None. Usually even Democrats preface this conversation by saying 'Well she did show poor judgment here...' and thereby largely conceding the narrative that there is at least something here though what it is keeps changing.
Even Hillary has now made this concession on August 26 and I think that was a mistake.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/hillary-clinton-email-server-updated-timeline
Please remember that no one cared about her email until she ran for President.
"This issue has nothing to do with her email. Nobody cared about Clinton's email until she ran for president. Clinton said as much at a campaign rally. She should dispense with the formalities of her Oct. 22 appearance before the House "Benghazi" Committee and say that to the Republicans' faces during the hearing."
"It should be clear to anyone paying attention that Clinton did nothing wrong. She followed every law and protocol that was in place when she was Secretary of State. She did what others in similar and other offices have done."
"Republicans have actually conducted business from non-governmental accounts anderased millions of emails. There was no howling about that from outraged Republicans."
"Never mind about what she "should have known" or "could have known." None of that matters. The Republicans have continually leaked information, much of which has proven to be false and misleading."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-brodsky/why-a-biden-run-is-straig_b_8062710.html
In truth she has cooperated way too much with this phony issue. Colin Powell and Susan Rice never did when they got FOIA requests.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/ok-heres-what-hillary-should-have-said.html
In my last post I noted that Dick Cheney wants Biden to run.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/dick-cheney-wants-biden-to-run.html
I don't think this is the mandate Joe Biden wants.
Speaking of Cheney-who Sumner rightly says may have been our worst VP ever-he and Bush destroyed millions of emails and this hasn't been brought up once by the vociferous Beltway media.
"Even for a Republican White House that was badly stumbling through George W. Bush's sixth year in office, the revelation on April 12, 2007 was shocking. Responding to congressional demands for emails in connection with its investigation into the partisan firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the White House announced that as many as five million emails, covering a two-year span, had been lost."
"The emails had been run through private accounts controlled by the Republican National Committee and were only supposed to be used for dealing with non-administration political campaign work to avoid violating ethics laws. Yet congressional investigators already had evidence private emails had been used for government business, including to discuss the firing of one of the U.S. attorneys. The RNC accounts were used by 22 White House staffers, including then-Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who reportedly used his RNC email for 95 percent of his communications."
"As the Washington Post reported, "Under federal law, the White House is required to maintain records, including e-mails, involving presidential decision- making and deliberations." But suddenly millions of the private RNC emails had gone missing; emails that were seen as potentially crucial evidence by Congressional investigators."
"The White House email story broke on a Wednesday. Yet on that Sunday's Meet The Press, Face The Nation, and Fox News Sunday, the topic of millions of missing White House emails did not come up. At all. (The story did get covered on ABC's This Week.)"
"By comparison, not only did every network Sunday news show this week cover the story about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emails, but they were drowning in commentary. Between Meet the Press,Face The Nation, This Week, and Fox News Sunday, Clinton's "email" or "emails" were referenced more than 100 times on the programs, according to Nexis transcripts. Talk about saturation coverage."
"Indeed, the commentary for the last week truly has been relentless, with the Beltway press barely pausing to catch its breath before unloading yet another round of "analysis," most of which provides little insight but does allow journalists to vent about the Clintons."
"What has become clear over the last eight days however is that the Clinton email story isn't about lawbreaking. "Experts have said it doesn't appear Clinton violated federal laws," CNN conceded. "But that hasn't stemmed the issue that has become more about bad optics and politics than any actual wrongdoing." The National Law Journal agreed, noting that while the story has created a political furor, "any legal consequences are likely to prove negligible."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/03/10/flashback-when-millions-of-lost-bush-white-hous/202820'
I'm asking you, I'm begging you, liberals Democrats. Say it with me: the issue over Hillary's emails is pure politics and nothing else. Full stop.
Even Hillary has now made this concession on August 26 and I think that was a mistake.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/hillary-clinton-email-server-updated-timeline
Please remember that no one cared about her email until she ran for President.
