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| Email Scandal: Bad Day For The Hildebeest, A Good Day For U.S. | |
| 2015-08-02 | |
| [InvestorsBusinessDaily] Corruption: The third installment of released emails fell hard Friday on the Hillary Clinton campaign. If her candidacy lasts until the end of the summer, there's much more wrong with this country than we thought. Friday had to be an extraordinarily trying day for the Democratic front-runner. On the same day she releases a letter from her doctor saying she is fit to run for president, the latest tranche of emails showed that she is not fit to hold office. Even before the 2,000 pages containing 1,300 emails were dumped, the McClatchy newspaper chain was reporting that classified emails stored on the former secretary of state's private server held "information from five U.S. intelligence agencies." It also included "material related to the fatal 2012 Benghazi attacks." An evening earlier, the Washington Times reported the intelligence community was preparing for the possibility that Clinton's private email account was filled with "hundreds of revelations of classified information" that could damage national security
That statement was wrecked again by the Friday release of the emails. Much of the material from this third batch was redacted, indicating that it is classified. Maybe some were marked as classified just before release and well after they were sent. But all? Not likely. Some of the more interesting emails of the ones that could be read included: * Clinton's admission that "damn I am getting old." * A note from aide Huma Abedin telling Clinton that Defense Secretary Robert Gates' "office just called to say they needed call to be secure" -- apparently sent and read with no thought that Clinton's email server needed to be secure, as well. * An email from a State Department official complimenting Clinton on the coat she wore when landing in Kabul. Another said "she looked great in that blue outfit" she was wearing while saying some "gutsy" and "needed" things about Pakistan. No, it was not a good end to the week for Clinton. But after recent developments, perhaps a bad day for her is a good day for the country. Based on her record and her shambolic campaign, a Clinton return to the White House would take the country deeper into the malaise of the past 6-1/2 years. Sure, there are worse possibilities. Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders is one, and he's certain to become the Democratic front-runner if the Clinton campaign succumbs to scandal. But we doubt Sanders' appeal will go beyond the zealots who now back him. We don't think it would be taking a risk to say he's unelectable. Vice President Joe Biden is another possibility. He could take Clinton's spot. Yes, he's more electable than Sanders. But he's not quite as far left as Clinton. That's to America's advantage, small though it might be. Don't count Clinton out until she's gone. She has the favor of the press and the minds of devotees who would vote for her even if the emails showed she wants to establish Shariah law here. That's what scares us. | |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 On the same day she releases a letter from her doctor saying she is fit to run for president That ain't sayin anything. You can buy a doctor to say whatever you want these days. I want an independent, non-lying, honest, Constitutional loving psychiatrist to speak out. This woman is a narcissistic power hungry, lying leftist who believes the end justifies the means. She will only finish the job Obama started of dismantling this country. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-08-02 15:08 |
| #10 Agree with Glenmore, Sanders is borderline commie, but he's honest. Amazing what honest can do. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-08-02 13:54 |
| #9 Someone somewhere was stripping classification markings from documents and electronic communications and using cut and paste to send unmarked emails to Hildy. That person(s) is the key to getting this into a rolling prosecution of all of the top tier of the Clinton Machine. Don't tell me that a CART Team of the FBI can't work this if unleashed. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2015-08-02 13:03 |
| #8 >'Too big to fail is too big to be', but unfortunately he cannot comprehend that the logic applies to government as well as banks. Since governments control the volume of credit in the economy via reserve ratios, the too big government caused the too big banks. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-08-02 11:11 |
| #7 Saunders' appeal to the young is to a large degree due to his appearance of honesty. Heck, that appeals to me too, and I'm far from young. He says the same thing in the same accent regardless of audience, and we know where he stands, even if we disagree, which is rare these days. I even find an issue or two where I even agree with him - e.g. 'Too big to fail is too big to be', but unfortunately he cannot comprehend that the logic applies to government as well as banks. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-08-02 10:16 |
| #6 If it weren't for Friday afternoons we'd never find out what was happening. |
| Posted by: Matt 2015-08-02 10:12 |
| #5 Quick! Someone kill another Lion! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-08-02 09:55 |
| #4 Not-so-odd thing: Sanders is getting the support of the young, the harder-left, the higher-ed types, the gays, and they all tend to be white. Rodham, on the other hand, is being supported by the more traditional elements of the Democratic Party, such as unions and minorities, The money-changers are also lining up behind her (as well as a certain ex-guv from Florida.) |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-08-02 09:50 |
| #3 No RJ, gorb could be right. The question is a distraction from what? I've never been a member of the tin-foil hat brigade but the list of things this could be a distraction for is long and contains some really frightening things. My imagination runneth over. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-08-02 09:03 |
| #2 The word you want is "Disaster". |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2015-08-02 06:03 |
| #1 I can't help but think her campaign is a distraction. |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-08-02 04:08 |