Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their kinsmen were at their command — 1 Chronicles 12:32
Either Al Franken needs to resign or be impeached and expelled from the Senate with full Democratic Party participation, or Roy Moore needs to be elected.
I’ve watched the fiasco of the Roy Moore allegations – and Moore’s poor responses to those allegations – with growing horror. But I am just as outraged that women would wait for 38 years to bring charges against a man who has been in public service for nearly his entire life – including a high profile Republican primary runoff in which Moore defeated a Republican candidate supported by Donald Trump and the entire GOP establishment – without saying so much as “boo.” ONLY when Moore wins that runoff and ONLY when it is too late to even remove his name from the ballot according to Alabama law, does the self-acknowledged biased Washington Post put out this story.
I am forced to acknowledge that the Moore allegations might be true; but it is every bit as obvious that this was nothing short of a political hitjob where politics and ideology, rather than any issues with “women,” were at the heart of the left’s attack.
What is amazing to me now is that liberals and feminists are actually revisiting charges against Bill Clinton. Remember him? Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaderick (among many other victims of Bill Clinton’s lust problems) sure do. And back then, liberals and feminists rabidly supported Bill. Because none of these “feminists” have ever ONCE given a flying damn about actual “women.”
Of the Clinton accusers, the one who haunts me is Broaddrick. The story she tells about Clinton recalls those we’ve heard about Weinstein. She claimed they had plans to meet in a hotel coffee shop, but at the last minute he asked to come up to her hotel room instead, where he raped her. Five witnesses said she confided in them about the assault right after it happened. It’s true that she denied the rape in an affidavit to Paula Jones’s lawyers, before changing her story when talking to federal investigators. But her explanation, that she didn’t want to go public but couldn’t lie to the F.B.I., makes sense. Put simply, I believe her.
Oh, Goldberg parses out some reasons why she didn’t believe Willey and Jones, with the later being just because she was supported by political opponents (which means she shouldn’t believe any of Roy Moore’s accusers, either). But she now believes that Bill Clinton is not merely a sexual harasser, but an actual RAPIST.
This title from the leftist The Atlantic is pretty amazing:
Here we have an open acknowledgment from the left that feminists who “saved the 42nd president” were “on the wrong side of history.” They weren’t on the wrong side of history; THEY WERE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF MORALITY. Feminists blatantly and hypocritically sided with evil against good, and wrong against right. Because all that really mattered to them, all that has EVER mattered to them, all that matters to them to this very day, as I will explain, is the ideological left rather than anything else.
The cultural conversation about women, power and sexual misconduct that has consumed the United States in recent weeks has now raised a question that is eagerly promoted by those on the political right just as it discomfits those on the political left: What about Bill? While Fox News and other conservative outlets revive years-old charges against Mr. Clinton to accuse Mr. Moore’s critics of hypocrisy, some liberals say it may be time to rethink their defense of the 42nd president.
Matthew Yglesias, a liberal blogger who once worked at the Center for American Progress, a pillar of the Clinton political world, wrote on Vox.com on Wednesday that “I think we got it wrong” by defending Mr. Clinton in the 1990s and that he should have resigned. Chris Hayes, the liberal MSNBC host, said on Twitter that “Democrats and the center left are overdue for a real reckoning with the allegations against him.”
According to the new morality of the left, versus what the Democrats, liberals and the left have been saying whether about Donald Trump or Roy Moore, is that every single Democrat who has EVER voted for Bill Clinton is a vile sexual predator and enabler of hate against women. Buh-bye, Democrats.
We can properly argue that Roy Moore merely looked at what liberals and feminists and Democrats did for Bill and said, “I want me some of that!”
Let’s just understand something: this stuff dated November 13 are coming out now because of the stuff dated Novemeber 9 against Roy Moore. And you’ve got a lot of very legitimately angry Republicans and conservatives pointing out that virtually ALL of the most rabidly angry Democrats coming out demanding Roy Moore be hung, drawn and quartered without so much benefit as any trial or any presumption of innocence whatsoever had a very different song to sing when Bill was a serial damned rapist getting blowjobs from young girls in the Oval Office. Even his semen on her blue dress matching his DNA didn’t change Democrats’ tune.
They surrounded him and they protected him.
Remember Nina Burleigh, just one of many stunning examples that “journalism” in our nation is a sick, depraved JOKE, who said she would be “happy to give [Bill Clinton] a blowjob just to thank him for keeping abortion legal.” That was said AFTER the Paula Jones story broke!
That’s who these people REALLY are.
We’ve known this since Ted Kennedy let a woman named Mary Joe Kopechne slowly drown to death at Chappaquiddick in 1969 and be lionized as one of the great Democrats. Because, Democrat, you are just like your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. You have been murderers since you started killing unborn babies by the tens of millions, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in you. And when you lie, you speak your native language, for you are liars and of the father of lies.
To be a Democrat is to be a rabid hater of women. And I say that not by my standard, BUT BY THEIR OWN.
Most of the haters of women who have been publicly revealed, such as Harvey Weinstein, are LIBERALS in a VERY LIBERAL INDUSTRY.
So let me explain why liberals and progressives and Democrats and feminists are turning on Bill Clinton [and Hillary] now. The ONLY reason: BECAUSE THEY ARE DONE. Democrats pathologically and rabidly protected Bill and Hillary while they mattered and while they were advancing the leftist agenda. And now they are more of a liability than they are an asset.
And we’ve got this Roy Moore thing and a chance to steal the power balance in the Senate. And that matters right now today. But ohmigod, what we said about our perverts gives the other side the right and even the duty to shelter their perverts. So let’s throw our old perverts under the bus and pretend that we somehow learned something and that will give us the right to scream for Roy Moore’s head in a way that guarantees us a STEAL for a Senate seat that we otherwise could never have possibly ever won.
Okay, but here’s the rub: his name is Al Franken. And he’s a right-now pervert.
And we don’t have accusations: we have PICTURES!!!
The actress says that Al Franken kissed and groped her against her will and she has PROOF.
As a TV host and sports broadcaster, as well as a model familiar to the audience from the covers of FHM, Maxim and Playboy, I was only expecting to emcee and introduce the acts, but Franken said he had written a part for me that he thought would be funny, and I agreed to play along.
When I saw the script, Franken had written a moment when his character comes at me for a ‘kiss’. I suspected what he was after, but I figured I could turn my head at the last minute, or put my hand over his mouth, to get more laughs from the crowd.
On the day of the show Franken and I were alone backstage going over our lines one last time. He said to me, “We need to rehearse the kiss.” I laughed and ignored him. Then he said it again. I said something like, ‘Relax Al, this isn’t SNL…we don’t need to rehearse the kiss.’
He continued to insist, and I was beginning to get uncomfortable.
He repeated that actors really need to rehearse everything and that we must practice the kiss. I said ‘OK’ so he would stop badgering me. We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth.
I immediately pushed him away with both of my hands against his chest and told him if he ever did that to me again I wouldn’t be so nice about it the next time.
I walked away. All I could think about was getting to a bathroom as fast as possible to rinse the taste of him out of my mouth.
I felt disgusted and violated.
Al Franken claimed he was just being funny. “Is that funny if she does that to your sister or to your daughter or to your wife,” Leeann Tweeden asked?
And you’re going to rabidly turn on him, Democrats, or you’re going to once again show that you are just as hypocrite and wrong and evil today as you were when you were backing your Rapist-in-Chief.
Al Franken needs to be forced to immediately resign from the U.S. Senate. Period. End of story. Or get off your high horses about Roy Moore.
If it turns out that Roy Moore committed these acts that he’s being accused of from four decades ago, then he violated everything that he professed to believe about Jesus and about the Christianity he claims. And so I can definitively state that if Roy Moore treated women the way he is being accused of having done, he is a lousy Christian and a hypocrite who pretends to be something he isn’t.
But when a Barack Obama assures the American people that he is AGAINST gay marriage because he believes “as a Christian” that marriage is between one man and one woman, and then reverses himself, was Barack Obama the LORD God Almighty and Creator of the heavens and the earth who changed his mind??? All liberalism is – and you can add the pseudo-descriptor of “Christian” to liberalism – is constantly evolving moral hypocrisy.
Whenever you claim any connection whatsoever to Christianity or to Jesus Christ, you are liars, pure rank liars. You have no standards or integrity, and any moral standards you claim are parasitic upon a faith that you have done everything to destroy with casual divorce laws, with homosexuality, with the abortion holocaust, with Government-as-God-and-Savior. You stand for nothing. Your feet are firmly planted in midair. And even when you DO come to some moral realization, such as the fact that you all voted for a rapist, it is only a political pretense to help your cynical and craven political cause now.
So read Psalm 139:13-16 and then explain to me how murdering sixty million innocent babies doesn’t make somebody “not Christian.” Read Romans 1:18-32 and explain to me how celebrating homosexual marriage doesn’t make somebody “not Christian.” But building a damn WALL disqualifies somebody from being a Christian in this leftist pope’s mind? Seriously?
Do you have any idea how many passages in the Bible there are about the Amorite, the Jebusite, the Hittite, the Canaanite, the Philistine, etc. that involves driving them OUT of the land? Read Deuteronomy 20:16-18 and explain to me how the Pope didn’t just say Jehovah GOD is “not Christian.”
And what about the Book of Nehemiah and how God tells the prophet to rebuild THE WALL???
This is not a good pope, unless being a “good pope” means being a PC leftist political ideologue.
You can count on this pope to ignore the fundamental teachings of Scripture and instead enter into every political issue under the sun, always reliably taking the politically correct side.
But hey, let’s just stupidly forget about the past and even more stupidly assert that it’s because of human activity, factories and cars and whatnot, that we have this darned climate change. Let’s just put reality aside. Political correctness is just so much better for fascists to slander their way into grabbing more government power. What they lust for is 76 TRILLION dollars of Other People’s Money to fund their corruption where they get to hold the power to reward their friends and punish their enemies, pure and simple.
“Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past,” we were assured in the year 2000 when the left still called their ideology “global warming.” “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” we were told. Let’s just omit the fact that the same idiot pseudo-scientist frauds who predicted global warming and made these idiotic prophesies had previously predicted an ice age. And they were wrong because they are ALWAYS wrong.
To be a liberal means to be pathologically ignorant of history, pathologically ignorant of reality and worst of all pathologically ignorant of God’s Word. Even, or maybe especially, if that liberal happens to be the pontiff.
So this leftist PC pontiff is currently walking around Mexico wearing sackcloth and casting ashes on his head and weeping and wailing about the plight of people who want to break the law and walk into someone else’s country uninvited.
And to that end, he decided to do what NO other pope has done in modern times and become a crass politician demogoguing and demonizing political opponents. And so he said of Trump:
“A person who thinks only about building walls — wherever they may be — and not building bridges, is not Christian,” Francis said Thursday, according to a translation from the Associated Press. “This is not in the Gospel.”
Yeah, but global warming and gay marriage IS in the Gospel.
Oh, wait. They aren’t.
Well, it’s too damn bad you don’t yourself actually ever get around to talking about the actual Gospel, Francis. Maybe you could arrange to fit that in between all of your leftist spouting off about socialism and global warming and gay marriage and illegal immigration. But I won’t hold my breath.
Anyway, I certainly am NOT a celebrator of Donald Trump’s “Christianity.” But don’t you DARE, foreign PC pope, intrude into the political process of my country.
Mind you, I can’t even IMAGINE the viciousness of the left had a pope said that Obama wasn’t a Christian. But to be a liberal means to be a hypocrite. So you can just forget the notion that any liberal will EVER apply the same standard to others that they apply to themselves, and vice versa. So just recognize that religion should never have anything whatsoever to do with politics, unless of course it is leftist “religion” demonizing anything conservative or Republican or, you know, the kind of beliefs that come from actually picking up and reading a BIBLE.
So this comeback from the Trump campaign was pretty darned classic:
If you click on the image to open up a larger version in another window, you will see a map of the Vatican (where the Pope resides and commands) featuring a GREAT BIG GIANT WALL SURROUNDING IT. And a Trump guy pointing out the hypocrisy of Pope Francis by pointing out, “Amazing comments from this Pope, considering Vatican City is 100% surrounded by massive walls.”
That is absolutely awesome. Donald Trump’s stump speech should now be, “We need to build a giant wall along our southern border, like Pope Francis’ wall at the Vatican…”
Just look at the size of that thing. I mean, DANG! Don’t you just WISH we had a wall like that???
Pope Francis, you hypocrite liberal!!! Jesus told people like you to “first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye” (Matthew 7:5). So when are you going to take that log out of your own eye SO YOU CAN SEE THAT GREAT BIG GIANT WALL OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE??? Jesus told Christians that “you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free” (John 8:32). So when are YOU going to get yourself some of that truth???
I feel like Ronald Reagan should come back from heaven and stand in front of the Vatican and say, “Mr. Francis, Tear down this wall.”
