Posted on 08/26/2016 5:10:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
Hold on; we may finally be getting some fireworks in this lackluster presidential campaign -- as the Clinton Foundation scandal seems to be gathering steam.
Could the Clintons finally have to face the music for their adult-lifetime of corruption? Is it possible that Hillary Clinton's lifelong scheme to be America's first female president could be derailed by this power couple's wanton venality?
I've watched closely through the years the Clintons' uncanny agility at hurdling real scandals and coming out almost unscathed. Yes, Bill Clinton was impeached, but what a dud that turned out to be, with Clinton rising to the figure of beloved statesman among Democrats and his accusers being painted as petty partisans.
There has been no justice, and they have made off like bandits ever since. One might argue that it's unfair to impute Bill Clinton's misdeeds to his wife, but but it's not a matter of imputation. Hillary Clinton has been integrally involved every step of the way -- from enabler to enforcer to joint participant. Don't ever forget her complicity, such as her leading role in destroying the train of women who dared to blow the whistle on him.
From the beginning, these two have stepped all over people (Travelgate) and mutually abused .and destroyed Bill's harassment victims. But do you remember the grating mantra of the Clinton-guarding media? "These are private matters that have nothing to do with his public life. Private conduct is irrelevant to one's fitness for public office."
Well, these disgraceful hacks don't have that excuse in their arsenal of dodges this time. There is no way even a journalism school valedictorian could credibly argue that the Clinton Foundation graft didn't directly involve the public interest.
The media and Democratic Party's joint alibis for the Clintons through the years have puffed the Clintons up with a sense of invincibility. The couple have to believe there is nothing they could do that would bring them down.
When I first heard about the foundation's influence peddling, I had little doubt there was truth to it, but I had no expectation that anything would come of it. In a sense, the Clintons have benefited from the plethora of charges leveled against them over the years. After a while, these allegations -- no matter how credible -- become just noise and are easily characterized as another chapter in a decades-long partisan witch hunt.
It's awfully convenient for the Clintons and their liberal hatchet men to paint every scandal as a politically motivated slander, but when the media and the Democratic Party themselves always refuse to put truth above their own ideological and political interests, it's inevitable that only Republicans would bring these charges.
But the Clinton Foundation scandal seems to be different. It is objectively true that the Clintons have become mega-millionaires since the close of Bill's second term -- and they've done it through exorbitant speaking fees, which, absent other consideration, couldn't possibly benefit the payers commensurate to their payments, and bizarre contributions to their foundation by foreign interests that had unusual access to Hillary's State Department.
Bill Clinton flippantly dismissed the suggestion of any quid pro quo, saying there is no evidence that any of the donors received anything for their donations. When asked whether there is at least an appearance of impropriety, he said, "I'm not responsible for anybody else's perception." It couldn't be more fitting that he was the first postmodern president. He lent Oval Office credence to the demonic lie that words have no meaning apart from what people choose individually to assign to them. He's unctuously transitioned from "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is" to "I can't be held accountable for your accurate perception that my wife and I are wholly corrupt and have not only used our public positions to financially profit but also compromised and damaged the nation's interests in the process."
Just think about the charge that Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain secured a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that led to her approval of certain extremely controversial arms sales to Bahrain after his kingdom donated up to $150,000 directly to the Clinton Foundation and some $32 million to the Clinton Global Initiative. This alone would be enough to bring down a deified Roman emperor.
The Associated Press reported that more than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state donated to the Clinton Foundation either individually or through related entities. Clinton apologists are already trying to tell us there's nothing to see here, but sentient human beings know better.
No president in modern history, including Richard Nixon, has been the scandal virtuoso that both of the Clintons are in their own right. The jig just may be up.
WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange promises more email dumps that will bring Hillary Clinton down. Wouldn't it be the profoundest poetic justice if the Clintons were done in by the very emails Hillary thought she had deep-sixed months ago?
I hope they both exit this life soon.
This country so needs to just be done with these f***ing people.
Karma? No. Karma is mans attempt to replace the wrath of God because we think we know better than Him and His timing and forbearance. Justice here on earth to satisfy men? Not always in fact relatively little when compared to mans sin and evil desires. Gods wrath will be worse than anything our sinful minds can fathom.
There may be no Justice for the Clinton crime family here. She will probably skate and may even become President.
She may be the judgment this nation gets for its abominable acts and mocking of God or she may be the catalyst to send a great awakening to our land.