"This issue has nothing to do with her email. Nobody cared about Clinton's email until she ran for president. Clinton said as much at a campaign rally. She should dispense with the formalities of her Oct. 22 appearance before the House "Benghazi" Committee and say that to the Republicans' faces during the hearing."
"It should be clear to anyone paying attention that Clinton did nothing wrong. She followed every law and protocol that was in place when she was Secretary of State. She did what others in similar and other offices have done."
"Republicans have actually conducted business from non-governmental accounts anderased millions of emails. There was no howling about that from outraged Republicans."
"Never mind about what she "should have known" or "could have known." None of that matters. The Republicans have continually leaked information, much of which has proven to be false and misleading."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-brodsky/why-a-biden-run-is-straig_b_8062710.html
In truth she has cooperated way too much with this phony issue. Colin Powell and Susan Rice never did when they got FOIA requests.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/ok-heres-what-hillary-should-have-said.html
In my last post I noted that Dick Cheney wants Biden to run.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/dick-cheney-wants-biden-to-run.html
I don't think this is the mandate Joe Biden wants.
Speaking of Cheney-who Sumner rightly says may have been our worst VP ever-he and Bush destroyed millions of emails and this hasn't been brought up once by the vociferous Beltway media.
"Even for a Republican White House that was badly stumbling through George W. Bush's sixth year in office, the revelation on April 12, 2007 was shocking. Responding to congressional demands for emails in connection with its investigation into the partisan firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the White House announced that as many as five million emails, covering a two-year span, had been lost."
"The emails had been run through private accounts controlled by the Republican National Committee and were only supposed to be used for dealing with non-administration political campaign work to avoid violating ethics laws. Yet congressional investigators already had evidence private emails had been used for government business, including to discuss the firing of one of the U.S. attorneys. The RNC accounts were used by 22 White House staffers, including then-Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who reportedly used his RNC email for 95 percent of his communications."
"As the Washington Post reported, "Under federal law, the White House is required to maintain records, including e-mails, involving presidential decision- making and deliberations." But suddenly millions of the private RNC emails had gone missing; emails that were seen as potentially crucial evidence by Congressional investigators."
"The White House email story broke on a Wednesday. Yet on that Sunday's Meet The Press, Face The Nation, and Fox News Sunday, the topic of millions of missing White House emails did not come up. At all. (The story did get covered on ABC's This Week.)"
"By comparison, not only did every network Sunday news show this week cover the story about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emails, but they were drowning in commentary. Between Meet the Press,Face The Nation, This Week, and Fox News Sunday, Clinton's "email" or "emails" were referenced more than 100 times on the programs, according to Nexis transcripts. Talk about saturation coverage."
"Indeed, the commentary for the last week truly has been relentless, with the Beltway press barely pausing to catch its breath before unloading yet another round of "analysis," most of which provides little insight but does allow journalists to vent about the Clintons."
"What has become clear over the last eight days however is that the Clinton email story isn't about lawbreaking. "Experts have said it doesn't appear Clinton violated federal laws," CNN conceded. "But that hasn't stemmed the issue that has become more about bad optics and politics than any actual wrongdoing." The National Law Journal agreed, noting that while the story has created a political furor, "any legal consequences are likely to prove negligible."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/03/10/flashback-when-millions-of-lost-bush-white-hous/202820'
I'm asking you, I'm begging you, liberals Democrats. Say it with me: the issue over Hillary's emails is pure politics and nothing else. Full stop.
Democrats should not do any hand-wringing in public over it as it just feeds the media narrative it's so hungry to keep spinning.
Like Obama's 2008 campaign, let's agree that over emailgate at least there is no bed-wetting allowed.
UPDATE: While it's sort of a peripheral point-as Chris Christy is a peripheral candidate at best-he too used private email.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chris-christie-defends-private-email-use
UPDATE: While it's sort of a peripheral point-as Chris Christy is a peripheral candidate at best-he too used private email.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chris-christie-defends-private-email-use
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