If I had a dollar for every time over almost eight years that I have heard Hillary Clinton explain, in so many countries as well as here at home, that we have regular, peaceful transitions of power in this country, I would give every dollar to Hillary for America.
Most recently, she made what has become a boilerplate remark of hers about our democracy when she appeared with President Obama in Charlotte.
Some of you might remember, that he and I competed against each other as hard as we could back in 2008. But when it was over, I was proud to endorse him and campaign for him.
And I’ll never forget when he called me the Sunday after the election, asking me to come to Chicago. It turned out he wanted me to be Secretary of State, and I don’t think anybody saw that coming – especially me.
And as I travelled on behalf of our country, a lot of people around the world asked how President Obama and I could work so well together after being such fierce competitors. In some places, the person who loses an election gets exiled or executed, not asked to be Secretary of State.
But President Obama asked me to serve, and I accepted. You know why? We both love our country.
That is how democracy is supposed to work. We just celebrated 240 years of independence. In America, we put common interest before self-interest. We stand together because we know we’re stronger together.
So it it especially jarring and disconcerting to hear crowds at the Republican Convention in Cleveland chanting “Lock her up.!” Really?
The Republican convention’s fixation on locking up Hillary Clinton is really disturbing
CLEVELAND — It’s pretty disturbing to hear a large crowd at a major party convention repeatedly call for the jailing of the leader of the other major party.
And I’ve heard that happen again and again at the Republican convention so far, as the clear favorite chant of the attendees is: “Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!”
It’s not just the crowd. Three speakers at the podium on the first day of the convention called for Hillary Clinton to be jailed.
And Chris Christie’s speech on day two, while nominally a critique of Clinton’s foreign policy judgment, was framed as a “prosecution” of Clinton in which he repeatedly asked the crowd whether she was “guilty” or “not guilty.”
Naturally, the crowd interrupted Christie four times with the “lock her up” chant. Indeed, the idea of sentencing Clinton to prison has been the only thing that’s really excited the crowd so far on this listless second day.
To me, all this seemed like a new crossing of a line and an ugly degradation of a norm in American politics.
The GOP’s preoccupation with imprisoning Clinton isn’t normal
07/19/16At any major party’s national convention, partisans aren’t going to use kid gloves when going after the other party’s nominee. It stands to reason that when Republicans target Hillary Clinton in Cleveland this week, they’re going to use every possible line of attack they can think of. It’s just how the game is played.But Vox’s Andrew Prokop picked up on GOP messaging from the first night of the Republican National Convention that goes much further than anything Americans are accustomed to.One of the most striking recurring suggestions of the Republican convention’s first day was that Hillary Clinton should be sent to prison.During retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s speech, the delegates began to chant, “Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!” Soon, Flynn agreed, saying, “Lock her up, that’s right! It’s unbelievable!”After noting some other speakers who called for Clinton’s imprisonment, Prokop’s piece added, “To me, all this seemed like a new crossing of a line and an ugly degradation of a norm in American politics.”He’s not the only who thought so. Independent Journal Review’s Justin Green, a conservative journalist, added, “Plagiarism is bad, but it’s remarkable that the headline news today isn’t that speakers at the RNC called for jailing the opposing nominee.”It’s no small detail. In the American tradition, partisans will blast rivals on every front, but voters are not accustomed to hearing calls for the incarceration of the other party’s presidential candidate.
We stand as the role model of bloodless transition for all the world. It is beyond not normal. Steve Schmidt, on MSNBC tonight, called it “Banana Republican” right after I remarked that I had never seen anything like this in this country.
No. This is not normal. It is not what we do. It is not how we act. It is not who we are. We are better than this.
Still4Hill 
This year’s RNC is a lynch mob masquerading as a political convention. The calls to “Lock her up!” are just short of the W. Virginia legislator’s demand that she be hung. Fortunately, his employer, United Airlines, where he is a pilot, has suspended him pending an investigation. This is not only not normal. It is really beyond the pale in a democratic nation. And I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the target of all this vitriol is the first woman nominee of a major American political party.
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Most people who have voted for Republican candidates in the past are not at the RNC. Sick, terrifying, demented…these are but three words that come to mind when thinking about those who support Trump and down ballot Republican candidates. On November 8 we all must go vote for Hillary Clinton and down ballot Democrats in every one of America’s states and territories.
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I have no words for this.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/20/donald-trump-s-thugs-execute-hillary-clinton-for-treason.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon
Well, at least there’s this.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/07/20/secret-service-investigating-trump-adviser-al-baldasaro-for-hillary-execution-comments.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl
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The RNC convention is the WORST. I can only watch the analysis at the end of each day and when they start playing clips I sometimes have to turn away until they end. It’s appalling.
It makes me so angry the false equivalents the media puts out there, that”both sides” are nasty. There is a difference between Dems calling out Trump’s shoddy business practices, his race baiting, etc., and Repub’s calling for death by firing squad, accusing a candudate’s spouse of rape, etc!
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The media bears huge responsibility for what’s going on right now, because they’ve been sanitizing and normalizing Trump for months. Hillary gets more negative coverage than a racist, misogynistic, nativist authoritarian. Just think about that for a moment. Anyone who believes Hillary’s gender has nothing to do with that is dangerously naive.
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