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?
You seriously think they “recently” became wealthy.
You realize that is buying into their narrative?
The Clintons have that certain..... VEN-I-AL-I-TY!.................(Hint: Florence Henderson)..............
You are dreaming if you do.
That is why they’re libtards
Yeah and he supports Hillary Rotten Clinton and will vote for her. Only a lunatic like you would believe that.
Nope - I think the Donald will have to fight congress tooth and nail if he is elected. We would have to fight with him. I have no faith or respect for our Republicrats in congress. They have proven themselves to be corrupt liars who care more about personal enrichment than they do my children’s future. That is why they do not support Trump. He threatens their gravy train.
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.
The media is a weapon. The Democrats own that weapon. They prevent it's use on themselves, and they use it indiscriminately against their political enemies.
If the media were objective, Bill Clinton would never have survived his scandals. Hillary would be someone of which we had seldom heard.
The Media has created this past for us by their biased coverage of the Clintons.
Not if we don't have the super majority.
When are you going to get it?
Remove your lips from Limbaugh’s ass you might see better.
Wow, I think you hit the nail on the head. Hillary needs to be awarded a lifetime achievement award for corruption. Rarely has a politician had such a long record of corruption in so many areas, state government, first lady (and a corrupt first lady really takes skill and ingenuity), congress, the cabinet, and now running for President. She of all people deserves a lifetime achievement award.
Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!!
You don't have to pay groupies. The media adore Clinton and everything he has been able to accomplish for the left. They have been deliberately covering up his scandals since they initially learned he might be able to beat George HW Bush.
I keep telling people that our primary course of action ought to be creating a "Manhattan Project" dedicated to destroying the existing media, but I am a voice crying in the wilderness.
No one seems willing to face the fact that our primary impediment in solving this nation's problems is the fact that all sources of information on which voters rely to make their decisions, come from that Biased, Liberal Industry.
The existing media keep getting Democrats elected and keep preventing our people from getting elected. They also cow the people we *do* manage to get elected until they are gutless pansies who will not fight.
And you can thank the Clinton media for it.
Just how shall we do this? I'm open to all non-violent ideas.
In a nutshell, in the past the government and the intelligentsia have been at odds, with the intelligentsia playing the role of reformers. Now, in America, the intelligentsia are deeply corrupt. Our country has just become too corrupt for meaningful reform to happen.
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The next D.C. consultant type to die mysteriously will be the guy the Clinton’s hired to BleachBit the “yoga” emails.
Y’know the thing about Hillary, she’s got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When she comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be livin’... until she bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, ....
Seriously, given the sudden mortality rate for her “friends”, I don’t see how ANYONE would want to help this hellspawn gather more power....
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