Posted on 08/15/2015 7:14:35 PM PDT by markomalley
Hillary Clinton asserted at the Iowa State Fair Saturday that average voters don’t care about her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
But the Democrat avoided testing out her theory, opting to answer questions from reporters rather than attending The Des Moines Register Presidential Soapbox, a forum nearly all of the other candidates for president will have attended by the time the fair ends next week.
“We’ll see how this all plays out, but it’s not anything people talk to me about as I travel around the country. It is never raised in my town halls. It’s never raised in my other meetings with people,” Clinton told reporters at the fair when asked about the FBI’s investigation into her home-brew email server.
She was accompanied by former Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, who endorsed his former senate colleague in The Des Moines Register earlier this week.
“I never sent classified material on my email, and I never received any that was marked classified,” Clinton maintained.
“So I’m going to let whatever this inquiry is go forward and will await the outcome of it. The State Department has confirmed what I just said to you.”
Clinton’s qualification that she did not receive any emails that were “marked classified” is a relatively new wrinkle in her explanation of the use of a private email account.
The FBI seized Clinton’s home-brew email server from a New Jersey data center earlier this week. That’s after I. Charles McCullough, the Intelligence Community inspector general, found two emails he believes contained “top secret” information at the time they were sent. Clinton did not send the emails, but they traversed her server, which was housed at the time in the basement of her Chappaqua, N.Y. home.
When the scandal broke open in March, Clinton said “there was no classified material” on the server. But as the inquiry has progressed, she’s revised that claim. Last month in Iowa she said that “I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received.”
But as Clinton alters her claim with each new twist, she’s taken a more aggressive stance on the campaign trail against Republicans for their role in pushing the issue.
“But I do think that if you look at the Republicans in Congress, the ones running for president, there is an unfortunate tendency to try to make partisan a tragedy in Benghazi which I just fundamentally disagree with,” Clinton said Saturday. “I don’t think it’s right, and I will not participate in it.”
Clinton’s remarks at the fair were similar — though not as fiery — as her scathing attack on Republicans at the Democratic Wing Ding Dinner Friday.
“I won’t get down in the mud with them,” Clinton said of Republicans at that event, her voice low and her finger wagging in the air.
“I won’t play politics with national security or dishonor the memories of those we’ve lost. I won’t pretend that that is anything other than what it is — the same old partisan games we’ve seen so many times before.”
Just before Clinton’s press conference, former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee answered questions at Presidential Soapbox. Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is scheduled to answer questions from the public later on Saturday. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush fielded questions Friday. Only Donald Trump has said he will not take part in the event. It is unclear why Trump will avoid the forum, but it may stem from a falling out he had with The Des Moines Register last month over a negative editorial it published about the billionaire.
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“I didn’t have sex with that email server”.
She's taking on water. Fast.
...I won’t get down in the mud with them,” Clinton said...
No, she would have to climb up out of the sewer she is in now to reach up to the “mud.”
Astroturf isn't known for asking unscripted questions of her majesty.
“We’ll see how this all plays out, but it’s not anything people talk to me about as I travel around the country. It is never raised in my town halls. It’s never raised in my other meetings with people,” Clinton told reporters”
Really!? Too funny, ‘cause most every article about her I read she’s avoiding questions, so wondering how anybody could “talk to her” about it, or anything else.
Correction: stupid, braindead voters waiting for a government handout don’t care about the e-mails.
Herself, Madame Benghazi, the Cold & Joyless, sure has been taking the hits.
But do not underestimate the very tenacity of the corps of loyal supporters who have willingly drank deeply of the Kool-Aid, and cannot be made to see the very obvious cognitive dissonance that emanates from this criminal enterprise that is Herself.
Baghdad Bob, late of the Sadat Hussein regime, was the very personification of honesty and modesty in comparison.
How about the Wizard of Oz telling the audience to pay no attention to that man behind the curtain?
I’m an irregular voter then. Because I Care.
“it’s not anything people talk to me about as I travel around the country”
That’s because even your loyal followers are terrified to get on your wrong side. You’re a scary witch.
My theory is that Joe biden is the canary in the coal mine.. Not just because they both have the same size brain... but also because Joe is not gonna get involved in the election if he is not going to win. Obama will know if Biden will win the nomination or not depending on what his justice department does.. If they will be upholding the law, Biden will win.. If Biden does not join the race that is a sure sign that Obama will not be upholding the rule of law for Hillary..
“All the people on my payroll whom I randomly surveyed said that the email server is no scandal at all.”
Well, isn't that precious. The matriarch of the Clinton Political Crime Syndicate is going to let the inquiry go forward. She's just so full of grace and good will, the little darlin'.............
She just can't wait to get back into the white house to decorate the Christmas Trees with condoms again.............
feh... tell me that again six months from now
There. Fixed it.
“Hillary Clinton asserted at the Iowa State Fair Saturday that average voters don’t care about her use of a private email server as secretary of state”
POLLS: CLINTON UPSIDE DOWN ON TRUST WORTHINESS
Whatever you say Cacklebeast.
Nothing is going to happen to Hillary. She will continue running for office. Martha Stweart went to prison because she was a mere mortal and not a member of the Clunton crime family. Somehow they will find a way to give Hillary a medal for something and a bunch of awards in Hollyweird. They will find a way to show people so very excited about her. Obozo will pardon her and the people will vote for her.
Just standard operating procedure for a corrupt government. Don’t expect Boner or McConnell to step in and do anything because they are part of the problem not part of the solution. Boner would much rather play golf with Obozo.
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