Hillary and the email

I’m not going into detail here. Everyone who cares about this issue has been inundated with talk from countless vomitous talking heads on cable TV and talk-radio and on the network news as well.

She should have gotten a state.gov email address. No question about it. It would have made life simpler for both herself and her mail recipients. On the other hand, as I understand it Blackberry, the gadget she had been using before she took the State job, didn’t offer multiple email accounts capabilities until 2013, after she’d left the department. If she wanted to keep using the Blackberry she had to route all mail through her existing account or buy a second Blackberry for a second mail account. Who wants to carry two phones/email devices around if it can be avoided? Hell, I was still using Eudora for email five years after Qualcomm stopped supporting it. My feeling was it worked, why change? So I can sympathize with Hillary.

Unquestionably some of the questions about the mail needed to be answered. But for cryin’ out loud, to judge from the media reaction (even the so-called liberal media), you’d have thought she’d written a letter to the Grand Ayatollah in Tehran or run over a puppy or something. The slavering drooling press just couldn’t help itself; it had to go into full-on Clinton-frenzy again. You’d think it might have been a little embarrassed to do so. The last time it did it contributed mightily to the two-year nightmare of the impeachment of a President in which he came looking foolish but otherwise okay, while the Republicans and the media which savaged him looked like damned fools.