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Gay Marriage Scandal

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Critics? Who Needs Em? However, Hillary's strategies aren't her only problem. She has been plagued with multiple stigmas, most critics favorite complaints are that she's a "flip-flopper", a liar, and that she plays the female card too often. She can be seen as a flip-flopper because of her statements in the past are the complete opposite of her current positions. Now I'm all for changing your opinions as time goes on, but there seems to be a current trend where she switches her positions when it benefits her the most in the polls. Let's take gay marriage as an example. She has always been supportive of gay marriage being legalized but adds seemingly homophobic comments afterwards. Like in January 2000 when she stated,"..and I think a marriage …show more content…

And it seems that Hillary has gained another piece that she has to scrape off with the e-mail debacle. If you've been living under a rock here's a brief summary of the dilemma. When Hillary was still Secretary of State she was told to use only a government server when dealing with emails for work, which can possibly contain highly classified information. So she decided to use a private email server instead. When she was found out she was asked to hand over the e-mails to be placed under investigation, she handed over about 30,000 emails while she also deleted 31,000 other emails due to them being personal. After being investigated by the FBI she wasn't charged with anything, but was deemed "extremely careless" by the FBI director. 22 emails were said to hold classified information, and now some experts say that there's a high possibility of her server being hacked. Now was she being just careless or was there a more sinister underbelly. Some people find it suspicious that over half of her emails were deemed that personal that they had to delete them before they could be investigated. Could she be hiding something that we don't know about? Hillary's main defense is that she never broke a specific law, and that other Secretaries have done the same thing. She has also said that she merely used the server out of convenience and that she regrets

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