{"id":10562,"date":"2015-08-15T23:58:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T23:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10562"},"modified":"2015-08-15T23:58:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T23:58:51","slug":"what-has-become-of-hillary-the-invincible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10562","title":{"rendered":"What has become of Hillary the Invincible?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There once was a time — not that long ago — when Hillary Rodham Clinton was considered a shoo-in not just for her party’s presidential nomination, but for the office itself.<\/p>\n

She was Hillary the Invincible. The 2016 Democratic presidential nomination was, to borrow that clich\u00e9, “hers to lose” — although I’ve never quite understood what phrase actually means.<\/p>\n

Then came some nasty stuff.<\/p>\n

The Benghazi matter doesn’t count. I do not consider the Benghazi tragedy to be a “scandal,” as some media blowhards on the right have called it.<\/p>\n

Here’s what is more troubling in my view: the e-mail matter.<\/p>\n

The former secretary of state revealed some months ago that she used her personal e-mail server to communicate with others about, um, State Department business. That disclosure troubled me when I heard and I troubles me even more now. Why? Because of reports that — as some have feared — messages sent out into the public domain contained classified information.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department has now ordered Clinton to turn over her personal e-mail server to the spooks at DOJ, who’ll look over all the material that went out on it. But as the Washington Post’s Chis Cillizza notes: \u00a0“It’s impossible to see this as anything but a bad thing for her presidential prospects.”<\/p>\n

The trustworthiness issue is beginning now to dog the former first lady\/U.S. senator\/secretary of state. Is she for real? Is she authentic? Can she be trusted to tell us the truth all the time?<\/p>\n

Yes, I am having doubts about all of that, right along with a lot of other Americans.<\/p>\n

The Democratic field already has three other candidates seeking the party’s presidential nomination. I’m waiting to hear whether a fourth non-Clinton will jump in … that would be Vice President Joe Biden, about whom much has been written during his lengthy career in government.<\/p>\n

He’s become the target of late-night comedians’ jokes because of his occasional gaffes. No one, though, doubts his authenticity or his motives for seeking a career in public service.<\/p>\n

Whether he runs, though, likely might depend on how much damage gets done to Hillary Clinton’s once-seemingly invincible image.<\/p>\n

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There once was a time — not that long ago — when Hillary Rodham Clinton was considered a shoo-in not just for her party’s presidential nomination, but for the office itself. She was Hillary the Invincible. The 2016 Democratic presidential nomination was, to borrow that clich\u00e9, “hers to lose” — although I’ve never quite understood … Continue reading What has become of Hillary the Invincible?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[589,5344,1354,5343,1744,2139,2505,4398,4980,5191],"class_list":["post-10562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-benghazi","tag-chris-cillizza","tag-department-of-justice","tag-e-mail-server","tag-first-lady","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-joe-biden","tag-state-department","tag-u-s-senate","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10564,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562\/revisions\/10564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}