Be nieth, you guyyyyyyth!

And from that Aaron Blake WaPo piece:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/03/26/the-13-words-you-cant-write-about-hillary-clinton-anymore/

But do the media actually use these words to describe Clinton? Well, yes, but only if you loosely define "the media" as "the conservative media" and "people who don't like Hillary Clinton."

In fact, if you Google "Hillary Clinton" and "calculating," there are 140,000 results. The first slew of results come from conservative outlets like The Daily Caller, The Blaze, Breitbart, the Daily Telegraph and also the Republican "America Rising" super PAC. One result comes from the Los Angeles Times, but it's a defense Bill Clinton lodged in 2007 against the attacks.

"Calculating" is almost completely something used to attack Clinton or describe the attacks on her. The same goes for "disingenuous," "insincere," "entitled," "secretive," "over-confident," "represents the past" and "out of touch." These are all loaded words and not terms used casually by mainstream media journalists like Chozick to describe a politician.

If the shoe fits...

Would it be better to describe Clinton as uncalculating?

You don't skate out of as many "did not violate the law" situations as the Clintons have w/o being able to calculate.

All other options are extremely unflattering.

The current email fiasco is a good example.

Setting up a private server (FIOA and Congress exempt) and holding gov't documents for 2(?) years until asked for them, deleting documents deemed "personal" w/o gov't oversight, mixing political and personal in Foundation, and so on.

Clueless about "spirit of the law" and public perception OR calculating the risks of documents harming her political future vs. weathering the storm.

I don't like her but I do prefer to not think of her as "clueless".

Let's not forget that the Clinton's Foundation was busy raking in the petrodollars from the ME while HRC was SoS.

We have a corrupt government. And it is finally becoming obvious that the agencies under them are also corrupt. Yeah, I'm looking at you, FBI, BATFE, Secret Service, and the Marshall's Service. Civil forfeiture will only give them more leverage over us.

To paraphrase an insightful person: we're in that awkward stage were it is too late to save the republic, but too soon to start the revolution.

"Clueless about 'spirit of the law' and public perception OR calculating the risks of documents harming her political future vs. weathering the storm."

It was a clear-cut violation of the Federal Records Act and the Freedome of Information Act. And the "I forgot" excuse isn't going to work... you don't set up your own private email server by accident. For a person of lesser status, it would be a slam-dunk conviction. However, from Clinton's standpoint, the problem to be addressed is entirely political -- she has no fear of actually being prosecuted, and rightly so. Events over the past couple of decades have clearly demonstrated that laws do not apply to those who make the laws.

I think Hillary is counting on the Obama strategy working for her.

Replace one scandal with a bigger one adinfinitum.

It will be interesting to see if she gets the same level of protection from the press that the Obama administration has.

Somehow I suspect not, because of entirely superficial reasons, Hillary is neither attractive, nor personable.

"Clueless about 'spirit of the law'"

Naw defiant of it.

" public perception OR calculating the risks of documents harming her political future vs. weathering the storm."

I'd put it down with expecting the media to completely ignore Democratic wrongs. But it looks like they are backing Warren.

Yeah, Dianne Feinstein had one too.

> Yeah, Dianne Feinstein had one too.

First appearance of this thought in consciousness: I'd rather Hillary were packing an inappropriately lethal sidearm than an illegal server.

The Battle of Athens (sometimes called the McMinn County War) was a rebellion led by citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the local government in August 1946. The citizens, including some World War II veterans, accused the local officials of political corruption and voter intimidation. The event is sometimes cited by firearms ownership advocates as an example of the value of the Second Amendment in combating tyranny.[1][2][3][4]

Read more on the "Battle of Athens": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)

Eleanor Roosevelt on the "Battle of Athens" in Tennessee in 1946:

SOURCE: The Daily Post-Athenian, Athens, Tenn., August 7, 1946; pages 1, 6.

Mrs. Roosevelt Grasps Local Facts Better Than Most

Editor's Note — Our attention has been called to Mrs. Roosevelt's column upon McMinn. She seems to have grasped the facts and significance better than any other outside writer:

McMinn A Warning — By Eleanor Roosevelt

New York, Monday — After any war, the use of force throughout the world is almost taken for granted. Men involved in the war have been trained to use force, and they have discovered that, when you want something, you can take it. The return to peacetime methods governed by law and persuasion is usually difficult.

We in the U.S.A., who have long boasted that, in our political life, freedom in the use of the secret ballot made it possible for us to register the will of the people without the use of force, have had a rude awakening as we read of conditions in McMinn County, Tennessee, which brought about the use of force in the recent primary. If a political machine does not allow the people free expression, then freedom-loving people lose their faith in the machinery under which their government functions.

In this particular case, a group of young veterans organized to oust the local machine and elect their own slate in the primary. We may deplore the use of force but we must also recognize the lesson which this incident points for us all. When the majority of the people know what they want, they will obtain it.

Any local, state or national government, or any political machine, in order to live, must give the people assurance that they can express their will freely and that their votes will be counted. The most powerful machine cannot exist without the support of the people. Political bosses and political machinery can be good, but the minute they cease to express the will of the people, their days are numbered.

This is a lesson which wise political leaders learn young, and you can be pretty sure that, when a boss stays in power, he gives the majority of the people what they think they want. If he is bad and indulges in practices which are dishonest, or if he acts for his own interests alone, the people are unwilling to condone these practices.

When the people decide that conditions in their town, county, state or country must change, they will change them. If the leadership has been wise, they will be able to do it peacefully through a secret ballot which is honestly counted, but if the leader has become inflated and too sure of his own importance, he may bring about the kind of action which was taken in Tennessee.

If we want to continue to be a mature people who, at home and abroad, settle our difficulties peacefully and not through the use of force, then we will take to heart this lesson and we will jealously guard our rights. What goes on before an election, the threats or persuasion by political leaders, may be bad but it cannot prevent the people from really registering their will if they wish to.

The decisive action which has just occurred in our midst is a warning, and one which we cannot afford to overlook.

Coverage of the Alps crash has taught me the power & ubiquity, especially in Europe but over here as well, of the locution "sick note."

I literally didn't know what it meant, though I quickly guessed correctly. ALL THE NEWS ITEMS ASSUMED I UNDERSTOOD PERFECTLY.

Not having to work, but still getting paid, is apparently a big concept in Europe. But over here in the States, too... This week, the Supreme Court is hearing about insufficient allowances from employers for pregnant women... WHO EXPECT TO BE PAID WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE CREATING VALUE.

That's what civilization is like today. People assume 'The wealth is just THERE, man... You shouldn't have to DO anything before someone else gives it to you!'

And the people who create these rules, (ahem JusticeGinsburg) are never the ones whose personal wealth will be given to the less productive, never in proportion to the ferocity of their belief, anyway.

Look, nobody wants to be a hardass.

But it often seems like the communists won the Cold War.

gotta love it - she stood 5'10" and was 72 years old and packing heat!

Why is Jimmy Carter's picture on that permit?

Billy was busy.