Comment: When Josh Earnest, White House press secretary, declined to comment about this mess, I thought, "Good, the president should just stay out of this and not inflame the situation more."

Then Barack Obama comes out and throws just a bit of gasoline on the fire. Yeah, I know, he is not constrained by his position, as the FBI director might be. But, to me, it represents very bad judgment. Anxious to give Mrs. Clinton a boost, no doubt.

As for Comey, he is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. If he doesn't say anything, and Mrs. Clinton wins, the Right, already pumped up by The Music Man about a conspiratorial America, would go wild when it came out - as it inevitably would. Or worse, the investigation might be leaked before the election, which would be much more explosive than anything Comey said. It's going to be difficult enough to reconcile this country after the election, without lathering that on.

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