Hillary Clinton is No Angela Merkel...

and that's a good thing.

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel complained to President Barack Obama on Wednesday after learning that U.S. intelligence may have targeted her mobile phone, saying that would be "a serious breach of trust" if confirmed.

For its part, the White House denied that the U.S. is listening in on Merkel's phone calls now.

"The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. "The United States greatly values our close cooperation with Germany on a broad range of shared security challenges."

However, Carney did not specifically say that that U.S. had never monitored or obtained Merkel's communications.

Can we say this?
Hillary's been around the block a few times, politically, and the girl formally known as a Republican has gained some pretty good instincts -- and skinned knees -- along the way.

If she managed to keep private her Secretary of State files, in a warring world where surveillance and subterfuge are key skills, well you go Go Girl. If Angela Merkel is having her phone tapped, God bless Hillary for devising a way to communicate in private, and keep her electronic written files safe from hackers, foreign and domestic.

Does it bother me that her official email records were not archived according to protocol? No. Because her work is all there, the results out in the open. There are no secrets about what she did.

Most everyday Americans, and non-Hillary haters, know this "work v. personal email address" is a but a press-manufactured "scandal!" for those who have column inches to fill in the pre-election cycle, but heads empty of ideas of what to write about. Nothing much -- more important domestic issues, say -- going on in the country, or the world, they can see, it seems...

Instead of conducting personal business on government email, the press is outraged that Clinton performed government communications -- securely -- on a personal, private account.

Bless their Hearts!
(But where were they, when Clinton and her team was acting in real time? Nothing was hidden. Nor is it now. The results are in. Let's not pretend there's something hidden in the emails that the press is being kept from thinking, and writing, about... They simply don't have the will, nor the skill, to go deeper into details.)


Again, if Clinton was wise enough to understand the security breaches that occur, and was able to keep our country's business confidential, that gives me faith in her leadership skills in a don't-trust international world. Her political judgement needs evaluation*; her communication skills and protective defenses... not so much.

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* ie/ Has she grown any since her decision to use American military might overthrow Gaddafi in Libya-- how'd that work out for US? Listen to those in the know next time?