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    I Have No Account and I Must PostSam Biddle
    9/08/15 5:42pm

    She shouldn’t apologize because she did nothing wrong.

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      TheSingularityI Have No Account and I Must Post
      9/08/15 5:48pm

      I can NOT believe how much traction the media is trying to get out of this non-story.

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      checkyourgrammerI Have No Account and I Must Post
      9/08/15 5:56pm

      i don’t like republicans, but she definitely did something wrong here. it may not have been a watergate-level conspiracy, but it was—at a minimum—extremely poor judgement for someone seriously considering running for higher office.

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    TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)Sam Biddle
    9/08/15 5:48pm

    If there’s anyone handling her messaging on this, that person or those people ought to be fired. If it’s just her, she really needs to pull herself out of her bubble of supporters. A frank apology half a year ago would have done far more to help her than this ugly, drawn-out unscandal. Apologies aren’t even that hard! Here, let me try:

    “When I became Secretary of State, I followed the example of predecessors like General Colin Powell, and contemporary public servants like Governor Jeb Bush, and used my personal e-mail for my business as Secretary. It is apparent, in hindsight, that this decision was a mistake, and I regret if any information other agencies had designated as sensitive was made less secure due to my decision.”

    It’s not like it would end this n0n-scandal once and for all, but it would give her better standing than this endless, unproductive dissembling.

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      Pill Cosby's Stinky Puddin PopsTRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
      9/08/15 6:03pm

      Then why did she choose to hide and then delete them rather than disclose them? If whatever was in those emails weren’t somehow terribly incriminating, she wouldn’t have decided to risk a scandal over them.

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      burnerburneredburnerestTRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
      9/08/15 6:17pm

      E-X-A-C-T-L-Y!

      Also, having this particular interview in a luxury suite, overlooking Central Park? So f’ing clueless. Argh, these people have been riding the privileged wagon/gravy train so long, they have no idea how condescending their behavior is, they’re beyond out of touch with reality.

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    FuriousFrankSam Biddle
    9/08/15 5:46pm

    Look. I totally Feel The Bern, etc., but still just don’t care about this. She deleted her personal email? So what. There are people running for office who want to start, like, a dozen wars. Who want to end social security. Who want to force a 10 year old rape victim to carry a child to term. This Clinton story is the same trash as the birth certificate shit.If you can’t find anything worse than this on Clinton, it might force me to reconsider her.

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      sui_generisFuriousFrank
      9/08/15 6:40pm

      Excellent point.

      It’s kind of bizarre how out of perspective people’s views on the differences between the candidates are, isn’t it?

      I don’t prefer Hillary compared to Sanders, for example, but Christ — if this is the worst they can say about her, I’d be happy to vote for her over the rest.

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    FauxhemianRhapshodySam Biddle
    9/08/15 5:52pm

    I’d like to see more emphasis paid to how tech savvy our candidates are. We’re in a world where tech companies have enormous influence, are constantly shifting the boundaries of what is private and what is public, what data is owned and manipulated- how and by whom, and it feels like our elected officials have no clue, and hide behind ignorance. I think tech policy should be as important as foreign policy. It’s laughable that we allow candidates to bumble around without a good grasp of what’s going on. I guess that’s the way the tech overlords want it, though.

    Oops- I deleted 31,000 emails? Come on.

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      EyeHeartPieFauxhemianRhapshody
      9/08/15 5:58pm

      The largest block of voters are not tech savvy, and will not vote for someone who is tech savvy on principle, akin to how you wouldn’t want to vote for a guy who supports or talks about witchcraft during his campaign.

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      FauxhemianRhapshodyEyeHeartPie
      9/08/15 6:03pm

      I get that- but I think that there’s a level of basic understanding that you should have. I’m not suggesting that they know how to code, but allowing them to be uninformed of basic things, like email, is dangerous.

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    sui_generisSam Biddle
    9/08/15 6:28pm

    lol.

    Keep on pluggin, Sam. One of these articles will eventually qualify as a “takedown”, I bet.

    Though while we’re on the subject — I still haven’t heard any explanation this whole time how Clinton doing the same thing literally every other gov’t employee in the executive branch since the dawn of email had been doing was somehow only wrong when she did it...? Selective enforcement of rules retroactively is nonsense. There are plenty of other examples, from Colin Powell to Jeb Bush and Scott Walker, but since you mentioned the quantity as if it were a lot — have we forgotten the 22 million emails the Bush White House channeled through the private email servers of their political cronies in the RNC and then blatantly and hurriedly deleted, when an investigation broke out...?

