Hillary only has herself to blame for the mess she’s in
By Michael Goodwin
NY Post
October 29, 2016 10:15pm
We must forgive Mark Twain for his error when he declared that “history never repeats itself but it often rhymes.” After all, he’d never met the Clintons.
If Twain were alive now, he would be astonished at how the headlines over the e-mail scandal roiling the presidential race are virtual repeats of the family’s 1990s saga in power.
The headlines are also an omen. A restoration of the Clinton presidency would be a restoration of the national and moral chaos they invariably create.
They can’t help themselves. They are corrupt and corrupters, the Typhoid Mary of politics.
Whether by nature or nurture, they are programmed to ruin. Friends, allies, institutions — all are stained by their touch.
And always, the Clintons blame somebody else. Now it’s FBI Director James Comey’s turn to embody their all-purpose bogeyman, the vast right-wing conspiracy. Somebody, sometimes everybody, is out to get them, unfairly of course.
The victim card is a Clinton family heirloom, but there are major problems playing it over Comey’s sudden reopening of the e-mail probe.
Clinton created the mess with her incredibly stupid decision to use a private server as secretary of state. Virtually every major issue dogging her, including her reputation for chronic dishonesty, was started or exacerbated by that decision, including the current one.
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#1: nolu chan To: All (#0)
“I don’t understand the controversy over Hillary’s attendance at an Adele concert. She probably just wanted to see how someone could fill an arena without having to pay the attendees and couldn’t sneak into a Trump rally.”
nolu chan posted on 2016-10-30 20:11:30 Reply Private Reply
#2: Pinguinite To: nolu chan (#0)
The author assumes that decision had no nefarious purpose. It may have been stupid in the sense that she chose to set up an insecure server, but she likely did so for the specific purpose of facilitating communications that bypassed normal state channels. If so, her intent was not stupid at all. At least no more stupid than any other criminal act.
If she needed a separate email server for legit purposes, as Sec of State, she could have simply allocated department funds to set one up, and had it done properly and securely by qualified IT personnel.
Pinguinite posted on 2016-10-31 00:16:56 Reply Private Reply
#3: nolu chan To: Pinguinite (#2)
You are correct. It was to facilitate and protect communications leveraging her position at State with income generation at the Ca-Ching Foundation. The Clintons are corrupt but they are not stupid.
nolu chan posted on 2016-10-31 01:37:25 Reply Private Reply
#4: redleghunter To: nolu chan (#1)
LOL. Self-made held hostage audiences. Wow look at how many people of cheering for Hillary! Well they want the performers to get on with the concert.
Considering pop 'artists' draw teenybopper under 18 crowds, these stops at concerts are ineffective.
redleghunter posted on 2016-10-31 11:16:05 Reply Private Reply
#5: VxH To: nolu chan (#1)
Rule #1: Nobody is smart enough to lie.
Rule #2: See Rule #1.
VxH posted on 2016-10-31 13:22:21 Reply Private Reply