For this week’s TOW, it presents a question that most politicians are asking themselves nowadays, what privacy do they really have? This question is being asked upon numerous occasions and many people. One reason for that being that as a politician, your privacy is very limited and every action and or word that is spoken by you, can be turned against and used against you. This was fairly and recently shown by the actions that Hillary Clinton’s old personal email are being accounted for. Her old email turned up along with some unknown emails that were sent just two months before she became secretary of state, making people suspicious of her intents because she had mentioned that she had never used this email before obtaining her job. Unknown emails were sent off of this old account to other people, such as the Commander Of the United States Central Command, Gen. David H. Petraeus with information that cannot be shared with the press. Hillary explains to the press that the discrepancies were beyond her technical understanding, even though at the time she had hired individuals to help her with her technological concerns. Her Husband, Bill Clinton the 42nd President, placed blame on the email turn ups on the Republicans who wanted to weaken Hillary Clinton’s political position and press political issues onto her policies as a secretary. When asked about the subject she stated that it was “fair game . . .” and that “ I take responsibility. It was my choice. It was a mistake back when I did it”. With President Barack Obama’s presidency days slowly coming to an end and Hillary’s email mix up, Hillary is becoming less favorable to her once supportive voters. The press has come to their own conclusion that Hillary Clinton had used this private personal server account because she planned to run for president in 2016 and wanted to hide potential evidence that would cause investigations or Information Act requests. Her supporters are still with her but now to a certain extent rather than before. Hillary Clinton has shifted her position on many topics and issues, all ranging from the same-sex marriage to the recent wars, all presenting her as a reasonable candidate for president. She may not be creating pathos within her explanations, but she is creating logos and ethos by being the Secretary of State and having evidence that she did employ someone to assist with her technological concerns. In my perspective, Hillary Clinton seems to still be a reliable and reasonable candidate to run for presidency. Supporting the current issues and actively getting involved in the political and giving her opinions on the economical issues, she is very active in appropriately approaching her audience. Compared to other politicians such as Donald Trump, who comes off as offensive and skeptical, she knows what the American people want and is willing to do whatever she can to the best of her ability to do so. Having a woman actively representing herself along with not letting the political drama get to her head and tear her down is very admirable. It’s not often that a woman has the potential and confidence to go against other male competitors to run for senate and possibly for president. With being a woman, the political drama is more drawn to her to see how she would handles such situations, all of which she is very professional and not impulsive when handling. Regardless of the emails turning up after her obtaining the job of the Secretary of the United States (2009 - 2013), the email scandal is slowly dying out and isn’t holding a large pressure on her anymore. Since the technology is constantly expanding and changing all across the world, I do not blame Hillary for her innocent mistakes, they were incidences that people are nowadays more likely to do than ever before. The press needs to stop finding ways to apply pressure onto Hillary, for she is looking towards the brighter and better United States for everyone. And to the other people who’re either against women’s rights in the political field or are against the Democratic party, they should not present any unjust and or unnecessary stress and pressure onto her. Dealing with real world issues is one thing, dealing with people who have nothing better to do than to find old emails that contain information that cannot be shared with the press, shouldn’t find them in the first place. The political field is a very difficult field to be represented in, especially as a women, all the best luck in her future endeavors.
Url: (http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/27/hillary-clinton-says-she-cannot-explain-why-previously-undisclosed-emails-turned-up/?ref=politics&_r=0)
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