hondo812 Loc: Massachusetts

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-hillary-clinton-emails-kass-1030-20161028-column.html

Democrats should ask Hillary Clinton to step aside

John Kass Contact Reporter

Has America become so numb by the decades of lies and cynicism oozing from Clinton Inc. that it could elect Hillary Clinton as president, even after Friday's FBI announcement that it had reopened an investigation of her emails while secretary of state?

We'll find out soon enough.

It's obvious the American political system is breaking down. It's been crumbling for some time now, and the establishment elite know it and they're properly frightened. Donald Trump, the vulgarian at their gates, is a symptom, not a cause. Hillary Clinton and husband Bill are both cause and effect.

FBI director James Comey's announcement about the renewed Clinton email investigation is the bombshell in the p**********l campaign. That he announced this so close to E******n Day should tell every thinking person that what the FBI is looking at is extremely serious.

This can't be about pervert Anthony Weiner and his reported desire for a teenage girl. But it can be about the laptop of Weiner's wife, Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and emails between her and Hillary. It comes after the FBI investigation in which Comey concluded Clinton had lied and been "reckless" with national secrets, but said he could not recommend prosecution.

So what should the Democrats do now?

If ruling Democrats hold themselves to the high moral standards they impose on the people they govern, they would follow a simple process:

They would demand that Mrs. Clinton step down, immediately, and let her vice p**********l nominee, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, stand in her place.

Democrats should say, honestly, that with a new criminal investigation going on into events around her home-brew email server from the time she was secretary of state, having Clinton anywhere near the White House is just not a good idea.

Since Oct. 7, WikiLeaks has released 35,000 emails hacked from Clinton campaign boss John Podesta. Now WikiLeaks, no longer a neutral player but an active anti-Clinton agency, plans to release another 15,000 emails.

What if she is elected? Think of a nation suffering a bad economy and continuing chaos in the Middle East, and now also facing a criminal investigation of a president. Add to that congressional investigations and a public vision of Clinton as a Nixonian figure wandering the halls, wringing her hands.

The best thing would be for Democrats to ask her to step down now. It would be the most responsible thing to do, if the nation were more important to them than power. And the American news media — fairly or not firmly identified in the public mind as Mrs. Clinton's political action committee — should begin demanding it.

But what will Hillary do?

She'll stick and ride this out and turn her anger toward Comey. For Hillary and Bill Clinton, it has always been about power, about the Clinton Restoration and protecting fortunes already made by selling nothing but political influence.

She'll remind the nation that she's a woman and that Donald Trump said terrible things about women. If there is another notorious Trump video to be leaked, the Clintons should probably leak it now. Then her allies in media can talk about misogyny and sexual politics and the headlines can be all about Trump as the boor he is and Hillary as champion of female victims, which she has never been.

Remember that Bill Clinton leveraged the "Year of the Woman." Then he preyed on women in the White House and Hillary protected him. But the political left — most particularly the women of the left — defended him because he promised to protect a******n rights and their other agendas.

If you take a step back from tribal politics, you'll see that Mrs. Clinton has clearly disqualified herself from ever coming near classified information again. If she were a young person straight out of grad school hoping to land a government job, Hillary Clinton would be laughed out of Washington with her record. She'd never be hired.

As secretary of state she kept classified documents on the home-brew server in her basement, which is against the law. She lied about it to the American people. She couldn't remember details dozens of times when questioned by the FBI. Her aides destroyed evidence by BleachBit and hammers. Her husband, Bill, met secretly on an airport tarmac with Attorney General Loretta Lynch for about a half-hour, and all they said they talked about was golf and the grandkids.

And there was no prosecution of Hillary.

That isn't merely wrong and unethical. It is poisonous.

And during this p**********l campaign, Americans were confronted with a two-tiered system of federal justice: one for standards for the Clintons and one for the peasants.

I've always figured that, as secretary of state, Clinton kept her home-brew email server — from which foreign intelligence agencies could hack top secret information — so she could shield the influence peddling that helped make the Clintons several fortunes.

The Clintons weren't sk**led merchants. They weren't traders or manufacturers. The Clintons never produced anything tangible. They had no science, patents or devices to make them millions upon millions of dollars.

All they had to sell, really, was influence. And they used our federal government to leverage it.

If a p**********l e******n is as much about the people as it is about the candidates, then we'll learn plenty about ourselves in the coming days, won't we?

Listen to the Chicago Way podcast with John Kass and Jeff Carlin. Guests are Tribune cartoonist Scott Stantis and former White House Chief of Staff William Daley: www.chicagotribune.com/kasspodcast.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Well written and astute insight.
--Bob

gmcase Loc: Galt's Gulch

This melds with my prediction that IF this criminal snags the presidency, it will not be the Republcians that bring her down (many love her as one of their own in the elitist Washington club) but it will be her putrid progressive comrades. With the continual revelation of her crimes being exposed and investigated she will become an intolerable anchor and embarrassment to them, (they barely have any morality to sense being ashamed) even threatening their very power. When they believe she is a threat to their own power, wealth and influence they will abandon her like an ugly red headed stepchild.

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

Typical Chicago Tribune slime. Kass has spent his entire career writing utter crap.

Frank T Loc: New York, NY

That article is certainly suitable for the bottom of the birdcage.

SBW

Did you call them slime when they endorsed Hillary?

SBW

Kind of like everything printed in the NYT.

ken hubert Loc: Missouri

You wouldn't know as you can barely read.

richosob Loc: Lambertville, MI

I'm sure the Clinton campaign has already printed Comey's suicide note.

Rich

Szalajj Loc: Salem, NH

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/29/bombshell-details-destroy-republican-hopes-fbi-clinton-email-investigation.html

"According to Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald, the “scandal” is related to the process Clinton aide Huma Abedin used to print out emails for the then secretary of state to read."

SBW

LOL. That article is so full of holes it would make Swiss cheese look like a brick wall. How does this so called Newsweek reporter know facts and have facts that NO one else has?

Second this one quote from the article destroys any credibility the article might have.

Here is the quote:

"The FBI examination of new emails is turning out to be one of the most overblown red herrings of the 2016 e******n, and Comey’s behavior is a disgrace to the US intelligence community."

FBI director Comey is not in the established "intelligence" community per se. Sure, the FBI does receive and in the course of its normal function gather intelligence, but the FBI is a LAW ENFORCEMENT agency. There is a very big difference. Apparently that fact was wasted on the author of the article and YOU, which is no surprise.

A totally frivolous article.

Checkmate Loc: Southern California

[b]Quit posting the same stupid lies from politicusuas on the different topics. Shows that you are just a Dirtbagger wannabe.[b/]

dljen Loc: Central PA

A columnist, John Kass, wrote a story giving his opinion. I wouldn't listen to anything the Chicago Tribune has written as an opinion since they endorsed Gary Johnson for President. He didn't know what "Aleppo" was and couldn't name one world leader, yet this is who they desire for ascendancy to the presidency.

Szalajj Loc: Salem, NH

NO I won't because not everyone reads all of the posts, and if the orange one wants to push his conspiracy theories, then I reserve my right to my freedom of speech!!!

trump's last 36 hours of rallies and speeches are total CONSPIRACY THEORIES!

He has no proof of the swill that he's been spewing!

SBW

Better to have someone in office that did not know the location of Aleppo (I bet you did not know where it was either) than someone that is a serial felon.