At Huffington Post H. A. Goodman argues that there will be an asterisk next to Hillary Clinton’s name until the FBI investigation of her private email server has been completed one way or the other:
At the end of the day, Americans everywhere will realize that the rule of law applies to Hillary Clinton, and that honesty and integrity will propel Bernie Sanders to the presidency. The FBI’s reputation is at stake, both globally and at home, and I explain why in this YouTube segment. James Comey and the agents who’ve devoted endless hours to Clinton’s email investigation will soon disclose their findings to the American people; to think nothing will result from this year-long probe is naive. Remember, the FBI doesn’t give parking tickets.
There will indeed be political repercussions for Clinton, especially if the FBI recommends indictment, and Democrats will need Bernie Sanders. The DNC will need Bernie Sanders. The country will need Bernie Sanders.
We haven’t veered that far away from our former value system as nation, when possible criminal conduct meant the end of presidential campaigns, for the DNC to continue to back Hillary Clinton, even after the FBI recommends indictments.
Think I’m nuts?
Basically, I think that horse has already gotten out of the barn. What will be will be.
I wish the FBI had seen fit to accelerate its investigation so that whatever happens happened before we were so deeply into primary season but, alas, that was not to be. If you think the legitimacy complaints that followed the 2000 election were bad, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. It was a simpler, gentler time.
2000? The guy who will probably will be the GOP nominee got his political start by claiming the President was a secret Kenyan.
And this is the sort of thing that makes liberals so smug. An incredibly close election and a 5-4 party line Supreme Court decision vs a dumb theory about fake birth certificates that half the country believes in. They aren’t even remotely close, and yet for conservatives they’re both examples of how a president’s legitimacy is questioned.
Supposedly the reasons being given for such a long investigative process of Clinton’s email is that there are actually two prongs to this investigation — one surrounds legal issues dealing with her role as SOS in keeping her emails protected and secure, while the other deals more with possible quid pro quo events involved with her official role as SOS, and benefits possibly derived by her position for the Clinton Foundation. The latter is said to involve more FBI agents, as the collection of information is much more convoluted, entailing an entanglement of foreign entities and nations to investigate. It has also been disclosed that a hacker was extradited from abroad and is being held here for questioning. Supposedly this hacker was able to easily access Clinton’s emails, reading many of them. The fact that the FBI would spend resources on such an extradition is described as “unusal.”
The guy who will probably will be the GOP nominee got his political start by claiming the President was a secret Kenyan.
That Secret Kenyan refrain will come up a lot should Trump be the R nominee. Lost in these delightful histrionics, though, will be that Obama himself did not correct biographical information about his birthplace being Kenya until he ran for POTUS. And, even when these conspiratorial claims came up Obama treated them with kind of smug bravado, seemingly enjoying the controversial tension it brought to his presidency. I personally think Obama acolytes relish such deflective incidents so they can embellish their own claims dealing with racism and Obama.
Uhh, jan, the article says he was born to an American mother. Also, by the time Trump got involved it was already well known he was born in Hawaii. Try again.
Steve
Steve,
No one ever questioned Obama’s mother’s citizenship as being American — albeit a reluctant one. And, by the time Trump got involved the contentiousness of his birthplace was riddled with skeptics, especially due to the fact he would not release the long form of his birth certificate for a long time. Obama, IMO, could have put this thing to bed long before Trump’s involvement if he had wanted to.
Personally I think this email server scandal won’t hurt her too much – which is different from saying it’s serious – it’s very, very serious. It’s just that it’s complicated and based on arcane rules that most Americans aren’t aware of, much less knowledgeable about. Her supporters will chalk this email thing up to just another right-wing conspiracy.