Media (Not Hillary Clinton) Losing Credibility With E-mail Scandal

The press core is totally unaccustomed to not having full access... and its killing them.

To date, Hillary Clinton is not a candidate for president and any comparison polls that forcibly include her into the equation do so under the same guise that they do with Dr. Ben Carson.  He, nor she, have formally declared a bid for the presidency and America's media has to find a way to deal with it.

In fact, they are dealing with it by trying to force Hillary to develop a campaign team and do all of the normal posturing that every potential candidate has begun to do.  Because they assume she will run, they treat her as though she must behave like a candidate even if she refuses to do it right now.  When a liberal talk show host asked his panel the obvious question of whether or not she will actually run for president, the entire panel immediately blurted out into uncontrolled laughter. Even those who seem compelled to support her also seem enticed to question her unwillingness to play by the rules of the media.

Enough said?

How could a WOMAN have a landslide lead over every potential competitor that the imaginary polls imagine her facing?  Since Elizabeth Warren seems more convinced to let Hillary decide absent the challenge of the only democratic alternative,   Hillary is in the catbird seat and modern media types are none too happy about it.  To date, the media has functionally forced all of the other candidates to the pre-campaign posture by unearthing the kind of potential pitfalls that make politicians defensive.  With Hillary Clinton, the defense has been one short tweet and a bunch of  unofficial apologist' speaking on behalf of a Hillary communication team that simply doesn't exist.

How can she truly be a candidate for president and not have a communication staff already in place?
How can she be winning a race that she won't formally posture herself to pursue?  How can this
WOMAN be handing so many capable men their lunch and sending them off to presidential campaign school? How can she attend scheduled events and ignore the email question altogether? What Hillary is doing flies in the face of so many powerful entities that she is disrupting the universe of political power in America.  If white American men still own the stable of America's political power,  the American press core represents the cowboy who keep watch over the cattle.  At times they can break a bronco into submission if necessary, but mostly a quick lasso or an untimely scandal can reign in the wanderers.

Hillary the wanderer

Hillary has jumped the fence, escaped the stable and caused powerful people to feel a disruption in their solar system.  Whether the email controversy is real or just really necessary for the politically desperate power players who have engineered this scandal (sorry Trey Gowdy), Hillary should stand strong and not allow the noise to scare her back into herd mentality.  Her role as a WOMAN will demand that she redefine the norm, and she has started out on the right track.    As a former Washington insider, looking like an outsider will be the greatest campaign achievement that Hillary has ever accomplished. By the time Hillary announces her run for president, the electorate should be desperate for her 'outside off the stable 'view and willing to elect her to bring her back into the fold.

Though I do not embrace the close to the vest nature of the Clinton machine, this email scandal makes me more aware of the necessity of her approach.  To functionally operate within the confines of D.C. politics demands a posture that shows compassion towards everyone, but commitment to few. Such a careful posture has lead to John Kerry being the first Secretary of State to actually use a government email server since way back when Al Gore invented the internet.   Assuming email from the Secretary of State is truly an issue of concern, then it is a concern that only modern Secretaries of State endure because email is way too modern to have formulated it into Constitutional standards.

Those standards were established in 2013 and later solidified with updated language in 2014 under H.R. 1852.   Even if Hillary had acted unethically during her tenure, the law against her behavior was not established until after she left office.  Will that be enough to disqualify her for the highest office on earth? Well lets consider that thought.

If Jeb Bush, who is chasing after campaign donors for his obvious run, is struggling to outpace Ben Carson, while Hillary- who doesn't have a press team but is kicking the butts of everyone who does- the answer to 2016 is more clear than ever before.  The ruthlessness of political rhetoric has soured the entire nation against parroting politicians and traditional veins of information.  Simply said, WE don't trust a damn thing anymore, so most information we hear gets Google searched or weighed against motive.  How we choose presidents might now be a function of the things candidates say, but also a by-product of how well they shut up  and just let the music play when necessary.  If politics were a fiddle, Hillary is playing this tune as from a Stradivarius. Even her bad notes have an ethereal quality to them.  Some people will appreciate her orchestral prowess while others seek a little country twang from their fiddlers. No candidate could ever satisfy all musical tastes, so Hillary should keep writing her concerto and allow others to argue if words should accompany or not.

Its hard to confirm when exactly cynical America rose to power, but United We Stand.  From this day forward no poll, pundit,  prognosticator or drummed up news will select America's president.

 And that's the way it should be.