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2016 Postmortem

baldguy

(36,649 posts) Wed Dec 14, 2016, 11:21 PM Dec 2016

Just to clarify for everyone: Clinton never had an email problem. [View all]

It was an attack by Russia upon the United States. Clinton just bore the brunt of it.

Yet she still won the popular vote by a larger margin than several Presidents have.

And the fact that the GOP spent almost 3 yrs investigating the hell out of it and never cottoned onto the Russia connection means they're totally incompetent, or were colluding with the Russians in carrying out the attack.

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Just to clarify for everyone: Clinton never had an email problem. [View all] baldguy Dec 2016 OP

95% true triron Dec 2016 #1

You might want to read what the Clinton campaign insiders thought about the issue... PoliticAverse Dec 2016 #2

They were fully aware of how the media would treat anything triron Dec 2016 #4

Right. baldguy Dec 2016 #5

I pretty sure the Japanese attack was not a 'non problem' that became a problem by a bad PR strategy PoliticAverse Dec 2016 #6

But nobody except those enamored with extremist RW conspiracy theories blamed FDR. baldguy Dec 2016 #9

You're confusing the Clinton email issue with the DNC hacking issue. n/t PoliticAverse Dec 2016 #12

Oh, yeah. Gucifer and Gucifer 2.0 had the exact same targets, the exact same objectives, baldguy Dec 2016 #13

Except for the fact that if Clinton hadn't used a private email server, the FBI wouldn't mythology Dec 2016 #10

There you go, pretending America wasn't attacked, and blaming Clinton for being the crime victim. baldguy Dec 2016 #11

You keep confusing Clinton's private server while SOS with the Russian DNC hacks. Ace Rothstein Dec 2016 #24

she did absolutely nothing wrong. in a sane universe, the only consequence would be unblock Dec 2016 #3

yeah, so msnbc hands the mic to the guy who says he would have mopinko Dec 2016 #8

So true, incompetent colluders ... pbmus Dec 2016 #7

It was an attack by the VRWC on Hillary ucrdem Dec 2016 #14

+1000 Hekate Dec 2016 #17

She didn't, and Comey personally went before Congress to break it to them. ucrdem Dec 2016 #15

snrk Hekate Dec 2016 #18

Computer Security Is The Sole Responsibility Of The IT Person DallasNE Dec 2016 #16

k n r. nt LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #19

Woah...so Russia put that server in her basement... TCJ70 Dec 2016 #20

the irony is her homebrew server was protected from hacking more than most servers Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #21

Some "liberals" will spend endless time desperatly searching for some reason to hate Clinton. baldguy Dec 2016 #22

yep, it really sucked this election. Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #23