Hillary: 'I'm ready to come out of the woods'

[karynnj]

245. Agree Rove and Bush were far worse - and so was Powell,

They were not running for President. My point was that this did not need to become a dominating story that unfortunately hit at HRC's weakest points.

Although Obama's guidelines and rules should have made her question setting her email up as she did and not building in any archiving method, there was no precedent on how email is handled. Rice apparently did not use any for work. Powell threw his away.

Still, even having used a private server, it likely would not have ever come out if she gave the SD the emails as she left. Even if it did, she could point to having archived them in a timely manner. She would have been the first SoS to do so.

The emails were requested before she was out of office. Did she think the Republicans would just give up? Did she think the SD could stonewall for 4 years? Would she care that that could have tarnished the reputations of both President Obama and Secretary Kerry? Not to mention it would still be her actions and emails in the news.

I suggest that anyone unhappy that I question HRC's decisions here and suggest they greatly hurt her chances look at the 2005 comments made by Bill Clinton and others in their circle criticizing the Kerry and Gore campaigns, comparing them negatively with himself. Any errors these men made were tiny compared to this.