Dear Hillary: I Believe You!!
Dear Hillary:
I believe you!!
Really.
Yes, I know I’m a lifelong Conservative and critic of you and your husband since the early 90′s, but this kerfuffle over using a private e-mail server while Secretary of State has finally convinced me that there is what you aptly pointed out: a vast right-wing conspiracy. And I’m ashamed to say that I was (unknowingly) a part of it.
But I can explain why: it was the perception of scandals (btw: Wikipedia has a page entitled “Clinton administration controversies” that cover 46 of them; I never woulda thought Wiki to be a part of the conspiracy. Do you think they have a server dedicated just to this?).
Hillary Clinton is an unjustly maligned public servant with bad judgment, not bad ethics
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And I don’t mean the controversies that happened before you and Bill entered the White House. I never once dis-believed that you had a talent at commodities trading and were able to turn $1,000 into $100,000 in a short period of time. And instead of becoming richer than Bill Gates by continuing to do such, you selflessly chose public service. All for the ingratitude of accusations of impropriety by those right-wingers.
It also didn’t mean much to me regarding your defense of your husband on 60 Minutes about those scurrilous (but ultimately true) allegations of your husband’s philandering. That’s between you and your husband (and his mistresses).
Whitewater? The Feds never laid a glove on you and as you know (and live by) the old saying, “it’s not illegal unless you’re caught.”
What first got me into the feeding frenzy was what happened once you were in the White House. I don’t have enough time (life expectancy constraints) to outline it all but what aroused my suspicions were things like the FBI files controversy in which 500 files on Republicans suddenly showed up in the White House as well as the travel office controversy in which you fired employees and brought in your own.
But I was wrong and please forgive me. I realize now that it was not unethical motivation but just plain old bad judgment.
Yet therein lies why you should not run.
I know that you were just using your own server as Secretary of State in order to give State’s IT department one less thing to worry about (I haven’t heard you forward that rationale but suggest you add it to the list of reasons). Yet doing such makes even the a-political, non-cynic think that there were less noble reasons for doing such.
You don’t deserve this kind of grief and that’s all you’d get as President for all of your inevitable future misjudgments. Why endure it in your Golden Years? So spare yourself (and the country) from it all and enjoy an early retirement; you more than earned it.
One last thing as I don’t write to you that often: having been on the staff of a congressional committee looking into Watergate, has your opinion of President Nixon changed since then?
-I.M. Windee
