Quote:Well, I watched hours of the latest hearings, and I must confess, I don't get it.     The allegation seems to be that mistakes were made, someone got killed, and the administration tried to spin their way out of it.   So what's unusual about that, except for the fact that this time, Hillary Clinton was involved?  

 

I kept waiting for some sort of smoking gun that justified all the hullabaloo, but it never came.   All they succeeded in doing was to make her look presidential.  I have never liked Hillary Clinton, but after watching these hearings, I actually started to warm up to her. 

 

The Republicans asked their questions with such blatant contempt for the witness, I kept thinking, here it comes, they really have something now, but...  waiting.... waiting...  and?  Nothing. 

 

What did we find out that was new?   That Sidney Blumenthal is a friend of hers and has her email address and sends her a lot of stuff.   So what?

The rub for me is her initial attitude about people getting killed ("What does that matter" was her response IIRC) then the political circus that came out of it. They all could have all been honest, taken responsibility and let the chips fall where they may. But nooooo. God forbid anyone in Washington do that. And to blatantly lie, backtrack and otherwise make a bad thing so much worse. Especially for the families of the dead.


Every single person involved should face some sort of punishment, but they won't. And the fact that she's a viable candidate to run for POTUS with all of her baggage going WAY back and people seem to be okay with that shows the disturbing mindset of this country. All politicians have skeletons in their closet. Clinton has a graveyard the size of Arlington National Cemetery. And anymore many of those are out in the open.

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