With apologies to Bob Dylan, you can't tell which way the
wind is blowing without a weather vane -- particularly if you are indoors
looking out. We had no way of knowing
what was happening in the bowels of the Justice Department and the White House
before Joe Biden decided not to run.
Now, we know: There will be no indictment of Hillary Clinton.
Undoubtedly, Biden would have run if he had gotten word that
an indictment was likely. He would have
had to. The Democratic Party is
determined not to nominate Bernie Sanders because they believe, correctly, that
this would destroy their chances in November.
Biden's candidacy would have been indictment insurance in
the same way that Gerald Ford's ascent to the Vice Presidency in 1973 was a
form of impeachment insurance. Faced
with the inevitability of Spiro Agnew's rise to the presidency if Nixon were
forced out, Republicans made damn sure that Agnew was indicted and had resigned
the office of vice president before they moved to impeach Nixon. And so it has been with Hillary. The Justice Department would never indict the
putative Democratic candidate for president unless a viable alternative were
waiting in the wings. And the reverse is
true: Biden's decision not to run is the
clearest indication that no indictment will be forthcoming.
Without a Hillary indictment, Biden would be unable to catch
her. She leads him 54-16 with Sanders at
23 in the latest poll. But with an
indictment, he could have won.
Now, whatever their original intention, we can be sure that
Hillary will not be indicted. The FBI
may be insulated from politics in its investigation, but the Justice Department
is anything but insulated from it in making their decision on whether to act on
the information the FBI gathers. The
Democratic Party is now stuck with Hillary and the Democratic Administration
won't put her in the defendant's box.
Source:
dickmorris.com
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