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Hillary's Odyssey [VDH]
National Review ^ | 11/4/2013 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/05/2013 11:19:47 AM PST by Servant of the Cross

Hillary Clinton(s) ... current frenetic speaking career is consistent with the ethics that allowed Anthony Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, to freelance as a six-figure private “consultant” while simultaneously working as Hillary’s aide ... (snip)

Hillary voted for the Iraq War. In October 2002, she gave a fine speech explaining why we had to remove Saddam Hussein — fulfilling the pledge of Bill’s Iraq Liberation Act and his incomplete 1998 Desert Fox bombing — only to become a fierce critic of her 2002 position when the polls went south on the war and she started eyeing the presidency. The complete pullout from Iraq in 2009, while she was secretary of state, turned a successful post-surge landscape back to 2006, and was one of the real blunders of the last five years. (snip)

Then there was Benghazi. Every major statement that Hillary Clinton offered about Benghazi required a suspension of disbelief. The violence in Libya was never predicated on a video, but was a pre-planned hit. She knew before the attack that there was inadequate security, and later, after the violence commenced, she requested no help when help would have mattered. There was never an honest answer given about why Ambassador Stevens was in Benghazi in the first place, why he was worried about his safety, and what exactly the State Department was fronting for.

Hillary told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “What difference — at this point, what difference does it make?” Lots. When even liberal commentators now talk of a listless and directionless foreign policy, they should finish their sentence with references to a four-year Hillary Clinton tenure as secretary of state. And behind Hillary’s latest odyssey — from Benghazi to Goldman Sachs — are four dead Americans, and little other than untruth for their kin.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillary; hillary2016; hillarybenghazi; odyssey; vdh; victordavishanson
For reference when Hitlery runs for POTUS in 2016 ....
1 posted on 11/05/2013 11:19:47 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
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To: Deb; Sir Napsalot; Kaslin; neverdem; EXCH54FE; 2ndDivisionVet; Rummyfan; smoothsailing; Hojczyk; ...

VDH ping.


2 posted on 11/05/2013 11:21:14 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Hillary 'in bed' with Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood is just as egregious as giving Ambassador Stevens unarmed security, IMO. Let's not forget about her failed Russian reset, too.

I wonder if King Barry is trying to buy off Egypt to NOT hold the trials of Morsi and the MB. Some REALLY indicting stuff could come out if those trials move forward, which are currently rescheduled to January 8, 2014, I think.

3 posted on 11/05/2013 11:27:30 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Servant of the Cross
The power-crazed Clintons are setting the stage for 2016.

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THE CLINTON MONEY PILE Billy-Boy Clinton was grinning like a simpering fool at the annual meeting of the (cough) tax-exempt Clinton Global Initiative Foundation....notwithstanding the bombshell news that the Clintons had employed a Muzzie terrorist....and the Clinton Foundations were outed for shady dealings and runaway spending.

Clinton Foundation employee--- Gehad el-Haddad.
(The stupid Clintons did not know Gehad was Farsi for "jihad")

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THE CLINTON FOUNDATIONS---MUSLIM TERRORISM CONNECTION --- The Muslim terrorist working at the Clinton Foundation AND conducting terrorist activities at the same time, explains why the Clintons just remade themselves into the hallowed "Clinton Family Foundation."

The "Holy Family."

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<><> The Clintons' shady proclivities are unveiled in the recent NYT story....lays out Clinton corruption, greed, entitlement, nepotism, cronyism.

<><> NY POST EXCERPT ----The Bill Clinton Foundation has spent more than $50 million on travel expenses since 2003 an analysis of the tax-exempt's tax forms reveal.....includes $4.2 million in 2011 for the William J. Clinton Foundation; $730,000 for the Clinton Global Health Initiative; and $7.2 million for the Clinton Health Action Initiative (CHAI).

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How many ways can the conniving Clintons use their name to launder money?

<><> The William J. Clinton Family Foundation......

<><> the Clinton Global Health Initiative......

<><> the Clinton Health Action Initiative (CHAI).

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The more cynical among us might wonder about:

<><> the multiple Clinton Foundations money-laundering for the Muslim Brotherhood,

<><> Teneo Holdings---Clinton is Bd Chair---hired out as strategic advisors,

<><>Huma Abedin's “State Dept special status" while a private contractor for Teneo Holdings,

<><> Obama pal Jon Corzine and his failed investment company (MFG "misplaced" $1.4 Billion)

<><> Corzine hired Teneo and Bill Clinton @ $50,000 PER MONTH.

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We need to know who funds the Clintons' political ambitions. It is important to know to whom the Clinton's, and their political pals, like Terry McAuliffe, are truly indebted. As President, Bill Clinton made policies that raised hundreds of billions (if not trillions) of dollars for his obscenely-rich donor/pals.

His North American Free Trade initiative made it easy for, and even encouraged, corporations to outsource jobs and then import their products back into the U.S...... The repeal of Glass-Steagall on his watch sent Wall Street into the money-making frenzy that led to the Great Recession/Depression of 2008......and subsequent taxpayer bailouts.

