We now know what it must have been like reading Caligula’s biographer
Is it possible server-gate will achieve the opposite of what Republicans want and make Hillary Clinton seem more personable—and popular? So far, at least, the emails released this week seem to evoke less a Foggy Bottom Machiavelli at work than a fairly ordinary (if entitled) person, always in a hurry, who relies on her aides for just about everything.
This is like focusing on all the chocolate Jeffrey Dahmer ate. Hey, look, he likes marshmallows too! Just like us! And after all, only 3% of his diet was human flesh.
Let’s get real, folks: Hillary Clinton deliberately, maliciously, and incompetently transgressed national security laws in order to avoid transparency requirements that have been in place since the 1960s and defined for electronic mail since the early 1990s. Worse, she committed her crimes so negligently they almost certainly resulted in the loss to hostile foreign powers of every single piece of classified data she illegally stored on her illegal server. And we only know about any of this because her department’s refusal to provide adequate security in Benghazi (doing so might have lent credence to observations the administration’s Libya policy was failing badly) caused the first death of an American ambassador since the days of Jimmy Carter — and the attackers may well have known Ambassador Stevens’ security arrangements from her unsecured emails.
Remember, Petraeus was charged for (among other things) merely writing his appointments on a personal calendar.
The only questions remaining are what level of ridiculousness her defenders will reach, and whether this administration is too corrupt to prosecute a high-ranking official of the Democratic Party.
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Rules are for the hoi polloi. Hilary! isn’t part of the hoi polloi. Duh. Right captain-az?
Some right wingers claim that Obama is dragging Hillary through the mud in order to get Fauxcahontas in the White House. The Dem’s swung for the fences in 2008 and hit a home run. It makes sense that Obama wants a fellow traveler in his chair in 2017, not another centrist Clinton.
remember what hillary says to bill you kiss the asians and the black and I will kiss the mexicans and the jews and we will win the white house as often as we choose! its called demographics! e-mails are only important to white republicans who were not going to vote for her anyway. you only here from the minorities when they protest and when they VOTE! its called dehonkafacation!
more word salad from zoneyphoney with a healthy dollop of retard dressing
Keep in mind something someone once said to me back in another Clinton VS election. “We can’t elect Doyle. He’s too honest, he’d be a disaster in international politics”
OTOH, THIS Clinton has proved to be disaster in international politics, despite not having that handicap…
But he had a point – those who are too nice expect others to be the same. We need a cynic for president, not an idealist.
I think that’s Mitt Romney’s weakness, he’s just too darned nice. We need a real son of a bitch for president, as long as he’s our son of a bitch.
“our” meaning national interests of the United States as a whole, not particular positions on fringe issues such as compulsory serving of asparagus at breakfast or wolf scraping.
I think that gives Nixon just about 100% in both categories. O’bimbo might be a SOB, but goose egg in the loyalty category. Reports are Reagan could be ruthless if needed, so high marks in both. Bill Clinton 1 not sure, Hillarity! Clinton just gaggggh.