Politics

What's in Your Ballot?

Here are the 2016 "Platform Statements" of both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. These statements, in essence, represent what we the citizens are voting for in this upcoming election.

Having been sensitized to what is commonly called "the war on guns", I find it  interesting to note that the Democrat Platform states, on page 39 under the heading of "Gun Violence", that they will "...ensure guns do not fall into the hands of terrorists, intimate partner abusers, other violent criminals...", when it was on their candidate's watch, as Secretary of State, that the administration conducted an "undercover" gun-running operation into a foreign country (Mexico); an operation that resulted in the death of at least two innocent American agents and the first sitting member of the Cabinet of the United States to be held in contempt of Congress; and, it is estimated that more than 200 Mexicans were killed by guns linked to the operation. 

I haven't heard any explanation from their candidate as to how she would do anything differently... What difference does it make now? 

Evidently, if you compare the (known) body count of Operation Fast and Furious with that of the Benghazi fiasco, then OF&F counts as a success in the eyes of Democrats.

/fl

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