What's good for the goose is good for the gander, right?

But his emails are different...

State Department: Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice staffers received classified info via personal email - CNNPolitics.com

I'm with you. Indict them both. What effect does that have on Hillary's campaign? Answer: it hurts her and that was the original point. That's the problem with raising non sequiturs all the time.

Back to the original discussion: that would, I think derail her campaign and open the door for Biden or one of the others. Obama could do that if he wanted to destroy her, and it would, even if she tries to raise the Powell defence the Right Honorable Eccles pointed to.

The non-sequiteur is the belief that Obama would "order" the indictment of Clinton merely because he "decides she can't beat Rubio - or Bush - or whichever viable candidate the Rs come up with".

As someone leaning toward Rubio, it pains me to bring to the attention of the rest of you an attack against him raised in Breitbart. You might as well see it.

Marco Rubio's 7 Top Achievements in U.S. Senate - Breitbart

Try again. If the FBI recommends an indictment, it will be Obama's call whether DOJ indicts her, unless you think Lynch could make that decision on her own.

Breitbart? Who do they back?

I do like those "Liberty Scores" in that article. Lower is better... right?

That word "If" is all important isn't it?

Depends on how Breitbart interprets "authoritarian." Probably in Breitbart's view, Stalin would have a Liberty Score of 1 to 0. Hitler a 0.

Yes. IF the FBI recommends that Hillary be indicted, then the rest follows. Could we agree that then it's up to Obama what happens next?

I do think it's strange that any conservative would support Rubio. I mean he gets paid by the Government, but never shows up for work.

I'm hearing the sound of goalposts moving... your claim was that Obama would order the indictment of Clinton if it turned out she wasn't competitive against the selected Republican. That's beyond his remit.

Sorry. The goalposts didn't move. I assumed, as a given to the thesis, that the FBI would recommend indictment and that Obama would then decide yes or no to the indictment depending on whether he thought she would lose to a viable Republican. That would get her out of the way and give the Ds a chance if he though she'd lose, or there was a better D candidate.

I assumed anyone with an IQ above room temperature (which should be at least some on this thread) would understand the original assumption. You understood that assumption well enough to drag the Colin Powell red herring across the path to deflect, get equivalence, or otherwise muddy the pond.

In Breitbartville the Nazis were socialists which means liberals/socialists are Nazis.