by Sandy » Mon Dec 19, 2016 11:58 am
An investigation must provide clear evidence of a crime before you can put someone before a grand jury. Clearly, anyone who thinks that Hillary Clinton belongs in front of one haven't read a single word of the reports of the politically motivated investigations of her activities designed to be the means by which her political opponents kept her from the presidency. The FBI conducted a thorough and professional investigation, in spite of the director's highly partisan position and remarks, and exonerated her. A very partisan congressional committee, led by a highly partisan congressman Gowdy, conducted a thorough investigation into her handling of the Benghazi incident, and since it didn't produce the results that the chair, or the Republican members of the committee, wanted to hear, they didn't even call a press conference, but quietly filed the findings, which completely exonerated the secretary, away hoping no one would notice. The Clinton Foundation submitted years of independent audits and mountains of facts, turning out to be clean as a whistle, far more so than the foundation operated by her opponent. In the end, they had to rely on rumor and innuendo generated by illegal hacking, and help from Vladimir Putin to eke out a narrow electoral college win. In spite of that, the American people, with their votes, endorsed Clinton's candidacy in greater numbers than her opponent, and in fact, than anyone else to run for the Presidency except the current occupant of the White House. It doesn't matter that large segments of her support come from New Yorkers or Californians, or New Englanders, or people in Las Vegas. And in fact, she picked up more support from voters in Southern and Western states like Texas, Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona, than her predecessor did. Her opponent can't enter the White House claiming a mandate, or the full support of "The American People." Regardless of all of the apparatuses of government included in our system of checks and balances, the popular vote victory of Hillary Clinton will go down in history for its size, virtually three million more votes than her opponent, which is a comparatively large margin across history, and it makes her the second highest vote getter in all of American History, next to the first African American President, Barack Hussein Obama. What it does say is that the voters are more progressive, and respectful and honoring of diversity than the system will currently allow them to express. It also says that the numbers and support, and now the focus of time and energy, are there to make the necessary changes.