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发帖数: 6929 | 1 Democrats should ask Hillary Clinton to step aside
Has America become so numb by the decades of lies and cynicism oozing from
Clinton Inc. that it could elect Hillary Clinton as president, even after
Friday's FBI announcement that it had reopened an investigation of her
emails while secretary of state?
We'll find out in a little more than a week.
It's obvious the American political system is breaking down. It's been
crumbling for some time now, and the establishment elite know it and they're
properly frightened. Donald Trump, the vulgarian at their gates, is a
symptom, not a cause. Hillary Clinton and husband Bill are both cause and
effect.
FBI director James Comey's announcement about the renewed Clinton email
investigation is the bombshell in the presidential campaign. That he
announced this so close to Election Day should tell every thinking person
that what the FBI is looking at is extremely serious.
This can't be about pervert Anthony Weiner and his reported desire for a
teenage girl. But it can be about the laptop of Weiner's wife, Clinton aide
Huma Abedin, and emails between her and Hillary. It comes after the FBI
investigation in which Comey concluded Clinton had lied and been "reckless"
with national secrets, but said he could not recommend prosecution.
So what should the Democrats do now?
If ruling Democrats hold themselves to the high moral standards they impose
on the people they govern, they would follow a simple process:
They would demand that Mrs. Clinton step down, immediately, and let her vice
presidential nominee, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, stand in her place.
Democrats should say, honestly, that with a new criminal investigation going
on into events around her home-brew email server from the time she was
secretary of state, having Clinton anywhere near the White House is just not
a good idea.
Since Oct. 7, WikiLeaks has released 35,000 emails hacked from Clinton
campaign boss John Podesta. Now WikiLeaks, no longer a neutral player but an
active anti-Clinton agency, plans to release another 15,000 emails.
What if she is elected? Think of a nation suffering a bad economy and
continuing chaos in the Middle East, and now also facing a criminal
investigation of a president. Add to that congressional investigations and a
public vision of Clinton as a Nixonian figure wandering the halls, wringing
her hands.
The best thing would be for Democrats to ask her to step down now. It would
be the most responsible thing to do, if the nation were more important to
them than power. And the American news media — fairly or not firmly
identified in the public mind as Mrs. Clinton's political action committee
— should begin demanding it.
But what will Hillary do?
She'll stick and ride this out and turn her anger toward Comey. For Hillary
and Bill Clinton, it has always been about power, about the Clinton
Restoration and protecting fortunes already made by selling nothing but
political influence.
She'll remind the nation that she's a woman and that Donald Trump said
terrible things about women. If there is another notorious Trump video to be
leaked, the Clintons should probably leak it now. Then her allies in media
can talk about misogyny and sexual politics and the headlines can be all
about Trump as the boor he is and Hillary as champion of female victims,
which she has never been.
Remember that Bill Clinton leveraged the "Year of the Woman." Then he preyed
on women in the White House and Hillary protected him. But the political
left — most particularly the women of the left — defended him because he
promised to protect abortion rights and their other agendas.
If you take a step back from tribal politics, you'll see that Mrs. Clinton
has clearly disqualified herself from ever coming near classified
information again. If she were a young person straight out of grad school
hoping to land a government job, Hillary Clinton would be laughed out of
Washington with her record. She'd never be hired.
As secretary of state she kept classified documents on the home-brew server
in her basement, which is against the law. She lied about it to the American
people. She couldn't remember details dozens of times when questioned by
the FBI. Her aides destroyed evidence by BleachBit and hammers. Her husband,
Bill, met secretly on an airport tarmac with Attorney General Loretta Lynch
for about a half-hour, and all they said they talked about was golf and the
grandkids.
And there was no prosecution of Hillary.
That isn't merely wrong and unethical. It is poisonous.
And during this presidential campaign, Americans were confronted with a two-
tiered system of federal justice: one for standards for the Clintons and one
for the peasants.
I've always figured that, as secretary of state, Clinton kept her home-brew
email server — from which foreign intelligence agencies could hack top
secret information — so she could shield the influence peddling that helped
make the Clintons several fortunes.
The Clintons weren't skilled merchants. They weren't traders or
manufacturers. The Clintons never produced anything tangible. They had no
science, patents or devices to make them millions upon millions of dollars.
All they had to sell, really, was influence. And they used our federal
government to leverage it.
If a presidential election is as much about the people as it is about the
candidates, then we'll learn plenty about ourselves in the coming days, won'
t we?
Listen to the Chicago Way podcast with John Kass and Jeff Carlin. Guests are
Tribune cartoonist Scott Stantis and former White House Chief of Staff
William Daley: www.chicagotribune.com/kasspodcast. | h*******u
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: Democrats should ask Hillary Clinton to step aside
: Has America become so numb by the decades of lies and cynicism oozing from
: Clinton Inc. that it could elect Hillary Clinton as president, even after
: Friday's FBI announcement that it had reopened an investigation of her
: emails while secretary of state?
: We'll find out in a little more than a week.
: It's obvious the American political system is breaking down. It's been
: crumbling for some time now, and the establishment elite know it and they're
: properly frightened. Donald Trump, the vulgarian at their gates, is a
: symptom, not a cause. Hillary Clinton and husband Bill are both cause and
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