As Media Matters for America says thanks to Bob Woodward and friends everything is a 'gate' even though this email thing is much ado about nothing.
To be sure the media is trying everything they can to make it worse than Watergate maybe worse than the Holocaust. Just the worse thing that ever happened. I just saw her take questions on MSNBC from the press and do a pretty good job of it.
The Clinton folks are warning liberals this is not the time for bedwetting and that's right. I think she did pretty well. The media is determined to magnify this and magnify the Bernie threat. But she handled some hostile questions over emailgate in a very poised and confident way I thought.
She explained that the inquiries into the emails are pretty routine. She pointed out that private emails are used by many government officials in the State department other government departments and indeed many other parts of government. Like Jeb who has made public far fewer emails than she has.
The media is a broken record. They love the anti-Hillary narrative. They love to say that this email thing is just never going away. But we've heard that before. I remember the 90s. I think her coming out and answering these sorts of questions will hasten the merciful expiration of the shelf life of this non issue.
Chris Cillizza happily suggests 'Maybe Hillary is just not a very good candidate.'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/18/maybe-hillary-clinton-just-isnt-a-very-good-candidate/
As compared to who? Jeb Bush? Please. Hilary is a fine candidate and any fair-minded person who watched her in that press conference will admit that. What I do agree is that she needs to do this a few more times. Once she answers this phony issue publicly, it will die down.
After all, it's just not very interesting with The Donald running around.
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/18/9172653/trump-populism-immigration
Meanwhile, this is an interesting observation about how Hillary handled the BLM questions last week:
"The videos were filmed during a closed-door meeting following a campaign stop in New Hampshire last week, New York magazine reported early Tuesday."
"At first, Clinton gave a fairly canned response, citing her work with the Children's Defense Fund. She seemed to chastise the activists' questions and dodged the question about her and former President Bill Clinton's role in the rise of mass incarceration."
"You’re going to have to come together as a movement and say, ‘Here's what we want done about it,'" Clinton said to the activists in the video. "You can get lip service from as many white people as you can pack into Yankee Stadium and a million more like it."
"But when an activist called her response "victim blaming," Clinton had an incredibly candid response:"
"Look, I don't believe you change hearts. I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate. You're not gonna change every heart. You're not. But at the end of the day we can do a whole lot to change some hearts and change some systems and create more opportunities for people who deserve to have them to live up to their own God-given potential ... You can keep the movement going, which you have started, and through it you may actually change some hearts. But if that's all that happens, we'll be back here in 10 years having the same conversation."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/clinton-black-lives-matter-nh-videos
I think she's on the money there-you can't force a change of heart unless you're Winston in 1984 punishing ThoughtCrimes.. I must say I just don't get this idea that she's 'blaming the victim.' What I think is really going on is BLM wants her to blame herself. Yet, I don't buy that she 'participated in white supremacy.'
I assume they mean the War on Drugs. People can be mistaken. The WOD's was a very bad policy blunder but some sincere people thought it was for the good of society.What is the great mystery of this? That doesn't mean they are racists.
Hillary certainly didn't invent the WOD. She was once more supportive of it but has adjusted her opinion as she's realized it wasn't working like advocates claimed it would. What's wrong with that? BLM seems very caught up with blaming someone here. They seem to feel that if you don't blame yourself you are blaming the victim.
That doesn't follow. A mistaken policy is not proof of 'white supremacy.' Hillary is interested in changing that now why isn't that the takeaway? As for Welfare Reform why should she apologize for her husband's policies? BLM ought to understand that Women Matter as well.
"Over the years, Media Matters has cataloged at least 16 separate "Watergates" the right has accused the Obama administration of. They include Benghazi, the IRS, Obamacare, the BP oil spill, immigration policy, and Obama's birth certificate, among others."
