Are you as tired as I am of hearing Hillary Clinton apologists try to BS away the email scandal by claiming the hundreds – probably thousands before we are through – of emails with classified material were not classified at the time?
This is a BS excuse, perfectly designed to convince the low-information crowd that Ms. Clinton is as innocent as a newborn babe (they\’re supposed to also pretend she didn\’t lie about how many phones she had, what was on them, and that the only reason she erased tens of thousands of emails was because they were about her yoga class and her daughter\’s wedding).
First off, no one in his or her right mind would believe the summary removal and scrubbing of emails from that server was an innocent act of getting rid of personal minutiae.
You\’d have to be comatose to buy that.
Secondly, even if the classified material were not marked as such at the time, does the Secretary Of State not know that she is ongoingly given material before it is classified? That she sees things before some wonk at the State Department goes into redacting mode?
You\’d have to be comatose and chloroformed to buy that.
And thirdly, if hundreds, maybe thousands of emails could be marked as having classified information after the emails were sent and received, does the Secretary Of State not know that materials not currently classified might be at a future date? That she is constantly being given this kind of information because she\’s the Secretary Of State?
You\’d have to be comatose, chloroformed and lobotomized to buy that.
Chalk the email scandal up as one of the good reasons that, despite the best efforts of media to run cover for her (until the last week or two, when even they can\’t play let\’s-pretend anymore), Hillary Clinton\’s approval numbers, and favorability ratings, have dropped through a trap door while her unfavorables have jumped through the roof.
If you think Republicans are in disarray, you are right. But if you think Democrats, with Hillary Clinton still, more or less, in the lead, are in better shape, you better think harder.
