If Hillary is just being a politician...

Maybe that is why so many Americans want a political outsider?

What the WikiLeaks Emails Say About Clinton

How you react to the emails will almost certainly depend on how you already felt about Clinton. A diehard Bernie Sanders fan who sees Clinton as a corporate Democrat driven by expedience will find confirmation in her vacillation over what kind of Wall Street reform to support, her backing of the Bowles-Simpson plan that would have cut spending on entitlement programs, and her musing in a paid speech that “you need both a public and a private position” on policy. In mentioning the dual positions, she was making a comparison to Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln and the unsavory political machinations Honest Abe had to undertake to achieve ratification of the 13th Amendment. 

Those who view Clinton as hopelessly liberal, craven, and corrupt will seize, as the Trump campaign has, on her stated “dream” of “a hemispheric common market with open trade and open borders.” They’ll smell conspiracy when they read hints that a Clinton campaign spokesman who formerly worked for the Justice Department got a heads up on a court hearing related to the release of her State Department emails. The Trump campaign said it was evidence of “collusion” between the campaign and the Justice Department. 

The most common thread in the Podesta emails, however, is that they show a political candidate being political. Not much more, and not much less.

Obviously the release of Hillary's emails have shown more than this particular author would like to admit, such as the pay for play scam she ran through the State Department, as well as the obvious collusion between the Clinton Foundation and her job at the State Department. But either way, I understand what this guy is trying to say. Hillary is not "much worse" than a normal politician.

On that point I would argue that indeed Hillary is actually "much worse" than a typical average politician when it comes to corruption. Mainly because no politician not named Clinton would still have a political future after Whitewater, China-gate, Travel-gate, and the adulterous mess that the Clinton's call a marriage.  But after all that she still managed to become Secretary of State, where most Americans (and nearly all legal experts) believe she broke the law with her reckless use of a private email server for confidential information, as well as her admitted intentional destruction of subpoenaed documents. She broke multiple rules (and possible laws) tying the State Department to the Clinton foundation. To say she also perjured herself under oath, would be akin to saying that the sun rises in the east.  To say she told bald faced lies to the American public over and over would be akin to saying the sun sets in the west.

Bottom line... the fact that some people want to argue that this sort of behavior is "acceptable" for our leaders, because it's just a politician being a politician... is why there will be tens of millions of voters supporting a brash, crude, fast talking reality television celebrity come November.