Recent content by pettifogger

FDR had polio and was confined to a wheelchair, but was pretty effective; what physical requirements do you think apply to the job?      

Jennifer Rubin on Colin Powell's email advice:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/09/09/hillary-clinton-is-another-colin-powell-victim/?utm_term=.c91dd9bcb70c

The report she released seemed fully sufficient to me, and quite a bit more informative that Trump's doctor's letter. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/31/us/politics/hillary-clinton-doctor-letter.html?_r=0   

Except apparently the entire front office of the Bush administration.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controversy 

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-detroit-african-american-church-227712 "Trump's first visit to a black church was heavily hyped, but did not draw a full crowd. There were rows and rows of empty seats in the back half of the church, even as the Trump campaign did not provide...

Agreed.  

This is my take on the email stuff.  First, the State Dept. has a cable system for dispatches from the field, the type of stuff that is normally classified.  (The one Manning and Assange breached and resulted in 200K cables being published, which does not get talked about much anymore.)  Second...

A lot of these stories lack the kind of detail I would want to see -- what was the scope of the preservation order, did it extend to work emails only or to all emails and therefore to the ones that were sorted as private?  It sounds as if Cheryl Mills did what she was supposed to do and sent the...

Hillary Clinton was heavily involved in starting the civil war in Syria?  Do you really believe that?   http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/syrian-civil-war-guide-isis/410746/ 

I am for Clinton, mostly because the version of her that comes through from books by Bob Woodward and Bob Gates convinces me that she is a centrist D on foreign/military policy and it appeared from her time in the Senate that she tried to work across the aisle whenever she could (even joined the...

Bush appointee James Comey said she did not lie to the FBI.  

I find this interesting because my approach is exactly the opposite of yours.  I voted Perot in 1992 because I did not like Bill Clinton, thought was pandering, particularly in promising a middle class tax cut in the face of a growing deficit, a promise that he knew he could not keep.  Went...

I will not be surprised when we find out at some point that Julian Assange and Wikileaks have all the top secret cables that Bradley Manning let them get into, plus all the emails unearthed in FOIA requests from Judicial Watch that they have now "published" online, but nothing actually coming...

Which apparently means someone retroactively classified her own comments, I gather.      

There has been a lot of speculation about what is in her email inbox or outbox, but we just don't know.  It seems quite unlikely to me that HRC would have attached a secret document to an outgoing email addressed to someone who did not have clearance.  (If she did, it would of course implicate...