Day: March 15, 2015

Yeah, I said it and I can get away with it! 

TAKE THAT Main Stream Media!

In all seriousness, please tell me that we’re not actually even considering Hillary Clinton for president. 

Its not even about her most recent scandal regarding her email server. For me its the phrase “MOST RECENT SCANDAL”.

While I recall there was always some kind of controversy during the Clinton years, the scandals that pop out in my mind aside from Bill’s indescressions, are;

• Whitewater
• Vince Foster
• Benghazi

Then finally, email-gate.

While I was working for a company involved with government contracts, we were reminded at least once every six months about email protocols. These protocols included sending only encrypted emails, never sending emails to unknown addresses. Questioning sending or refusing to send to any external email address that was not part of a (dot) GOV or (dot) MIL domain.

My boss got questioned because he sent an email to me at my private account. That email was fully encrypted and contained nothing more than his telling me what to bring to the Christmas potluck.  To this day… I look for (dot) GOV or MIL on emails. I’m not even working in that industry anymore. 

I’ve always believed that we should encrypt all email. I used to use PGP but when Symantec purchased it, and made the product so horribly expensive and incompatible with Macintosh products I gave up. You see, there were just too few people who thought as I did that privacy was important.

Apparently Hillary Clinton values her privacy quite a bit. By having her own private server she maintained absolute control over email storage. Which meant that if she had a hard disk crash, (Remember Lois Lerner?) literally all the emails would be wiped. 

I seem to vaguely recall that there were more questionable things during the Clinton Administration, but like most of the American public i’ve been distracted by the most recent atrocities and abuses of power.

My point is this. Given the number and frequency of Scandals that Hillary Clinton has been involved in during the past 30 years, perhaps she really isn’t the best person for the Presidency. At the very least she’s a lightening rod for bad things & not bright enough to get out of the way of the scandal train. At worst she’s complicit in the scandal and believes she can dupe the American people.

Either way, I think that’s sufficient to disqualify her from seeking the presidency.