simple question: why didn't Hillary get out in front of this years or months ago?

[grasswire]

Someone should have anticipated that private emails would become a huge problem, surely and eventually.

Would have been much better to be in front of this story long ago, when it would not have affected a campaign.

[JoePhilly]

1. How do you get out in front of every crazy topic the RW will freak out about?

The RW is going to freak out, and the media will play along. The topic is anything they decide will outrage their base, which could be absolutely anything.

[joeybee12]

2. Since everyone knew about the emails a year ago, it's hard for her to anticipate

every phony right wing scandal that the idiots in the media latch on to.

[femmocrat]

3. Or why didn't she just follow the guidelines?

MSNBC is saying (right now) that this "rule" precedes her term as SOS.

I couldn't find a link to MSNBC, but here is a different one:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2015/03/10/hillary-clintons-emails-a-timeline-of-actions-and-regulations/

[DonViejo]

4. Because years ago it wasn't an issue....

even though House panels knew about it, they chose not to make an issue. And if you do a search of the site, you'll find comments from Congressman Adam Schiff that the Benghazi committee has copies of every email written by Secy Clinton. You might want to search for Issa's comments on Sunday, effectively saying; "much ado about nothing."

[Agnosticsherbet]

5. Collin Powel could have let her know it was a bad idea. He did it and most of his emails

have been destroyed.

Romney should have told her. He also destroyed his.


Jeb Bush could explain to her the wrong way to deal with emails.

President Obama Knew Hillary Clinton's Private Email Address, so he could have said something.

I think it is time she addressed the issue. I look forward to hearing what she has to say.

[FSogol]

6. Yeah & why didn't she get out in front of the next thing the GOP tries to exaggerate into an issue?

[ann---]

7. Better yet

Why didn't she follow the guidelines and NOT use her personal email.
Is she special?

[Vinca]

8. Because it was the norm for previous secretaries of state?

It doesn't matter what she does anyway, because it will never be enough for her critics. Trashing Hillary has been a national sport since the 1990's and it won't be ending anytime soon whether she releases every email she's ever written or not.

[TwilightGardener]

9. OK, no, setting up your own SERVER AT HOME was never the norm.

Email in 2009 was also different than email in 2000, in terms of government policy and security, as well.

[Vinca]

10. Maybe she was afraid her emails would be hacked on a government server.

I read a blurb somewhere from a State Dept. employee who pretty much said they were not terribly secure. If that's the case, and Hillary was planning to run for POTUS, you'd have every right wing hacker working night and day on it.

[TwilightGardener]

11. If her concern was protecting her political future, and NOT doing her SoS business

properly and within guidelines and policy, then she failed as SoS and was a bad choice for the job.

[Vinca]

12. You're proving what I keep saying. Nothing is ever good enough.

I'm no Hillary cheerleader, but I've never seen a woman dragged over the coals like Hillary has been. Nothing she does is every correct, enough, politically correct, socially acceptable, keeping in fashion, secure, etc., etc., etc. And it all started with her damn chocolate chip cookie recipe in 1992. Not good enough, Hillary. Not good enough.

[TwilightGardener]

13. I don't buy into the Clinton martyr myth, sorry.

She and Bill always leave a slight residue of impropriety (or downright sleaze) with nearly everything they do. This is perennial red meat for the GOP, and the Clintons don't seem to understand that their own actions and attitudes cause much of their own problems. Setting up your own system to bypass the federal government--WHO THE FUCK TOLD HER THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA??

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. The right wing has hounded the Clintons for over thirty years and all they have come up with...

The right wing has hounded the Clintons for over thirty years and all they have come up with is a consensual blow job. I believe actually that's the genesis of their animus; that they can't get one.

[TwilightGardener]

15. I don't really care. You'd think they would have wised up in 1993, or 1994, or

1995, or 1996, or 1997...but no...they just keep doing shit that, even to me as a Dem, looks shady or sleazy or improper. I don't care about the GOP hounding them. I don't make my voting decisions on sympathy for perceived persecution.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. I don't think your average American gives a rat's patootie about these or most so called scandals

Exhibit A:

[TwilightGardener]

17. I do, though.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. I don't know what to tell you. You own your feelings.

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Most folks are worried about more plebeian things; like paying the note on their car so they don't have to walk to work, paying their rent or the note on their mortgage so they aren't living in a box, making sure they have health insurance so their bout with the flu doesn't turn into pneumonia, et cetera.

[TwilightGardener]

23. While I don't think the average American is well-informed, I wouldn't

dismiss them as being totally oblivious and unconcerned of issues more abstract or removed from their daily lives either. Basic kitchen table concerns are important, but they won't totally eclipse things like foreign policy, government transparency, etc. Not to mention character issues. Remember that John McCain, in 2000, based his Presidential run on campaign finance reform, and got pretty far with that.

[HappyMe]

18. I agree.

If I had big political ambitions like she does, I would follow guidelines to the T. I would make damn sure there wasn't anything like this that could be dragged out, and make sure my staff operated on the up and up.

[BainsBane]

19. If she'd known it was a problem "years ago"

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She wouldn't have used private email in the first place.

[Lil Missy]

20. Because it's a non-issue.

[Sheepshank]

22. It's been done before, veven by GOP'ers

It was legal then. It's legal now

The witchhunters attraction to one of 1000's of inane shiney baubles is hard to anticipate...pretty hard to anticipate