Actually, the way it was left it certainly has left enough "red meat" for Trump and the talking heads to use till election day. 

Trump, however, in his usual loose lip comments in essence called the investigation "rigged" and in essence said the FBI decision is rigged. Anyone suggesting that our highest law agent gave a "rigged" decision is really stating a case for anarchy. Expect others unfortunately to follow suit. Politics really sucks. 

 

I feel the same way, Lager. I keep looking over at the Johnson/Weld ticket and I really feel like I can't find anything really heinous about them, but...they're the Libertarians, man. I've been there before and it was weird.

I agree. In my 50 years of being eligible to vote, this presidential election considering the two major parties have provided us with two flawed candidate and I wish we could do better. The choice between Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum is unprecedented in my lifetime. It will be the first time that my vote will be based solely upon which candidate will do the least harm rather than the most good. Unless we soon change the entire electoral cycle, overturn Citizens United, compress the primary process, control the campaign rhetoric, get money out of politics, and reduce the stranglehold and influence of the two major parties, I fear for our representative republic.

I finally read the entire statement that Comey made. I am finding that the press in general glosses over and winds up stating misleading info in their reporting. Of course we no longer have a press that really digs through information in a rush to report. 

That said, it was a big event and was covered on all the major networks (naturally) and will be part of the 24 hour news cycle. 

The good news is that everyone can read the entire statement for themselves. 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/05/politics/fbi-statement-email-server-hillary-clinton-james-comey/index.html

Assuming that the Libertarians cannot mount a real threat (and that is just my assumption), then we have to (as has been bantied about here) decide the better of the two flawed candidates. Perhaps then the deciding factor has to be the positions that they espouse as well as your opinion of their running mate. 

At a personal level, I just cannot imagine a Trump Presidency in any fashion being good for the US and unless something drastic changes I will be voting for Hillary. 

 

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Morning Joe had a good "side by side" video comparison of Hillary speaking about the e-mail/private server issue to the press last year and Director Comey's findings yesterday. It's pretty damning as it shows that what Hillary was telling the nation was very far from the truth. 

I suppose at this point we're all just supposed to shrug our shoulders and say, "Oh well."

I'll probably be wrong with this prediction, but in 2000 voter turn out for Bush v. Gore was 50.4%. I think we'll see a lower turnout this year.