"Watergate involved the president of the United States soliciting a break-in of a political party's headquarters, suggesting payment of up to $1 million in hush money to bribe the burglars, being ordered by the Supreme Court to produce secret recordings of the planning for the cover-up of the burglary, and the resignation of a president for the first time in U.S. history."
Unless the discussion is about events of that magnitude, it isn't Watergate.
"Watergate involved the president of the United States soliciting a break-in of a political party's headquarters, suggesting payment of up to $1 million in hush money to bribe the burglars, being ordered by the Supreme Court to produce secret recordings of the planning for the cover-up of the burglary, and the resignation of a president for the first time in U.S. history."
Unless the discussion is about events of that magnitude, it isn't Watergate.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/08/18/everything-is-always-watergate-clinton-email-ed/204996
The Clinton folks are warning liberals this is not the time for bedwetting and that's right. I think she did pretty well. The media is determined to magnify this and magnify the Bernie threat. But she handled some hostile questions over emailgate in a very poised and confident way I thought.
She explained that the inquiries into the emails are pretty routine. She pointed out that private emails are used by many government officials in the State department other government departments and indeed many other parts of government. Like Jeb who has made public far fewer emails than she has.
The media is a broken record. They love the anti-Hillary narrative. They love to say that this email thing is just never going away. But we've heard that before. I remember the 90s. I think her coming out and answering these sorts of questions will hasten the merciful expiration of the shelf life of this non issue.
Chris Cillizza happily suggests 'Maybe Hillary is just not a very good candidate.'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/18/maybe-hillary-clinton-just-isnt-a-very-good-candidate/
As compared to who? Jeb Bush? Please. Hilary is a fine candidate and any fair-minded person who watched her in that press conference will admit that. What I do agree is that she needs to do this a few more times. Once she answers this phony issue publicly, it will die down.
After all, it's just not very interesting with The Donald running around.
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/18/9172653/trump-populism-immigration
Meanwhile, this is an interesting observation about how Hillary handled the BLM questions last week:
"The videos were filmed during a closed-door meeting following a campaign stop in New Hampshire last week, New York magazine reported early Tuesday."
"At first, Clinton gave a fairly canned response, citing her work with the Children's Defense Fund. She seemed to chastise the activists' questions and dodged the question about her and former President Bill Clinton's role in the rise of mass incarceration."
"You’re going to have to come together as a movement and say, ‘Here's what we want done about it,'" Clinton said to the activists in the video. "You can get lip service from as many white people as you can pack into Yankee Stadium and a million more like it."
"But when an activist called her response "victim blaming," Clinton had an incredibly candid response:"
"Look, I don't believe you change hearts. I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate. You're not gonna change every heart. You're not. But at the end of the day we can do a whole lot to change some hearts and change some systems and create more opportunities for people who deserve to have them to live up to their own God-given potential ... You can keep the movement going, which you have started, and through it you may actually change some hearts. But if that's all that happens, we'll be back here in 10 years having the same conversation."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/clinton-black-lives-matter-nh-videos
I think she's on the money there-you can't force a change of heart unless you're Winston in 1984 punishing ThoughtCrimes.. I must say I just don't get this idea that she's 'blaming the victim.' What I think is really going on is BLM wants her to blame herself. Yet, I don't buy that she 'participated in white supremacy.'
I assume they mean the War on Drugs. People can be mistaken. The WOD's was a very bad policy blunder but some sincere people thought it was for the good of society.What is the great mystery of this? That doesn't mean they are racists.
Hillary certainly didn't invent the WOD. She was once more supportive of it but has adjusted her opinion as she's realized it wasn't working like advocates claimed it would. What's wrong with that? BLM seems very caught up with blaming someone here. They seem to feel that if you don't blame yourself you are blaming the victim.
That doesn't follow. A mistaken policy is not proof of 'white supremacy.' Hillary is interested in changing that now why isn't that the takeaway? As for Welfare Reform why should she apologize for her husband's policies? BLM ought to understand that Women Matter as well.
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