FBI's decision on hillary Clinton is a joke

[Machiavellian]

MTZehvor said:

Machiavellian said:

Why would this report stop you from voting for Clinton.  If you did not vote for someone because they made stupid mistakes then you would elect no one.  Instead you look at the body of work from each canidate then make a decision.  The problem with this whole email thing is that its something that done probably way to offten within the goverment but only really shined a light when one party or another want to use something to gain an advantage.  I am not a Hillary or Trump supporter but I will make my decision on which one I believe can do the Job and actually do something positive.  This whole email thing is more political smoke screen then anything of real merit.

The magnitude of the mistake is the reason why. People shouldn't lose votes simply for any silly mistake, but if you screw up badly enough, then it becomes very reasonable to doubt that person's ability to be responsible with far more at stake. Clinton was irresponsible in following basic security protocals and put US National Security at risk. If she's been shown to be careless with important in the positions she's held (and careless enough to the point where the FBI director basically said she would have been fired if not for her prestige), then there's reason to suspect that she will be careless as president.

Its probably good that a person have their major screw up before getting into office then during their time in office.  Pretty much every president makes small to large mistake no matter how popular they are viewed.  I believe this one counts as a learning situation for the goverment more than just HC.  As has been mentioned many times, this incident is not isolated to just HC, this has been going on for quite some time with goverment officials.