Posted on 11/01/2016 7:48:56 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Epic greed, power, and pride : Where’s the bottom?
With Bill and Hillary, there’s no telling. What was the Clinton telos? The end point, the aim of all their lying, cheating, criminality, dishonor, and degradation? Given the latest Weiner scandals coming on top of the latest WikiLeaks scandals, we wonder, what did the Clintons really wish to end up as — and why?
Are they Goethe’s Faust or tortured souls crushed by the weight of their money bags in Dante’s Fourth Circle of Hell?
For a few criminals, remorse comes with old age; but for the Clintons, near-70 was to be the capstone, the last chance to trump all their prior shenanigans. They were artists of amorality, and the election of 2016 was to be their magnum opus.
The FBI reopened investigation, WikiLeaks Podesta trove, revelations about the Foundation, the e-mail–server scandal, DNC disclosures, and theoff-the-cuff campaign remarks of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and one then ponders what was the point of the Clinton shakedowns, the loss of reputation, the crude lawbreaking, as they neared their seventh decade.
To paraphrase Barack Obama, in his progressive sermonizing on making enough money, did the two ever think they had enough money, enough honors, enough power already?
The Hillary/Bill fortune — generated by pay-for-play influence peddling on the proposition that Bill would return to the White House under Hillary’s aegis and reward friends while punishing enemies — hit a reported $150 million some time ago, a fortune built not on farming, mining, insurance, finance, high-tech, or manufacturing, but on skimming off money.
Clintons are simply grifters whose insider access to government gave them the power to make rich people richer. Long gone was the Scrooge-like need to write off used underwear
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Let's pray that we see much more in the future... surely someone will touch on the irony of Hilliary, after being fired from the Watergate prosecutor's team, now, at long last, becoming the very same thing that she became filled with hate for, when she was young.
Chelsea must be proud.
Nixon was a straight arrow, a choir boy, and a patriot in comparison to her and her husband.
Been saying that for 10 years before I joined FR.
The ultimate in the lowest form of life on the planet. Too bad one couple can’t accomplish the evil they’ve perpetrated without complacency and help from other sub-humans.
It is not the Clintons, per se, it is the DNC. Corrupt from the bottom to the top.
What’s the over and under on both of ‘em taking the dirt nap by the time the 2020 election rolls around?
“There are, in fact, not one but five separate FBI investigations which involve members of Clinton’s inner circle or their closest relatives.”
“The five known investigations are into: Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin’s estranged husband sexting a 15-year-old; the handling of classified material by Clinton and her staff on her private email server; questions over whether the Clinton Foundation was used as a front for influence-peddling; whether the Virginia governor broke laws about foreign donations; and whether Hillary’s campaign chairman’s brother did the same.”
They both look like they are on their last legs...and what an epitaph! Doubt they can buy themselves into eternal rewards and they will be shoveling that dreaded coal to keep hell’s fire burning for all time.
There is a story of a young reporter interviewing J. Paul Getty, at the time he was the richest man in the world and past 70 years old. The reporter asked, "Mr. Getty, you are the richest man in the world yet you are still 'wheeling & dealing' to make more money. Sir, how much is enough?"
To which Getty replied, "Just a little bit more."
National Review did not write this article. They published it.
Everyone would benefit from reading it. Victor Davis Hansen has written a piece here that thoroughly describes the Clintons and what drives and motivates them.
I love the writing of VDH. Not thrilled he does that writing for NR however. But this missive is excellent. Enjoy.
Can’t wait for the retrospectives after we what happens on election day.
If Hillary loses, you have to figure the Clintons are finished politically. No way Hillary comes back and runs for pres again in 2020, is there?
The open secret is that the Clintons are not really well liked by many Democrats. If she blows this election, the Clintons will not be politically royalty any longer.
And what of all the donors to the Clintons, who gave so much money in expectation that the Clintons would be back in the White House someday???? Will any want payback, want their money back, take retribution in some other way???
I’d be more than willing to be she’s being groomed for presidency later in her life.
Huma Abedin’s estranged husband sexting a 15-year-old;
And this is the least of the sins.....the least!
I’m not making sense.
If she is not making sense.
Then,
Must be........
The Klintoons.
I think Bill remains popular among Democrats just based on his personality and charisma as a politician. But I think democrats are equally tired of the “package deal” as Hillary has none of the above qualities and fails to excite anyone...especially now.
Weiner/Huma ‘Life Insurance’??
White House will not defend, criticize FBI decision to tell Congress about Clinton email decision.
CNN Formally Severs Ties With Donna Brazile: ‘Completely Uncomfortable’ With Question-Sharing
NY Slimes Front Page:
It will certainly be the end of the Republic if these two criminals return to the White House.
And WHERE are the #Nevertrumpers? WHERE are the “Republican” endorsers of the TRAITOR/CRIMINAL Hillary Clinton?
WHERE are you, you damnable, lying, unscrupulous scum? You ALL will go down in American history as mendacious filth with no ethics and honor whatsoever! You will be DISOWNED by your own countrymen!
VDH is our most important living historian, demonstrating why we need clear-eyed historians around.
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