Good article about Hillary's qualifications [View all]
and a view of sexism. I realize there are many in DU who tend to dismiss charges of sexism as a big part of why Hillary has had to go through so much, but sexism is buried deep inside so many people that they don't realize it. My husband (a high school teacher at the time) was asked to be on a committee that trained teachers to be more aware of the silent sexism in schools. At the time he believed he treated the boys and girls in his classes the same, so he asked his classes if they thought he did things that showed preference to boys rather than girls. Several girls mentioned things that they noticed while the boys hadn't noticed any difference at all. In most cases it was small things but yes... it was there. And that's when he began changing himself as well as those he trained.
So much for the qualification above, here's the article worth the read:
http://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/jun/26/misled-about-clintons-qualifications-to-run-our-na/
Compare, for example, the treatment Hillary is getting due to her private email scandal to that of Gen. David Petraeus. Hillary has been accused of hosting a personal email server that might have made classified documents less secure, even though the documents in question were not classified as secret at the time she received and/or sent them. For Clinton to have committed a criminal act, she would have had to knowingly and willfully mishandle material that was classified at the time she did so. After months of investigation, no one has accused her of doing that, and it doesnt appear as if anyone will.
Petraeus, on the other hand, while he was director of the CIA, knowingly gave a journalist, who was also his mistress, a series of black books that according to the Justice Department contained classified information regarding the identities of covert officers, war strategy, intelligence capabilities and mechanisms, diplomatic discussions quotes and deliberative discussions from high level National Security Council meetings and (Petraeus) discussions with the president of the United States of America. Petraeus followed that up by lying to numerous government officials, including FBI agents, about what he had done. And lets not forget that according to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, adultery is itself a court-martial offense. And I remind you that none of this is in dispute. Petraeus admitted to all of it.