2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary's Email Scandal for Non-Techy People [View all]IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)There is no win for him here because this isn't about him - at the end of the day, it will be about Hillary and Obama.
If the FBI find nothing wrong, Democrats rightly will be expected to "let it go" because she will have been STUPID ABOUT TECHNOLOGY (which most of us have been - when was the last time you backed up your system, for example?) which wasn't in common use 25 years ago/is still evolving as we type.
If the FBI recommends ANY form of indictment to her OR HER IMMEDIATE STAFF, she needs to be toast for a multitude of reasons.
But this isn't about Bernie or even the Republicans. This is a Democratic mess because Obama was in charge of her, and she pulled this stuff on his watch. He has to decide if his legacy will include holding her accountable for it, or letting it go.
The problem is that career people know exactly how egregious this would be if it were them, plus the Blumenthal stuff, plus a few other things I didn't go into because it is a freaking rabbit hole and while my intuition is good, I am doing "keyboard kommando" just trying to wrap my own head around it, so "how serious are national security issues" has to be brought up.
She is a former First Lady. That might actually hold more weight than "Senator" or "Secretary of State" in the history books - none have ever been indicted before EVER. Does Obama want that on his watch? Or worse, does he NOT want it on his watch?
Let the FBI finish and then the facts will speak for themselves. Keep Bernie out of it. It's complicated and most people don't like complicated. Nuance is a difficult thing: heroes and villains are easier to understand, which is why we end up "rooting for the laundry" with team sports.
My fifty cents, anyway.