Lets fill'er up folks...
I think no story better sums up these personal qualities of Hillary's than one found in her recently released tax records. She apparently made "charitable" donations last year of about $1,0040,000, which at first glance sounds vaguely impressive. Then you read that $1,000,000 of that was in donations to her own the Clinton Foundation. It just doesn't come more corrupt than that.
The moral and ethical characters of the American leaders involved here - Obama and Hillary plus the generation or two before them - surely rank with some of history's most hateful figures, and it is time to put a stop to their handiwork. As well, it is time for a government that actually works for the interests of its own people, a simple idea but one which is entirely foreign to contemporary Washington.
I think of the great Franklin Roosevelt, and people who have no history do not realize how intensely hated he was by a major part of the establishment. Apart from constant attacks in the press, his life was threatened. I think also of Abraham Lincoln, and again, people with no history do not realize how hated the man was at first. He was called “an obscene ape” in the newspapers, and he felt the need to travel to Washington for his inauguration in disguise.
I am not comparing Trump, but I am reminding readers of some of the unpleasant details that never appear on the plaques of monuments to such great figures. I do very much believe, despite the sometimes loose and careless words of an inexperienced politician, that there is great promise in this man. He is a doer, not a talker, but his Michigan speech especially had intimations of greatness in it. Just as he said, addressing America’s more than thirty-million black population, “What the hell do you have to lose?”
And just look at the alternative. My God, none are so blind as those who will not see, and anyone who can be enthusiastic for a woman of her bloody and corrupt achievements is indeed willfully and dangerously blind.
Lack of adequate government regulation and oversight literally created the 2008 financial disaster - much in the fashion of George Bush’s response to hurricane Katrina - and this leaves a gigantic threat overhanging the lives of hundreds of millions.
Obama has made no effort at repairing the structural and regulatory mess responsible, and all he has done to keep things somewhat steady is to print money - a la Weimar Germany - for eight years, creating yet another threat overhanging the future.
Obama has not only kept the Neocon Wars going, he has expanded them and introduced an entire new establishment for extrajudicial killing, differing in no way other than in its technology from the filthy work of the Argentine military junta of the 1980s. The Pentagon and CIA today receive and consume unholy amounts of resources so that they can kill, plot coups, and de-stabilize others while millions of Americans are not provided with decent schools or the most basic public services such as clean drinking water.
No one can solve all these problems, and I certainly think it would be foolish to expect that Trump can, but I am confident that he can make an important contribution. America’s priorities need re-ordering, and it needs to extricate itself from the bloody lunatic adventures of the wars.
“She apparently made “charitable” donations last year of about $1,0040,000, which at first glance sounds vaguely impressive. Then you read that $1,000,000 of that was in donations to her own the Clinton Foundation. It just doesn’t come more corrupt than that.”
THIS is something Trump needs to question her about in the debates IMO. I’d be interested to know where the other $40K went. I can only imagine....
Pravda for Trump?
Robert Riech for Trump?
Blacks for Trump?
FDR for Trump?
Did he leave out Woodrow Wilson intentionally?
I’m not a fan for the past politics of any of the above, and may not buy into the article but .....crossing my fingers.... Go Trump
The issue is that Hillary has been caught lying to direct questions while in office just to save her career. She has jeopardized our secrets big and small just to preserve her career.
This is different than other scandals. Some people have marriage scandals, or did something while they were young or in business. Or they weren’t consistent. But Hillary lies straight to the camera, over and over, while in office, about official national security. She breaks the law in office. She sells access in office. She makes our national secrets available over the web-site in high office.
As President, what would constrain her. If she is elected, why would she tell the truth, follow a law, talk to the press. She will have proven that she is above all that.
The rule of thumb is that “nobody is above the law”. If Hillary is elected, that statement is no longer true. Hillary is above the law.