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| Hillary Clinton speaks at the Democratic National Committee summer meeting on Aug. 28, 2015 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
A world hungry for scintillating new details concerning Hillary Clinton's fondness for tea, skim milk, and (possibly) gefilte fish has been temporarily sated by the release of roughly 7,000 pages of new emails by the former secretary of state turned Democratic front runner.
Among the revelations:
Clinton wished to know what time "Parks and Recreation" aired.
She once proposed to "go drink something unhealthy" (unspecified) to celebrate the passage of Obama's health-care law.
Bono wished her happy birthday and apologized for missing her party.
Her daughter Chelsea passionately urged her mother and father to do more for Haiti's relief work, where, she felt, the "incompetence [was] mind numbing."
Most importantly, perhaps, for Clinton's presidential ambitions: the latest batch of emails (just a portion of the 30,000 that will ultimately be released) included 125 messages, stored on Clinton's private server, which were deemed classified by the State Department. The Clinton campaign argues the information, which was redacted in the released emails, was not classified at the time it was sent.
The email controversy continues to be a drag on Clinton's approval ratings, though she remains the clear leader among Democratic candidates.
