Clinton ran the business of this country on personally owned equipment in the basement of her home.

[CincyDem]

47. Thanks for the edit.

I appreciate that you guys haven't voted out there. Given the current climate, in spite of best efforts of prior states, it is highly likely that HRC is going to be the democratic nominee for president in 2016.

I hate to say it but I'm a pragmatist. When the ball was in my court, I did all that I could do to support a different primary candidate. I voted. I phone banked. I donated. But in the end, I didn't prevail. So, given the choice between HRC and any republican that draws breath, I pick HRC. Now some might call that rewarding bad behavior but I like to think of it as avoiding complete and total anarchy with the like of Trump, Cruz, Kasich (who I know well) or whomever else the rethugs decide to pull out of their racist, sexist, homophobic butts. I'm not going to stay home because that's as much a vote as going to the polls and punching up a republican.

As to your specific concerns, I don't disagree with you that it makes for a bumpier road and I'm not ready yet to label it "sinister". That's a word that I reserve for my enemies (and they usually have a capital R after their names). HRC isn't my enemy. She's my second choice and it a world of realities, sometimes second choice is the best choice given the facts on the ground.

I think we're a long way from really knowing the facts of what Powell or Rice may have "done". I'm sure that Bushco buried more than one computer out somewhere in the deep ocean for far more nefarious reasons. HRC is a republican lab specimen that's been under the microscope for 20 years. They've seen her coming for more than a decade. As a result, I think we tend to over focus on things that Republicans want us to focus on rather than thing that make her a democrat.

Is she the "best" democrat...maybe not...but she's OUR democrat and until we can wrap our minds around that, Republicans can go to bed every night with a little grin believing that their decades of anti-HRC messaging is coming home to roost.

Some will tell me I'm caving in, giving up, throwing in the towel and - as a result - I am complicit in the country's rightward move. Yeah, right. I call bullshit on that accusation. Complicity is staying home because you (in general, not you specifically) didn't have enough people on your side of the vote so you want to pout and "teach her a lesson". I think the tuition payment is too high to take that class.

I'm also reminded of the psychology study that found 80%+ of questions are really statements that the questioner doesn't really want to own. I don't find wiping the hard drives to be a problem and I don't have to wonder about it.

In all your wondering, have you come to any conclusions about why she might have a private company wipe it ?

Again, thanks for the edit and I hope none of this feels attacking. Not my intent.