So, it is done.
Just days after a very strange meeting between former President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who happened to be at the same airport at the exact same time, and who then happened to make a point of meeting and discussing personal matters. Their grandchildren and their golf game. For 20 or 25 minutes.
The notion that such a meeting might be a conflict of interest and look very, very inappropriate to these seasoned veterans of high-ranking government positions never occurred to either one of them, apparently. Only afterwards did Lynch express some regret, because the meeting, which she insisted was unplanned and innocent, did not touch upon the very high profile investigation of Bill Clinton's wife, Hillary Clinton, who used to be the Secretary of State for President Obama during his first term and, oh, by the way, happens to be running for the White House herself.
The conflict of interest is rather obvious to most, although apparently, this was not obvious to either Bill Clinton or Lynch, who heads the Department of Justice that was investigating Hillary Clinton.
Of course, Lynch tried to make light of the matter and laugh it off at the Aspen Ideas Festival just days later, while also simultaneously making sure that everyone understood that she took this seriously, and that she was unhappy that this unfortunate meeting marred either her credibility, or the credibility of the investigation.
But hey! Hillary Clinton got off scot-free! She even assured us that there was absolutely no chance that she would get in trouble for all of this, and she was right! Having a former president as a husband surely helps, as well as her own high position. Also, having been a high-ranking official in the administration of the sitting president surely could not hurt, either.
In the meantime, President Obama not only gave his official endorsement to Hillary Clinton to be his successor, but he is letting her travel to campaign stops with him on Air Force One, just so we can all get used to the idea of her riding around on that, since she was ordained as The Chosen One by the powers that be, who probably also were behind all of those shady actions, such as voters being rejected at the polls, that allowed her to win the Democratic nomination in the first place.
It must be good to have friends in high places. For that matter, it must be nice to be a person in such a high place, with the road to the White House paved by all of your established interests, democracy be damned.
And so, criminal activity, in the country that has far and away more prisoners behind bars than any other country in the world, nonetheless matters little if you are one of the powerful insiders. Being one of the big names in politics these days almost guarantees that you will get out of any real legal troubles, because you are above the law. Clearly, Hillary is above the law. After all, the emails were not just questionable, but likely criminal. So are the highly suspicious actions that took voters off the rolls and prevented them from practicing their right to vote. And of course, there is the matter of her lying, repeatedly, and getting away with it, also repeatedly. Once again, justice is being subverted, because the person who was being investigated was one of the biggest names in Washington.
No names are bigger in Washington than the Clintons, and we have grown very used to enormous political scandals with absolutely no ramifications tied to them, because of who they are. Indeed, the Clintons are above the law, and perhaps that is why they continually get into these scandals to begin with. After all, if you repeatedly get away with things, are you not going to be tempted to keep pushing the envelope, to see how far you can go without being caught? Politicians are known to do that, of course, and there is surely no family so closely associated with politics as the Clinton family. Not even the Kennedys or the Bush family conjure automatic associations with politics. And since the American people seem never to have enough of the Clintons, then that is not likely to change anytime soon.
Unfortunately, that seems likely to be true of these kinds of scandals, and the examples of their peculiar exemptions from the legal limits that apply to the rest of us.
Nice to know that Hillary is already bringing in the meaningful change that she promised us.
Sigh.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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