MORE HILLARY – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 9:46 A.M. ET:  The great Andrew Malcolm of IBD weighs in on Hillary Clinton's self-inflicted wound, and what the next step might be.  Very well done, and our quote of the day.  From IBD: 

Under media questioning Tuesday, much of it by Ed Henry of Fox News, Clinton was pressed on whether she wiped the server before turning it in, as FBI sources have suggested. She never answered directly. Clinton did not take the Fifth to avoid self-incrimination, often interpreted as virtual admission of guilt.

But in politics her obvious verbal dodges to avoid a clear answer are the same thing. Did she or someone for her wipe the server. "What, like with a cloth or something?"

Such disingenuousness assures continued questions well into the future, ongoing distractions from Democrats' political goal of holding the White House 447 days from now. How long the party's big money people put up with this is an open question before turning to another less-soiled candidate. "Vote For Hillary, Not Convicted of Anything Yet."

But their shoo-in nominee is now under investigation by the FBI, headed by the same guy who prosecuted David Petraeus for also playing loose with classified documents.

It's standard stonewalling and Clintonian dissembling, which might have worked for her husband in the nineties but leaves a different kind of stain now on her bid to get into the Oval Office.

COMMENT:  Very well said.  I'll be watching to see what "Saturday Night Live" does with Hillary.  But, even more important, I'll be watching the White House.  Will the emperor go thumbs up or thumbs down – does Hillary get to be president, or not?  If she does, it will probably be because the emperor buried an investigation, and, boy, will she owe him.

August 19,  2015