because I suspect she'll be our nominee.
I also understand why the Clintons have a reflexive, almost obsessive seeming need for secrecy. I remember Ken Starr spending 3 years in their underwear drawer. I get it.
But there are a few things going on, here: One is, it admittedly was a bad decision on her part to not keep work and private email separate. That seems pretty obvious, although there's nothing anyone can do about it now. But then add in "we arbitrarily decided what material we thought was relevant, handed that over, and did our darnedest to erase everything else before FBI investigators could look at it" and you can start to see why it's not just clueless people who might start to have second thoughts, but obviously some people fairly high up in our party organization.
I mean, surely you don't think the sudden massive uptick in noise about a Biden campaign just landed out of the blue, do you?
These are not stupid people.
I honestly think that what Hillary Clinton needs to do, what would be best for her chances of winning the White House, would be to stop thinking and operating like a Clinton. You look around at the big problems many people here have with her and her campaign (if you can acknowledge that not ALL of it is just "irrational Clinton-hate"
I would wager that much of the wariness on the part of people like myself- who, again, not only has a long history of defending the Clintons, but could see supporting her in the primaries- has to do with watching her yet again run an overly "safe", poll-tested campaign, utterly refusing to give a concrete answer on potentially "controversial" issues which the beltway pundits try to ignore, but a lot of people feel strongly about.
And in dealing with stuff like the email situation- legit or not- same deal; she can't pretend like actually addressing this stuff is a mere annoyance, a speed bump on the road to the nomination. It appears, from her comments in Iowa, that she's understanding that.
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