DonCoquixote
DonCoquixote's JournalYou make some point, but I have some rebuttals
NO, I do not think this scandal is a big as the desperate GOP would make it, however, if we attempt to evade obvious facts, we will look like we are hiding, and of course, the attempts to deny something often wind up worse than the actual offense (something Hillary should have learned after helping Bill recover from HIS mistakes.)
If she wanted a private server, it was dumb to put it in her house. She could have personally requested the best minds in Silicon Valley to make a "personal server" that was literally the cutting edge, something outright ridiculous, a veritable "moon shot" of security. Yes, the GOP would have howled, but what could they have said? "Oh, hey GOP, do you WANT the Chinese or Iranians to troll Hillary's email?" She would have been sympathetic, indeed, the whole thing could have been a publicity stunt to "raise awareness" of cyber attacks, the sort of public service message that every politician has been cutting for 20 years.
You think Microsoft and others would not have pulled out all the stops so that they could film that coveted super bowl commercial "When Hillary wanted her email safe, she came to us." They could have made a server that was an Iron Tower of Doom, something to scare off every hacker from Johnny in his basement to Al-Qaida and Isis.
But no, she played it private, and tried keeping it hidden in her basement like something out of a bad horror novel. Someone who has been fighting the GOP for years should know better to to give them ammo. No I do not think what she did was illegal, especially as the laws on Cyberspace are so murky that even the record companies can't stop their records from being downloaded, and toothless enough that the hackers outside of North America frankly do not have to give a damn. However, it was foolish, which is bad for someone whose main selling point is experience and wisdom.
and before people start howling the mind numbing chants of "YoujusthateHillary" let me say I know as of now I need her to win, because until such time as this nation rewrites it's laws, either slot a or slot B wins. However, Hillary has an entourage of people whose whole purpose is to pull her this way and that, feed her whatever she needs to keep the show going, and who know that if Hillary the Rock Star falls, they will have their fat paychecks anyway. Giving someone everything they want and none of what they need is a surefire recipe for tragedy, and if Hill's entourage manage to crash her again, we know they will just be hired for the Debbie Wasserman Schultz campaign in 2020..
All of us will need each other, like it or not.
This is not about the primaries, this is about what happens afterword. Granted, during the primaries, both Hillary and Bernie people acted like they would not need the other, that somehow they tapped into enough of some groundswell/"what people really want" that they could win this without the people they were kind of unhappily married to, the people that made the big tent more of a shoving match.
Well, let me tell you equally, the Hillary person talking like they can unload the left, the Sanders person talking like they can unload the right, once the convention is done, it is not a matter of can we unify, but that we have NO choice. Yes, it looks like the GOP are a mess, but remember, they are banal, they can build a house on sheer hate, because that has been what their actual product was. Trump is just more honest about what he is selling. Once the conventions are done, everyone, from the media, to the super pacs, to the churches, to the crooked cops, will all UNITE, and fight the fight on all fronts. Will they spend gazillions, yes? Will they do their best to make sure everybody not a white male republican has a hard time voting and a harder time getting their votes counted? You know the answer. Will the Media act like the hucksters they are to make sure Trump looks good...you know the answer.
So, those of you who in the rpimaries acted like the firts thing you would do is get rid of the other ha;lf, sorry, and even if you dislike Hillary, we still need her to get trump out. Now, that there will be PRESSURE mounted on her to counteract PRESSURE being put, yes, Obama had no Honeymoon, and neither will Hillary. But let's get to the point where that pressure can be applied, aka, past Jan 20 2017.
what is progressive about wanting a no fly zone in Syria?
Not, this is not just an election issue, as many before 2016 were saying that we need to "help the rebels." I will say ths Hillary who did say "Assad must go."
But more important than that, what is worth risking that direct hot war with Russia?
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