasn't Bill. I really do not like Bill Clinton. He skeeves me out, to use a technical term for it. My husband absolutely loves him and thinks he was a terrific winner of a Democratic president. Ugh! To put it mildly, I do not trust my husband's judgment of other people. However, I do trust my mom's judgment of other people fairly well, despite some lapses here and there, and she loves Hillary. She is also in the best position of anyone I know to judge it, because she has followed her far more closely and knows more about her. So I defer to Mom on this.
I suspect that some things I disliked about Hillary over the past 25 years have been characteristics she was forced to acquire as a woman in her line of work. Where Trump has skin like the inner membrane of an eggshell, she has the skin of a rhinoceros! She is a complete badass, and this seems like a good quality in a President. She's dealt with all kinds of the worst crap and managed to come up swinging. So I respect her even if I do think she has a regular tendency to lie. But her lying is more of the self-preservation-based dissembling they all do, while Trump's lying is the pathological, constant sort that makes you wonder if he has totally lost touch with reality or suffers actual brain damage. The server scandal - it happened because she had good reasons to want to conceal her communications, but she was stupid about how she did that, and then she should have come totally clean about it on day 1 and her instincts were to dissemble. That's bad. But it's not even in the same ballpark, city, state or universe as Trump-level dissembling! I do think Clinton's commitment to children and families in poverty is deep and will be effective if she's in the White House. So... there you go. Probably still voting for Gary Johnson. But I'd vote for Hillary over Trump for sure, and if the race seems close I'll vote for her. Right now I don't think my vote for her will matter but I do think it will matter for Gary, possibly. This is the wrong thread for it, but what can you do: her speech coincides with saving Sandpoint! No - I will move this to the other thread. And here it is.Statistics: Posted by Elle — Thu Jul 28, 2016 12:05 pm
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