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Opinions/Editorials Title: Democrats should ask Clinton to step aside Democrats should ask Clinton to step aside By 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 presidential campaign. That he announced this so close to Election 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 presidential 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. [snip] Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 6. The Clintons are all they have. Look at the pathetic VP choice. They have no bench, nobody. Obama was an aberration. He won for two reasons: (1) He's Black, and that was cool, and (2) the Democrats were facing 2008 and the "inevitability" of Hillary Clinton, and they said Noooooooooo back then. Anything was better than that. And they were right too: Obama WAS better than Hillary would have been, or will be. But the problem the Democrats have is that the Clintons have sucked all of the oxygen out of the room. Since Obama won, they have bode their time, and made it CLEAR to everybody within that party that, after Obama, it was their turn, and NOBODY was going to be permitted to get in the way of that. NOBODY. So nobody has. Nobody has built anything. Obama didn't have coattails, other than for certain Black politicians who have positioned themselves well within the administration. In electoral politics, the Dems have nobody. The Republicans have more depth, though none of them is on the right ideological track, so the people chose Trump. Still, if Trump took a powder, Pence could run the country. Kaine? He's a clown. The only person the Democrats have left who is even credible is Joe Biden, and he's not running. He'll be far too old once Trump finishes his 8 years. The Democrats let themselves be corralled by the Clintons. They killed their farm team. Now all they have left is the ashes, as the Clintons finally get struck by lightning.
#5. To: Vicomte13 (#2) Obama was an aberration. He won for two reasons: (1) He's Black, and that was cool, and (2) the Democrats were facing 2008 and the "inevitability" of Hillary Clinton, and they said Noooooooooo back then. Anything was better than that. Third reason: Utter revulsion at the acts of W/Cheney, and refusal to cast any vote that might be interpreted as approval for a "third" term, or for another neo-con.
#6. To: nolu chan (#5) Third reason: Utter revulsion at the acts of W/Cheney, and refusal to cast any vote that might be interpreted as approval for a "third" term, or for another neo-con. Yeah, that's right. Hillary voted for the war, and the Democrats didn't like that.
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