    I sure don’t recall all these articles in the media about that, and it was so much more widespread and thousands of times more serious, quantity-wise (though we will never know the classified content, because unlike Hillary instead of turning most of them over, they deleted them all).

    Hmm, I wonder why the difference in media coverage, though....must be that “librul lamestream media”!

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      Graby Saucesui_generis
      9/08/15 7:24pm

      It’s painfully frustrating how people who sure as shit ought to know better (Sam and the New York Times) are trying their damndest to make this a thing.

      As you mentioned above, this seems to be the worst they have on her. They can’t even find anything damning in the emails they’ve exhaustively gone through over the past several years. Clinton wanted to be president. She probably tried her best to dot her i’s and cross her t’s because she knew they’d be gunning for her. And oh look, sure enough, they’ve managed to scandalize something that wasn’t illegal, unethical, or unprecedented because goddamn it, they have to find something, something to try to pin on her.

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      Hello_Madam_Presidentsui_generis
      9/08/15 8:16pm

      God this is aggravating me to no end. I am a Bernie fan these days, but there is absolutely no justification for acting like Hillary is “dishonest” and all these other dudes get away with the exact SAME thing.

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    TheEvilAttorneySam Biddle
    9/08/15 5:47pm

    For supposedly being such a good politician, she’s really let this issue smolder a surprisingly long time.

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      AntisocialpublicistTheEvilAttorney
      9/08/15 5:50pm

      she’s a terrible politician - if she were any good at this at all she’d be the President right now - she’s a very intelligent person who is awful at this game

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      caekislove-caekingitupTheEvilAttorney
      9/08/15 5:55pm

      The only reason she’s even in politics is her last name. She has shown no aptitude towards statesmanship whatsoever in her whole political career.

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    LeNoceurSam Biddle
    9/08/15 5:52pm

    God, 2016 is going to be 2004 all over again, “hold my nose, vote, and hope Bush doesn’t win.” I have respect for Hillary and her career and accomplishments—as I did for Kerry—but while she possesses a lot of “internal” political skill, she has little “external” political skill. This entire email debacle could have been dealt with forthrightly and skillfully by a different kind of person, and it would have blown over completely (other than among the people who already hate her and aren’t going to vote for her anyway). The delay, obfuscating, and outright duplicity have a substantial risk of turning off neutrals and even supporters.

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      Bull MooseLeNoceur
      9/08/15 6:05pm

      The fact that is wasn’t handled in a timely and forthright manner merely adds to the suspicion that she has something to hide.

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      TheSingularityLeNoceur
      9/08/15 6:14pm

      A big part of it, though, is the 24- hour a day media circus, that beats and beats and beats dead horses like this trying to make dramatic narratives out of nothing to fill all of their voids. I’m sure it’s exasperating and exhausting to be dealing with/answering to this nonsense coming at you from a million different stupid voices.

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    jasoneliasSam Biddle
    9/08/15 6:57pm

    The apology was unneccessary. If Bush and Cheney didn’t apologize for ignoring the intelligence for 9/11 and causing the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans, Hillary Clinton doesn’t have to apologize for a private email server. Colin Powell did the same thing, no one complained.

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      Sardonicusjasonelias
      9/08/15 7:21pm

      Is anyone on this thread going to point out that Bush / Vader / Rice et al....deleted literally over one million emails when they bugged out! Google it....

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      jasoneliasSardonicus
      9/08/15 9:03pm

      Yeah tell me about it, about 22 million missing emails. There’s always going to be some asshole making excuses for them and while trying to cry about Hillary Clinton Hotmail account.

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    SillyMe8Sam Biddle
    9/08/15 5:43pm

    I really think Hilary Clinton is very old school, in that she plays the game the way it used to be, and has no clue about the way information is disseminated in the world today or how opinions are formulated. I think this lack of understanding will sink her ship. She’s a smart lady and I do admire her for certain things but at the end of the day she’s out of touch and can’t fake being in touch.

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      caekislove-caekingitupSillyMe8
      9/08/15 5:56pm

      It reminds me how she got blindsided by the “I landed in Bosnia while under sniper fire” gaffe, back in her last campaign.

      “I say a lot of things — millions of words a day — so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement,” she said

      http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/…

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    McCoy's MistressSam Biddle
    9/08/15 6:09pm

    AGH GIRL you knew you were going to run. How could you do this to those of us who want a Democratic president? Who want you to be President? I will still vote for Hillary but goddamn this was about as stupid and careless as it gets.

    I hope we move past this.

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