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Emailgate: Hillary, Please Can We Do Better? Leave a comment
For the last two weeks we sat and watched and hoped in our heart of hearts that Hillary’s “people” would handle this whole personal email issue better and were we disappointed? That would be an understatement. We have to be fair, when Mitt Romney in the 2012 campaign make an error or we learned something about him and he went on the defensive, we jumped all over him. Now Hillary and her “people” are on the defensive we will speak our minds. What she did as Secretary of State using a personal email address for her work was not only arrogant but plain stupid and Hillary should have known better. You can be sure her personnel in the State Department would certainly have pointed this out to her from time to time, only to be ignored.
What we have said consistently is Hillary needs to drop her old team and re-invent her image when she announces (which now needs to be brought forward and if she doesn’t this email story will hurt her Presidential chances even more) that she is running for President in 2016. Going on the defensive is weak and un-American and voters simply shy away from a candidate who goes on the track. That’s how we beat Mitt Romney if you remember, in 2012. When he made major errors, he went on the defensive and we pounced. Jeb Bush and the Republicans are doing just that now with Hillary and Emailgate. When President Obama was a candidate in 2008 and Reverent Wright embarrassed him, he did the right thing and so did his “people” working on his campaign, he hit the controversy head on as he did with rumors with the purchase of his Chicago home and as he did with his birth certificate issue. He hit them all head on and moved on and so did the media and the American public. Hillary needs to learn this as it looks like we have a first 2016 Presidential campaign of only “Gold Spoon Candidates”. What I don’t hear from either Hillary’s or Jeb Bush’s “people” is how hard it is now for middle class America families to survive financially since the melt down in 2008. Yes, employment has grown but salaries have not increased, Labor Unions are being weaken, voters rights are being eroded in certain States, the homeless in our major cities (run by Democrats) have grown such serious levels (and no one cares) and Swore Police Officers still shoot unarmed African-Americans even when they are naked and have served in the Air Force as we saw this week in Georgia. Basically, it’s business as usual in the United States of America. What the Democrat politicians in office miss (like the Republicans) is the waste of time and taxpayers’ money on issues of arrogance, as in the case of Hillary’s Emailgate.
This stupidity is going to cost time and money for the State Department’s staff that is going to have to wade through thousands of Hillary’s emails (which today the State Department said could weeks, maybe months and not days). This again is irresponsibility of Hillary Clinton as once again the hard working taxpayer in the United States gets no apology for the costs of wading through her thousands of emails sent and received from her personal email account for State Department business. It is like we have stated in the past regarding the incredible disregard for the taxpayers’ hard earned dollars that every time the President uses Air Force One within the United States for a “fundraiser”, it costs the US taxpayer five million dollars each time he steps on that aircraft. How many homeless people would that assist to get off the streets of our major cities? Not to mention all the small government jets we provide to Federal officials, the costs in total yearly are mind numbing.
What Hillary needs to do now, is announce if she is running or not (sorry Hillary, Emailgate has finished that choice for you once and for all) and dump that team she has since 2008. Then Hillary needs to get out and start doing the talk show rounds explaining her actions and apologizing to the people of the United States for that arrogant and stupid decision to use her personal email address instead of a supplied government email address when she was the Secretary of State.
It’s that’s simply as maybe, just maybe there is another unheard Democrat candidate for the 2016 Presidential race in the wings who will see this as a chance to jump forward as Obama did in 2008 and there is no doubt Hillary’s Emailgate has hurt Hillary. Even more worrying is the way this whole issue has being handled and that has damaged Hillary and her team even further as well as handing Jeb Bush and the Republicans a lot of mileage on this issue that will not go away lightly and they will ensure that it doesn’t go away for a very, very long time. That’s not smart politics for someone so experienced and seasoned as Hillary Clinton. Hillary’s Emailgate will come back to haunt her and her 2016 Presidential campaign again and again if the Republicans play their cards right, which I am sure they will.
(c) Editor for The Amazing Democrats (Los Angeles). March 11, 2015