Innocent until proven guilty. I'm rather sceptical about "sudden revelations" popping out during the election season.
Yeah, as I said before with Bill, accusations based purely on he-said/she-said against powerful and high-profile individuals really should be taken with a grain of salt. There are strong reasons to believe that there are ulterior motives for one reason or another, and that also applies to Trump. Perhaps even more, given how much he has offended virtually everyone but white males.
It's just too easy to say this stuff. There has to be some sort of proof to substantiate their claims.
And yet, the allegations against Hillary Clinton aren't held to this same standard.
What allegations are you talking about?
If you are talking about the e-mail issue, this is under current Federal investigation. It's well documented, and not something that popped up out of the blue.
If you are talking about the 24 years of sleaze (Whitewater, Bill's Accusers, Benghazi, Vince Foster, the Rose Law Firm, the White House Travel Office firings) people have made their minds up about all of this, one way or the other. The facts aren't in dispute on any of this.
In all of these matters, Hillary Clinton did not violate any criminal laws. In all of these matters, Hillary behaved secretively, and in a manner that in no way reflected an appreciation for the public's desire for openness and candor, or the Biblical admonition to avoid not only impropriety, but the very appearance of impropriety. She can't admit fault in anything, and that quality ought to be troubling to voters (not that Trump has cornered the market on humility). Unlike many who can't admit fault (including, oddly enough, Trump), she deliberately tries to conceal, manipulate, and avoid events to escape being portrayed in a negative light. It's the kind of character that led to Nixon obstructing justice in the Watergate scandal when he didn't really have to. Nixon's vanity caused him to punt away plausible deniability in Watergate, and Hillary's vanity is of that type.
And Hillary Clinton is ruthless in ways that Obama has never been. Hillary Clinton, the hero of the Feminist Left, is the candidate for President who has run smear campaigns against women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual impropriety. She's the orchestrator of the "Nuts and Sluts" campaign drummed up to discredit Bill's accusers; behavior that would NEVER be tolerated from a male candidate, even a male who was a liberal Democrat with a pro-feminist record in office. The term for this is "incongruence"; a disconnect between your publicly stated positions and beliefs and your actual persona. While I agree that "authenticity" is often an overrated quality in public officials, there is an expectation of congruence (alignment of public and private personas) from our leaders and folks are not wrong to be uneasy when that is lacking.
