(05-31-2017 10:35 AM)OldOwlNewHeel2 Wrote:  

(05-31-2017 08:37 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

Quote:There is also " no evidence that they have actually succeeded" as you say, in influencing THIS election. Zero. Nada. None. Hillary's excuses to the contrary, I can think of a hundred reasons that had more impact than the emails. "Deplorables" comes to mind. Benghazi comes to mind. Stagnant wages come to mind. The dissatisfaction with the status quo and "more of the same" comes to mind. But Hillary losing was an upset of cataclysmic nature. I didn't expect it. There has to be an explanation why things didn't go as expected. Has to be that somebody cheated, right? Has to be. No other way to explain it. Either that or witchcraft.

This is a joke, right? We can literally look at Hillary's polls before and after Comey's e-mail announcement and watch them plummet. Also, the idea that we shouldn't investigate the Russian thing unless it was the ONLY reason Hillary lost is a non-sequitur. Obviously it wasn't the only reason. But it's ludicrous to say the e-mails had absolutely no effect.

Right, except that the issue of liberal hypocrisy is wholly independent from the issue of whether Trump did anything wrong. Both can be true. The fact of one does not excuse the other or provide a reason for not investigating the other.

That is a world class job of mixing and matching issues. Comey's announcement was in connection with Hillary's voodoo shop server; not the leaked Podesta emails.

Please do tell how supposed Russian action had *anything* to do with Hillary's jury-rigged secret spilling machine and Comey's September announcement?

Or was Podesta's phished account residing on that server and no one ever bothered to check that little detail?

Please stop conflating Comey's September announcement with Podesta's stupidity.