Is Hillary Clinton Dishonest?

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Is Hillary Clinton Dishonest?

by Nicholas Kristof at the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/opinion/sunday/is-hillary-clinton-dishonest.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1

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One basic test of a politician’s honesty is whether that person tells the truth when on the campaign trail, and by that standard Clinton does well. PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking site, calculates that of the Clinton statements it has examined, 50 percent are either true or mostly true.

That compares to 49 percent for Bernie Sanders’s, 9 percent for Trump’s, 22 percent for Ted Cruz’s and 52 percent for John Kasich’s. Here we have a rare metric of integrity among candidates, and it suggests that contrary to popular impressions, Clinton is relatively honest — by politician standards.

It’s true, of course, that Clinton is calculating — all politicians are, but she more than some. She has adjusted her positions on trade and the minimum wage to scrounge for votes, just as Sanders adjusted his position on guns.

Sanders’s positions seem less focus-group tested than Clinton’s, and she can be infuriatingly evasive. Partly that’s because she’s more hawkish than some Democrats, and partly that’s because she realizes she’s likely to face general election voters in November and is preserving wiggle room so she can veer back to the center then.

Does that make her scheming and unprincipled? Perhaps, but synonyms might be “pragmatic” and “electable.” That’s what presidential candidates do.



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[bigwillq]

1. Yes. Most, if not all, politicians are. (nt)

[840high]

12. She has been and still

is much more dishonest than any politician in my voting life.

[Bluenorthwest]

2. When she's dishonest she's full tilt over the moon dishonest:

[Skwmom]

3. The Clinton Times that has been caught changing articles to negative articles about Bernie

Yeah, their opinion is really valid

That article is one hell of a whopper.

[JonLeibowitz]

4. Is Nicholas Kristof part of Brock's million-$ army? Of course the answer to his question is YES!

[LAS14]

5. Let's hear it for someone who...

... calculates to get into a position where she can continue to fight for working people and the disenfranchised!

[speaktruthtopower]

6. 1. She's not a natural politician..

2. She seems respected behind the scenes.
3. I think she could help herself a lot by just once conspicuously elevating principle over expediency and taking an unpopular stance about something she believes.

[Lizzie Poppet]

10. Is a pig's ass pork?

[bbgrunt]

11. LOL!