Oh, liberal. It must sting to have your own standard imposed back in your face. It would be like Obama telling the rest of us that we should all have our guns taken away… and then the Secret Service were to walk off the job and leave him to his well-deserved fate. You know, while Obama crawls into the fetal position and starts crying like a pitiful child and pleading for the protection that he is trying so hard to deny to the American people who don’t get to have an armed Secret Service detail everywhere they go.
Upon hearing that he had just been put in his place, the pope first tried to lunge after and physically attack the Trump guy, diving headlong into a crowd to get at him…
And then started screaming at him:
and gave him the finger:
Okay, I might not be accurately reporting the genuine context of what truly happened in that above sequence. Which means I clearly ought to be working as a journalist at MSNBC.
Nevertheless, being a liberal means “being a hypocrite.” Which means being a man who lives behind giant walls and calling himself the vicar of Christ on earth telling people that anybody who builds was is not a Christian.
The thing about illegal immigration is that it hurts everyone who tried to play by the rules. The people who come into a country illegally flood the labor market, and there’s something called “the law of supply and demand.” You know, the LAW of supply and demand, that tells us that if you increase the supply of something, such as, oh, I don’t know, cheap labor, that the value of that thing will invariably go down. Which means suppressed and depressed wages for everyone else working in that same industry. It is just a typical liberal lie from hell that illegal immigrants are all out picking crops in the fields and working jobs that no gringo would ever work because they’re just too lazy. Nope, illegal immigrants are construction workers and contractors and home health care nurses and store employees and pretty much everything else under the sun. And I also can’t help but empathize – apparently because darn it, I’m just not “Christian” enough I guess – with the people who tried to legally emigrate to this country, but have to wait for YEARS ON END because Democrats and liberals keep rewarding the lawless types who decide that they belong at the head of the line. Because another characteristic of liberalism is that you are all too willing to harm good people in order to reward bad people for their bad behavior.
In any event, I am NOT a Donald Trump supporter and hope the man does NOT win the Republican primary, but I am now officially BEYOND ENRAGED at this pope who just became a cheap politician and inserted his fool mouth where it very clearly does not belong: in the American political process.
Part of Donald Trump’s response to the Pope was that Islamic State LUSTS to burn the Vatican to the ground and destroy the walls (you know, the great big one that the Pope can’t seem to see) the way they’ve destroyed every other religious structure such as the ancient tombs and the Baalshamin Temple at Palmyra, etc. And Trump says when Islamic State comes for you, Pope Francis, you’ll be damn glad that I’m president. Now, I’m hardly the one to tell you that Donald Trump would be the best president at protecting the Vatican or anyplace else, but I CAN tell you that one of the things this pope has done – in the liberal spirit of Obama – is decry just war and decry truly standing up against monstrous evil. And it is because of the moral idiocy of Barack Obama and Pope Francis that we now have the worst refugee crisis in the entire history of planet earth.
And I’m beyond sick of your meddling.
You can’t walk this one back far enough or fast enough, Francis. You just stuck your foot in your mouth right up to your hip bone. You aren’t pope anymore; you’re a just a cheap politician now. And it’s long-past time you quit pretending to be “humble” while you so outrageously and arrogantly lecture us on every topic under the sun that is TOTALLY OUTSIDE your alleged expertise.
Go back to preaching about the wonders of homosexuality and gay marriage and stay the hell out of my country’s political process, Mr. Pope.
(Bloomberg) — The FBI has recovered personal and work- related e-mails from the private computer server used by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
Further down the article I read:
Once the e-mails have been extracted, a group of agents has been separating personal correspondence and passing along work- related messages to agents leading the investigation, the person said.
Well, here’s the thing about that: this yet again proves that Hillary Clinton was LYING. She claimed she turned over ALL of her work-related emails. She claimed that the ONLY emails she deleted were PERSONAL. But here we are finding work-related emails that she didn’t turn over and went to the lengths of deleting. She lied because she’s a liar and that’s what she does.
Ed Henry reported on “The Kelly File” that if the FBI has indeed recovered work-related emails, it would be a “game-changer.”
He explained that Clinton has long claimed that she only deleted 30,000 personal emails from the server, so if the FBI recovers work-related emails, that would suggest that Clinton was not telling the truth.
Frankly, anybody who believes that Hillary Clinton is even CAPABLE of telling the truth is an idiot. [End update].
The bottom line comes down to this, Democrat voter: aside from the FACT that Hillary Clinton treated the national security of the United States like toilet paper by REPEATEDLY sending and receiving classified emails on an open system that most security experts say HAD to have been penetrated by foreign governments, my question is simply whether or not you would be all right with every single Republican politician and appointee having his or her own private server that he or she could wipe without anyone knowing what had been on it the way Hillary Clinton tried to do.
If your answer is, “I absolutely wouldn’t mind the people I most viscerally disagree with having the ability to wipe the records of their criminality,” then you’ve got terrible judgment, but at least you aren’t an abject moral hypocrite the way the rest of the 99.999999% of your party is.
But ever since this story first came out, it has been an amazing act of pure political chutzpah.
Hillary Clinton intentionally and deliberately from the very outset of her tenure as Secretary of State made herself completely unaccountable to transparency laws like Freedom of Information Act requests:
What can Hillary Clinton have been thinking? On January 13, 2009, she — or, more likely, someone on her staff — registered a new domain: clintonemail.com. And for her entire term as secretary of state, she would use private e-mail instead of government accounts for all her electronic correspondence. She never even got a government e-mail address, which must have taken some doing, because in most organizations, those e-mail accounts are created before the new employee even arrives.
As Politico points out, keeping Clinton’s e-mails off government servers means that they were invisible to Freedom of Information Act requests about her communications with anyone outside the State Department. Her staff has turned over e-mails from the private account, but this is not the sort of job that should be performed by someone personally employed by Hillary Clinton. Decisions about what to turn over and what to keep private should be made by career government lawyers whose job comes from the agency, not Hillary Clinton.
It’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that this was an attempt to avoid transparency and accountability for whatever it is she wrote. Such manipulations should severely hurt her presidential aspirations. Odds are, however, that Democrats will rally around her, because what choice do they have?
A spokesman for Clinton says that her actions comply with the “letter and spirit of the rules.” To put it kindly, this seems to be complete nonsense. Federal officials are not supposed to have private e-mail silos that are their sole means of official digital communication and are reviewed only by their personal staff. And that should apply doubly to the holder of one of the most important cabinet roles. Moreover, the fact that she never even got a State Department address certainly gives the impression that this was a deliberate attempt to avoid the public eye. She didn’t just sloppily default to her own personal e-mail address, as many people do; she also made sure that it was not possible to accidentally send her an e-mail on a work account that government oversight groups could access.
Even more troubling is the fact that a large number of people in the White House and the State Department must have known that she was using a private address that wouldn’t leave copies on government servers. Why didn’t any of them gently suggest that this was not OK?
For the official record, the SAME people who allowed her to bypass the government accounts “that are automatically created before the new employee even arrives” and the SAME people who HAD to have known that Hillary Clinton had created a system that would NOT leave copies on government servers are the ones “investigating” her now. The only hope for justice being done to Hillary Clinton by the Obama “Justice” Department is if top FBI officials have sworn they will resign en masse if the West Wing interferes in any way, any shape or any form from the obvious criminal indictment that ought to have already fallen like a ton of bricks on top of Hillary Clinton’s head.
But I digress. Let me continue on the point I had been making about transparency and how the Democrat Party is as “transparent” as fecal matter: Hillary Clinton likely violated THREE transparency laws with her paranoid fascism:
First, she may have violated the Federal Records Act. Even in 2009, this law required Clinton to “ensure that Federal records sent or received” on her private email “are preserved in the appropriate agency record keeping system.” Clinton claims to have fulfilled this law by turning over 55,000 pages of emails to the Department of State, but the full truth cannot be known until and unless investigators are able to access her private email server. The penalties for violating the Federal Records Act include fines, jail time or disqualification from holding any office under the United States.
The second law Clinton may have violated is Section 1924 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, which forbids federal employees from retaining classified information in an unauthorized manner — such as in a personal email. A 2009 Executive Order by President Barack Obama has a similar ban on such activity. Clinton has sought to address this problem by claiming that her emails never dealt with classified information, yet this is highly unlikely given her role as Secretary of State.
And finally, Clinton may have violated the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). By utilizing a private email server beyond the control of the State Department, her email records will never be subject to FOIA requests — the most basic tool in keeping Washington transparent. In fact, Clinton may have used a private email server precisely to evade FOIA.
Given Clinton’s intransigence and unwillingness to give investigators access to her private email server, we cannot yet know with full certainty whether she broke these three laws.
And yes, Hillary Clinton is THE quintessential moral hypocrite par excellence. When she became Secretary of State, she sent out a memo to all of her State Department employees on FOIA that read, “”Preserving the record of our deliberations, decisions, and actions will be at the foundation of our efforts to promote openness.” And then she proceeded to disregard everything she said and document for all time and for all history that she is a hypocrite without shame, honor, integrity, virtue, honesty or decency.
So much for that. Today, we know that Clinton took extraordinary steps to prevent any record of her “deliberations, decisions, and actions.” During her entire tenure as Secretary of State, she exclusively utilized a private email account run through servers located at her home in Chappaqua, New York. This arrangement prevented the federal government from maintaining any record of her email communications — a slap in the face to anyone who cares about government transparency and an obvious example of hypocrisy given the memo Clinton sent to her staff in 2009.
Clinton has since attempted to address this crisis of transparency by selectively releasing the emails which she claims pertained to her work as Secretary of State. Of the 62,320 emails she has admitted to sending between 2009 and 2013, she has handed over 30,490 — in the form of 55,000 printed pages which may have been edited — to the Department of State. The remaining emails — nearly 32,000 — were apparently destroyed.
Hillary Clinton and her henchmen have gone out and repeatedly claimed that Hillary did nothing wrong, broke no laws, violated no policies. Bullcrap. A State Department official testified that Hillary Clinton’s practices were NOT acceptable and employees were warned against what she did. As Politico reports:
A senior State Department official testifying at the first congressional hearing focusing on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email account for official business called such an arrangement “not acceptable” and said other employees have been warned against it.
“I think that the action we’ve taken in the course of recovering these emails have made it very clear what people’s responsibilities are with respect to recordkeeping,” Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I think the message is loud and clear that that is not acceptable.”
A federal judge has added fresh fuel to the incendiary controversy over Hillary Clinton’s email, asserting during a hearing Thursday that she violated government policy by storing official messages on a private server when she worked as secretary of state.
“We wouldn’t be here today if this employee had followed government policy,” said U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, apparently referring to Clinton, during a hearing on one of the many Freedom of Information Act lawsuits seeking access to her records as secretary of state.
If you vote for Hillary Clinton, Democrat, you are a criminal, a fascist, and a soon-to-be occupant of hell. That’s the bottom line. There is simply no excuse for what she did other than she had to hide her crimes because she is a criminal exploiting her high-level government position to enrich herself and her husband via secret deals made through their foundation.
And either Hillary should go to prison or government officials should be completely above the law for all time until America collapses under the weight of its corruption.
One of the funny things is how the Clinton team loves to point out that other officials – you know, Republican ones – have had private email accounts. Without ever bothering to mention the vast gulf of difference between having a private email account as most Americans do and HAVING YOUR OWN PRIVATE SERVER THAT ENABLES YOU TO PURGE AND DELETE ALL RECORDS THAT WOULD OTHERWISE EXIST. That said, I laughed at this NBC article because it never mentioned the PRIVATE SERVER, but it still demonstrates that NO, Hillary, NOBODY ELSE HAS EVER USED PRIVATE EMAILS THE WAY YOU DID:
Hillary Clinton’s exclusive use of a non-government email account to send messages to her staff during her time as Secretary of State is a break from what other top officials have done, raising concerns from both Democrats and Republicans about the propriety of the practice.
Aides to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former President George W. Bush said neither official routinely sent e-mails to staffers while they held those posts. Rice “did not use her personal e-mail for official communication as Secretary” and instead exclusively used her State Department account, according to a top aide who did not want to be quoted publicly.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The computer server that transmitted and received Hillary Clinton’s emails — on a private account she used exclusively for official business when she was secretary of state — traced back to an Internet service registered to her family’s home in Chappaqua, New York, according to Internet records reviewed by The Associated Press.
The highly unusual practice of a Cabinet-level official physically running her own email would have given Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, impressive control over limiting access to her message archives. It also would distinguish Clinton’s secretive email practices as far more sophisticated than some politicians, including Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin, who were caught conducting official business using free email services operated by Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc.
Most Internet users rely on professional outside companies, such as Google Inc. or their own employers, for the behind-the-scenes complexities of managing their email communications. Government employees generally use servers run by federal agencies where they work.
Hypocrite? We can go back to June 20, 2007 and see where Hillary Clinton demonized the Bush Administration with this and under HER OWN STANDARDS PROVE SHE IS THE WORST HYPOCRITE WHO EVER LIVED:
I remind you, I have already PROVEN for the factual record that Hillary Clinton has far and away surpassed ANYTHING that ANY Bush official did when it came to emails. And she set out to do it IMMEDIATELY the MOMENT she came into her Secretary of State job.
At this point I have conclusively proven and documented and established that Hillary Clinton is a paranoid fascist. She is “paranoid” because of her UNPRECEDENTED secrecy and sheer rabid determination to place herself beyond any transparency. And she is a “fascist” because of her equally rabid determination to place herself above the laws that she herself imposed on the people under her who were not in her fascist inner circle.
What Hillary Clinton did and intentionally set out to do reveals her character, and her character is that of a paranoid fascist, period. Just based on the above, no one who supports or votes for Hillary Clinton is a true “democrat” because you simply cannot support or vote for Hillary Clinton and give one rat’s hairy backside about “democracy.” Not when your candidate went to such obvious lengths to sidestep and thwart “democracy.”
Just acknowledge what you truly are, Democrat Party: you are FASCISTS.
But now we get to the real criminality and incredible disregard for the national security of the United States of America. Now we get to the FACTS that 1) Hillary Clinton now without any question sent and received emails that were clearly classified in violation of the law; and 2) that foreign hostile governments almost without any question have intercepted those emails and now know far better than the American people what Hillary Clinton actually thought about the world and the secrets she stupidly shared to the world’s worst governments.
Back at the start, she claimed there was “no classified material” on the thousands of messages sent to and from her private server. Now the State Department has flagged more than 300 e-mails as containing classified information.
Her next explanation: “I did not send classified material, and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified.”
But even that excuse — the material was only classified later — doesn’t hold water.
At least 30 e-mail threads hold confidential information from foreign officials — material the former director of the Information Security Oversight Office says is “born classified.”
Sorry: As head of the State Department, Hillary should have known this. Indeed, she’s stressed that she was “certainly well aware” of classification requirements. Yet that “ridiculous rules” tweet still went out.
You see why The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward said this week that the whole mess “reminds me of the Nixon tapes.”
McClatchy reported in late July that classified information from five US intelligence agencies were found on Hillary Clinton’s unsecure email server, contradicting her claim that “there is no classified material” on the server. Team Clinton adapted their talking points to say that the server didn’t contain anything that was classified at the time, allowing that retroactive classifications had occurred. Two independent Inspectors General said otherwise from the beginning, then Reuters debunked the updated spin conclusively last week, concluding: “[Emails on the server] are filled with a type of information the U.S. government and the department’s own regulations automatically deems classified from the get-go.”
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And so, yeah, when it comes to Hillary Clinton or her cronies trying to claim that she didn’t do anything wrong, when it comes to her constantly shifting stories, well, it just depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is, the way Bill Clinton made his integrity a joke while denying he’d had any kind of “sexual relations with that woman” until his sperm somehow happened to end up on his intern’s blue dress. It’s who Democrats are. They’re bad people. They are liars who support people who lie.
So Hillary Clinton is claiming that she didn’t send any classified material specifically MARKED classified at the time. After she was first proven to be a liar when she claimed that she hadn’t sent classified material when in fact oh, yes, she HAD, and then she was proven to be a liar again when she said that none of the emails were classified at the time she sent or received them when, oh, yes, they WERE. Then she pivoted to this esoteric and arcane argument (that legally is irrelevant, say the experts because it’s not classified because it’s MARKED classified; it’s marked classified because it is CLASSIFIED. It’s classified because it is sensitive information that should remain highly restricted. Which means it is CLASSIFIED whether it is marked classified or not.) that she never sent or received anything that was actually marked “classified” at the time it was sent. But understand how that state of affairs was the case in those emails. From the Los Angeles Times:
The Department of Justice said it is weighing whether to launch its own investigation after the inspector general for intelligence agencies notified the agency that classified information that went through the account appeared to have been mishandled. Administration officials and investigators declined to share details about the emails. But in a separate memo to lawmakers, the inspector general said that a review of just 40 of the 30,000 emails from the Clinton server found that four had information that should have been marked and handled as classified.
Clinton has made many assurances in recent months that she did not send or receive classified information on her personal server. Her campaign says the material in question had not been specifically marked as classified and, thus, Clinton broke no rules. The inspector general disputed that characterization in a statement late Friday, saying that the information in the emails was classified at the time, even if it wasn’t marked as such, and shouldn’t have been transmitted on a personal email system.
Even so, the revelation was an uncomfortable one for the candidate. And national security experts said the disclosure that that material that should have been marked classified made its way to Clinton’s personal email account at the very least fuels legitimate speculation about how the server was used.
“It tells us why this was such a bad idea,” said Stewart A. Baker, a former general counsel to the National Security Agency now in private practice. “It raises questions.”
Among them, Baker said, was whether staffers deliberately avoided marking sensitive emails to Clinton as classified so they could sidestep the bureaucrats who handle transmission of such material.
“She skipped the government circles and nobody was overseeing this and nobody was saying, ‘This info should not be on this system,’” Baker said. “If anything, there was an incentive for people to cross the line without making clear they were doing so.”
What happened? Somebody in Hillary’s inner circle of witches and warlocks stripped the classification markers from the emails so Hillary Clinton could have just such a “plausible deniability.” No matter how implausible it truly is:
The latest revelations about top secret information traversing Hillary Clinton’s private email server have triggered accusations that someone in her “inner circle” likely stripped the classification markings, illegally.
The claims come after the Clinton campaign stuck to the argument that the Democratic presidential candidate, while secretary of state, never dealt with emails that were “marked” classified at the time.
“Hillary only used her personal account for unclassified email. No information in her emails was marked classified at the time she sent or received them,” campaign Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri said in a statement to supporters Wednesday.
But a State Department official told Fox News that the intelligence community inspector general, who raised the most recent concerns about Clinton’s emails, made clear that at least one of those messages contained information that only could have come from the intelligence community.
“If so, they would have had to come in with all the appropriate classification markings,” the official said.
The official questioned whether someone, then, tampered with that message. “[S]omewhere between the point they came into the building and the time they reached HRC’s server, someone would have had to strip the classification markings from that information before it was transmitted to HRC’s personal email.”
This top secret, classified information came from the CIA, it came from the NSA, it came from the FBI, etcetera, and it was classified and it was MARKED as such. But somehow by the time it got to Hillary Clinton’s private email server that was NOT legally allowed to have such sensitive, classified information, those classification markers were somehow gone.
This amounts to the orphan who brutally murdered his parents pleading for mercy because after all, he IS an orphan.
Now you need to understand the sheer, blasphemous magnitude as to just how incredibly cavalier Hillary Clinton and her team were regarding your national security and the lives of your children.
The IT company Hilary Clinton chose to maintain her private email account was run from a loft apartment and its servers were housed in the bathroom closet, Daily Mail Online can reveal.
Daily Mail Online tracked down ex-employees of Platte River Networks in Denver, Colorado, who revealed the outfit’s strong links to the Democratic Party but expressed shock that the 2016 presidential candidate chose the small private company for such a sensitive job.
One, Tera Dadiotis, called it ‘a mom and pop shop’ which was an excellent place to work, but hardly seemed likely to be used to secure state secrets. And Tom Welch, who helped found the company, confirmed the servers were in a bathroom closet.
It can also be disclosed that the small number of employees who were aware of the Clinton contract were told to keep it secret.
The way in which Clinton came to contract a company described as a ‘mom and pop’ operation remains unclear.
However Daily Mail Online has established a series of connections between the firm and the Democratic Party.
Well, this sounds safe to Democrats, I’m sure. These ARE demon-possessed people who are incapable of reason or decency, after all.
But not in actual factual reality, After pointing out the protections her emails WOULD have had if she had used the government account she shunned because she is a paranoid fascist who wanted to be above transparency, we learn:
Clinton’s email wouldn’t have the benefit of any of that expensive government security. If she had hosted her email with Google or even Yahoo! or Microsoft, there might be an argument that those private companies’ security teams are just as competent as the those of the feds. But instead, according to the Associated Press, Clinton ran her server from her own home. Any protection it had there—aside from the physical protection of the Secret Service—would have been limited to the Clintons’ own personal resources.
A more specific threat to Clinton’s private email relates to its domain name. Unlike the State Department’s State.gov domain, Clinton’s Clintonemail.com is currently registered with a private domain registrar, Network Solutions, as a simple Whois search reveals.The domain Clintonemail.com (and thus its registrar) was certainly known to at least one hacker: The notorious celebrity hacker Guccifer first revealed it in 2013 when he spilled the emails of Clinton associate Sydney Blumenthal.
Anyone who hacked Network Solutions would be able to quietly hijack the Clintonemail.com domain, intercepting, redirecting, and even spoofing email from Clinton’s account. And Network Solutions is far from the Internet’s hardest target: Hundreds of its domains were hacked in 2010, a year into Clinton’s tenure at the head of the State Department.
Even if Clinton used the account only for personal messages rather than those of international importance (say, something along the lines of: “Let’s go ahead and drop those bombs, Bibi”) the notion that they could be both intercepted and spoofed through a common hacking vector is particularly troubling. “Even the most mundane of communications can be interesting to an intelligence service,” says the ACLU’s Soghoian. The NSA, he points out, thought it was worthwhile to monitor German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s personal cell phone, for instance.1
Looking at it this way, a “homebrew” server was the worst possible choice. Even using a webmail system like Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo would have been better because those companies have the expertise and capability to meet at least some of the threat this class of information would face.
This is the most important point. You can liken this to the CFO of Chase taking billions of dollars in cash home and storing it in the mattress. It’s so inadequate to meeting the risks that it would be laughable if it weren’t so serious.
Unless we learn that this server was being protected by the government using the same levels of protection that official servers are, we have no choice but to assume that this server has been compromised by foreign intelligence agents. And let’s be clear, this isn’t just hostile governments: if the Snowden disclosures have shown us anything (reminded us, really) it’s that everyone spies on everyone, friend and foe alike. To put this in the starkest terms: we have to assume the Russians, the Chinese, the Israelis have had access to the Secretary of State’s official email.
And in point of fact we’ve learned it WASN’T. In fact, there was a significant period of time where Hillary’s secret server wasn’t protected AT ALL.
Venafi, a Salt Lake City computer security firm, has conducted an analysis of clintonemail.com and determined that “for the first three months of Secretary Clinton’s term, access to the server was not encrypted or authenticated with a digital certificate.” In other words: For three months, Clinton’s server lay vulnerable to snooping, hacking, and spoofing.
And when Hillary finally got around to bothering to install any security whatsoever, she screwed the pooch and ended up with a “misconfigured encryption system.” I mean, it was kind of like her criminal incompetence with Benghazi, only with her own damn server that she installed so she could delete the evidence of her crimes and make her Orwellian disappearances of the factual record permanent. And just like Orwell’s Oceania, Hillary couldn’t have cared less what the rival global power Eurasia and Eastasia that Oceania was at constant war with knew: her cover up was only against her OWN people.
Just like with the Iran Nuclear Deal and the secret side-agreements, Democrats have made it so that all of our enemies know everything; it’s the American people who are the mushrooms in all of this. As in “KITDAFOHS”: an acronym that stands for being “Kept In The Dark And Fed On Horse Shit.” Manure and fascism is all you’re ever going to get from now on by voting Democrat.
What Hillary did was tantamount to having your firewall and your anti-virus software turned off while you browsed the Internet. Only she put us ALL at risk with her stupidity and selfish fascist paranoia.
In other words, it was completely open to foreign intelligence services and was undoubtedly penetrated. Bob Gourley, former chief technology officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, states that “I have no doubt in my mind that this thing was penetrated by multiple foreign powers, to assume otherwise is to put blinders on.”
Former Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell said that he believes some foreign intelligence agencies possess the contents of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
“I think that foreign intelligence services, the good ones, have everything on any unclassified network that the government uses,” Morell said Friday in an interview on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
Hillary Clinton’s mushrooming email scandal will not end well no matter what conclusions are reached, Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and NSA, tells Newsmax TV.
“I would simply say that the sin in all of this is the original sin,” Hayden said Wednesday to J.D. Hayworth, host of “Newsmax Prime.”
“Frankly, there is no way to make this come out happy if you comingle your government and your private emails and then put all of them on a private server as opposed to a government server.
“You’re just setting in motion a whole series of things and it doesn’t require anyone to be stupid or malevolent. If you set it up that way, it’s going to end up in a bad place and that’s the bad place we’re in now.” […]
Does Hayden believe Clinton’s emails had a high probability of ending up in the hands of foreign intelligence services?
“I won’t give you a number, but a foreign intelligence service of some merit, if they were interested in those emails, I would give them a high probability of success that they would be able to penetrate that system,” he said.
The unfolding national security scandal involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the leading Democratic candidate for president, is expected to produce evidence of foreign intelligence service involvement in the compromise of U.S. secrets placed on an unsecure email server.
That’s the conclusion of a senior State Department official who told me at least three foreign intelligence services – the Chinese, Russians and Israelis – almost certainly were able to hack into the private email server used by Clinton from 2009 to 2013.
The day Hillary Clinton is sworn into office as President of the United States of America is the day that Russia, China, North Korea, and most of the rest of our worst global enemies, will notify her that they will expose her and she will go to prison for life if she doesn’t turn traitor. We’ve had high-level traitors before, but this would be the first time a sitting president did so. That’s what Democrats are itching to vote for. These are people who literally cannot wait to take the mark of the beast on their right hands or on their foreheads. They want to get the Antichrist ball rolling down the slope now.
Why did Hillary do all this? It’s actually very simple:
A week before becoming secretary of state, Hillary Clinton set up a private e-mail system that gave her a high level of control over communications, including the ability to erase messages completely, according to security experts who have examined Internet records.
“You erase it and everything’s gone,” Matt Devost, a security expert who has had his own private e-mail for years. Commercial services like those from Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. retain copies even after users erase them from their in-box.
Hillary Clinton doesn’t belong in the White House; she belongs in the Big House. She belongs in PRISON for her CRIMES against the national security of the United States of America. General David Petraeus, a war hero who saved countless American servicemen’s lives with his heroic and skilled leadership in Iraq and Afghanistan, was CONVICTED of a crime for mishandling ONE classified record; Hillary Clinton mishandled classified material on HUNDREDS of occasions.
That’s why Hillary Clinton installed a secret server in such reckless violation of national security. Because she’s a horrible human being who cynically exploited her position in the most corrupt way imaginable.
Look, I’m not trying to reason with Democrats. Democrats are horrible people who will all soon be burning in hell after they worship the beast and take his mark. Democrats are not people who are capable of any degree of virtue or honesty or integrity or decency. Any roach crawling around on your kitchen floor is a more moral being than a Democrat these days. I am trying to reason with anybody who has so much as a shred of decency or honesty, who can look at the facts and realize that voting for Hillary Clinton is EVIL and ONLY an evil person would even consider doing so.
I was a little surprised when I saw even the Los Angeles Times editorial condemn the rank hypocrisy of labor unions:
Editorial L.A. labor leaders’ hypocrisy on minimum wage hike
By The Times Editorial Board
▼ Los Angeles labor leaders fought for a minimum wage hike; now they want to be exempt from it
▼ L.A. County Federation of Labor is being hypocritical in its stance on raising the minimum wage
May 29, 2015, 5:00 AM
No, employers with a unionized workforce should not be allowed to pay less than Los Angeles’ proposed minimum wage. It’s stunning that after leading the fight for a $15 citywide minimum wage and vehemently opposing efforts to exempt restaurant workers, nonprofits and small businesses from the full wage hike, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor is now lobbying for an exemption for employers with union contracts. That’s right — labor leaders are advocating that an employer should have the right to pay union members less than the minimum wage.
This is hypocrisy at its worst, and it plays into the cynical view that the federation is more interested in unionizing companies and boosting its rolls of dues-paying members than in helping poor workers. Such an exemption would create an incentive for companies to allow unions in — but rather than helping workers, it would undermine the purpose of the minimum wage ordinance, which is to set a new, higher pay floor in order to help lift the greatest number of low-wage Angelenos out of poverty.
Because to be a Democrat is to be a fascist who says, “What is good for me to force on thee should not apply to me.”
And of course there has never been in all of human history a politician who exemplified that spirit of elitist liberal entitlement than Hillary Clinton. Which is why hypocrite Democrats love her so much.
Here’s another one: Same newspaper, same day, revealing how liberals are HYPOCRITES without shame, without honor, without virtue, without decency, without integrity. As you read the following LA Times article listen to my voice in your head screaming, “JUST HOW THE HELL IS IT THAT THESE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT HOLLYWOOD COCKROACHES WHO DEMAND HIGHER TAXES ON EVERYBODY ELSE ARE CHASING TAX BREAKS RIGHT OUT OF THE DAMN STATE???
Other media companies have contributed more significantly to Mr. Obama, including Time Warner, owner of CNN and the magazine publishing house Time Inc. The company, which is based in New York and also owns Warner Brothers and HBO, has contributed $191,834 to Mr. Obama in the 2012 election cycle, compared with $10,750 to Mr. Romney
Which is to say, having done the math, that Warner Bros. is 1,692.84 percent more Obama-liberal than it is Romney-Republican. And virtually every single media outlet today is a whore of liberal ideology, pumping their propaganda into the mindless heads of pathologically depraved cows who gobble it up like pigs shoving their faces into their feeding trough. I mean, when I was a child, I used to spit into fish ponds and watch in amazement as the goldfish swarmed to be the first to dine on my loogie. But only now do I realize that I was receiving an object lesson in how liberals teach and how liberals learn.
Liberals are Nazis who say, “What is good for me to force on thee does not apply to me.
Now watch how real liberals act when it’s THEIR money rather than somebody else’s money:
Big movies in short supply in California, FilmL.A. says
By Richard Verrier
▼ Only two big-budget movies released in 2014 were filmed in California
▼ Few big movies have filmed in California because they were excluded from the state’s financial incentives
May 28, 2015, 5:59 PM
The big movie hitting theaters this weekend is “San Andreas,” depicting the destruction of California from a massive earthquake.
The Warner Bros. movie was filmed mainly in Australia, of course.
Such is the reality that California faces in an industry where tax credits and other financial inducements increasingly drive where movies are filmed around the world.
Fresh evidence of that emerged Thursday in a feature film study from FilmL.A. Inc., the nonprofit group that handles film permits for the city and county.
The second annual report found that only 22 of 106 films released by the major studios in 2014 were actually filmed in California. The rest of the movies were shot in New York, Britain, Canada, Georgia, Louisiana, Australia and a dozen other states and countries.
Only two films with budgets above $100 million were filmed primarily in California: Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and Paramount’s “Interstellar.” Even those films spent considerable time and money in other locations that offer tax credits and rebates to lure filmmakers.
The exodus of big movies from California has been happening for years. When local film production peaked in 1997, 64% of the top 25 movies at the box office were filmed in California, compared with 16% last year.
“We’ve waited so long to truly get involved in the competition that we’ve allowed some major production centers to be created around the world,” said Paul Audley, president of FilmL.A.
The report notes that several high-profile movies set in California have filmed elsewhere, including Warner Bros.’ “Godzilla,” which was shot mainly in Vancouver, Canada; 20th Century Fox’s “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” which was filmed in Louisiana; and Disney’s “Million Dollar Arm,” which was shot mainly in Georgia.
As for “San Andreas,” the movie filmed some scenes in Los Angeles and San Francisco but most of the two-month shoot took place at Village Roadshow’s Studio on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.
The $110-million movie, from Warner Bros.’ New Line Cinema unit, received a portion of a $20-million film fund specifically designed to attract foreign productions.
Warner’s decision was not surprising.
Few big movies have filmed in California because they were excluded from the state’s financial incentives.
That’s about to change. To stop the exodus of production, state lawmakers last year approved an expansion of the film and TV tax credit program. The new program triples annual funding to $330 million a year and for the first time allows big budget films to apply for the incentives.
Studios will apply for feature film tax credits under the new program in July.
“The new program should result in us getting several of the large features back in California,” Audley said.
While the same Democrats who are giving tax credits to hypocrite liberal moviemakers impose sky-high taxes on all the other businesses and people they’re crushing and oppressing right out of the state.
If you are not truly and astonishingly STUPID, you understand that low taxes are the key to healthy businesses. The problem with these liberals isn’t that they’re dumb, it is that they are utterly depraved moral hypocrites who because they are the human equivalent of cockroaches are ONLY capable of caring about THEMSELVES and to hell with everybody else.
Now, elitist jet-setting liberals right out of The Who’s song “Eminence Front” DO understand that the overwhelming majority of Democrats are just rank-and-goose-stepping-Nazi-file STUPID as well as depraved. They are little more than dumb farm-animal-cattle who are so easily lied to and manipulated and duped and led by the nose by lies that it is beyond amazing. But yeah, stupid Democrat: “it’s an eminence front.” And “it’s a put on.” That’s what liberalism is, that’s what the Democrat Party represents: an eminence front, a bright-shining lie.
Let’s force ObamaCare. And exempt ourselves. Let’s force higher wages. And exempt ourselves. Let’s force higher taxes. And exempt ourselves. And anybody who thinks liberals give one flying DAMN about the poor are poor – in the sense of completely lacking in either rational or moral-capacity – deluded fools.
WASHINGTON — The embattled Clinton Foundation can add a new name to its long list of donors under scrutiny — the scandal-tarred world soccer federation.
FIFA donated as much as $100,000 to the charity headed by Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, foundation records revealed, with no further details available.
FBI agents arrested the officials meeting in Switzerland, as the head of the Justice Department described a conspiracy of bribery and corruption in the selection of World Cup host countries and sponsors.
The Clinton Foundation, already under fire for accepting multimillion-dollar contributions from nations including Saudi Arabia, disclosed only the range of the contribution — from $50,001 to $100,000.
Meanwhile, as we speak, on this very day’s headlines, even the New York Times is calling what the Clintons did “distasteful”:
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Petra Nemcova, a Czech model who survived the disaster by clinging to a palm tree, decided to pull out all the stops for the annual fund-raiser of her school-building charity, the Happy Hearts Fund.
She booked Cipriani 42nd Street, which greeted guests with Bellini cocktails on silver trays. She flew in Sheryl Crow with her band and crew for a 20-minute set. She special-ordered heart-shaped floral centerpieces, heart-shaped chocolate parfaits, heart-shaped tiramisù and, because orange is the charity’s color, an orange carpet rather than a red one. She imported a Swiss auctioneer and handed out orange rulers to serve as auction paddles, playfully threatening to use hers to spank the highest bidder for an Ibiza vacation.
The gala cost $363,413. But the real splurge? Bill Clinton.
The former president of the United States agreed to accept a lifetime achievement award at the June 2014 event after Ms. Nemcova offered a $500,000 contribution to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. The donation, made late last year after the foundation sent the charity an invoice, amounted to almost a quarter of the evening’s net proceeds — enough to build 10 preschools in Indonesia.
Model Invites Bill Clinton to Her Gala
In this August 2013 letter, the model Petra Nemcova rewrote an earlier invitation asking Bill Clinton to accept a lifetime achievement award from Ms. Nemcova’s Happy Hearts Fund charity.
Happy Hearts’ former executive director believes the transaction was a “quid pro quo,” which rerouted donations intended for a small charity with the concrete mission of rebuilding schools after natural disasters to a large foundation with a broader agenda and a budget 100 times bigger.
“The Clinton Foundation had rejected the Happy Hearts Fund invitation more than once, until there was a thinly veiled solicitation and then the offer of an honorarium,” said the former executive director, Sue Veres Royal, who held that position at the time of the gala and was dismissed a few weeks later amid conflicts over the gala and other issues.
Press officers for Ms. Nemcova and for the Clinton Foundation said on Thursday that the foundation had not solicited the donation and that the money would be used for projects in Haiti, as yet undetermined.
The Happy Hearts Fund and the Clinton Foundation “have a shared goal of providing meaningful help to Haiti,” the school charity’s spokeswoman said. “We believe that we can create the most impactful change by working together.”
Never publicly disclosed, the episode provides a window into the way the Clinton Foundation relies on the Clintons’ prestige to amass donors large and small, offering the prospect, as described in the foundation’s annual report, of lucrative global connections and participation in a worldwide mission to “unlock human potential” through “the power of creative collaboration.”
Similarly, Ms. Nemcova, like other celebrity philanthropists, uses her fame to promote her charity — which has financed more than 110 schools, mostly kindergartens — just as she uses Happy Hearts to position herself as a model-humanitarian.
“This is primarily a small but telling example of the way the Clintons operate,” said Doug White, who directs the master’s program in fund-raising management at Columbia University. “The model has responsibility; she paid a high price for a feel-good moment with Bill Clinton. But he was riding the back of this small charity for what? A half-million bucks? I find it — what would be the word? — distasteful.”
In her letter of invitation to Mr. Clinton, Ms. Nemcova, then chairwoman of her charity’s board, said she wanted to show her appreciation for his “inspirational leadership” after disasters.
“My gratitude to you is so strong that should you accept, we will schedule our event commemorating the 10th anniversary around your schedule,” she wrote, speaking of their shared dedication to the survivors of both the tsunami and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
When the tsunami struck in December 2004, Ms. Nemcova, who had been featured on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue the previous year, was vacationing in Thailand with her boyfriend, a fashion photographer named Simon Atlee. They were swept from their beach cottage and separated in the turbulent waters; Mr. Atlee died.
Ms. Nemcova, her pelvis shattered, held fast to a tree for hours until she was rescued, listening impotently to the cries of children, she has said, which later motivated her to found her child-centric charity.
Happy Hearts rebuilt two schools in Thailand while Mr. Clinton was the United Nations’ envoy for tsunami relief and reconstruction. Most of the charity’s rebuilding has been in Indonesia after the earthquakes of 2006 and 2009.
After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Ms. Nemcova turned her attention to that small island nation, where both Mr. Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton, as secretary of state, played outsize roles in the earthquake relief effort and the more problem-filled reconstruction. The country had attracted other celebrity benefactors, too, notably the actor Sean Penn, an ex-boyfriend of Ms. Nemcova’s who had created his own relief organization and forged a relationship with Mr. Clinton.
In the fall of 2011, many players in Haiti’s rebuilding effort, including Ms. Nemcova, attended the Clinton Global Initiative’s membership meeting in Manhattan. Members, who must be invited, pay $20,000 in annual dues, largely for the yearly gatherings, where charity founders and entrepreneurs get to network with world leaders, corporate executives and wealthy donors.
Clinton Foundation Bills Small Charity for Big Donation
Six months after Bill Clinton accepted a lifetime achievement award at the Happy Hearts Fund gala in June 2014, the Clinton Foundation sent this invoice to the charity, run by the model Petra Nemcova. It sought to collect a $500,000 donation.
At the meeting, Ms. Nemcova signed a memorandum of understanding with the president of the Inter-American Development Bank to finance schools in Haiti. The development bank has also donated to the Clinton Foundation — just over $1 million — and it partnered with Mrs. Clinton’s State Department after the earthquake to create an industrial park in northern Haiti.
Almost four years after Happy Hearts and the development bank made their commitment, they have yet to complete a single school, partly because of problems finding suitable land. Five schools are under construction.
Happy Hearts collaborated more expeditiously in Haiti with the Digicel Foundation, whose founder, the Irish billionaire Denis O’Brien, is a multimillion-dollar supporter of the Clinton Foundation and whose parent telecommunications company benefited from grants from Mrs. Clinton’s State Department.
Digicel also made a commitment at the 2011 meeting to build schools; the commitment was a formality, though, as Digicel had already taken the lead in Haiti in that realm. It has built 150 schools there over the last seven years; Happy Heart has built seven, six of them joint or side-by-side ventures with Digicel.
One of those schools, operated by the Haitian group Prodev, was featured in the Clinton Foundation’s most recent annual report as “built through a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action.” The Clinton Foundation’s sole direct contribution to the school was a grant for an Earth Day celebration and tree-planting activity.
In late 2011, Ms. Nemcova dedicated her charity’s annual fund-raiser to Haiti, awarding the lifetime achievement honor to Mr. Penn, whom the Haitian government had named an ambassador at large, and giving a speaking platform to Laurent Lamothe, Haiti’s foreign minister.
The next year, Ms. Nemcova, too, became an ambassador at large for Haiti. And by 2013, she was practically living there, having become romantically involved with Mr. Lamothe, by then prime minister. (Mr. Lamothe, no longer prime minister, is now a presidential candidate in Haiti, and the couple have split up.)
Through the years, Ms. Nemcova, 35, has blended her personal and philanthropic lives; her sister replaced Ms. Veres Royal as executive director of Happy Hearts. She has also mingled her celebrity and charity work, both in ways that benefited the charity and in ways that benefited her personally.
In 2011, when she appeared as a contestant on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars,” her survival story and charity received ample, positive attention. She brought on Clinique and Chopard as sponsors of the charity, but also accepted personal fees to model their products.
“Ms. Nemcova has a long career as a model in fashion industry for 16 years and has longstanding relationships with many brands,” her charity’s spokeswoman said. “Happy Hearts Fund is grateful for Chopard’s and Clinique’s support.”
At the 2014 gala, Chopard, a Swiss jeweler that was dedicating partial proceeds from a heart-shaped bracelet to the charity, set up lighted showcases in the cocktail area, Ms. Veres Royal said.
“They were peddling exorbitant jewelry at a gala that was supposed to focus on children who have lost their belongings, homes, and often friends and family members,” she said. “It was inappropriate and tacky. Too many people at that event were looking after their own interests first.”
Happy Hearts Fund first asked Mr. Clinton to be its honoree in 2011. Trying again in 2013, Ms. Nemcova sent her first formal letter of invitation in July, asking Mr. Clinton to be the primary award recipient at a Happy Hearts gala on Nov. 4, 2013, celebrating Indonesia.
Mr. Clinton’s scheduler replied with a cordial rejection — “Regrettably, he is committed to another event out of town that same evening” — in an email copied to Frank Giustra, the Canadian mining financier who is one of the Clinton Foundation’s largest donors and also a supporter of Ms. Nemcova.
Haitians protested outside the Happy Hearts Fund gala, which Mr. Clinton attended after Ms. Nemcova pledged $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Her charity has worked with the Clinton Foundation on projects in Haiti. Credit Tony Savino/Corbis
Ms. Nemcova subsequently met with officers at the Clinton Foundation, Ms. Veres Royal said. Afterward, she said, “Petra called me and said we have to include an honorarium for him — that they don’t look at these things unless money is offered, and it has to be $500,000.”
The invitation letter was revised and sent again at the end of August. It moved the gala to 2014, offered to work around Mr. Clinton’s availability, dropped the focus on Indonesia and shifted it to Haiti, and proposed the donation.
“Understanding the need and commitment to ‘rebuilding better,’ Happy Hearts Fund would like to also share the proceeds of the event with the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, committing at least $500,000 in partnership on a joint educational project in Haiti, of your selection,” Ms. Nemcova wrote, ending with her customary signoff, “Lots of Love, Light and Laughter.”
When charities select an honoree for their fund-raising events, they generally expect that the award recipient will help them raise money by attracting new donors. But the Happy Hearts Fund raised less money at the gala featuring Mr. Clinton than it did at its previous one.
Further, it is extremely rare for honorees, or their foundations, to be paid from a gala’s proceeds, charity experts said — as it is for the proceeds to be diverted to a different cause.
And while the original invitation letter spoke of a joint educational project, the Clinton Foundation said Thursday that Happy Hearts had agreed that the money could be “split 50/50” between the foundation’s education programs and its economic development and agriculture programs in Haiti.
In the charity gala world, it is considered unacceptable to spend more than a third of gross proceeds on costs, and better to spend considerably less. If the donation to the Clinton Foundation were counted as a cost, Happy Hearts would have spent 34 percent of its announced $2.5 million in proceeds on its gala.
Its actual expenses — while they might seem extravagant to outsiders, with the total cost of the Cipriani facility alone at almost $300 a head — were in line with what other charities spend on such events.
In the end, the Happy Hearts Fund’s gala was a star-studded event, with celebrities including Naomi Watts and John Legend and the models Karlie Kloss and Coco Rocha in attendance. The Haitian president, Michel Martelly, a former musician who was Ms. Nemcova’s boyfriend’s boss at the time, was a second honoree, and he performed a couple of numbers with Wyclef Jean.
At the start of the evening, school bells rang and, as the master program dictated, “Petra dressed as schoolteacher” appeared, wearing glasses.
“Good evening, class,” said the message on the screen behind her. She later changed into a sheer red lace gown donated by the designer Naeem Khan, with diamond and ruby jewelry by Chopard.
A video by the Happy Hearts Fund framed the moment she presented the award to Mr. Clinton like this: “Ten years ago, two people were deeply impacted by the 2004 tsunami. They met this year again to inspire …”
“Petra did not have to devote 10 years of her life to building these schools,” Mr. Clinton told the crowd. “But what she has done is a symbol of what I think we all have to do.”
Outside Cipriani, about 100 protesters, mostly Haitian-Americans expressing frustration with the earthquake reconstruction effort, stood behind barricades holding protest signs.
“Clinton, where is the money?” they chanted. “In whose pockets?”
Bill Clinton’s speaking fee would have built ten pre-schools in disaster-torn Indonesia. Not that Slick Willy gives a damn about poor kids.
Countries and companies that donated to the Clinton Foundation or paid Bill Clinton heavy fees for speeches saw an increase in State Department activity while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.
The presidential candidate’s supporters have dismissed as conspiracy theories allegations that she and her husband traded political favors for contributions to their foundation or for lucrative speaking engagements.
A Washington Examiner analysis of Clinton Foundation donors suggests the State Department ramped up its diplomatic activity, foreign assistance and/or investment in countries that gave to the Clinton Foundation and hosted Bill Clinton for high-profile speeches.
For example, months after Bill Clinton delivered a speech in Riyadh for a price of $300,000, State Department funding for projects and activities in Saudi Arabia spiked.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has also donated between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation, donor records show.
State Department funding for its diplomatic operations and projects in the country jumped from more than $18 million in 2011 to $67.75 million in 2012, the year after Bill Clinton delivered his speech at the Saudi Investment Authority, according to USASpending.gov.
Much of that appears to have gone toward the construction of new State Department buildings in the country.
The agency poured $177.9 million into building a new embassy in Norway in 2011 over the apparent objections of diplomatic officials in Oslo.
Norway’s government has donated between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation.
A leaked diplomatic cable sent to Clinton in July 2009 shows plans for the embassy project, which predated Clinton’s tenure as secretary, had been pushed from 2011 to 2020 to free up funding for embassies in key countries.
“We understand the arguments for first building NEC’s [new embassy complexes] where terrorist threats are higher,” the cable said of the delayed embassy plans in Norway.
The cable mentions “Pat Kennedy,” the undersecretary for management and a close Clinton aide, among the State Department officials who had helped to further the project.
Kennedy’s name also surfaced in Benghazi-related emails published by the State Department last week.
Despite the misgivings by agency officials in 2009, the State Department awarded the contract for the Norwegian embassy to Walsh Construction Group on September 27, 2011. It was the construction company’s first overseas embassy project.
Norway teamed up with an arm of the Clinton Foundation in September 2012 for an ambitious health care project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is part of the State Department.
USAID, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the Children’s Investment Fund, the U.K. and Sweden supported the development of a type of contraceptive produced by Bayer that was widely distributed in poor nations.
All but Sweden and USAID itself were Clinton Foundation donors.
“The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is proud to have funded the development of this life-saving product,” then-USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah said at the time.
The same year USAID announced its plan to purchase 27 million contraceptive devices from Bayer, which donated between $20,000 and $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation, the pharmaceutical company hired lobbyists with DLA Piper (itself a foundation donor) to lobby the State Department on “federal procurement issues,” according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Bayer did not return a request for comment.
USAID and the State Department appear to have tapped Clinton-connected companies regularly for well intentioned projects around the world.
One month before Hillary Clinton left office, her agency launched an effort to expand the electronic banking sector in Afghanistan.
Citi, the Ford Foundation, Visa, Omidyar Network, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were each involved in the USAID-backed initiative. All five donated heavily to the Clinton Foundation.
Hillary Clinton kicked off a taxpayer-funded effort to bring health information to pregnant women around the world through their phones in 2011 with the help of two foundation donors — Johnson & Johnson and the United Nations Foundation.
The “Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action” initiative won an award for its innovation in 2012 after being judged by an independent panel that included additional donors to the Clinton Foundation.
The Clinton Health Access Initiative was brought into a State Department health project called the President’s Malaria Initiative alongside two of its major donors.
While the malaria initiative began in the Bush administration, it consumed millions while Hillary Clinton was at the State Department.
Irish Aid, Ireland’s development agency, and the British version of USAID — both foundation donors of between $1 million and $5 million — also shared in the U.S.-backed project in Uganda.
Ireland saw a substantial increase in the money USAID and the State Department spent on operations and projects there while Hillary Clinton was in office.
She even made Ireland the site of her final official trip as secretary of state when she traveled there to receive an award from one of her family foundation’s top donors.
The State Department increased its spending in Ireland from $1.65 million in 2009 to $2.96 million in 2010 and $7.48 million in 2011.
USAID also upped its support of Ireland, taking its funding from nothing in 2008 — the oldest year for which data is available — to $29.87 million the year Clinton came into office.
After the Kingdom of Bahrain donated heavily to the Clinton Foundation, the State Department stepped up its activities in the Middle Eastern nation.
The agency’s contracts, grants, loans and investments in Bahrain climbed from $6.8 million the year before Clinton came to the State Department, to $7.1 million in 2009, to $8.9 million in 2011 and peaked at $11 million during Clinton’s final year in office.
Bahrain also enjoyed nearly $2 million from USAID in 2010, bringing its total State Department funding that year to more than $10 million.
To put that figure in perspective, the State Department spent just $1.9 million on its operations in Trinidad & Tobago, the country whose GDP was closest to Bahrain’s, in 2010. The agency spent just $1.3 million on its operations in Mauritius, the country whose population was closest to Bahrain’s, that same year.
United Arab Emirates and Jamaica, two other countries whose governments donated directly to the Clinton Foundation, also saw the State Department’s funding rise during Clinton’s tenure.
USAID’s support of its operations and other projects in Jamaica crept from $2.8 million the year before Clinton took office to $15.8 million in 2011.
State Department spending in the United Arab Emirates rose from $11.57 million in 2008 to $16.79 million in 2012, peaking in 2010 at $21.18 million.
The Clinton Foundation did not return a request for comment about the nature of its direct work with the State Department while Clinton ran the agency.
The Clintons are so damn cynical it is beyond unreal. They are the posters of official government corruption on planet earth today. And Obama tolerated it for the simple reason that it is the heart and soul of the Democrat Party to be corrupt and to cynically exploit the giant government they keep making more giant to enrich themselves and their cronies who support their ideology and their own palm-greasing.
Here’s another story fresh off the headlines of today appearing on Yahoo News’ feed today:
Just two days after President Obama confirmed that Hillary Clinton would be his secretary of state, Bill Clinton set up a shell corporation to “channel” his payments for unspecified consulting work.
Another day, another revelation about the Clintons’ tangled financial web. (Kudos to Robert Wargas of Pajamas Media for pinning down the date Bill set up his dodge.)
With WJC LLC set up as a limited-liability company with no assets and no employees, there was no need to report any of the cash that passed through it — not on Hillary’s personal disclosure statements then, not on her campaign forms now.
This perfectly legal mechanism provides certain tax advantages — notwithstanding the Clintons’ repeated claims that the rich “aren’t paying their fair share of taxes.”
But we’d guess it was the non-disclosure feature that appealed most.
No doubt the Clintons giggled all the way to the bank about their no-funny-business promises to President Obama and his team.
And now Hillary preaches the virtues of “transparency.”
Like everything else about the once “dirt poor” Clintons (now comfortable in the ranks of the 1 percent) the LLC raises huge questions. Questions like those Democrats raised in 2012 about Mitt Romney’s finances.
As the Associated Press (which first reported the existence of the LLC) notes, almost nothing about the exact nature and financial worth of Bill Clinton’s business interests, other than his ultra-lucrative speechmaking, is a matter of public record.
The Clinton camp insists it’s all nothing to worry about, that everything has been disclosed. Then again, that’s what they said before ’fessing up to $26 million in foreign donations they’d “overlooked.”
Hillary Clinton cites Eleanor Roosevelt as her inspiration. Sure seems her real idol is Imelda Marcos — because there’s always another shoe waiting to drop.
No one – NO ONE – who is not a rank, abject hypocrite without so much as a scintilla of honesty or integrity or even shame would EVER vote for this crony-capitalist political whore.
The problem is that to be a Democrat is to be a hypocrite. So no problem.
There is a rather stunning admission of liberal hypocrisy in the following Los Angeles Times article. Basically, if you go to the most liberal and wealthy county in überliberal California, what you will find there is a bunch of leftwing turds who are only too happy to have programs for the poor as long as a) somebody ELSE pays for it; and b) somebody ELSE has to suffer the effects of the programs that they love to impose on everybody else.
This is Nancy Pelosi’s county, boys and girls.
Do you want to know what Democrats true views of Hispanics are? It boils down to, “I’m all for illegal immigrants. I think everybody should own at least one.”
Affordable housing is again a red flag in ‘green’ Marin County The issue has long produced conflict in the eco-friendly county, California’s wealthiest. Officials are being urged to help workers find housing in a place where the median home price is $650,000.
March 31, 2013|By Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times
Advocates for affordable housing in Marin County protest before a meeting… (Sherry LaVars / Marin Independent…)
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — After George Lucas abandoned plans to build a movie studio along a woodsy road in Marin County, he complained about the permitting process in a place so environmentally friendly that hybrid-car ownership is four times the state average.
His next move, some here say, was payback for what Lucas described in a written statement as the “bitterness and anger” expressed by his neighbors.
The creator of “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” is working with a local foundation that hopes to build hundreds of units of affordable housing on a former dairy farm called Grady Ranch, where his studio would have risen.
Now Marin County is squirming at that prospect — and it is not a pretty sight.
The issue of affordable housing in California’s wealthiest county has always brought its “green” lifestyle and liberal social leanings into conflict. No Bay Area county has more protected open space — or fewer workers who can afford to live anywhere near their jobs.
At a recent planning commission hearing, where possible sites for subsidized housing were discussed, nearly all the heated testimony had some version of: “I’m all for affordable housing, but …”
Nine days later, protesters wearing “End Apartheid in Marin County” buttons demanded that officials do something to help low-income workers find housing in a place where the median home price is $650,000 and 60% of the workforce lives somewhere else.
The irony is not lost on Thomas Peters, president of the Marin Community Foundation, the philanthropy that is collaborating with the filmmaker to build along Lucas Valley Road. The region’s environmentally conscious lifestyle, he said, is built on the long commutes of low-paid workers whose cars choke Highway 101 to the point that “you can literally see the CO2 rising.”
“The community, to some degree, has been lulled by success in its 40-year-old determination to really protect the open spaces,” Peters said. But “it is not sustainable to hold that kind of misperception that this is all beautiful and everything can stay as it is.”
With the Golden Gate Bridge as its front door and Point Reyes National Seashore in the backyard, Marin County is blessed with some of California’s most breathtaking vistas. Indeed, 84% of its land is protected as tideland, open space, parkland, agricultural preserves and watershed.
In an effort to address climate change and cut greenhouse gas emissions, the county in 2010 launched California’s first so-called community choice energy program. Marin Clean Energy purchases power for its customers from renewable sources such as wind, solar and hydroelectric projects.
But Marin is near the back of the pack in the nine-county Bay Area region when it comes to absorbing predicted population growth — and is the most unwilling, said Ezra Rapport, executive director of the Assn. of Bay Area Governments.
Every eight years, California’s 58 counties are required to come up with a “housing element.” The documents are not guarantees that units will be built, but simply a demonstration that the county is zoned so growth could happen.
After the Department of Housing and Community Development produces growth estimates for each part of the state, regional governmental agencies negotiate with their cities and counties to divide up the responsibility to zone for possible future home building.
Currently, the Bay Area must plan for 187,000 new housing units by 2022, of which 110,000 must be affordable to very low-, low- and moderate-income families.
So how much of that burden is Marin County’s?
A total of 2,292 units, of which 1,400 must be affordable. In other words, 1.2% of the total homes and 1.4% of the affordable ones.
“It’s really a small amount of the Bay Area’s housing needs …[which are] pretty enormous,” Rapport said. “I don’t think anyone’s expecting them to rezone parkland. … But Marin should be somewhat responsible for its own growth.”
The difficulty was plain to see during the March planning commission hearing in the county’s graceful civic center designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Under discussion were 16 sites that could be zoned for 30 units per acre — high density for a county that has fewer than 500 people per square mile, compared with Los Angeles County’s nearly 2,500.
Although residents were dissatisfied with all the options, Grady Ranch and a project called Marinwood Plaza near Highway 101 were among the most controversial. They also paint a stark picture of Marin County’s reluctance to build housing for its low- and moderately paid workers.
Marinwood Plaza’s location — within sight, sound and smell of the 101 — was a stumbling block for several residents who worried it would be unfair for low-income people to have to live near a source of pollution that could increase asthma rates.
“This is NOT a safe environment for humans,” said Steve and Sharon Johnson in a letter to the planning commission. “The proximity to the freeway and the particles of brake that float in the air when people put on their brakes to come down the hill will hit right where this proposed development is.”
Grady Ranch is about 31/2 miles from the 101, but that’s a problem too, said Nancy Lowry, a real estate agent who lives in the Lucas Valley area.
“There’s no public transportation,” Lowry said. “It’s 51/2 miles to the nearest grocery store, seven or eight miles from the high school. There are no buses. …You’re trying to bring in people so they can have a workforce that lives locally. But there are no services, no sewer lines, no electricity. It just doesn’t seem like the place that it should go.”
But Peters argues that the site is more than feasible. It already is zoned for housing, he said, and contentions that it is in the middle of nowhere are “laughable.”
Grady Ranch is made up of about 1,000 acres of rolling hills and bright green grassland, studded with oak trees and patrolled by wild turkeys. In the stretch separating the ranch from Highway 101, there are several subdivisions with hundreds of houses.
More than a decade ago, Lucas donated an estimated 800 acres of the ranch property to the Marin County Open Space District. Of the remaining land, only 20 to 30 acres is “actual, buildable space,” Peters said.
County planners peg the site as appropriate for around 240 units, although no plans for construction have been submitted. That, Peters said, could happen by summer.
Grady Ranch is “a grand opportunity to address a long-standing issue,” Peters said, and anyone who thinks this is payback has never spoken to the filmmaker.
“This is George Lucas. He doesn’t need to engage in small-town pique.”
That’s right. No rich person EVER held a grudge in his life. Rich people are your betters, and above such petty “piques” that plague the unwashed masses. But that isn’t my axe to grind.
Note that the liberal Democrat überrich Marin County whining hypocrites literally state that they haven’t done jack diddly to create “public transportation” for the poor as their grounds for permanently zoning the poor out of their lovely but cockroach-souled leftwing hypocrite world. We shouldn’t build the poor the homes that we force everybody else to build because we have never built the public transportation for them that we force everybody else to build. And so being a double-hypocrite actually cancels out our hypocrisy, you see.
George Lucas is probably a hypocrite, too. The difference is that he is so fantastically rich he will never once in his life have to mingle with these dirty poor people unless he wants to stage a photo-op to bask in their worship of him. All the other liberals would probably have to stand in line behind these filthy unwashed Hispanics at the grocery store. And they don’t want to do that because they are liberals and therefore turds without shame, without integrity and without honor.
Let’s call it NIMLBY: Not In My Liberal Backyard. Liberals do dishonest abject moral hypocrisy quite nimbly, it turns out. Or maybe PIIRB: Put It In Republicans’ Backyards. While demonizing them with every breath, of course.
This reminds me of Al Gore, who as he was pimping his green agenda – and become a billionaire convincing others to sacrifice for the environment – flew around on the WORST pollution-emitting private jet on the planet while occupying mansions that all had gigantic carbon footprints. Oh, and then he sold his television network to a terrorist “news” company called Al Jazeera which is largely owned by oil emirates. And tried to structure the sale to avoid paying the higher taxes he believed others should be forced to pay. Because Al Gore is a good person for wanting other people to pay higher fascist taxes; so he shouldn’t be expected to pay the taxes himself.
And of course the Obamas and the Bidens go on massively expensive vacations only to return (between massively expensive vacations) to hypocritically claim that we can’t afford ANYbudget cuts or they’ll gut poor people’s police and fire protection. These are people who know damn well that they’ll never be willing to pay this kind of largesse on their own tab. But hey, they can force other people to pay for their extravagance, and so “let them eat cake.”
Obama is a man who has personally racked up more debt – and more reckelss and immoral and unsustainable debt – than any human being in the entire history of the world. His last four budgets were so insane and so evil he couldn’t even get a single Democrat to vote for them. The Democrat-controlled Senate under his control went four damn years without ever bothering to even TRY to pass a budget. But that doesn’t stop him from getting another massive dose of free air time to “teach young people how to budget resonsibly.”
I could go on and on and on and on and on, ad nauseam. These are incredibly wicked and dishonest people. And they are hypocrites right down to the cores of their shriveled little souls.
Household income is down sharply since the recession ended three years ago, according to a report released Thursday, providing another sign of the stubborn weakness of the economic recovery.
From June 2009 to June 2012, inflation-adjusted median household income fell 4.8 percent, to $50,964, according to a report by Sentier Research, a firm headed by two former Census Bureau officials.
Incomes have dropped more since the beginning of the recovery than they did during the recession itself, when they declined 2.6 percent, according to the report, which analyzed data from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey. The recession, the most severe since the Great Depression, lasted from December 2007 to June 2009.
Overall, median income is 7.2 percent
ABC News has a survey. As of now, nearly three out of every four answer “No” to the question and say they are NOT better off under Obama.
Answer: HELL No. You want to blame the recession and even the first year of Obama’s utterly failed presidency on Bush? Fine. But the fact remains that the median household income has gone down nearly TWICE as much during Obama’s “recovery” than it did during the entire recession that Obama blames Bush for. Which is to say that even the very “best of times” under Obama’s failed presidency have paled in comparison even to the worst of times under Bush – with the very “worst” of “Bush’s times” happening while Bush was at home watching Obama stick his skinny legs up on the Oval Office desk.
Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, who is considered a possible contender for president in 2016, bucked other Obama surrogates on Sunday, saying that the country was not better off now than it was four years ago.
On CBS’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer asked: “Can you honestly say that people are better off today than they were four years ago?”
Responded O’Malley: “No, but that’s not the question of this election. The question, without a doubt, we are not as well off as we were before George Bush brought us the Bush job losses, the Bush recession, the Bush deficits, the series of desert wars — charged for the first time to credit cards, the national credit card.”
Quipped Schieffer: “George Bush is not on the ballots.”
The most senior Obama campaign simply refused to answer the question:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Is he right, can the president argue unequivocally that Americans are better off today than they were four years ago?
DAVID PLOUFFE: Listen, George, I think the American people understand that we got into a terrible economic situation, a recession, only that the Great Depression — the only thing the country has ever seen like it. So they know we had a deep hole. It took us a long time to get into that hole, it’s going to take a long time to out of it.
First of all, Governor Romney is offering the same, exactly policies that led to the recession in the first place.
To paraphrase Plouffe’s response to Stephanopoulos’ question:
“Mumble, mumble, mumble. Blame Bush. Blah blah blah. And in conclusion, blame Bush.”
