Soap Box

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If any ordinary citizen had done one tenth of what Hillary Clinton has done, they would be whiling away several years of their lives in a federal prison.

But let's put the felonious part aside for a minute and consider the woman's judgment.

She once practiced law, there are those who claim she�s the most brilliant woman on earth, she's seen government operate from the highest echelons, has been privy to America's most sensitive secrets, has been a Senator and Secretary of State and yet she sent email over an unsecured server.

She claims that the secret documents she sent out were not marked secret at the time, which - at least in my estimation - brings her judgment into serious question.

Should any of the business of the United States government, even if it was a lunch order to a delicatessen, be put on an unsecured Internet server for the whole world to see?

Would not any eighth grader have known that exposing even the minor doings of an entity as sensitive as the United States State Department would be a serious breach of national security, and should not a woman with the experience and inside knowledge of Hillary Clinton have known beyond a shadow of a doubt, that using an unsecured server for even the most mundane of transactions should never, by any means, ever happen?

Did this woman, smart, politically savvy, with experience in the highest offices of government, well-connected, privy to inside information at the highest level, really believe that what she did was not dangerous to national security, that any document sensitive enough to be deemed top secret later on was not too important to be exposed to every hacker and foreign government intelligence agency in the world?

Did she REALLY not know, or was it just the arrogance of an elitist who thinks that there is one set of rules for people like her and another set for the ordinary citizen?

Did she really think that the pleadings of Ambassador Chris Stevens for more security in the days before the Benghazi debacle were not important enough to listen to or did she just think she knew better than anybody else and ignore it?

And when the attack first started and the desperate pleas for reinforcement started coming in, did she really think she knew how long they would be under siege? What does it tell you about her concern for those in her charge when she didn't go to the president and plead for help to be dispatched to save her people, distance and time notwithstanding?

Isn't that what a real leader would do, to try, no matter what the odds, so she could at least look the families of the fallen in the eye and truthfully say that she had done the very best she could?

Does such behavior instill confidence in our armed forces who would serve under a President Hillary Clinton that when push came to shove and they were pinned down in some Middle East hell hole, that help would get dispatched in a timely fashion or at all for that matter?

And was it good judgment to deliberately lie about some video tape that was supposed to have incited the whole thing, especially to the grieving families standing over the coffins of their loved ones who had died defending the Embassy???

Even if you accept Hillary at her word - and many of you will - that she has done nothing worthy of prosecution by sending sensitive material on an unsecured email server, even if you accept excuses for her cold and inept handling of Benghazi, even if you're willing to give her a pass on the bald faced lie she told to grieving families and America at large, if you're a rational person you have to seriously question her judgment.

The presidency requires split second action, getting it right the first time, decisiveness, striking while the iron is hot and at times, five minutes can mean lives being saved or lost. It requires trust and confidence from the people, respect from world leaders and fear from our enemies, knowing that attacking America and it's interests, foreign or domestic will not be tolerated and will be dealt with immediately, the kind of uniforms our troops are wearing notwithstanding.

And now FBI director, James Comey, has recommended that while Hillary and her staff were �extremely careless� with her emails, no charges should be filed. 

The law states that �gross negligence� with regards to national security documents is grounds for fines and up to ten years in prison.

How is �extremely careless� not the same as �gross negligence?�

This nation has got a lot of catching up to do just to get back on even keel.

Our next president will either preside over America's recovery or America�s demise.

And yes, Mrs. Clinton, it does make a difference.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels