[downandout]

I'm curious...which President are you saying thought it was "all just black magic"? Let's also remember that Obama is the man that unapologetically expanded covert/illegal surveillance programs to an unprecedented scale, directly costing American technology companies billions of dollars in sales. I'd say his actions reflect neither intelligence nor understanding of the tech industry.

[lsadam0]

One of the two major candidates for president responds to tech focused questions with some ramblings about 'the cyber part of security' being impossible and how good his ten year old son is with a computer. That's quite the contrast against someone like Obama.

[boona]

... and the other sets up her own email private server which got hacked by a [taxi driver](https://www.rt.com/news/362417-hacker-guccifer-clinton-roman...). As intelligent as he can be, if he was able to get in, it's easy to imagine that any world government had access to all information that came her way.

[unprepare]

I dont know if Russia Today is a source I would choose, given that the counterclaim is that it was the russian state behind the hack...

[totalZero]

Argumentum ad hominem.

RT is state-supported, but it is only one of a number of sources that all reported pretty much the same thing. Guccifer, who was an unemployed taxi driver when arrested, led to the disclosure of HRC's server, and claims to have hacked it "like, twice."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/guccifer-hacker-who-says...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/04/romanian-hacker-g...

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hacker-guccifer-i-got-inside-hill...

^^^ There. Mainstream, American-as-apple-pie sources.

[kweinber]

George W Bush proudly didn't use email and called the Internet the "Internets". Pretty big difference.

[drcross]

He left office 8 years ago, things have changed in that time. I also refer to the internet as the internets sometimes too. Why would the most powerful person in the world need to use email anyway?

[icholy]

"I was elected to lead, not to read"

[erikpukinskis]

Bush is probably at the very top of the 99th percentile in terms of readers. He reads a book+ a week.

[alvaromuir]

Yes, Downandout, because as president He single-handedly did that. You do realize his political opposition LOVES that stuff, right?

[downandout]

Actually, yes, he did single-handedly do that. The authorization came straight from Obama, and then when it came to light, he basically didn't even bother apologizing. He lied to his base about being against this kind of thing, and then went and did exactly what he wanted to do.

[mr_spothawk]

he was pretty clear about his views that power corrupts, that he would expand mil presence in Afghanistan, and that he believed in a living constitution.

some people voted for him for those reasons, presumably others voted for his opponent(s?).

sometimes i just feel like the punchline to all of this will be something like: "it's the patriarchy, stupid"

[downandout]

Hmmm... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/obama-on-mass-gove...