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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary is "supremely qualified" and a "wonk" but doesn't know how to use a computer to check email? [View all]hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)14. To me she seems somewhat inept.
The picture I get from the emails is somebody who is as you describe. Royalty. Who receives her info filtered thru a group of sycophants who have their own agendas.
A lot of times, Hillary would snap her fingers and go, Gum. And Huma would fetch it. Abedin took her duties so seriously, the source recalled, that when she learned that Clinton had once carried her own bag up a flight of stairs in her aides absence, Abedin nearly burst into tears.
Insiders understand that if they want anything from Clinton, they need to hit Abedins direct number first. Says New York financier and Clinton supporter Alan Patricof, I don't even waste time trying to find Clinton directly. I only would go to Huma. Its like talking to Clinton. On the campaign trail, Abedin still travels everywhere with the candidate. She does some bag-schlepping, but her job has evolved: She carries her own purse (she has a collection of designer it bags), but tucked inside it is Clintons cellphone. Even aspiring first husband Bill has reportedly complained that he cannot get past Abedin.
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/05/06/huma-abedin-hillary-clinton-anthony-weiner-453204.html
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Hillary is "supremely qualified" and a "wonk" but doesn't know how to use a computer to check email? [View all]
Bread and Circus
May 2016
OP
Wouldn't the non-computer wise head of a highly classified govt. dept. NOT create her own system?
braddy
May 2016
#2
But they aren't making decisions that would affect us on technical matters they can't comprehend.
NWCorona
May 2016
#20
She knows what she's doing. She was avoiding FOIA requests by hosting (and deleting) her emails
NightWatcher
May 2016
#6
I think she is someone who is willing to spend the time to read briefing books and
karynnj
May 2016
#11
It is a standing laugh at my mom's card playing group--they love Hillary cause she
riversedge
May 2016
#12