Train Time no. 13

Today, it’s the 5:05 bound for Homewood.

Today I was listening to the Federal Hearings with the FBI director James Comey regarding Hillary Clinton’s handling of Federal emails during her tenure as Secretary of State.

Typically, something like this would be dry and boring and I wouldn’t have given it my attention. However, with the elections coming, and our options being so interesting this time around, I have been casually following these issues concerning Mrs. Hillary and Mr. Trump.

The setting was simple: Mr. Comey sitting front and center facing a full panel of Congressmen and Senators all grilling him with questions about his department’s findings on the issue of Hillary’s handling of emails that were confidential and should not have been on a private server.

The facts as I understand them: Hillary Clinton and her “staff” did send and receive top secret emails on a private server during the course of her stint as Secretary of state. When asked to divulge these emails she refused. Before she finally did offer them up, “she” deleted over thirty thousand of these emails before turning the remainder of them over.

The FBI’S findings as I understand them: She was extremely careless but not guilty of any crime.

The interesting thing was not weather or not Hillary was wrong, but how the procedure was handled by these people that are supposed to be running this country.

The findings presented by Mr. Comey were all generic and politically correct to a fault. He agreed that things weren’t handled correctly; that things weren’t done by the book, even though “the book” in this case constitutes the federal government’s laws that govern how things are to be done.

Whenever a Republican asked a question, he / she pointedly presented the facts of the case, what the law says, and how Hillary didn’t seem to be following that law and yet was not guilty of anything. All was presented in a clear factual format that seemed to make it clear that something wasn’t right; that somehow Mrs. Clinton was being given special treatment. Yet somehow, nobody seemed interested in getting Mr. Comey to do anything more that repeat the same old dribble from before.

It didn’t make sense… but somehow that was OK.

Then, when a Democrat asked a question it usually involved asking Mr. Comey to repeat what he had already said before, praising him for doing such a great job, or involved asking him questions that had nothing to do with the subject at hand.

One Democratic Senator even went so far as to take his 5 minutes to discuss this country’s present crisis with existing white supremacy groups, and how they seem to promote violence and worked to undermine the stability of the nation.

Excuse me!?

Aren’t we a little off topic here!?

In the end, I naturally formed my own opinion about Hillary Clinton’s situation, but the biggest thing I walked away with was a powerful and overwhelming fear for the future of our country.

If these men and women represent the types of people that are in charge of this country, then we the simple Americans that they are supposed to be supporting and representing are basically screwed.

These people: these members of our Federal Government are no more interested in the truth and actually accomplishing something then a thief would be in returning your stolen wallet and apologizing for the inconvenience.

Ladies and gentlemen: We the people of these United States, are effectively and sadly on our own!