It's the morning after the first debate, and everything is pretty much as expected. So far, I have read columns explaining why Trump won big, why Hillary won big, why Trump is a monster, why Holt was unfair (although there are no columns praising Holt), and why Hillary is a monster. For the most part, if you told me only the name of the pundit, I could tell you what's in the column. So is it always. The quick polls on line have all gone to support Trump. Those include polls like the one for Time magazine in which over 1.5 million have voted and some others where the participation approaches one million. These are unscientific, however, to say the least.
Through all of this, one thing keeps bothering me. Why did Hillary Clinton choose to lie about something that is so clearly known to the country. She denied ever calling the Trans Pacific Partnership treaty the "gold standard" of trade deals. There's video of her saying just that, and it has been played millions of times on TV. All she had to say is that she changed her mind when she saw the final product, but she couldn't just say that. She had to lie. It's a character flaw that is a killer for me. I don't care if Hillary had more specific policies memorized to repeat on the debate stage. If this had been a collegiate debating tournament, she would have won because of those policies, but it was a presidential debate and all she brought was list after list of policies. Most people listening understand that even were she to win, most of those policies would never get passed and the few that did would be changed in a major way. We were watching to see just who Hillary really is. And she told us the answer: she's a pathological liar. Even when the truth is harmless, she just has to lie.
Through all of this, one thing keeps bothering me. Why did Hillary Clinton choose to lie about something that is so clearly known to the country. She denied ever calling the Trans Pacific Partnership treaty the "gold standard" of trade deals. There's video of her saying just that, and it has been played millions of times on TV. All she had to say is that she changed her mind when she saw the final product, but she couldn't just say that. She had to lie. It's a character flaw that is a killer for me. I don't care if Hillary had more specific policies memorized to repeat on the debate stage. If this had been a collegiate debating tournament, she would have won because of those policies, but it was a presidential debate and all she brought was list after list of policies. Most people listening understand that even were she to win, most of those policies would never get passed and the few that did would be changed in a major way. We were watching to see just who Hillary really is. And she told us the answer: she's a pathological liar. Even when the truth is harmless, she just has to lie.
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