Post by nobody on Jan 16, 2016 13:48:50 GMT -6
Good piece in the NYT at www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/us/politics/hillary-clinton-regrets-not-attacking-bernie-sanders-earlier-her-allies-say.html?_r=0
Did the Clinton campaign do something wrong, or fail to take the right steps? Or are things basically okay?
I don't agree that she should have come out swinging at Bernie. Certainly not as long as he was an underdog. You don't get points for stomping on an underdog.
I do agree that more debates would help Hillary. More than any other candidate on either side, she has lived and breathed presidential issues and policies. If so many didn't like or trust her she would be a shoo-in. While Bernie is frankly too liberal for most voters.
And let me say that the problems I have with Hillary Clinton are: (1) There should be no dynasties in America, whether the name is Adams, Kennedy, Bush, or Clinton; and (2) Her decision to go off the government campus for her email was a horribly bad decision, so bad that I tried to relate it to a stroke or whatever caused her fall and concussion.
Avoiding a Clinton dynasty is not under her control. And thank goodness there will not be a Bush dynasty, not that Jebulon is the worst of the GOP contendas.
As for the email scandal, what bothers me is not that she had some devious purpose in using private email but the rationality of the decision itself. Specifically --
1. How could any Sec/State fail to be aware of and concerned for internet security? It floors me how she would not have thought of that. And during her time at State the Pvt Manning - Wikileaks hit the fan; part of her job was running damage control on those leaks; how could she not have done a facepalm and said to herself, "OMG. my email account is not secure!" Plus, every hour of every day hackers are trying to break into gov't computers at the State Dept! A braindead decision which imo poses questions about Hillary's mental competency.
1a. Plus, her email server and the emails on it were not encrypted, and a lot of outsiders not part of the government had access to the server and her emails, from her lawyer to the technicians at the company that hosted the server. Again, braindead. You don't have to be a techie to realize that.
2. There's a legal principle involved, and Clinton is or was or was trained as a lawyer. If you work for a company, corporation, government, whatever, your emails are not YOUR property but the property of your employer. If you work at Merrill Lynch for example, do you use your private email account to deal with clients? Of course not! Do you keep the client paperwork in file cabinets at your home? Same answer. This also was a braindead decision that I don't understand and that Hillary Clinton has not explained beyond saying something about her having to carry two mobile phones if she used two email accounts, which is baloney.
Did the Clinton campaign do something wrong, or fail to take the right steps? Or are things basically okay?
I don't agree that she should have come out swinging at Bernie. Certainly not as long as he was an underdog. You don't get points for stomping on an underdog.
I do agree that more debates would help Hillary. More than any other candidate on either side, she has lived and breathed presidential issues and policies. If so many didn't like or trust her she would be a shoo-in. While Bernie is frankly too liberal for most voters.
And let me say that the problems I have with Hillary Clinton are: (1) There should be no dynasties in America, whether the name is Adams, Kennedy, Bush, or Clinton; and (2) Her decision to go off the government campus for her email was a horribly bad decision, so bad that I tried to relate it to a stroke or whatever caused her fall and concussion.
Avoiding a Clinton dynasty is not under her control. And thank goodness there will not be a Bush dynasty, not that Jebulon is the worst of the GOP contendas.
As for the email scandal, what bothers me is not that she had some devious purpose in using private email but the rationality of the decision itself. Specifically --
1. How could any Sec/State fail to be aware of and concerned for internet security? It floors me how she would not have thought of that. And during her time at State the Pvt Manning - Wikileaks hit the fan; part of her job was running damage control on those leaks; how could she not have done a facepalm and said to herself, "OMG. my email account is not secure!" Plus, every hour of every day hackers are trying to break into gov't computers at the State Dept! A braindead decision which imo poses questions about Hillary's mental competency.
1a. Plus, her email server and the emails on it were not encrypted, and a lot of outsiders not part of the government had access to the server and her emails, from her lawyer to the technicians at the company that hosted the server. Again, braindead. You don't have to be a techie to realize that.
2. There's a legal principle involved, and Clinton is or was or was trained as a lawyer. If you work for a company, corporation, government, whatever, your emails are not YOUR property but the property of your employer. If you work at Merrill Lynch for example, do you use your private email account to deal with clients? Of course not! Do you keep the client paperwork in file cabinets at your home? Same answer. This also was a braindead decision that I don't understand and that Hillary Clinton has not explained beyond saying something about her having to carry two mobile phones if she used two email accounts, which is baloney.
