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If that's a sincere question, I don't know if anyone can really explain it to you.
I'll address the larger question. I'm not going to dive into the attacking or defending of HRC, since the issue is not about her, even if your question is.
It's called corruption. Our elected officials are supposed to represent their constituents...the citizens. Represent them equally, without favor to those that can and do "pay to play." It's a kind of political nepotism.
Let me give you some related terms: bias; discrimination; inequity.
For the record, finding a way to spin a preferred candidate's weakness or problem into something that is okay does not help win votes; neither does it make the party, nor the nation, better or stronger. It simply enables the continued slide into corporatism.
And comparing Carter to Clinton? That's like comparing a meal made of fresh, organic, just-prepared ingredients to a stop at McDonald's. I lived through both of those administrations. I voted for both of them. Carter was my very first presidential vote. Who was the better president? I'd take Carter over Clinton every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Carter did not give me NAFTA. Carter did not eliminate the Fairness Doctrine. Carter did not repeal Glass-Steagall. He did not bring us welfare "reform" that devastated single mothers, especially if they weren't white. He did not sign the largest crime bill in history, which allocated $10 billion for prison construction, expanded the death penalty, eliminated federal funding for inmate education, intensified police surveillance and racial profiling, and locked up millions for nonviolent offenses such as drug possession.
That alone would put Carter well beyond Clinton when it comes to "doing good for the country." He didn't have to do anything at all to do better than that. He did do some good things, though: The Camp David accords, for example. There were plenty more, and some that, as with all presidents, I didn't support. The biggest and best contribution he made, in my opinion, though, is what he did NOT do.
Carter did not take us to war.
ruPaul? I'm somehow supposed to take his endorsement of Clinton as an endorsement of "Pay to play," or...???
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