Clinton's campaign is being busted up by a story with long legs but no substance. Drawn in by unrelenting Republican wolf calls, the press wags its tongue and breathlessly reports each e-mail non-event. Unlike Republican paradigms of virtue, Hillary neither mislead this nation into a costly war, nor shared classified information with a lover/biographer.
Hillary's sin is an understandably excessive concern for her privacy, after decades of false scandals with names like Whitewater and the death of Vince Foster. Hopefully the voting public will not dance to the constant drumbeat of challenges to Clinton's integrity. Let them instead march to the poles to vote for the most qualified candidate to run for the presidency in my lifetime.
Showing posts with label E-mail scandal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label E-mail scandal. Show all posts
Monday, September 14, 2015
Friday, August 21, 2015
A Matter of Perspective
Ironically, the party that brought us the "I am not a witch," candidate is all in on a witch hunt. The e-mail "scandal" has all the incendiary markings of the classic hunt. Believing that Hillary must be guilty of something, the ends justify the meanness. The media, unwilling to pay its debt to the truth, is a Greek chorus. Even the grand old lady, the NY Times, has done more retracting than didacting.
Of course, prior Secretaries of State, including the beloved Colin Powell, used a private e-mail for official duties. More important is to look at the small almost imperceptible ant hill this represents as viewed from the mountain of a real scandal.
Ambiguous and faulty intelligence was forged into an incontrovertible case for war with Iraq. To date, the most we know is that out of tens of thousands of e-mails, a few e-mails contained material that, after Hillary sent them, some agencies marked or considered classified. The result of Bush and Chaney mishandling and interpreting intelligence was thousands dead and wounded. Hillary's errors if any were hardly life threatening. The war cost 2 trillion dollars. Hillary's errors had no cost, unless you consider the millions spent fruitlessly investigating Benghazi.
Trump and others have proclaimed the handling of e-mails makes Hillary unfit to be president. George W. Bush served two terms. The Grand Old Party acts like it is emerging from the womb. Trump and company should take a deep breath before wailing. A slap on the back wouldn't be a bad thing either.
Of course, prior Secretaries of State, including the beloved Colin Powell, used a private e-mail for official duties. More important is to look at the small almost imperceptible ant hill this represents as viewed from the mountain of a real scandal.
Ambiguous and faulty intelligence was forged into an incontrovertible case for war with Iraq. To date, the most we know is that out of tens of thousands of e-mails, a few e-mails contained material that, after Hillary sent them, some agencies marked or considered classified. The result of Bush and Chaney mishandling and interpreting intelligence was thousands dead and wounded. Hillary's errors if any were hardly life threatening. The war cost 2 trillion dollars. Hillary's errors had no cost, unless you consider the millions spent fruitlessly investigating Benghazi.
Trump and others have proclaimed the handling of e-mails makes Hillary unfit to be president. George W. Bush served two terms. The Grand Old Party acts like it is emerging from the womb. Trump and company should take a deep breath before wailing. A slap on the back wouldn't be a bad thing either.
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