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pipoman

(16,038 posts)
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 10:49 AM Aug 2015

The Email Scandal

My opinion is that the email scandal is made worse by refusal to be forthcoming with the reason for the private server, and not running full bore on that reason will cost her the primary.

I believe she used a private email server not because she was doing anything she needed to cover up, nor because the State department is antiquated, but because she doesn't trust the keepers of the keys.

Neither do the rest of us.

What better platform for a run? Ending the corruption which lead me to use a private email server.

Instead it is excuses which are obviously nonsense which not even the most naive among us could believe.

This leads me to think her run isn't about positive change in any way. It is about a personal legacy and making history as first husband and wife president of the US...something nobody else gives a single shit about. It may even lead one to believe it is about personal desire to exploit the corruption for her own benefit...either way, I can't support her in the primary because I believe strongly she is already covering up and lying, and I believe a lot of others feel the same...

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leftofcool

(19,460 posts)
2. Yea, that is probably why 87% of Dems support her
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 10:53 AM
Aug 2015

As well as the 200+ Congressional Dems, the Unions, many Governors etc......... Please speak for yourself and not "a lot of Dems."

 

JayhawkSD

(3,163 posts)
4. A lot of this scandal seems to be about mind reading.
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 11:47 AM
Aug 2015

She did it because... We either believe what she says, or we read her mind. I flunked mind reading in high school, so I have to settle for either believing what she says, or disbelieving it and settling for not knowing why she did it. Makes me look sort of stupid by some people's standards, but...

DanTex

(20,709 posts)
5. I think you're probably right about the reason she used the private server, but I don't think that
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 11:51 AM
Aug 2015

would be a very effective campaign message.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
6. You had to say first husband and wife president...
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 11:51 AM
Aug 2015

And people don't give a shit about it. It would be the first woman President and many people truly do give a shit about equal representation.

 

pipoman

(16,038 posts)
8. True, there are a lot of women who would make a good candidate
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 06:37 PM
Aug 2015

Not that many are willing to vote for anyone based on gender alone..imho

libodem

(19,288 posts)
7. What ever happened to looking foreword
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 11:59 AM
Aug 2015

Rather than behind? Or is that only for war criminals?
This is the Republicans' 9/11 commission.

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