The spin in Democrat-land these days is that it was Russian hackers who got into the DNC's email system and obtained internal messages proving that the Committee was in the tank for Hillary Clinton all along, and tried to sabotage the campaign of Democrat Bernie Sanders.
I suppose it is a bit ironic that when I first realized this was the Democrats' approach to trying to make lemonade of some kind out of a big bag of rotten lemons, I thought of a Hillary Clinton phrase -- "What difference, at this point, does it make?".
Didn't that occur to you? Because the story, in the mind of the reasonable being with a political bent, is that the Democratic Party organization, which ought to have been occupying itself with the conduct of a well-organized primary process fair to all declared candidates, wasn't. In fact, the entire Party apparatus appears to have been co-opted from the beginning to ensure that Hillary Clinton was the Party's nominee, with the least possible opposition.
It is ugly. The Sanders supporters are livid, and have made the convention a booing and shouting match. The now-former DNC chairman, the immortal Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was kicked out of her post as the sacrificial goat, having accomplished her mission (and immediately joined the Hillary campaign, well, duh).
This is such an embarrassment to the Democrats, they can only take one of two tacks -- ignore it and expect the lapdog press will go along and let it fade, or come up with some "excuse" and feed it to the lapdog press to put out there so the narrative will be about that and not about the corruption inside the DNC.
They chose "B".
You have already seen the result. We have front-page articles in the Washington Post pointing out that perhaps it was "the Russians" who hacked the DNC's email. Because we are to assume that everything done in Russia is apparently by order of Vladimir Putin, the press made the plot line about how "Putin wants Trump to be president."
And that, friends, is why apparently the corruption of the DNC is now talked of less than whether Putin supports Trump.
Let me make it clear. I think it is pretty silly to think that Putin would rather deal with Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton. Hillary is the one who pushed the famous "reset" button that has allowed Putin to stomp on Ukraine, intervene in the Middle East (Syria) and, directly as a result of huge payments to the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation, buy 20% of our own country's uranium resources. Oh, Putin would be delighted to make her president. He can walk all over Hillary.
Trump, on the other hand, has no characteristics that would make Putin want him to be president. Think it through; I don't have to elaborate. Putin wants Hillary as his punching bag.
But even that doesn't matter. Whoever exposes corruption, whoever leaks the information that corruption has happened, it is still more important that it be exposed. It is important to the nation to know that one of its political parties only pretends to run open primaries. It is important to know that it is willing to sabotage one or more of its own candidates to the favor of another.
We already know that the Russians and, for that matter, the Chinese and others, are hacking wherever they can. It is the fault of the Democrats in power right now that they are able to do so without repercussions.
The story here is the content. It is the nature of the corruption. It is the "power at any price" mentality that allows this type of corruption, and that the Russian rabbit hole is even discussed is a testament to the fact that such corruption has reached the press as well.
Just stop with the Russians and admit what was actually done in the sainted name of Hillary Clinton.
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