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It’s a likely certainty that by now, anyone interested in politics in the slightest has had more than their fill regarding the latest email event regarding the Clinton presidential run. 

One of the best synopses, as usual, came from Michael Goodwin @nypost.com, who wrote yesterday: “They can’t help themselves. They are corrupt and corrupters, the ­Typhoid Mary of politics.

“Whether by nature or nurture, they are programmed to ruin. Friends, allies, institutions — all are stained by their touch. 

“And always, the Clintons blame somebody else. Now it’s FBI Director James Comey’s turn to embody their all-purpose bogeyman, the vast right-wing conspiracy. Somebody, sometimes everybody, is out to get them, unfairly of course. 

“The victim card is a Clinton family heirloom, but there are major problems playing it over Comey’s sudden reopening of the e-mail probe.” 

After setting the stage by providing the background, Mr. Goodwin presented his analysis of how and why the situation arose in the first place:    

“Clinton created the mess with her incredibly stupid decision to use a private server as secretary of state. Virtually every major issue dogging her, including her reputation for chronic dishonesty, was started or exacerbated by that decision, including the current one. 

“Even as her top aides remain mystified about why she did it, the result fits the family pattern now that Huma Abedin, her most loyal “body” person, is on the hook. It was, by all accounts, the FBI’s criminal investigation into Abedin’s pervy husband, Anthony Weiner, that led to the new cache of suspect e-mails found on a computer the couple shared. 

“Still, Clinton is understandably panicked because the timing of Comey’s announcement could cost her the election. Her demand that he release everything immediately is also understandable, even as she knows it is impossible for him to release potential evidence before it is examined.” 

And then, Mr. Goodwin provides his precisely accurate conclusion: “According to reporters, Abedin was on the campaign plane, but disappeared when it landed. And she hasn’t been seen since; hence the “Huma in Hiding” headlines.

“We’re likely to see more of those headlines in coming days. It’s the Clinton way, where truth is always the enemy.” 

Along quite similar lines, John Kass, Contact Reporter @chicagotribune.com, recapped the Clinton family biography in the midst of his article yesterday regarding their rise to political power.  

Mr. Kass wrote: “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 skilled 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 presidential election 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?” 

Mr. Kass’s posing the comparison of voters themselves to those they vote for underlines a continuing question raised here quite often in the past. Because, other than those needing Democrat welfare for survival, what kind of person could truly find any Clinton worthy of anything but a prison term?  

In that regard, it’s quite possible that those very same voters may finally be waking up to reality. An ABC/Washington Post tracking poll was conducted from Tuesday to Friday. “Which means the survey’s 1,781 respondents could only be asked on the final day about the revelations regarding the new emails. 

The poll found 34 percent of the respondents were “less likely” to vote for Clinton and that she now leads Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump by just a single percentage point, 46-to-45 percent.  

And that leads right into today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife, about whom -in the same article referenced above- Mr. Kass raised the closing question asked here daily for the past two years now. 

 

Mr. Kass asks: "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. 

And then, Mr. Kass arrives at his closing question: “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.”

Which is a perfect lead-in to the aforementioned closure always employed here: Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Jerry Brown, and Starbucks chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys are reading this? 

That's it for today folks.    

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