Did Hillary Clinton Say Enough Or Did She Say Too Much? #winning!!

Hillary Clinton has spoken again.  It wasn't exactly a 140 character tweet, but close enough.  The essence of her statement today was that

Did Hillary say enough or too much?

"I did not send any classified emails on my personal email system",

and she is not releasing her private server to anybody, so you will simply have to take her word for it.

What we've already known is that laws gave her the right to do what she chose to do.  After today's tweet of a news conference, we now know that she, and she alone, had the privilege of deciding which of the 55,000 pages of emails were business related and which emails were not.  We could contrive a deeper conspiracy based upon an unknown hypothetical, but hypothetical supposition will be the full extent of this conversation. Especially if we are looking for Hillary to add any more to the narrative.

Rumors claim that she will declare herself a candidate for president soon (April 1), but she serves herself NO functional benefit in doing so until her fictitious poll numbers begin to slide. Regardless of an official declaration, Hillary should continue her worldwide benevolence tour in the name of the Clinton Foundation, renown for its benevolence. The "convenience" explanation is her only admitted oversight in this matter, so thanks to this server scapegoat, her former president and rightful civilian husband leaves Hillary immune to everything except supposition.

You remember Bill?

Bill Clinton, Hillary's hubby, is the man famous for staring us in the face (just as Hillary did today) and boldly declaring,

"I did not have sex with that woman".  

At the time he said it, we took him at his word and kept on moving.  And then that woman with the stained blue dress leaked.  Today, the Clinton's don't let their stained blue dresses get outside of their super secure server, so to speak.  Their reputation for playing political hardball means they need to do a head fake on the public while they stick it to political enemies in order to maintain their untouchable image.

Playing politics well is not the worst of sins considering the challenge with being effective in such a seedy world. Its the equivalent of letting a little air out of the football during a cold playoff game. The truth is that most people hate the Clinton's like they hate the New England Patriots; a hatred bred primarily from envy. Yet, given an opportunity to place a wager on each, you would more likely bet for them instead of against them.  How they (the Clinton's, not the Patriots) operate only adds to my admiration of them in that they play a smelly game but come out looking like roses even if they still stink a bit. (Roses smell like boo boo boo - Outkast)

Hillary should not have to divulge every personal thing that came from her years in government, just the work related stuff.  The entirety of what Hillary should provide America is presently being verified by the state department before public release, which will take a few months to complete.    In a few months, we will wait for reporters to weed through these pages and pages of state department released emails in the hopes of finding some useful nugget of gold that will justify all of this hysteria and all of the time we are about to waste trying to find that needle shaped nugget of gold lost inside of the Clinton's field of hay.

If they don't find anything juicy enough, they will focus their energy towards  the unknowns that Hillary made mention of.  The server will be spun into a nefarious image and added to the growing perception of deception that Clinton opponents are using as their line for disqualifying her from the presidency.  Even if she hands over the server,  they must find something on it or her opponents will claim that criminal information was already deleted from the server, so it doesn't matter anymore what emails she shares.

And that, my friends, is the actual sad truth of the Hillary story.  It will never matter what she claims because both her supporters and her enemies have firmly made up their minds regarding Hillary as a candidate for president of the United States of America. Hillary is fully reconciled with her public persona to the extent that she felt she could deal with this email crisis' using 140 letters through Twitter.

Her press conference represented nothing more than another 140 characters of clarification and a repeat of the old tweet and the new one each time the questions came at her.  In her clarification statement, Clinton regrets the decision to operate using only one email because of "convenience", but also insists that she's offered unprecedented cooperation with all of the emails that 'she wants the public to see'.  From here forward, Hillary will pull a Marshawn Lynch and push the tape recorder on her packaged answers until the questions die down. As frustrated as the entire media core seems to be over this issue, they are mostly upset at themselves for not finding a way to crack open the Clinton machine or that damn server.

The icy steel surface of the Clinton machine has always been cold enough to compel me into the camp of Jeb Bush, who will never be as careful a politician as Hillary Clinton is- and that's a good thing.  Hillary was the person who conceded her defeat to Barack Obama by comforting her supporters with "the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time".  Prior to the interview questions that she took today- questions that Hillary has not taken in 2 years- Mrs. Clinton was making fairly good on her promise of an easier path back to the white house.

One email was convenient for me
.....my bad America.

Most of what is at play here seems to be an effort to protect CGI (Clinton Global Initiative), the Clinton family brand that has allowed them unprecedented power and influence throughout the world.  CGI might have taken some money from a couple of bad players, but bad money for good purposes can always spin well on the nightly news.  The family business, and becoming Secretary of State, were all simply part of the plan of  'making that path easier next time'.  Operating entirely above  board limits your ability to do a lot of good things that might 'make the path easier next time', so the Clinton's had little choice than to limit future access to retribution while smoothing the path back to their old crib.

Hillary seems confident that Americans understand when the ends justify the means in politics, so her explanations will always be short and sweet, maybe even a tweet- but always with a smile and a wink.

Because everybody knows how hard it is out here for a woman named Clinton.