A: Senator Clinton, you’re going to get asked about how your Rose Law Firm billing records were hidden, undiscovered, in your residence for years after they were subpoenaed. Or about your willingness to tolerate your husband’s infidelities. Or your truly astonishing single adventure in the cattle futures market.

No further questions. Your witness.

Oh this is rich….

It’s no big deal because the emails originated somewhere else. I mean, is that a valid excuse at this point for a Presidential campaign?

Uh, that would be “no,” and “no.” Once again, you two are being deliberately dumb.

Jay Tea, you did a bit more than “cite a couple of examples,” you stated plainly that the actions of the two campaign volunteers gives us “a pretty clear picture of the campaign strategy of the woman who boasted at the last Yearly Kos of helping found Media Matters For America…”

That may be true, but certainly not in this universe. Whatever the actions of the volunteers, you have to be insane to think those actions tell us anything at all about Ms. Clinton’s campaign strategy.

Go ahead. Try to explain it. While you’re at it, explain what your gratuitous reference to Media Matters has to do with anything at all.

As for you, Mr. Advanced Reading Skills, try to keep up. Nothing excuses the actions of the volunteers. I’m not saying the fact that someone else initiated the email excuses anything. I’m saying that Mr. Tea is being a deliberate dumbass to pretend that the incident reveals anything about the campaign strategy.

Everything else, sure, but this is just as petty as going after Kindergarten Obama. The woman made a choice within her own marriage to keep it together despite Bill’s infidelity. That takes effort, patience, and strength; all of which can be viewed as a positive.

If a person can still work and cohabitate with somebody who betrayed their heart, then they show they have a genuine sense of diplomacy. After years of bluster and cowboy posturing, I’d say this is a welcome change.

More entertainingly, it gives Hillary’s Democratic rivals to go digging through the vast fields of mud in her own background, utterly unencumbered by any sort of ethical restraints. I can hear John Edwards now: “Senator Clinton, you’re going to get asked about how your Rose Law Firm billing records were hidden, undiscovered, in your residence for years after they were subpoenaed. Or about your willingness to tolerate your husband’s infidelities. Or your truly astonishing single adventure in the cattle futures market. Or any of a host of other issues. Don’t you think you should either come clean on all these things, right now, and put them all to rest, or get out of the race before they can be used to bring down not only you, but our party?”

On second thought, that could be kind of fun to watch…

J.

The political judgment that suggested the “drug issue” as helpful versus the cost involved with raising it is badly flawed. Who does she think she’ll be taking Democratic votes from with this approach? I doubt an Obama or an Edwards supporter would be swayed with again, what is a question about “electability.”

Oh this is rich….

It’s no big deal because the emails originated somewhere else. I mean, is that a valid excuse at this point for a Presidential campaign?

Like I said, it will get far worse than Muslim emails and constantly bringing up Obama’s experimentation with drugs.

Here was a wonderful chance to show that Hillary is a uniter, not a divider — we were combined in our dislike of her. Can’t we just agree on that?

J.

Oliver Willis said: “Don’t accuse him of thinking.”

And this is the guy who complained about how he was being treated here.

Gee, maybe if he tried harder and actually managed to contribute something worthwhile he wouldn’t be insulted all the time.

Is it possible to be that stupid?

You’re actually trying to suggest that passing along email rumors sent to them by someone else gives us “a pretty clear picture of the campaign strategy” of a presidential candidate?

And what the hell does Media Matters have to do with anything?

Do you just type this stuff reflexively or do you actually think about it?

J.

What on earth are you talking about? Obama freely admits his past drug use. Why shouldn’t Billy Shaheen mention it in the course of a wider Q and A?

It’s only going to get worse.