[johnforbes]

Why was it okay that Barry O spent his high school years admittedly puffing pot (including in closed cars to get even more high) and buying crack when he had the money?

Source: Barry's Books

[Clownkicker]

johnny, attempted rape is forever. The victims don't escape it the rest of their lives.

You really need to learn something about PTSD. You might be able to help a friend someday that you would otherwise just tell to stop whining and man up.

And the other issue is not Kavanaugh's drinking in high school that nobody cares about. It's the lies he's telling the Senate about it in the present, not to mention his really disrespectful attitude displayed toward what would be a co-equal branch of the government.

Now, who did Obama harm with his pakalolo consumption...besides possibly himself?

[johnforbes]

Credibility springs from evidence.

Ford had none, and even the folks she mentioned as backup did not do that.

Had Feinstein been honest, this would have been handled in closed session in July or August, the routine investigation done, and Kavanaugh confirmed already.

Given all that has transpired, is anybody now even sure Ford ever saw a therapist at all?

She clearly lied about flying...

[Clownkicker]

No, credibility in this sort of scenario springs from plausibility, believability, and sincerity.
A lack of credibility springs from evasiveness, defensiveness, diversions, loss of temper, and disrespect of those doing the questioning.



Ford never said she didn't fly. She just said she was afraid of flying, just as thousands of other people who fly every day.
What does that have to do with anything?


My wife had a real fear of heights and things like walking out in the middle of 20-foot wide bridges where it was impossible to fall off. But when she walked with me on a bridge, she could walk to the rail and look down, she wasn't afraid then. That doesn't mean her fear wasn't real or was faked. It just means she could face her fear under certain circumstances.

You insist on looking at this with a simplistic mind that ignores the reality of this sort of thing. It isn't all this or all that all the time. But for some reason you're willing to take an ex-boyfriend's word as gospel about how she appeared to handle the situations when he might not have a clue what she was actually facing inside.

I know a woman who lived in a small house because that was what she could afford, but she lived in fear of it every day. She slept on the living room floor on pillows because she was afraid of being trapped in the bedroom by an intruder that was unlikely to ever come. On the living room floor she felt she could go out either the front door or the back door depending on where the intruder entered. But she still never slept well when she was alone, no matter where she slept.

This stuff isn't rational or reasonable. You're trying to make logical sense out of things that aren't logical. The residual effects of the assaults they endured left them a mess inside for decades, despite quite successful careers in medicine and business. They appeared in control, fearless, and quite competent at all times. Except when you really got to know them and they let you in.

As to Kavanaugh's credibility...if I knew nothing else about him, I would have trouble believing a word he said simply because of his demeanor under questioning. This isn't a court of law. I don't need to prove anything. But I can make a call based on my best judgment of character from listening to them, just as a jury does when deciding the credibility of any witness. Add to that the fact that I personally heard him lie for no reason about stupid things that are provable. Who does that? Not a qualified Supreme Court Justice.

[namngulfvet]

johnny, attempted rape is forever. The victims don't escape it the rest of their lives.

You really need to learn something about PTSD. You might be able to help a friend someday that you would otherwise just tell to stop whining and man up.

And the other issue is not Kavanaugh's drinking in high school that nobody cares about. It's the lies he's telling the Senate about it in the present, not to mention his really disrespectful attitude displayed toward what would be a co-equal branch of the government.

Now, who did Obama harm with his pakalolo consumption...besides possibly himself?

So here we have our fake pretend expert who claims he knows it all.. Tell us Clown when was Kavanaugh convicted of "RAPE"? PTSD! Really! you know all about PTSD!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

The only thing you know is what your handlers tell you sheep boy.. your a good little communist Lesh..

[Clownkicker]

Go away, dumbfuck, grownups are talking.

[namngulfvet]

Go away, dumbfuck, grownups are talking.

Ya! that leaves you out for sure there sheep boy :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[johnforbes]

Was it Hemingway who said courage was "grace under pressure"?

Anyhow, people who have been in combat all admit they were afraid but were able to still function.

The reason that I jumped out of an airplane the first time was to conquer fear of heights.

That never worked, but I was able to do it because everything below looks like a postcard from a plane.

So it is possible that Ford coped with a fear of enclosed spaces, and possible that in expensive Hawaii she just couldn't afford more than a 500 sq ft apt on a grad student stipend.

But she flew a lot, for business and also recreation, and she or her lawyer told the Senate this fear was part of her need for delay, and we now know she was busily consulting with Democrat lawyers while flying to her grandmother's funeral.

And she was in Bethany part of the summer -- an easy drive to D.C.

And she said she didn't know Senate staffers would have flown to California to take her testimony when anybody with a TV, a radio, or a computer knew that.

Sum it all up and Ford had nothing whatever to confirm her claims.

Feinstein should have kept this confidential, and should have gotten her story behind closed doors in July and let investigators check it.

Instead, Democrats exploited her in public for the sole purpose of knocking out Kavanaugh, and delaying the process and hoping to retake the Senate come election day.

[elklindo69]

Instead, Democrats exploited her in public for the sole purpose of knocking out Kavanaugh, and delaying the process and hoping to retake the Senate come election day.

Thanks for calling Mitch McConnell hypocritical partisan shit-stain...