Posted on 08/12/2014 6:17:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
Hillary Clinton’s famous “listening tour” of Upstate New York in 2000 eased her way into the U.S. Senate. She was the first liberal politician in years to discover there was an Upstate New York. Who knew?
She then spent eight years in the Senate, the “world’s greatest deliberative body,” during which time she distinguished herself only by voting for the Iraq war. She spent much of the middle years of the decade trying to explain away her vote.
Hillary Clinton ran for president in ‘08 against the dovish Sen. Barack Obama. He is credited with the best putdown in the history of Democratic presidential debates. Without looking up from his notes during their New Hampshire encounter, the Senator from Cool said: “You’re likeable enough, Hillary.”
One aspect of the Hillary-Barack Obama contest little noted since has been the fact that in primary after primary, it was Mr. Obama who won the women’s vote. He won among black women, of course, but he won among white women, too. She claimed to have put eight million cracks in the glass ceiling of presidential politics, but he won the real prize—women’s votes. Maybe she’s not quite likeable enough.
As President Obama’s Secretary of State, she “re-set” our relations with Russia. She famously gave Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov a big red button with that word spelled wrong in Russian, and not even written in their Cyrillic alphabet. She would later tell a BBC interviewer she thought the Russian re-set was “a brilliant stroke.” [Watch it here at 4:56] Crimea River was the jibe that critics of the Obama-Clinton Russia policy retorted. Can anyone outside the Kremlin think President Obama’s policy toward a brutally aggressive Russia has been a success?
She went to Canada in 2010 and managed to insult our nearest allies in their own capital. She bitterly denounced the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper for failing to push abortion in Africa. Here’s what one alert Canadian news outlet reported:
Marie Smith, director of the U.S.-based Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues, said “Clinton is revealing to the world that a pro-abortion ideology at the highest levels of the U.S. government has hijacked the noble goal of reducing maternal deaths by re-defining maternal health to include access to abortion.” Clinton made it clear that the Obama administration not only considers abortion part of maternal health but has implemented policies and funding based on that understanding. Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes said, “Hillary Clinton is merely trying to force her own pro-abortion agenda onto the world stage as she attempts to influence G-8 leaders and oppose Canada’s position.” He labeled her position “morally bankrupt.”
Now, her book tour for her memoir, "Hard Choices," has turned into a demolition derby. She has had to defend comments she made about leaving the White House “dead broke.” It’s hard to imagine how that could be when Bill Clinton was selling presidential pardons like a fire sale.
Still, she soldiers on. Desperate to swim away from the shipwreck of Mr. Obama’s foreign policy, she is criticizing the Voice of America’s Broadcasting Board of Governors for failing its messaging to the Arabs. Except, as Heritage Foundation’s Helle Dale notes, she did nothing to help VoA when she sat on that very board.
She enthusiastically backed President Obama when he bowed to Saudi Arabia’s King and cooed the Jew-hating Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
I agree that our “messaging” to the Arab world could be better. The U.S. should tell Arabs to stop murdering their neighbors who worship differently, stop genitally mutilating girls, and stop enslaving women. Butthat message would have to have conviction behind it.
You don’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, however, for talking Turkey to the Arabs. Madam Secretary cannot escape the fact that for four years, she led the Amen Corner, applauding this president and crafting his failed foreign policy. She will be no more likely to distance herself from these disasters than she was able to persuade Iowa voters in 2008 she was ready to take that 3 a.m. phone call in the White House.
Maybe she should stay home awhile. She should hold up in one of her modest cottages—in Georgetown or Chappaqua—put on some comfortable shoes and read the book reviews on "Hard Choices." In the run-up to 2016, she’ll have another hard choice to make. And she might find some comfort in that 1930’s jazz classic by Mildred Bailey—“I Shoulda Stood in Bed.”
I can’t see how Americans will identify with her as a president. No way. I would love to see her and Liz Warren on the same ticket.
I can’t see how Americans will identify with her as a president. No way. I would love to see her and Liz Warren on the same ticket.
Strange.
Not a word about Benghazi, or the visibly angry shout “What. Difference. Does. It. Make. (at this point)”.
Both "The Friends of Bill" and the "Friends of Hillary" desperately need Clintons at the levers of the US govt.....the "friends" are salivating like land grabbers waiting for the railroad to choo-choo past their cheap lots.
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BACKSTORY Billy Boy Clinton was grinning like a simpering fool at the annual meeting of the tax-exempt "Clinton Global Initiative" foundation....even Obama was there hugging Billy like they were old pals.....all in the wake of the bombshell news that:
<><> the NYT expose that the tax-exempt Clinton Global Initiative uses shady financing;
<><> the tax-exempt Clinton Global Initiative had employed an active Muzzie terrorist named Gehad el-Haddad (Gehad is Farsi for "jihad") Gehad also knows how the Muslim Brotherhood launders money to finance terrorism, using "tax-exempt foundations."
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There's also a Harry Reid connection to the Clintons----- that tax-exempt "Clinton Global Initiative" foundation.
PUT ON YOUR TINFOIL HATS TO CONNECT THE DOTS:
(1) Harry Reid's son Rory is in business w/ the Chi/Coms on a multi-billion dollar solar energy project; Cliven Bundy and his land are standing in the way.
(2) Reports say Bill Clinton recently went to China to panhandle for his tax-exempt "Clinton Global Initiative" foundation.
(3) The "Clinton Global Initiative" (NOT KNOWN for giving out grants)---gave Harry Reid's granddaughter a grant for a Brooklyn, NY theatre she runs (what is a Brooklyn theatre's connection to "global initiatives?")
(4) A Nevada energy company also gave Reid's granddaughter's theatre group a grant.
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"Money laundering" comes to mind. Could the Chinese be financing the Reid's solar project through donations to the Clinton Foundations....which is then laundered to Reid's granddaughter?
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REFERENCE----HARRY REID IS LIVID THAT HIS GRAND-DAUGHTER HAS BEEN OUTED AS A RECIPIENT OF LAUNDERED CAMPAIGN CASH---Reid lashed out at reporters, saying, “My granddaughter has been the target of harassing phone calls, strangers tracking her down, knocking on her door and negative, unwanted attention on the Internet.” “This has gone too far and it needs to stop now,” Reid said. “I deeply regret any role I had in creating this situation but now, as a grandparent, I say enough is enough.”
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Besides the "jewelry company" financed by her grandfather, Ryan Elisabeth Reid runs the Sprat Theater Company, a small theater in Brooklyn, which is also coming under scrutiny. According to Sprat’s Theatre Company Web site, it has received grants/contributions from:
<><> the Clinton Global Initiative (connected to global terrorism via Muslim Brotherhood employee),
<><> two major Las Vegas foundations:
Caesar’s Foundation, and the NV Energy Foundation.
NOTE NV Energy Foundation---is a non-profit division of NV Energy (a public utility). The NV Energy utility is a subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company which took over in 2013....and is now owned by a Warren Buffet unit.
BTW, here's Harry w/ his grand-daughter....the one who got $31,000 in laundered campaign funds for her "jewelry company" and grants from Clinton and Nevada energy foundations.
Reid and granddaughter Ryan Elisabeth Reid.
On the other hand, if the Republicans would remember exactly who they represent ....
But that's just me.
I was thinking the same thing. If the MSM gives her a pass on that, I hope everyone quits reading/watching anything that comes from the MSM. If the GOP doesn't use this to crush her into the ground, they will not get a dime from me...ever.
To be fair, Obama and JFnKerry are no better at state craft.
But since she’s ‘the smartest woman on earth’, maybe we had higher expectation.
“Strange.”
Very strange.
Did you notice Obama has made the comment that he was taking action against ISIS because he didn’t want it to become another Benghazi.
When you realize Benghazi was part of Hillary’s dirty tricks campaign to get herself into the WH, you realize Obama has put his finger on Hillary’s head as being the one that thought arming up ISIS would be a good idea.
Be careful what you wish for.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
I read a lot about Benghazi, and still understood little. Beyond the fact that 4 Americans died.
However, if Obama thinks he can stick Benghazi on Hillary’s head, he’s an even bigger fool than I gave him credit for. And I didn’t think much of him in the first place.
Benghazi was Hillary’s operation.
Obama’s attempt to concoct a version of the “spontaneous” lie was the airline plot that turned out to be a govt agent.
It was derailed by the AP releasing info about the plot before Obama could come out with his story.
That photo says 10,000 words. It can be captioned may ways. i.e. Hillary; “They’re attacking our compound in Benghazi”. Obama; “So what should we do?” Hillary; “I have no idea, do you?” Obama; “Not at the moment with this fundraiser going on, lets talk about it tomorrow with the rest of the staff. For now grab a drink and relax, we’ll come up with something tomorrow, we have to take care of our other priorities at the moment.”
Then, I guess you don't understand the American people.
Who cares what she looks like??? Men in politics, presidents have been downright UGLY. What matters is that she’s a snake, a liar, dangerous to America.
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