A Liberal Is Someone Who Won’t Take His Own Side In A Fight
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Obama really does embody the stereotype sometimes, as does Schumer:
Comey defends his handling of the Clinton email investigation, and for the first time details a private assurance he received from Obama following Clinton’s defeat. Many Democrats blame Comey for announcing less than two weeks before the election that the FBI was examining a new trove of Clinton emails for possible classified material.
Comey writes that Obama sat alone with him in the Oval Office in late November and told him, “I picked you to be FBI director because of your integrity and your ability. I want you to know that nothing — nothing — has happened in the last year to change my view.”
On the verge of tears, Comey told Obama, “Boy, were those words I needed to hear. . . . I’m just trying to do the right thing.”
“I know,” Obama said. “I know.”
Comey also writes that in a post-election briefing for senators, then-Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) confronted him about “what you did to Hillary Clinton.” Comey responded, “I did my best with the facts before me.” A teary-eyed Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) grabbed him by the hand afterward and said, “I know you. You were in an impossible position,” Comey writes.
This isn’t the only reason both Comey and the editors of the nation’s elite media are much more attentive to criticism from conservatives than from liberals, but it’s a reason.
FTR, I’ve added Comey’s book to my wish list if anyone wants me to assess his explanation in detail. If someone wants to buy me something else or nothing so we can forget the whole thing, well, I can see a case that this is for the best.