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The Clintons' 24/7 self-promotion--a familiar do-good liberal schtick: whining about "helping" the needy, and hoping to make a buck on it. The Clintons didn't have a pot to *** in in Arkansas---never even had a home to call their own. Now they're multi-millionaires.......the connivers have perfected the scam WRT gaming the govt system for themselves.

4 posted on 11/05/2013 11:34:23 AM PST by Liz
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To: Servant of the Cross

Please add rockinqsranch to your ping list please. VDH is most often a good read.


5 posted on 11/05/2013 11:39:12 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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AIN'T KARMA A *ITCH, HILLARY?...... as Americans were under attack (and killed) in Benghazi we learned later that the helicopter assault ship Kearsarge, WAS in the region but was not deployed. Americans were lied to----we were told Kearsarge was not available to help endangered Americans in Benghazi. Read on.

MILITARY.COM EXCERPT---During the Egyptian crisis when Morsi was deposed, US Pentagon officials declined to give specifics on conversations between DOD's Chuck Hagel and Egyptian Gen al-Sisi who had launched a victorious assault on Muslim terrorists.

Although US officials would not discuss the specifics of the military- to-military talks, the U.S. would need Gen al-Sisi's approval to move through Egyptian air space if Washington decided to send Marines to aid in the evacuation of U.S. personnel.

About 550 Marines and their tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey aircraft are at bases in Spain and Italy on standby if they are needed. A Navy Amphibious Ready Group with 4,000 Marines and sailors aboard, led by the helicopter assault ship Kearsarge, was also in the region following completion of the Eager Lion training exercises in Jordan. © Copyright 2013 Military.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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As one FReeper insightfully posted: Obombno/Hilly did nothing to help our guys in Benghazi b/c all signs point to a sinister plot, and collusion with Al Qaeda.

A pre-planned kidnapping was in progress....so they thought. The two stupids were duped----tricked by Al Qaeda, or similar terrorist group, who supplanted the original kidnappers.

Explains Hillary’s odd comment upon hearing what happened....... and why the O/admin conspired w/ MSM presstitutes to do a major coverup for months.

KEEP IN MIND---Onono AND Hilly are buddy-buddy w/ Muslim terrorists---and look who has the ear of our Muslim president.

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NOTE Money-laundering is a Muslim way of life---the way they finance global jihad.

freedomoutpost.com (EXCERPT)---the American Freedom Law Center, has been engaged in a long and drawn out lawsuit againstHamas front group, CAIR. Hamas-CAIR has been running a global criminal money laundering operation out of Washington, DC. "The money laundering scheme was discovered in the course of legal discovery in unrelated federal litigation arising out of allegations by five of CAIR's former clients that CAIR defrauded them by failing to provide the legal services they had been promised."

THE MODUS OPERANDI To avoid reporting these millions of dollars from the dubious Islamist sources and to avoid registering as an agent for a foreign sovereign as required by federal law, CAIR created a separate company called CAIR-Foundation, Inc---an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) charitable organization. CAIR itself quit filing any federal tax returns from 2008-2010 and allowed the IRS to withdraw its status as a 501(c)(4), converting itself to a regular for-profit corporation. CAIR also stopped all of its operations and became simply a holding company, transferring, at least on the books, all of its employees and equipment to CAIR Foundation. --snip--

SOURCE http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/09/muslim-brotherhood-hamas-front-group-cair-money-laundering-us-capital/#ixzz2jOgy8k7H

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The question of public figures facilitating money-laundering for the Muslim Brotherhood terrorism raises its ugly head.

Billy Boy Clinton was grinning like a simpering fool at the annual meeting of the (cough) tax-exempt "Clinton Global Initiative Foundation". Notwithstanding the bombshell news that (1) the Clintons had employed a Muzzie terrorist....and, (2) the Clinton Foundations were outed by the NY Times for their shady dealings and runaway spending.

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THE CLINTON FOUNDATIONS / MUSLIM TERRORISM CONNECTION --- The Muslim terrorist was working at the Clinton Foundation AND conducting terrorist activities at the same time.Gehad al Haddad's intimacy w/ the Clintons explains why they remade themselves into the hallowed "Clinton Family Foundation."

"The Holy Family."

6 posted on 11/05/2013 11:39:57 AM PST by Liz
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Obama's Credibility Is Nil and Getting Niller.....his (global and domestic) partners are concluding that they cannot do business with him. They just don't trust him.....the Saudis, the Syrian rebels, the French, the Iraqis, the unpivoted Asians....even (gasp)congressional Republicans.....have all had their fill of coming up on the short end with so mercurial a U.S. president. (Not to forget allies like Germany, Brazil...and 35 other countries NSA was snooping on......now mad as hell at Obama.) ....

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BTW, the WSJ served up yet another reminder of the failure and fallacy of Obama (and Hillary's) embrace of (drum roll, please) "Smart Power."

THIS MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD Then-SoS Hillary and Obama used "US military personnel," "military equipment" and "military facilities" to overthrow the government of Libya.

SO WHY IS THIS A BELLY LAUGH?

B/c it's really, really odd hearing Obama and Hillary and "military raids" in the same sentence. Obama and Hillary are major proponents of "Smart Power"....... or as it is laughingly known: "Democrats winning the foreign policy objectives without firing a shot."

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Behold what "Smart Power" hath wrought: Obama's careening and incomprehensible handling of the Syrian crisis.....doing a Costa Concordia with US ntl security and foreign policy. Obama has outed himself as naive, isolated....and outlandishly stupid. Not to forget then-Secy of State Hillary's part in the "Smart Power" debacle.

Democrats' 'Smart Power' Lies in Ruins; Suddenly
Realizing What They Miscalculated About the World:
Everything

National Review | Sept 3, 2013 | Jim Geraghty / FR Posted by kristinn

....... Democrats are suddenly realizing that their foreign policy brain-trust completely misjudged the world.

Being nicer to countries like Russia will not make them nicer to you. The United Nations is not an effective tool for resolving crises. Some foreign leaders are beyond persuasion and diplomacy. There is no “international community” ready to work together to solve problems, and there probably never will be.

You can pin this on Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Susan Rice, but most of all, the buck stops with the president. Those of us who scoffed a bit at a state senator ascending to the presidency within four years on a wave of media hype and adoration are not quite so shocked by this current mess.

We never bought into this notion that getting greater cooperation from our allies, and less hostility from our enemies, was just a matter of giving this crew the wheel and letting them practice, as Hillary Clinton arrogantly declared it, “smart power” (and fronted Time magazine cover).

(These people can’t even label a foreign policy approach without reminding us of how highly they think of themselves.)

They looked out at the world at the end of the Bush years, and didn’t see tough decisions, unsolvable problems, unstable institutions, restless populations, technology enabling the impulse to destabilize existing institutions, evil men hungry for more power, and difficult trade-offs.

No, our problems and challengers were just a matter of the previous hands running U.S. foreign policy not being smart enough. (Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...

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OH, BTW, AT THE SAME TIME Smartpowertics, O and HILL, staged "military raids" in Libya, they gained access to the National Bank of Libya. (No dirty old paper money there---just solid gold bars. Solid Gold. Not the Chinese tungsten filled bars that flooded the gold market).

7 posted on 11/05/2013 11:43:23 AM PST by Liz
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To: Liz

The Clintons are just the naturally occurring by-product of an underlying problem. For decades, we have been exporting far too many dollars abroad, and became the world’s largest debtor nation. All of those dollars in places like China and Saudi Arabia; all in the hands of foreign leaders looking to get the best return on an investment. So they buy America with what was once our own money. They buy the land. They buy our industries. They can also buy politicans. In the case of the Clinton Crime Syndicate, they found well-connected politicians with a cheap sale price.

That much money looks for a place where it can be used. If not the Clintons, it was going to be someone else. In fact, it already is. Foreign money that was once ours now runs our government.


8 posted on 11/05/2013 11:47:02 AM PST by henkster (Communists never negotiate.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Hillary Clinton’s warmly hugging Mrs. Yassir Arafat while Arafat was masterminding mass murder of Jews is an image that I shall never forget. Bill Clinton’s getting a quarter of a million dollars back then every time he showed up in SaudI Arabia to give a speech is not to be forgotten, either. Inflation has upped that price, no doubt.


9 posted on 11/05/2013 11:47:25 AM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Servant of the Cross
The lies, errors, hypocrisy and duplicity of this woman knows no bounds.

Goldman Sachs
Cattle Futures
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac
Huma Abedin
Anthony Weiner
Private Equity – KKR, Carlyle Group
Occupy Wall Street
Hillarycare
Secretary of State record
Iraq War – before it before against it
Benghazi
’BetrayUs’ willing suspension of disbelief
imaginary gunfire in Serbia
’Reset’ with Russia
”lead from behind” in Libya
Dumping Qaddafi and Mubarak
Promoting Moris and the MB
Assad and Syria
Four Dead In Benghazi
Obstruction of Justice

What Difference Does It Make?!


10 posted on 11/05/2013 11:54:06 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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Ugh! Too depressing. In 1000 years only roaches and Hillary will have survived.


11 posted on 11/05/2013 1:24:19 PM PST by Deb (If you wanna laugh everyday, follow Deepak Chopra on Twitter)
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To: Servant of the Cross

BTTT!


12 posted on 11/05/2013 2:04:43 PM PST by Pagey (HELL is The 2nd Term of a POTUS who uses the terms “social justice” and “fair distribution".)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Virginia Race: Hillary, Not Obama, Big Winner

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/terry-mcauliffe-hillary-clinton-barack-obama-virginia/2013/11/05/id/535010


13 posted on 11/06/2013 6:53:17 AM PST by KeyLargo
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