Ah, the Mussolini Mandate. That works for me.
Neither of them are looking any too healthy are they. May they both be consumed from within by loathsome and painful diseases.
I view the media’s behavior since the first Clinton administration as deplorable. They wanted Clinton to succeed because he matched their politics and their efforts to recreate Camelot and the JFK administration captured their imagination even as it violated their own traditions.
What people forget is how ruthless the Clinton’s were and how they played the media like a fiddle. There were no efforts in the newsroom to be objective when it came to Billy Jeff. Had the media covered even one scandal in the same manner they had prior scandals it is likely the Clinton’s would not have been so bold or even in the position they are today.
Any faith the public has in media has been thoroughly destroyed by their own politics, yet many still base their opinions on the news as it is reported by these flawed sources. Our distrust of institutions is at an all time high - churches, congress, banks and investment houses, academia, the executive branch, courts, law enforcement, and the media have all let us down. A successful and functional America requires these institutions to be above reproach (not perfect) and kept in line. Those days are long past - “too big to fail and too big to jail” is a direct repudiation of our constitution. That is where we find ourselves and our nation is in great peril.
They ALWAYS claim ‘no evidence’. And thanks to BleachBit, they may be right this time. What sleazy criminals have been running our country!
Karma for Hillary? I’ll believe it when I see it.
She could commit murder on live tv and walk.
To see the Clinton’s fall would be right up historically in my mind the Fall of the Berlin Wall. It just seems impossible
She looks like a tired, old, fat sow when she's allowed out of her pen for the folks to gander at.
Bill Clinton flippantly dismissed the suggestion of any quid pro quo, saying there is no evidence that any of the donors received anything for their donations. When asked whether there is at least an appearance of impropriety, he said, "I'm not responsible for anybody else's perception."For a private citizen, that would be true. For Hillary - and for Bill, and for every federal official or spouse thereof, the case is different:A private citizen does not have to ask Congress whether he can get a job working for the Queen of England, or anyone else. Otherwise, this provision of the Constitution would be entirely superfluous. But if Hillary, on the Federal dime from 2000 through 2012 (and the spouse of Bill who was on the Federal dime, 1993 through 2000), wanted to accept anything from any foreign government she was duty bound to go to Congress and say, “Mother, may I?” She never did.
- Article 1 Section 9:
- no person holding any office of profit or trust under [the US], shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state
Ask yourself: “Why didn’t Hillary, as SoS in 2009 and 2010 with an overwhelming Democrat majority - even a filibuster-proof Senate majority - in Congress, simply tell Congress what money she wanted to accept, from what foreign government, and why she wanted to accept it?” The question answers itself: she did not want to go on record as to what specific benefit it was, to the US in whose employ she was committed full time or even to humanity in general, that she should do something as fishy looking as that. And her Democrat friends in Congress certainly did not want to explain it to their constituents.
On the face of the Constitution it is plain that when it comes to working for the Federal government, the appearance of impropriety is impropriety.
The burden of proof isn’t on us, Bill. It is on you. You cannot possibly sustain that burden of proof because the horse is already out of the barn. The time to have explained why the SoS or her spouse was accepting big bucks from foreign governments was before the money was accepted. Now the only thing to do is to divest yourselves, both of you and your relatives as well, of it. All of it.
It’s a pity, I know; Hillary told us that you all were “dead broke” before this made you billionaires. But, easy come, easy go.
I used Karma figuratively. I do know Christ and God’s promise ofjudgement. The Clintons, as all of us, will know God’s judgement.
She is all things to all liberals, liars and thieves. Nothing more. There isn’t an ounce of good in that whole body.
Only lately have they had the funds to “pay well”. Either they have been fronting for someone else with money (and muscle for intimidation) or else Satan has been ‘guiding & providing’.... or both are true.
They have gotten away with too much.
Forget it, David.
Your brother, who allegedly knows everything, and isn’t shy about pointing it out, has said the Clintons will never pay for any of their sins—At least in this life.
Granted we will be seeing some fireworks but I beg to differ with your description of “lackluster presidential campaign”. This election is ANYTHING but lackluster. Mr. Trump has been the spark to light those fireworks and without him there would probably not been any July 4 showing of the red, white, and blue in the sky colors. Not one candidate would have wanted to hold a megaphone crying for all to hear about the unwise decisions of ILLiary, her immediate superior or her philandering husband. She might have wind, but it is not to be found beneath her wings.
Yes they are and may it come soon.
I agree.
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