It is widely stated that “money is the mother’s milk of politics.” That is a sad indictment of our political system, though it is probably as true in most other countries as well as ours.
The Democrats have long decried Republicans for being beholden to the money providers, but a newly revealed email sent by Hillary Clinton deputy national political director Brynne Craig to the Democratic National Committee shows just how true that is within the Democrat Party machinery.
It is strange that in spite of Clinton’s numerous scandals, including her lies to Bangazi family victims, the huge sums “donated” to the Clinton Family Foundation by foreign leaders and countries with clear expectations of a quid pro quo, and her private email server problem now being investigated by the FBI, that she still claims the front runner status for her party and the loyalty and subservience of Democrats.
In fact, party leader Debbie Wasserman Schultz has shown a clear preference for Hillary over Bernie Sanders by limiting the number of presidential party debates, and more recently by controlling Democratic voter data that was initially supposed to be shared.
Hillary buys off the DNC, page 2
They bancrupt everything else, what did you expect ?
Isn’t that a conflict of inerest ????
Conflict of interest, hang her!
By George Will March 28, 2015. The ‘Clinton’s,’ America’s most shameless first family. An abscess of anger seems to gnaw at Hillary Clinton, but the reasons for her resentments remain unclear. The world’s oldest party, is eager to give her its presidential nomination, in recognition of . . . what? The party, adrift in identity politics, clings, as shipwrecked sailors do to floating debris, to this odd feminist heroine.
Wafted into the upper reaches of American politics by stolid participation in her eventful marriage to a serial philanderer, her performance in governance has been defined by three failures. Her husband, entrusted to her the project of health-care reform. Hillary Clinton enveloped her health-care deliberations in secrecy, assembling behind closed doors battalions of the best and the brightest; when their handiwork was unveiled, it was so baroque that neither house of a Congress controlled by her party would even vote on it. This was one reason that in 1994 Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years — a harbinger of 2010, when Obamacare helped end Nancy Pelosi’s tenure as the first female speaker.
Clinton’s Senate interlude was an uneventful prelude to her 2008 presidential quest, which earned her, as a consolation prize, the State Department. There her tenure was defined by the “reset” with Russia and by regime-change-by-bombers in Libya. Russia has responded by violently dismembering a European nation. Libya was the object of “humanitarian intervention.” Today, Libya is a humanitarian calamity, a failed state convulsed by civil war and exporting jihadists.
These episodes supposedly recommend a re-immersion in Clintonism, a phenomenon that in 2001 moved the Washington Post to say, more in anger than in sorrow, that “the Clintons’ defining characteristic” is that “they have no capacity for embarrassment.”
This judgment was rendered as two episodes were demonstrating that the Clintons in power were defined by their manner of leaving it. Bill Clinton punctuated his presidency by pardoning the late Marc Rich, a fugitive who 17 years earlier had been indicted for tax evasion, fraud, and racketeering. He also traded with Libya and South Africa in contravention of embargos, and traded with Iran during the hostage crisis. Rich’s former wife reportedly contributed more than $1 million to assorted Democratic causes, $450,000 for Clinton’s presidential library, and $10,000 to the legal-defense fund necessitated by Clinton’s glandular life that led to the Supreme Court effectively disbarring him from practicing before it.
A year before the Clintons decamped from Washington to begin planning their return to it, they began trucking away from the White House $190,000 worth of furnishings. Perhaps exigencies dictated this; the couple was, Hillary Clinton says, “dead broke.” The furnishings became another occasion for an “it depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” tiptoe along the ledge of illegality. Although the Clintons said that all the removed furnishings were personal gifts, they returned $28,000 worth of them.
As Hillary Clinton begins her campaign to again reside with the White House furnishings, remember an episode perhaps pertinent to the family penchant for secrecy and to her personal e-mail server. Sandy Berger, who had been President Clinton’s national-security adviser, was Clinton’s designated representative to the commission that investigated the 9/11 attacks that occurred less than nine months after Clinton left office. While representing Clinton, Berger frequented the National Archives. Later, he was fined $50,000 for surreptitiously taking highly classified documents from the Archives and destroying some of them. Another Clinton presidency probably would include a reprise of the couple’s well-known patterns of behavior. Voters will make an informed choice.
