The Bookworm Beat 7/7/16 — the special Hillary illustrated edition and open thread
I found some clever Hillary cartoons. Before I get to them, though, a word to those who think Comey cleared Hillary. He didn’t. What he did was akin to a prosecutor summing up a case at the close of trial and then, having given chapter and verse of the overwhelming evidence against the defendant, suddenly announcing, “And in closing, I’d like to announce that we’re dropping the case against defendant.”
Comey made the case; he just dropped it for unknown reasons. Best guesses are morally craven, pursuing his own agenda (keeping Biden or Bernie or Trump out of the White House), subject to overwhelming pressure of the type we can’t imagine (e.g., blackmail), or refusing to risk his own or his family’s health.
And now those posters: