Posted on 03/29/2018 11:00:27 AM PDT by Slyfox
Barack Obama keeps a close watch on his emotions. “I loved Spock,” he wrote in February 2015 in a presidential statement eulogizing Leonard Nimoy. Growing up in Hawaii, the young man who would later be called “No-Drama Obama” felt a special affinity for the Vulcan first officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise. “Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy,” the eulogy continued. “Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed.”
It is the rare occasion when Obama lets his Spock mask slip. But November 2, 2016, was just such a moment. Six days before the presidential election, when addressing the Congressional Black Caucus, he stressed that the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, threatened hard-won achievements of blacks: tolerance, justice, good schools, ending mass incarceration — even democracy itself. “There is one candidate who will advance those things,” he said, his voice swelling with emotion. “And there’s another candidate whose defining principle, the central theme of his candidacy, is opposition to all that we’ve done.”
The open display of emotion was new, but the theme of safeguarding his legacy was not. Two months earlier, on July 5, in Charlotte, N.C., Obama delivered his first stump speech for Hillary Clinton. He described his presidency as a leg in a relay race. Hillary Clinton had tried hard to pass affordable health care during Bill Clinton’s administration, but she failed — and the relay baton fell to the ground. When Obama entered the White House, he picked it up. Now, his leg of the race was coming to an end. “I’m ready to pass the baton,” he said. “And I know that Hillary Clinton is going to take it.”
... Three weeks earlier, a cyberattacker fashioning himself as Guccifer 2.0 had published a cache of emails stolen from the (DNC).
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Article posted by Q for us to read.
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Hillary didn't take the baton, Barry. But she should take gas.
You know, it’s really okay to excerpt the salient points of the article, only.
Right or wrong, most readers aren’t going to click the link to read the whole thing.
I know I struggled with what to put in the excerpt, but for those who want to read the whole article it is here.
If you want, you can start reading at "The Birth of the Collusion Thesis" but it's still a long read.
If you're seriously interested in the topic and you need facts and a timeline to debate the opposition, this article is good for reference material.
When you have the time it's worth the read and worth saving or bookmarking.
LOL - like the 'deplorables'? Obama's biggest mistake was bringing Hillary into his Administration... She corrupts everything she touches.
Hillary took the crusty old ‘baton’ Reggie used to drill Barry with and put it to use on Huma!
If Comey had followed the letter of the law, the trail of guilt may have led all the way to Obama himself.
But give Comey his due. If he had followed the letter of the law, the trail of guilt may have led all the way to Obama himself. As Andrew C. McCarthy has demonstrated at National Review Online, Obama used a dummy email account to communicate with Clinton via her private server. Did this make Obama complicit in Clinton’s malfeasance? Anyone in Comey’s position would have thought twice before moving to prosecute her — and not only because the case might have ensnared the president himself. The FBI must enforce the law, but it must also be seen to be enforcing it. As a rule, these two imperatives buttress each other. During the 2016 election, Comey faced extraordinary circumstances. If he had followed the law to the letter, he would have toppled the leading candidate for president and decapitated the Democratic party.
Clinton’s supporters, more than 50 percent of the electorate, would have erupted in outrage, screaming that a politicized FBI had thrown the election to Donald Trump.
Guarding the bureau’s reputation for impartiality is a serious concern. But it is nevertheless a thoroughly political concern. Comey would have us believe that it was a unique moment in his career, the singular entry into the political arena of an otherwise apolitical servant of the law.
Truth be told, Comey loves being in the thick of it, but not because he is a partisan brawler. He is not. It is the drama that he relishes — the grand stage. His favorite role is that of Joe Friday, the no-nonsense lawman, the guardian of legal processes before the encroachments of dirty politicians.
Joe Friday, however, was a simple detective, a confirmed bachelor, content to live quietly with his mother and his parakeet. And, of course, he was a TV fiction. In real life, humble straight shooters get clobbered with a brick before they ever reach the limelight. In real life, snagging the big part often requires the equivalent of leaving a bloody horsehead in the producer’s bed.
Some interesting insight into Comey's worldview...
Silly Rabbit! Hillary was more than capable of doing that herself.
BINGO. You're right. She did...
The NFL : Now catering to yet another group of “Kneelers”
Once the enablers of Hillary Clinton compromised their own integrity, they internalized her program of denial and projection. Their own egos are now invested in perpetuating it. To avoid owning up to their shortcomings, they insist, in ever-shriller tones, on the personal integrity of the super spy and the credibility of his reports. The mere acknowledgement of a simple truth — that the “dossier” is junk — would constitute an admission either of deep professional malfeasance or of gob-smacking gullibility.
Choose your poison: You duped people and thereby abetted a gross abuse of power; or you were yourself badly duped. That is the dilemma that the lofty-minded now face. The choice is excruciating. It requires abandoning satisfying self-images and embracing painful self-truths — while also handing a well-deserved victory to a hated political enemy. As a consequence, the Steele dossier has proved to be as consequential as it is asinine.
ACTUALLY.... in this case, it would be very difficult to excerpt the ‘salient points’, and it really does require going to the link and reading the full article.
I only found one paragraph that gave an overall description. Here it is.
“Once the enablers of Hillary Clinton compromised their own integrity, they internalized her program of denial and projection. Their own egos are now invested in perpetuating it. To avoid owning up to their shortcomings, they insist, in ever-shriller tones, on the personal integrity of the super spy and the credibility of his reports. The mere acknowledgement of a simple truth — that the “dossier” is junk — would constitute an admission either of deep professional malfeasance or of gob-smacking gullibility.”
He was often petty and snarky. That is not emotionless.
Thanks for the excerpt.
Great excerpt. Thank you.
This is the stuff of history books.
fantastic. we need more such analyses. bombard the web with timelines, details etc.
this is the best way to advance the case against the conspiracy to stop Donald Trump from becoming President of the United States.
Thanks. I don't plan on debating any libs, but it's nice to be well armed with information anyway.
I didn't mean to give you a hard time. Its just that the excerpt didn't touch upon the gist of the article. A few helpful folks have since posted some good portions of the article.
Thanks for posting it.
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