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Re:The Clinton System by RobertoG on Monday February 15, 2016 @02:43AM (#11101989)
I think is important quantify the problem and look into the numbers. I did and found it astonishing.

I mean, the campaign contributions for H.Clinton for all its career come from the usual suspects, but the quantities involved are ridiculous, if you compare it with the quantities she and her husband received from speeches. And then there is the Clinton foundation.

Any honest person that look into it should have a problem with this.

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Re:The Clinton System by quadrangle on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @12:48AM (#11108132)
That's all fair, but, as I've said elsewhere, I want people to be that much more offended about claims to be immune from bias than about the other sorts of corruption. Basically, I think Hillary's particular corruptions are less outrageous and dangerous than the message that people can be objective and immune to influence.

I think the number one most important lesson we can teach people in life overall is to understand the ways in which we all, as humans, are susceptible to bias. So I see Hillary's claims as an attack on this most fundamentally important principle and thus worse than any of her political dealings otherwise.

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