Exactly right, just like the Clintons with Whitewater and Rose law firm billing records. All instances have been investigated and we all know that nothing unlawful was found and everyone's hands are clean. Move along ;-)
Only in this case we don't have missing records, and we don't have mens rea. What we have is some difference between what regulations say and what everyone actually does. Just remember what you said, comes time to file your 2002 income tax. As Will Rodgers put it," . . . and after you're finished you don't know if you are a cheat or a sucker."In the case of Cattlegate you had, not only the appearance of impropriety, but the fact. You had a shady broker who had been under suspension for pushing the envelope way too hard, and who Hillary had to deal with at a distance. You had a 98:1 runup in Hillary's $1000 investment, due to bets both long and short, in a highly volitile market. You had margin calls not properly sent, and you had a prior statement by a government official that Hillary wanted $100,000. And you had, after the fact, the claim by Hillary that she orchestrated the long and short sales herself--on the basis of information in the Wall Street Journal, which in fact did not publish the sort of data germane to that market at that time.Compare that with Bush doing what his company's lawyer went on record that he could do, selling a stock that subsequently went down but later went up. Selling to a willing, even eager, buyer who could have, and for all we know may have, made a profit.
Humbug!