If this is true I want to throw up!

[bkkyosemite]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/06/hillary-clinton-dogged-by-1975-rape-case/

[tularetom]

1. Better go find a bucket

[uponit7771]

2. She set up Arkansas first rape hot line based on this case,somehow that makes you want to throw up?!

wow

[CalvinballPro]

10. Sanders supporters are school in summertime: No class.

An old joke, but an appropriate one in this case.

[hereforthevoting]

3. My understanding is that this discourse is off limits

Former RW talking point.

Terrible either way.

[Buzz Clik]

4. Did you actually miss the 50,000 times it's been discussed here at DU?

Really?

[bkkyosemite]

7. Yes I actually did and she laughed how disgusting!

[bigwillq]

9. I missed it too.

First I am hearing about this.

[LWolf]

19. Yes.

I've been here for 13.75 years and this is the first time I've ever seen this information.

Of course, it could be that I've never considered Clinton worth paying attention to or discussing, so I've generally skipped most threads about her. Even in '08.

It's simply more information to support my rejection of Clinton as anyone I'd support for anything.

[grossproffit]

5. June 2014?

[lakeguy]

6. wow, just goes to show she will do anything to win...

even if she is on the wrong side of things. her laughing about how she 'won' shows her lack of empathy for the victim as well. a child nonetheless.

her life seems like a string of competitions where she will do anything to come out on top, not caring about the damage she leaves in her wake. that's a dangerous type of personality.

[morningfog]

8. She did good for her client as a defense attorney.

This is not a mark against her in my book.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. Yep, it's part of the job.

If you're defending someone, you can't tank the defense. You work for the defendant.

A dirty, rotten, scheming lawyer. Exactly who I want in my corner.

(Disclaimer: this does not mean I want her as president, merely that, like you said, it should not count)

[kristopher]

16. Ethics are self imposed limits

[exboyfil]

18. As portrayed I still see two troubling aspects

Doing a job like that should not be funny. She should have just said I defended the client ethically to the best of my abilities.

She should never have implied that the client was guilty by her comment regarding the polygraph. That seems to be an ethical breach.

I think how she got the case should not matter. Everyone is entitled to representation.

[morningfog]

20. The work often requires a good dose of gallows humor.

And whether someone actually did it is a separate question from legal guilt and innocence.

The question is whether the state proved the case beyond a reasonable doubt. At any rate, this doesn't bother me in the least.

[exboyfil]

21. A defense attorney still cannot imply

that their client did it.

Would this board be so quick to not condemn gallows humor for a U.S. serviceman talking about killing an enemy commandant. I remember being horrified at General Schwarzkopf joking on national television about someone escaping from a bridge that was being blown up.

[JaneyVee]

12. Bernie was writing rape essays in 1975

Hillary was a young lawyer who was forced to take the case. Thats how the Constitution works.

[kristopher]

15. She said that under fire, but earlier said she took it as a favor to the prosecutor.

ETA: replying to the statement that she was forced to take the case.

[Tarc]

13. Any citizen, no matter how repugnant the crime, is afforded due process

Yet another silly toss-the-kitchen-sink attack.

[kristopher]

14. I've never heard of this.

I didn't listen to the tapes, but attacking a 12y/o rape victim in that way on behalf of a perpetrator that you think is guilty?

Is there a statute of limitations on massive ethical judgement failure?

[geek tragedy]

17. You hate due process. Typical.

Thread is trash so trash thread