While it’s way too early to assess the overall damage to Hillary Incorporated from the email, now document destruction, scandal, is does appear to be hurting Team Billary in ways that are hard to change: Public perception of a politician.
While Billary is dreadfully tiresome and transparently faux in its lack of transparency, to much of the electorate Billary is simply a nice old lady with a grandchild. Well, she does have a grandchild, but that’s about where the nice ends. And that unhappy end product of a secretive, controlling, fear-mongering, basically incompetent presidential candidate is coming into public view and that view may be hard to change.
Jonah Goldberg hits the Billary on the head when he says:
If you want to know what Hillary Clinton would be like as president, you’re seeing it right now.
Maureen Dowd wrote an Open Letter to Billary:
It has come to our attention while observing your machinations during your attempted restoration that you may not fully understand our constitutional system. Thus, we are writing to bring to your attention two features of our democracy: The importance of preserving historical records and the ill-advised gluttony of an American feminist icon wallowing in regressive Middle Eastern states’ payola.You should seriously consider these characteristics of our nation as the Campaign-That-Must-Not-Be-Named progresses.If you, Hillary Rodham Clinton, are willing to cite your mother’s funeral to get sympathy for ill-advisedly deleting 30,000 emails, it just makes us want to sigh ….
So how did this all happen?
Ed Klein at The NY Post says Valerie Jarrett leaked key details of Billary’s intrigue:
It’s the vast left-wing conspiracy.Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett leaked to the press details of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail address during her time as secretary of state, sources tell me.But she did so through people outside the administration, so the story couldn’t be traced to her or the White House.In addition, at Jarrett’s behest, the State Department was ordered to launch a series of investigations into Hillary’s conduct at Foggy Bottom, including the use of her expense account, the disbursement of funds, her contact with foreign leaders and her possible collusion with the Clinton Foundation.Six separate probes into Hillary’s performance have been going on at the State Department. I’m told that the e-mail scandal was timed to come out just as Hillary was on the verge of formally announcing that she was running for president — and that there’s more to come.
I don’t know if this is true, but it’s believable. The Obamas hate the Clintons, and the feeling is mutual. Billary was given the Secretary of State position as a gift not because of her skills and experience, but because it took her out of the political process. And she messed it up.
We are a worse world because Billary was Secretary of State, a legacy compounded by John Kerry.
If Valerie Jarrett ends up taking Billary down, she will have done the nation a favor, regardless of the motive.
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