ANALYSIS WORTH READING: by$#%&!@*Morris, former political advisor to President Bill Clinton. As I was there for most of their presidency and know them better than just about anyone, I offer a few corrections;
Bill says: “In law school, Hillary worked on legal services for the poor.”
• The facts are: Hillary’s main extra-curricular activity in law school was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing and killing a federal agent. She went to court every day as part of a law student monitoring committee trying to spot civil rights violations and develop grounds for appeal.
Bill says: “Hillary spent a year after graduation working on a children’s rights project for poor kids.”
• The facts are: Hillary interned with Bob Truehaft, the head of the California Communist Party. She met Bob when he represented the Panthers and traveled all the way to San Francisco to take an internship with him.
Bill says: “Hillary could have written her own job ticket, but she turned down all the lucrative job offers.”
• The facts are: She flunked the DC bar exam, yes, flunked, it is a matter of record, and only passed the Arkansas bar. She had no job offers in Arkansas, none, and only got hired by the University of Arkansas Law School at Fayetteville because Bill was already teaching there. She did not join the prestigious Rose Law Firm until Bill became Arkansas Attorney General and was made a partner only after he was elected Arkansas Governor.
Bill says: “President Carter appointed Hillary to the Legal Services Board of Directors and she became its chairman.”
• The facts are: The appointment was in exchange for Bill’s support for Carter in his 1980 primary against Ted Kennedy. Hillary then became chairman in a coup in which she won a majority away from Carter’s choice to be chairman.
Bill says: “She served on the board of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital.”
• The facts are: Yes she did. But her main board activity, not mentioned by Bill, was to sit on the Wal-mart board of directors, for a substantial fee. She was silent about their labor and health care practices.
Bill says: “Hillary didn’t succeed at getting heal th care for all Americans in 1994 but she kept working at it and helped to create the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that provides five million children with health insurance.”
• The facts are: Hillary had nothing to do with creating CHIP. It was included in the budget deal between Clinton and Republican Majority Leader Senator Trent Lott. I know; I helped to negotiate the deal. The money came half from the budget deal and half from the Attorney Generals’ tobacco settlement. Hillary had nothing to do with either source of funds.
Bill says: “Hillary was the face of America all over the world.”
• The facts are: Her visits were part of a program to get her out of town so that Bill would not appear weak by feeding stories that Hillary was running the White House. Her visits abroad were entirely touristic and symbolic and there was no substantive diplomacy on any of them.
Bill says: “Hillary was an excellent Senator who kept fighting for children’s and women’s issues.”
• The facts are: Other than totally meaningless legislation like changing the names on courthouses and post offices, she has passed only four substantive pieces of legislation. One set up a national park in Puerto Rico . A second provided respite care for family members helping their relatives through Alzheimer’s or other conditions. And two were routine bills to aid 911 victims and responders which were sponsored by the entire NY delegation. Presently she is trying to have the US memorialize the Woodstock fiasco of 40 years ago.
Here is what bothers me more than anything else about Hillary Clinton. She has done everything possible to weaken the President and our country (that’s you and me!) when it comes to the war on terror.
With money from the Mid East,,,
Eat a$#%&!@*Hillary oh I forgot you couldn’t eat Bill
I continue to say she is TOTALLY UNQUALIFIED & UNFIT to be POTUS!!
Hillary has said things to and about any number of people that were at least as vulgar and perhaps more so than what Donald Trump said of her. Hillary Clinton will say anything she believes will help her get elected and is a crude, lying, self-deluded, vain, dispicable, grandstanding, backstabbing, thief. She is a cowardly, incompetent, traitorous, gun grabbing, untrustworthy, money grubbing, murderous, dangerious, shameless old hag and follower of Saul David Alinsky who plays dirty tricks at the drop of a hat and makes the Wicked Witch of the West look like Mother Teresa. The other DumboRat candidates are completely unfit for public office as well.
Do you mean she’s buying the nomination?
Looks like she got the Devil on her Side.