Posted on 03/14/2015 7:06:22 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
"For any government employee, it is that government employee's responsibility to determine what's personal and what's work-related," Hillary Clinton said in her March 10 press conference called to address mounting concerns over her use of a private email system for official use during her four years as Secretary of State.
The phrase "any government employee" made it sound as if Clinton's actions were perfectly normal — no different than anybody else.
In reality, Clinton's actions reflect her sense of privilege, a broader problem for her presidential ambitions than the email scandal itself.
Even before the most recent scandal, Clinton faced a number of problems in her presidential campaign.
In an age when many liberals are entranced by the populist message of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Clinton's cozy ties to Wall Street and six-figure speaking fees to corporations seem woefully out of touch.
Clinton's political career was launched based on the record and relationships of her husband. She has no accomplishments to speak of from either her time in the Senate or as Secretary of State. But her personal network has put her in the position as the overwhelming frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic nomination.
Her sense of privilege and entitlement has been evident during the email scandal.
The State Department has systems in place to make sure that information is kept secure and that emails related to official business are archived and available for the public record. Clinton disregarded this guidance.
Clinton said that as "a matter of convenience" she chose to use a single private email system in a server in her house rather than carry around two devices — one for personal email, one for official email.
Clinton explained that the reason she thought her arrangement was okay and that she was confident everything was secure was that "the system we used was set up for President Clinton's office. And it had numerous safeguards. It was on property guarded by the Secret Service. And there were no security breaches."
There are a few issues created with this defense. One is that she'd have no way of knowing whether there were any security breaches and another is that Secret Service agents physically protecting her house in no way would prevent hackers from remotely infiltrating the system.
Even if everything she said were true, though, there is still this matter of privilege. "Any government employee" wouldn't happen to have access to a private server that was set up for a former U.S. president and guarded by the Secret Service.
Clinton also tried to downplay the controversy by claiming that, "the vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses, which meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department."
At another point, she said, "it was my practice to communicate with State Department and other government officials on their .gov accounts so those e-mails would be automatically saved in the State Department system to meet record-keeping requirements, and that, indeed, is what happened."
This raises another point. Even if it were the case that most of the emails were sent to other government employees — and we can only go on Clinton's word — her entire defense is premised on the assumption that everybody else in government dutifully followed rules that she disregarded because she found them inconvenient. If all government employees followed her lead and used their own private emails, then those emails she sent would not, in fact, have been preserved.
To some extent, it's always the case that somebody in high office is going to have certain advantages over any ordinary employee. But there are differences between perks that come with the job, and violating rules that are in place to ensure that secret information doesn't fall into the wrong hands and that citizens know what's happening within their own government.
And how's that working out?
And she had Big Mama leading her in - past Picasso's legendary painting, "Guernica" - his polemic against war. At the end, Hillary looked like a befuddled first-grader who can't find the school exit---eager to get home to mommy. Big Mama effectively ended it for her, by taking hold of her binder, and leading her out.
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THE CLINTONS NEVER LET ANYTHING INTERFERE W/ POLITICAL PROFITEERING--Hillary started her UN email presser w/ her well- rehearsed campaign theme--about sucking-up to the woman's vote.
WATCHING THE CLINTONS OPERATE IS A LESSON IN WHAT BEHAVIORAL SCIENTISTS CALL "NARCISSTIC IMMUNITY"--- They operate under the mantle of "narcisstic immunity"---that they are so good, so tolerant, so much more compassionate than us peons, that they can even operate above the law---nothing can touch them.
Every move the Clintons make is laser-focused on political "survival". The Clintons have the survival instincts of a cockroach---once they infest your domain---its almost impossible to get rid of them.
They are ultimately driven by greed-----salivating to get back into office....selling out the WH---thoughts of adding billions to their massive holdings dancing in their greedy heads.
The Clintons have to keep seeking higher offices to control the damage from crimes committed in the previous offices. Bill reached the acme and is untouchable. No so, Hillary......yet.
Progressives live to exert power through government because of their conviction that they are smarter than everyone else. But they don’t want their manipulative ways to be exposed or to be held accountable to anyone.
We shall see. Has the MSM stopped carrying the story?
Leftists are about privilege.
Its the dem mantra, ignore it and it will go away, something else will move to the front. Perhaps someone will uncover that Scott Walker is a republican and belonged to YAF in his college days or that his cable package has a channel for the military channel.
It's an unwritten rule that you have to go to Harvard or Yale to be smart enough to be President. (Liz gets a pass because she taught at Harvard Law.) Of course even if you went to both, like GWB, if you are a Republican you are still too dumb to be President.
Hillary supposedly has a populist streak that enables her to connect with ordinary people. I think the Walker-is-a-college-dropout is one of the themes she should use to attract people.
Who was that woman that led her in.?She stopped at the podium and bowed at the queen and walked out.
“Who was that woman that led her in.?She stopped at the podium and bowed at the queen and walked out.”
Her Black “Minder?” “Nanny?” A UN “Maid?” One of Barak’s “relatives?”
Prolly a UN factotum...but she was instructed well....took ahold of Hillary’s binder and led her out when the questions kept coming, even after Hillary said, “It’s over.”
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