Apparently, the bar for being president of the United States is set extremely low these days.  Bill Clinton just had to wipe the occasional stain off a dress or tie.  Obama just has to talk passionately and recite big words as they scroll across a teleprompter.  And Hillary just has to not get indicted.  It's hard to believe that she considers it a personal and political victory to barely exceed that lowly hurdle.

Politicians have been tripping over that bar forever.  Marion Barry was alternately in and out of jail and political office.  A Detroit politician in the State House has been indicted and is looking at his ninth criminal conviction but is still running for another term.

If we want to say to our sons and daughters, "Someday you could be president," we should hope that it's a lofty goal and not something that you do in  between trips up the river – and I don't mean the Potomac.

If Hillary were applying for any other government position besides POTUS, she would not qualify.  She couldn't get a mechanic's license.  Would you want somebody working on your car who has been found by the FBI or other government agency to be extremely careless and grossly negligent?

It's clear that if this were anybody other than Hillary, he would be lining up a defense team now, not holding hands with Obama on a stage.  (Then again, Obama has shared the stage with dozens if not hundreds of criminals in the White House and around the country over the last seven years.)

Even if she didn't do anything that would put anybody else in jail, shouldn't the fact that she deceived the public with her lies in the aftermath be enough to prosecute her in the court of public opinion?  How often do we hear that the cover-up was worse than the offense?  That's what got Nixon.  With a compliant, Hillary-loving media, even her sloppy attempt to cover up the offense doesn't create a bump in the path to the presidency.  For the left-wingers in the mainstream media, Trump's latest tweet is bigger news than the FBI's proof of Hillary's lies and deceit.

Comey and the FBI admit to finding 100 documents marked classified on the personal server in Hillary Clinton's home, two of which were stamped top-secret.  This, apparently, was merely grossly negligent and, in the case of the Clintons, not a violation of any laws.

I'm not qualified to make any legal arguments, so let's consider a practical example.  What if the FBI searched any other government agent's home and found a briefcase containing 100 confidential and top-secret documents hidden in a bathroom closet.  The files weren't concealed overnight.  They were there for three years and more than one year after the agent under investigation signed a document swearing that he had turned over everything in his possession.  Would the FBI recommend prosecution?  I think intent would not factor into any reasonable prosecutor's decision to pursue the case in court as long as the offender's name wasn't Clinton.

Why do government investigators and prosecutors and the supposedly independent press automatically assume that the Mrs. Clinton's intentions were honorable even after she has spent the last year making up lie after lie to cover up her presumably innocent actions?  If any other government agent lied repeatedly to his superior that he had no idea where the briefcase full of documents was, would he get the same benefit of the doubt from the FBI investigators?

I was at a major Midwest university with my daughter for orientation this week, and they stressed many times that the students make a pledge to act ethically.  What kind of message are we sending to our youth when they see an ethically challenged presidential candidate being rewarded in this manner?  But like everything Clinton, things like ethics, truthfulness, rules, and laws apply only to everyone else.  Maybe that is exactly the message.  That no matter how hard you work, no matter how good and honest you are, there will always be the Clintons of the world out there that these ideals don't apply to.  We just have to hope and pray that those people don't end up with their feet up on the Resolute Desk.