>>>That strategy seems to have worked for the repubs.
>>>They hammered away at her email server, never found anything, but it had an effect.
>>>Likewise with Trump and the birther nonsense.
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>Well, she did erase tens of thousands of emails from the disallowed email server and then bitbleach to ensure they couldn't be recovered. Why was that again? Maybe she was afraid Susan Rice might unmask the emails and some of the embarrassing ones then would leak.

And on it goes.
They hammered and hammered. Nothing concrete ever came of it, but it was one of the key factors that cost her the election and gave us DT.

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>As for the birther issue: never understood why Trump focused on this.

That's easy.
Tens of millions of people wanted to hear it.
When we finally get to tilt some pints together, I'll introduce you to one of my best friends here in beautiful Hamilton, NJ, Mike.
Mike's a vet of the Korean era artillery, a successful businessman, a wonderful husband and father, a man of deep religious faith, his IQ is way up there, and he's convinced that Obama is the Muslim anti-Christ who was born in Africa and came here to destroy all that is good about this country.

Name the evil and Mike will show you how Obama personifies it.

The other things that Mike is sure are true about Obama are either too obscene or preposterous to repeat here.

Mike speaks for tens of millions.
No one in the press here has had the courage to chronicle the depth of the resentful reaction to Obama's election.
It's huge.


The hateful bounce back might have been with us for decades.
Trump's election - thanks to an even more despicable opponent- might be a godsend if it shines the light on the hatred that was behind his support- and what it can lead to.