If you want your president to be a demagogue who will NOT accept responsibility for his record and who will blame and lie, then Obama truly is your “hope and change” and this really is your “fundamentally transformed America.” Because that’s all that Obama has done and it is all that he will continue to do.
And of course that “that’s what led to the recession” line might sound good, but let’s point out that RONALD REAGAN USED CONSERVATIVE ECONOMIC POLICIES TO PROPEL AMERICA TO 10 PERCENT GROWTH AND CREATED OVER A MILLION JOBS A MONTH.
David Axelrod took the plunge and said, yeah, we’re better under the man who lowered the level of our oceans and healed our planet before ultimately saying, okay, maybe we AREN’T better off:
“Can you honestly say that Americans better off today than they were four years ago?” Wallace pointedly asked Axelrod.
“I can say that we’re in a better position than we were four years ago in our economy, in the sense that when this president took office, we were losing 800,000 jobs a month,” Axelrod responded. “And the quarter before he took office was the worst since the Great Depression and we are in a different place.”
“29 straight months of job growth, 4.5 million private sector jobs,” the adviser cited as statistical evidence, but conceded: “Are we where we need to be? No.”
Then there’s the “monkey math” that Axelrod cites: basically, it first depends on the theory that Barack Obama really didn’t assume the presidency until 2010. It was the devil BOOSH who was president in 2009 and so all of those numbers only apply to the devil Bush. We only take credit for things we can make look good; Bush is responsible for everything else whether it happened during Obama’s watch or not. I say that because Barack Obama has been president NOT for 29 months, ye Democrat dumbasses, but for going on 45 months. And it is a national disgrace that we have such a completely failed leader that he can’t even assume responsibility for over a year of his failed presidency.
Then there’s the 800,000 jobs lost a month when Obama took office. Well, Democrats are such liars they even fabricate when they’re getting close to trying to tell the truth. We never lost “800,000 jobs a month.” The most jobs we ever lost was in January 2009 (during that year that Obama was president but refuses to acknowledge) when we lost 741,000 jobs. If you’re going to round that number honestly, David, you liar, we only lost 700,000 jobs that month, didn’t we? And for Axelrod to oh so conveniently round way, WAY up and then make it sound like it was happening every single month – we got to that 700k number in only ONE month – is a lie from a serial liar.
What’s always been interesting to me is that we had a crisis that was created by Democrat-OWNED Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac going bankrupt which triggered the meltdown as private banks held Fannie and Freddie mortgage backed securities that they suddenly discovered were “toxic assets” because the GSEs had loaded up so much bad debt in those securities that nobody could tell good debt from bad debt. And that month, in September 2008, we lost 280,000 jobs under Bush’s watch. In October, things looked a little better and we only lost 240,000 jobs that month.
Then America made the stupidest decision in its history and elected Obama. And businesses immediately responded in November by giving up 333,000 jobs – nearly a hundred thousand more jobs than the month before. The panic of a future-failed Obama presidency continued as we lost 632,000 jobs in the first full month after Obama was elected. What kind of fool can look at this reality and say, “Obama’s election calmed frightened businesses?” Because businesses said, “This turd is going to kill us. Let’s cut our losses now.” And so the month Obama took the oath of his failed office, we lost 741,000 jobs that month as businesses cut and ran on his presidency.
To document that the huge job losses that Obama demagogues actually occurred because of sheer terror of a pathetic failure assuming office, let me go back to an article I wrote in October of 2008: “Actual Job Creators Favor McCain 4-1 Over Obama.” I note an article from CEO Magazine:
People are most concerned about jobs right now; maybe they should stop listening to mainstream media ideologues and start listening to the people who actually create jobs:
Chief ExecutiveMagazine’s most recent polling of 751 CEOs shows that GOP presidential candidate John McCain is the preferred choice for CEOs. According to the poll, which is featured on the cover of Chief Executive’s most recent issue, by a four-to-one margin, CEOs support Senator John McCain over Senator Barack Obama. Moreover, 74 percent of the executives say they fear that an Obama presidency would be disastrous for the country.
“The stakes for this presidential election are higher than they’ve ever been in recent memory,” said Edward M. Kopko, CEO and Publisher of Chief Executive magazine. “We’ve been experiencing consecutive job losses for nine months now. There’s no doubt that reviving the job market will be a top priority for the incoming president. And job creating CEOs repeatedly tell us that McCain’s policies are far more conducive to a more positive employment environment than Obama’s.”
“Disastrous for the country.” That doesn’t sound good. And that’s about as optimistic as the CEO’s get about Barack Obama:
“I’m not terribly excited about McCain being president, but I’m sure that Obama, if elected, will have a negative impact on business and the economy,” said one CEO voicing his lack of enthusiasm for either candidate, but particularly Obama.
In expressing their rejection of Senator Obama, some CEOs who responded to the survey went as far as to say that “some of his programs would bankrupt the country within three years, if implemented.” In fact, the poll highlights that Obama’s tax policies, which scored the lowest grade in the poll, are particularly unpopular among CEOs.
“Bankrupt the country within three years.” There. You want socialism, you can have it. “Spread the wealth around” so that country itself is as broke as the defaulting homeowners and the defaulting mortgage houses we keep hearing about.
You want to see the market tank and employers cut their losses again? Just re-hire Obama. You’ll see things go to sh!t right quick as business reacts to the fiasco.
“The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents – #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.” — Barack Obama, 3 July 2008
That’s right. Six trillion dollars in debt from Obama in one four-year term is responsible and patriotic; four trillion dollars over EIGHT YEARS is “irresponsible and unpatriotic.” Again, there’s that thingy about Democrat=hypocrite and hypocrite=Democrat. And if you are a Democrat, it is only because you, personally, are a hypocrite and a bad person.
The 4.5 million private sector jobs that Axelrod credits Obama for first of all utterly refuses to consider that 13 first months of Obama’s presidency (to quote that Servpro commercial jingle, “Like it never even happened!”) and secondof all counts all the job gains but refuses to consider the rather disturbing factoid about all of those new jobless claims that have racked up every single month during Obama’s presidency. But you see, all the job gains are because of Obama but all the nearly 400,000 job losses every single damn month four damn years after Bush left the White House are still because of the devil Bush. Third, given our population growth, ten million Americans have actually entered the work force during Obama’s presidency; which is to say that Obama is nowhere NEAR keeping up with simple population growth even according to his own asinine horn-tooting. And fourth, this “4.5 million jobs” is a full-of-crap talking point parroted by rabid ideologues.
This turd needs to go. He needs to go now. And if he doesn’t go soon this country is simply doomed.
Let’s go back to David Axelrod talking about George Bush. Yes, it was George H.W. Bush, but one Bush is as good as another and Bush was a Republican and therefore a target for future Obama cockroach David Axelrod to demonize:
Video from 1994 has surfaced of David Axelrod, President Obama’s chief campaign strategist, calling former President George H.W. Bush “out of touch” for “tastelessly” playing golf while trying to convince voters that the economy is improving.
“Bush tastelessly did it, often from the ninth hole, and from the cigar boat and other places,” Axelrod said.
Added the adviser: “The impression you got was that he was out of touch.”
Throughout his presidency, Obama has been known to hit the links nearly every week.
Axelrod explained in the 1994 interview that if “you cite these statistics that say the economy is improving, you almost do political damage to yourself.”
“If you stand up and claim great progress, you are only frustrating this alienated middle class more,” he said.
For the record, I’m guessing instead of “1994” it was 1992, because that was the year of the election and there was no point beating an already dead-by-sheer-demonization Bush.
Let’s consider an April 2010 (i.e., more than TWO YEARS AGO) article about Obama and the golf course:
(CNN) — Barack Obama has come in at eighth in a list of golf-playing American presidents, higher than both George Bush and Ronald Reagan.
Bush was known for his love of golf, but figures released by Mark Knoller of CBS Radio, the unofficial White House statistician, have revealed that Obama has played golf 32 times during his presidency — eight times more than his predecessor did during his entire tenure at the White House.
In fact, president Obama played a round as recently as last Sunday, when his flight to Poland for the funeral of president Lech Kaczynski was cancelled due to the volcanic ash cloud over Europe.
Golf Digest magazine has ranked president Obama ahead of both Bush and Reagan, but behind Bill Clinton — who was known to practise his putting in the aisle of Air Force One.
As of April 2010 – again, that’s over two years ago – BARACK OBAMA HAD PLAYED GOLF EIGHT TIMES MORE THAN GEORGE BUSH DID DURING HIS ENTIRE EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.
But, of course, it gets worse. Much, much worse.
Remember, Axelrod demonized Bush Sr. as “out of touch” for playing a tiny infinitesimal fraction of the sheer massive volume that his current boss has played.
In honor of that, Obama has recently reached a rare milestone for an American president who presumably has far better things to do – especially while his economy is in shambles:
MILLER: Obama’s 100th golf round President putters while economy sputters
By Emily Miller – The Washington Times
Thursday, June 14, 2012
The next time President Obama hits the links, it will be his 100th round of golf since coming to the White House. That’s quite a milestone in just 3 1/2 years. As it takes him about six hours to drive to the greens and complete 18 holes, Mr. Obama has spent the equivalent of four months’ worth of work time golfing. Meanwhile, the U.S. economy has been stuck in a sand trap.
Before Mr. Obama teed off for the first time as president, he delivered a State of the Union address that promised his new stimulus bill would “save or create 3.5 million jobs.” At that time, February 2009, unemployment was 8.3 percent and the debt was $10.8 trillion. He kicked off the golf streak on April 26, 2009, and he played a total of 27 rounds in his first year.
When he returned to the Capitol the following year, he stood in front of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with unemployment at 9.7 percent. He asked the Democratic Congress for a second stimulus and an overhaul of the health care system, and Congress obliged. Mr. Obama also said he would freeze government spending for three years, starting in 2011, but that idea got lost in the woods during the 31 golf games he played in 2010, using his personalized “44” Titleist balls, which remind haughty caddies he’s the 44th president.
By the time Mr. Obama gave his annual address to Congress in 2011, he was standing in front of new House Speaker John A. Boehner, brought in during the Republicans’ midterm wave. Unemployment was still at a high 9.1 percent. Mr. Obama announced, “This is our generation’s Sputnik moment” and demanded more money be spent. The debt hit $14 trillion.
Last year, the number of Mr. Obama’s golf outings rose to 33, and many turned out to be memorable. He was on the green on May 1, 2011, when the Navy SEALs were en route to Pakistan, cutting his game to nine holes to hear of their successful mission against Osama bin Laden. Mr. Obama’s golf partners included Mr. Boehner, former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Joseph R. Biden, who got asked to tag along with the boss four times in 2011.
By the time Mr. Obama gave this year’s State of the Union address, he had 93 golf games on his scorecard. Unemployment was 8.3 percent, having never gone below 8 percent in his presidency. He took no responsibility for the $15.2 trillion debt or the nation’s credit-rating downgrade. Instead, he called for higher taxes and the “Buffett rule” while hosting the billionaire’s secretary in his guest box for the speech.
Mr. Obama had no sense of the inappropriateness of playing 99 rounds of golf while 99 percent of the country couldn’t even afford the cost or time to go once. Now he wants a second term to finish what he started. After the 100th round, voters may want to think twice about giving him a mulligan.
Emily Miller is a senior editor for the Opinion pages at The Washington Times.
Barack Obama has spent four entire months of his presidency golfing. Just so far. Makes me pine for the days when we had Roman emperors fiddling while their city burned to the ground. At least they didn’t spend four freaking months playing their damned fiddles.
I’ve said it so many times in my articles that it’s unreal: the quintessential ingredient of a liberal is abject moral hypocrisy. If you are a liberal, you are a complete hypocrite without shame, or honor, or decency. You are the kind of poisonous snake that demonizes somebody else for a tiny fraction of what you do. You are in fact a bad person.
The same kind of person David Axelrod, senior political adviser to Barack Obama, is.
David Axelrod has always reminded me of that used car salesman who gives an already morally troubled industry an even worse name. He’s the kind of slime who sells broken down pieces of junk to naive young kids and then relies on the cops to keep those kids’ dads from beating the crap out of him. He’s the kind of slime who sells lies for the worst and most evil president in American history.
Let’s not forget to remember the mainstream media cockroaches otherwise known as “journalists.” George W. Bush loved golf as much as Obama obviously does. But the media ran stories about Bush playing golf while soldiers died screaming under his command and so George W. Bush did something that Barack Obama has never done so much as a single time in his entire life and took personal responsibility for himself and gave up golfing.
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels and Joseph Stalin and TASS would be so proud of their legacy in Barack Obama, David Axelrod and the American mainstream media.
President Obama will seek to draw economic contrasts with Republican opponent Mitt Romney in what campaign aides are billing as a major speech on Thursday.
In announcing the address at a community college in Cleveland, the Obama campaign said the president will describe his vision as “ensuring that our economy is built to last and restoring economic security for the middle class.”
