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When you assumed the worst and end up being right<\/a>. \u00a0 I said nothing would come of the whole FBI email kerfuffle redux<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have no clue what is going to happen now or how it will impact the election, if it impacts it at all. \u00a0My guess is that Democrats and liberal pundits will take this as the final word, even if hours ago they were charging the FBI with being rigged and corrupt and in bed with the GOP, even to the point of calling for Comey\u2019s job<\/a>. \u00a0For my money, if I think an agency is corrupt, I\u2019m not going to take its word for something just because it suddenly tells me what I want to hear. \u00a0But that\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n

I have no doubt that those who were only recently praising Comey and getting behind him, covering his back and singing his praises, will now be jumping up and down and throwing yellow flags. \u00a0They will remind us that there are still other investigations into the the Clinton Foundation, or that while she is not criminally guilty, she is guilty of gross ignorance and embarrassing levels of lame defenses for what would get most grunts in the workforce fired in a heartbeat. \u00a0This is especially helpful as it plays into Clinton having that same sort of ruling class \u2018golden parachute\u2019 that all those CEOs and other important people seem to have when they get away with what us little people would be nailed for. \u00a0All of this, of course, while the myriad charges and moral insults of Trump are argued away, validated, or dismissed as trivial or a vast anti-Trump conspiracy. \u00a0 No parachutes needed.<\/p>\n

Clinton\u2019s defenders will cry foul and say she\u2019s the victim of the worst coordinated conspiracy since Caesar, and the fact that time and again she has failed to \u00a0be convicted proves, not only her innocence, but the malevolence of those who are out to get her. \u00a0This will occur as they use Trump\u2019s own words against him, reminding us that even if he represents a rhetoric and attitude toward others we all crave and celebrate when convenient, you\u2019re not supposed to do it openly when you\u2019re a candidate for president. \u00a0That\u2019s from some standard of behavior I thought had gone the way of the butter churn, but this year appears all the rage.<\/p>\n

Of course the big casualty in all of this is the United States, because as we lose all faith in one institution after another, to the point where we really don\u2019t seem to care about truth or right or wrong as long as our side wins, it\u2019s hard to imagine America celebrating a tricentennial.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"