House of Cards: If Bill didn't meet with Lynch, would we have had Comey's public recommendation?
See, Bill's no actual fool. He knows a damn conflict of interest. Common sense. But by creating it, he forced Lynch to effectively hand the decision to prosecute to Comey.
What could have happened, instead, is that Comey would have gone public with all the evidence, WITHOUT making a recommendation. To the point where it fell on Lynch to make a decision.
Bill Clinton made a master stroke. This could have become an innuendo laden clusterfuck for weeks as we awaited Lynch's decision.
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And like you, I HATE how some men not only look forward to "catfights," but actively provoke them. But I hate it even more when such attitudes come from women, whom one would think would be more conscious of the collective struggle. 
I was generally very fortunate with my work environment, both with women and with men. But I know too many who had experiences more like your own.
That must change. Women with attitudes like Andrea Mitchell's must either change those attitudes or get the hell out! That goes for men who have those attitudes too.
and how traumatic for you! It is true that too often those who connive and cheat project exactly those faults on others, never realizing that THEY are the problems. They can't understand that MOST normal people try to do as you did: try to do what the job entails, to show up, and try to be the kind of person that their employers THOUGHT they were getting.
And yes, Hillary HAS always shown up and she has performed. She has not merely pulled grandstand stunts or taken positions on issues that she knew would never fly, just so when those issues failed as they were bound to do without compromise, she could say that she was purer than thou. She has put her head down and done the work. She has listened to others and brought them along with her so that together they could accomplish good things for others. She has never failed to mention their contributions and has shown them how much she appreciates their input. She is not the kind of prima donna or diva that someone like Andrea Mitchell is.
Yes, Hillary has been vilified for years - and during this election cycle - by people who can't hold a candle to her. She is head and shoulders above her main primary opponent and light years ahead of Don the Con.
This, above all, is true: Haters gotta hate. And it should be considere - what that says about the haters, NOT about the object of their hatred.
They don't fool me. I KNOW they hate her. That's just plain ol' fact. Even my friend who spouts that same old Pox Noise shit - "I don't hate her. I just don't trust her." Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. Quit being cute. You DO hate her. Why don't you just admit it? You hate her guts and you resent the hell outta her. You hate the very fact that she exists, to rattle your comfort zone about a woman's "proper place." HOW DARE she intrude on your cozy little worldview that women should shut up and stay home and bake cookies, regardless what gifts they were born with, regardless what contributions they've made, regardless what achievements they've accomplished, regardless what dreams they've dreamed or goals they've set and met. Regardless. Haters gotta hate. And I think it says more about THEM than it does about her. A SHITLOAD more.
Since I've been through that kind of shit (granted - in a MUCH less prominent way than anything at Hillary Clinton's level) and faced similar hostility and resentment and efforts to screw me and stab me in the back and turn my boss or supervisor against me or spread rumors and shit about me in order to force me out of my job (which invariably, somebody else farther down the food chain thought should be rightfully his, OR hers), from the "who the hell does she think she is" department, THIS IS the lens through which I look at Hillary.
I had enemies, too. Whether I wanted them or not. Without even trying! And certainly not EVER intending to! And again, let me say that I'm a tiny speck on the back of a tiny flea, compared to Hillary Clinton. So is my experience and resume, versus hers. But I can totally relate. It always amazed me when I realized that I had made enemies in my business, thousands of miles away, from people I didn't know, never met, or only knew casually, having met them at some broadcasting convention or other such thing. People who resented my even being there. My existence! Broadcasting was and is and remains VERY competitive. Just by being, just by EXISTING, I was in the way of other women maybe slightly younger, who may have graduated a year or more after I did, may have entered the workforce later than I did simply because they were younger. Most of the women I worked with were ambitious. Just like I was. And most of them were cordial and professional and just trying to make their way and cut their own mustard. But there were those, and some were male as well, who resented the very fact that I was there in whatever job it might have been - and not them. They wanted that job and hated me for getting it instead. And some of 'em did everything they could to shit on me and get rid of me and bloody me up.
It blew my mind to realize I had enemies in cities I'd never even been to, much less worked in! People in broadcasting move around. Jobs come and go. Firings happen. You put the word out that you're available or that you're looking, and you'll undoubtedly find something. And hell, if you're working in L.A. but the job offer comes for Washington DC or Fort Lauderdale or Dallas/Fort Worth or Spokane WA, well, if you want the job, you move there, wherever it is. I know guys who were on their third and fourth divorces because their wives just got tired of being uprooted again and again and again. It happens. I have seen it. And in some cases, people move around and carry their resentments along with them. They don't hate you or resent you any less because they moved to a different station or network in a different market and you're not a factor in their own personal gain or loss anymore. Doesn't matter. Doesn't make them stop hating or resenting you.
I'm SO sorry 
that the GOP and all the Hillary haters out there didn't get what they wanted. But then again, they want her dragged away in leg irons. They want her head on a pike. They want her frickin' EXECUTED, forcryingoutloud. And they're not gonna get any of that. Boo fucking hoo. Call 'em a fucking WAAAAAAAAAAAmbulance. That's just too damn bad. It tells you far more about them, and none of it good, than it does about Hillary Clinton. She's just the brilliant and accomplished woman whose achievements and indeed whose very existence - ALL of that just threatens them oh so very grievously. They've always hated her, from the moment she declared that she "could have stayed home and baked cookies," because that's the real place in which THEY think she and all other women belong. Well, that's just too damn bad.
I suppose the big dinosaurs, if they'd had any reasoning capability, might have resented all those little bitty creatures evolving around them, that could outrun them and get out of their way and hide in tighter and unreachable places and survive and adapt to changing conditions that they couldn't.
The "luck" was just other people doing what made sense for them, like Lynch, or what circumstances compelled them to do, like Comey, or taking advantage of the situation, like the Democrats will, or grabbing at straws, like the House pubbies.
You can talk about Bill's poor self-control or his great political instincts, take your pick, I tend to like the great political instincts in this case, but who cares really? 
