Why are the doings of a private citizen overseas so much more important to you than what POTUS is up to right now?
Why do you care so much about the possibility that Hunter was trading on family connections, but studiously ignore the possibility that Trump is selling out our national interests to his buddies in Moscow?
The Donald is a sitting POTUS. Hunter is a private citizen, and so is his dad. Why do you apply such different standards to the Bidens than you do to President Trump?
Hypocrisy, that's what I think. Raw, partisan hypocrisy.
Tom
How about...because at the time he got the job, Hunter's daddy was the VP? How about...the Democrats are all excited about a possible quid pro quo that MIGHT have happened with Trump (though I personally fail to see how one can coerce someone into doing something if that someone has no idea that he IS being coerced...just sayin') , but are just fine with the VP bragging about pressuring Ukraine into firing a prosecutor by using the threat of withholding aid. He BRAGGED about it...forcing Ukraine to fire a prosecutor (never mind what the prosecutor was doing or not doing; look at what BIDEN did). He said:
And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev. And I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor. And they didn’t.
So they said they had — they were walking out to a press conference. I said, nah, I’m not going to — or, we’re not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You’re not the president. The president said — I said, call him. I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a *****. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.
So it was just fine for Obama and Biden to use foreign aid to pressure Ukraine into doing something that was strictly internal (and to listen to them, and to you, to get them to halt corruption), but NOT Ok for Trump to ask for the aid of Ukraine to investigate corruption....only in Trump's case, there was no threat to withhold the aid, and the supposedly coerced Ukraine had no idea that the aid WAS being withheld?
Wait. Isn't it common sense that if you are threatening someone in order to get them to do something, that your victim know he's being threatened? Like, perhaps...if you want to coerce a teller into robbing his bank by threatening to kill his family if he doesn't, don't you think it would be a good idea to tell the guy his family is at risk?
Biden certainly seemed to understand the concept just fine.
........as your commentary on the thing seems to point out quite well.
You say that his remarks were 'not well-worded." I think his comments were quite accurately worded. He said precisely what he meant.
