"Reg - your post is not based on logic."

I think it is very much based in logic.

"It's based on conspiracy theories."

Actually, no I left my conspiracy theories out of that post. Were I to present a conspiracy theory it would be that Donald Trump destroyed the Republican Party in this election cycle as a favor to the Clintons. That would be difficult to prove though so it would have to be left in the conspiracy theory playground. Plus I'm not sure anybody saw the Trump thing coming which makes the theory fairly far-fetched.

"You say your disdain for the "Clintons" is evident"

Well, it is isn't it? I mean I don't think Hillary and Bill will be sending me a Christmas card.

"- but what you don't say - but imply - is that the "Clintons" somehow control our government to point of bending and twisting it to benefit them directly or fit their narrative."

Well, they do bend, twist, and manipulate to their benefit and have an enormous amount of sway over the Democratic party and sadly the media but no they do not control our government. They influence the government in horrible ways and often what they do sets precedents for future bad behavior...meaning others will justify doing the same sort of dishonest and self-serving garbage because the Clintons got away with it. The media fully participates in creating and promoting their phony narrative.

"If that was the case - why did Hillary lose in 2008?"

Because the truth is the majority of the public dislikes her and an opportunity arose for the DNC to back a person of color for president and they dove at the chance. They were shocked that Obama got the wave of public support that he did but he was in the eyes of most people a far better candidate than Hillary. This was quite a stunner for Hillary and Bill and that's why it was obvious they would play much more dirty this time around. And the funny thing is...she is once again struggling with a candidate that nobody in the media took seriously and openly called himself a "socialist" pretty much dooming him in the South and parts of the middle of the country. Yet, she still has barely limped her way to "victory" against him and it's not over yet. She still will probably take some big losses to him even though the media has turned up the heat on assassinating him.

"Why was Bill impeached? I can't imagine this was planned for some greater "Clinton" good."

Mainly because he dug his own hole on that but also because yes, the Republicans despise the Clintons. No, the Clintons had no control over that and they were open to that attack specifically because they have so many skeletons in their closet. The Republicans will support the election of Hillary Clinton but once in office the strategy will change to destroying her. And there is more dirt on her than there was on Bill when he was president.

I do have a blind spot that I think makes me vulnerable to missing things and that is that I tend to always approach things with the idea that somebody intelligently thought these things out and they are not an accident...that there is a reason and thought process behind these things. Where I mess up is when, like in All the President's Men where Deep Throat tells Woodward "These are not bright guys.", people just do something stupid I often am chasing the idea that they actually thought it out and knew where they were going with it.

This email scandal is an example. Now I think that when the Republicans went after Hillary on the Benghazi thing that was just bullshit and they knew they were not going to get her on that but what the Benghazi thing did do was allow them to subpoena her for her emails. This forced her to have to reveal her secret server set-up. I think that somebody knew she was doing all her business on a private email and probably also had discovered she was using a secret server in her house. See, I don't think they cared at all about getting her on Benghazi I think they saw a way to get her on the real crime of having her own secret server. I think this is what they were after all along.

Now I could be wrong and the Republicans could have just stumbled into this but I doubt it. I also think they wanted to time this out so the email scandal would be getting investigated during primary season. They would have expected this to do some real harm to her. Right now the investigation, in terms of timing, is playing out beautifully for the Republicans because the results and indictment could happen around or just after the Democratic Convention or it could happen even later...say in the fall...which would be even worse for Clinton and the Democrats.

So, no the Clintons are not in control but they are through their own arrogance and stupidity making a mess of what is going on. This is one of their major issues. While they have been able to accrue a great deal of power they are due to a massive level of hubris and greed quite prone to making absolutely asinine mistakes. This email deal being one of them.