Obama also plans to condemn Romney’s vision, which the campaign said is “based on the same failed economic policies that brought on the worst crisis since the Great Depression.
“Romney Economics is familiar and troubling,” said the Obama campaign. “More budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy; fewer rules for Wall Street — the same formula that benefited a few, but that crashed our economy and devastated the middle class.”
Obama is not expected to unveil any new policy proposals of his own; the president is still trying to persuade Congress to adopt elements of a jobs bill he proposed last year.
(Bolded emphasis added by me)
Translation: there’s nothing new here. It’ll just more of the same old song and dance we’ve been hearing for the last three and a half years, jacked up on spinsanity with a generous helping of predictable Democrat class warfare and demagoguery – given in front of (presumably) a captive audience of college students (shocking).
Obama’s major speech is a giant bag of wind from the most prolific windbag who ever lived. Check.
Obama is completely out of ideas. Check check.
Ninety percent of Obama’s speech was just a slightly different way for Obama to demonize Mitt Romney. And in what had been built up as a major policy speech at that. Only ten percent of this speech Obama gave in Ohio on Thursday, April 14 AT BEST discussed what Obama would do if re-elected – which frankly amounted to a steadfast refusal to own up to ANY kind of responsibility for his last four years and a doubling down on what has already been demonstrated to have failed. The bottom line is that we are currently cursed with a president who doesn’t want to talk about the past but doesn’t have any ideas about the future.
It’s not just me claiming Obama’s “major speech” was a major failure.
It’s not adequate to say that Barack Obama is a failure; because Barack Obama is an epic failure.
Essentially, Obama’s campaign is about trying to recreate his now thoroughly disillusioned 2008 base. And the only way that he can do that – because he is a completely failed leader who cannot legislate or compromise – is to issue a “jump the shark” series of executive orders that frankly abrogate the Constitution and the rule of law in America and set a terrifying precedent. So he demonized his rhetoric of a bogus “war on women” (see here and here and here and here for how that’s working out for him) and then jumped that shark to “come out” in favor of gay marriage in blatant contradiction of his previous posture (see here and here for how that’s working out for him) – and then he just jumped that shark on Friday to abrogate the Constitution in order to recklessly pander to Hispanics.
And what Obama did on Friday was directly related to the colossal turd he laid on Thursday. Obama HAS to keep jumping the shark because this complete failure SOMEHOW has to keep the support of a base that would otherwise abandon him like a liberal mommy having her baby aborted.
“The idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I promise you, not just on immigration reform. But that’s not how our system works. That’s not how our democracy functions. That’s not how our Constitution is written.”
“I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books. That doesn’t mean I don’t know very well the real pain and heartbreak that deportations cause. I share your concerns and I understand them,” he said Monday. “We work every day to make sure we are enforcing flawed laws in the most humane possible way.”
“America is a nation of laws, which means I, as the president, am obligated to enforce the law. I don’t have a choice about that. That’s part of my job,” Obama said in March 2011 at a town hall event hosted by the Spanish-language television network Univision. […]
“Congress passes the law. The executive branch’s job is to enforce and implement those laws. And then the judiciary has to interpret the laws,” he said. […]
“There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president.”
Apparently, Obama has limited powers unless he a) gives a crappy speech and b) is losing an election. Then there is no law, no Constitution, and no democracy.
Which all goes to say that what Obama did was a) un-American(“not the way our system works“); b) anti-democratic(“That’s not the way our democracy functions“); and c) unconstitutional (“That’s not how our Constitution is written“).
When I say Obama is a fascist – and I’ve said it before at length – I mean it as a highly accurate descriptive term rather than merely as a rhetorical ad hominem. And Barack Obama is a fascist BY OBAMA’S OWN PREVIOUS ADMISSIONS ABOUT WHAT HIS ACT ON FRIDAY CONSTITUTEDwhen he set aside the separation of powers and imposed by “Führer-fiat” what the Congress had explicitly refused.
“The president is using executive power to do things Congress has refused to do, and that does fit a disturbing pattern of expansion of executive power under President Obama. In many ways, President Obama has fulfilled the dream of an imperial presidency that Richard Nixon strived for. On everything from (the Defense of Marriage Act) to the gaming laws, this is a president who is now functioning as a super legislator. He is effectively negating parts of the criminal code because he disagrees with them. That does go beyond the pale.”
What Obama has done is provide an example of out-and-out lawlessness on the part of the president of the United States. And when we get a hard-core right wing president the way Obama has been a hard-core left wing president, Obama and the Democrat Party and all of those who voted for Obama and the Democrat Party will be entirely to blame for that president and his extremist actions. You mark my words. Because what goes around comes around, and if a Democrat can set aside the law the way Obama has now repeatedly done, well, guess who’s going to be stomping on your necks under your own president’s prior justification??? Conservatives are rising up in a spirit of righteous outrage. You have repeatedly slapped us in the face through your messiah Obama, and the time is coming when we’re going to punch you hard in the nose and then keep on punching. And when that day comes, liberals, look to yourselves for blame.
We are watching the unravelling of America as Obama that if his presidency doesn’t succeed, America won’t succeed.
There is absolutely no question that the constant stream of top secret leaks are coming directly out of the White House and that vital secrets are being revealed as a means to create propaganda depicting Obama as a “tough” leader. General Jack Keane said that the only times that America had ever suffered this much damage to its security was when traitors were selling secrets to our adversaries. We are literally talking about treason.
It is VERY possible and even probable that Obama as president declassified vital secrets such as the existence of SEAL Team 6, such as the details of the bin Laden raid and precisely what America found in the compound, such as the top secret operation known as Olympic Games and the computer virus known as Stuxnet, such as the drone missions, such as his use of a “kill list.” Why would he do something that depraved? Why, in order to sell long-term American security in exchange for short-term votes, that’s why. Even Diane Feinstein has publicly stated that no nation will trust America for years to come as a result of these leaks, and it is a fact that intelligence operatives who have cooperated with America have been captured and killed or imprisoned, with far more of that to come. If Obama declassified these and other secrets that have been leaked in an avalanche unlike anything the American intelligence community has ever seen, Obama will have legalized treason. As commander-in-chief, a president has the right to declassify secrets. But no president in American history until Obama will have so despised America that he would see this nation burn if he doesn’t win his election.
Last week, the Times ran two sensational front-page articles, one detailing the president’s personally administered list of terror suspects targeted for assassination—the so-called “kill list,”—the other a book excerpt about the origins of the cyberwarfare program, codenamed Olympic Games, out of which came the Stuxnet virus. Both pieces were widely seen as boosting the president’s credibility on national security just as the 2012 presidential race kicked into high gear. Both pieces cite anonymous current and former high-level officials in the administration. The White House has denied that the leaks were authorized, calling the suggestion “grossly irresponsible.” […]
This is the nugget of the problem. If information is too dangerous to be public, it’s supposed to be classified. If it isn’t, then it isn’t—full stop. Information isn’t classified—at least it isn’t supposed to be—for political gain or to cover up wrongdoing, or so high-level government officials can unilaterally dole out secrets to their favorite reporters at elite media organizations, or so well-connected politicians can manage the news cycle, undermine enemies, or win allies.
Officially, there is no middle ground. Sadly, leaks out of the Obama administration are beginning to look like official policy. Days before the Stuxnet and kill-list stories in the Times, columnist Glen Greenwald highlighted administration leaks to Hollywood filmmakers for an upcoming production about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. This, amid the harshest crackdown on unauthorized leaks by any president ever—the Obama administration’s docket of six leak prosecutions under the Espionage Act dwarfs any previous administration’s persecution of loose-lipped officials.
Obama has a long history of personally demonizing people while doing the exact same thing that he demonized them for. Think of Gitmo, when Obama demonized George Bush – only to keep Gitmo open himself in direct repudiation of his entire presidency by his very own rhetoric. The same goes for the Patriot Act, for rendition, for military commissions, for domestic eavesdropping and for a long list of other issues. The liberal New York Times literally accused Bush of “shredding the Constitution.” Who is shredding it now by the very rhetoric of the left??? In the same way, it is none other than Barack Obama who has violated civil liberties in a manner that goes so far beyond anything that Bush ever did it is almost funny. The very few liberals who are not abject moral hypocrites (eg., here and here) have pointed this fact out, but the vast majority of liberals who rabidly demonized Bush with froth drooling out of their mouths are nowhere to be seen now that the fascist in the Oval Office is the man they put in there.
All again pointing out the fact that Obama leaking secrets that politically benefit him while at the same time attacking anybody who leaks secrets that doesn’t politically benefit him is par for the course. Which reminds me of the fact that this man who is supposed to be working so hard to get America back on track recently completely his 100th round of golf – equivalent to taking four months off his job.
Barack Obama is a cynical liar and hypocrite without shame, without honor and without decency. And that is simply a fact of history. And so are his followers who will vote for him no matter what he does no matter how offended they were when the other side did a small fraction of what Obama has done.
Barack Obama is THE most evil man who has ever contaminated the White House. I saw that in what might even be called a vision the moment I first saw those Jeremiah Wright tapes and realized that Obama had sat for twenty-plus years under the “spiritual leader” and “mentor” Jeremiah Wright and remained for sermon after sermon of this anti-American and racist Marxist. In my very first political article ever, I betrayed both my naivety and understanding all at once. I predicted that Democrats would rightly reject Barack Obama in favor of Hillary Clinton due to the Jeremiah Wright revelations; I was wrong because I simply failed to understand how truly depraved Democrats and the Democrat Party had become. But I also rightly perceived the evil of Obama. My last words in that very first article of mine were:
If Senator Barack Obama’s presidential aspirations aren’t done for now, they should be. If he wins the nomination, I have every confidence that he will be destroyed in the general election when the Wright issue comes back with a vengeance. Until this week, I believed Senator Hillary Clinton was a far more beatable candidate than Senator Barack Obama. I was wrong.
Barack Obama is far more wrong for sitting under the teaching of such a hateful man for so many years. In doing so, the most liberal Senator in the nation underscores just how extreme his views actually are, and just how dangerous a Barack Obama presidency would be for this country.
Republicans would have had to nominate David Duke for president to even BEGIN to come close to what Democrats did in nominating Barack Obama. And this nation was asking for it and has dearly paid for it ever since that evil day on June 3, 2008 when he received enough delegates to win the Democrat nomination prior to the economic crash.
This is God damned America until Obama is thrown out of office. Now that we’ve seen this failure in action for four years, America has no excuse. The soul of this nation is at stake in November, and America needs God far, far more than God needs America.
I’ve written a few articles on gas prices (here’s one example). And in every one, liberals have swarmed like cockroaches and said, “How DARE you hold the president responsible for the price of gas?”
“Since the gas lines of the 70′s, Democrats and Republicans have talked about energy independence, but nothing has changed except Exxon is making $40 billion dollars a year and we’re paying three fifty for gas. I’m Barack Obama. I don’t take money from oil companies or Washington lobbyist and I won’t let them block change anymore. They’ll pay a penalty on windfall profits; will invest in alternative energy; will create jobs and free ourselves from foreign oil. I approve this message because it is time Washington worked for you not them.” – Sen. Barack Obama 2008
If you’ve got any decency in you (yes, I know that qualifier excuses you, Democrats), you will hold this lying demagogue responsible for his own lying demagoguery and vote this turd out of office this November 6.
This is basically a reprint of an article I wrote a couple of weeks ago (available here). But given that Obama floated the idea that he would ask for this third trillion-plus dollar debt ceiling extension (Obama is now responsible for the three highest debt extensions in the history of the entire human race), then decided to hold off his request, then decided to make it again, it seems like the thing to do to blast him as a spend-insane fool all over again.
“The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents – #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.”
And:
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
America certainly deserves better than Barack Obama. And I read these demonizing words from this demagogue who has never ONCE accepted personal responsibility for the spectacular failure of his policies and just laugh with contempt at the way he pontificated about how “leadership means ‘the buck stops here.'”
Why doesn’t Obama resign? Because in his own words “Americans deserve better” than him.
$30,000 for every man, woman and child? Boy, that would seem really bad. Unless the worst president in the history of the human race didn’t come along and make it over $50,000 for every man, woman and child.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House plans to ask Congress by the end of the week for an increase in the government’s debt ceiling to allow the United States to pay its bills on time, according to a senior Treasury Department official on Tuesday.
[…]
The debt limit currently stands at $15.194 trillion and would increase to $16.394 trillion with the request.
Hmm. $9 trillion…. $16 trillion. Which one is a more irresponsible, unpatriotic failure of leadership??? Gosh, I vote Democrat so I’m just too…. insane … and stupid… to know…
Feeling…. weak… Must… blame… Bush…
And there: now we Democrats – having healed ourselves – feel much better now. Because that “blame Bush” pill cures everything. Except reality. But why should we care about a silly thing like that?
If there was so much as a shred of honesty or decency in Barack Obama, in the Democrat Party, or in anyone who votes for the Democrat Party, they would do the only honorable thing and just go away and leave decent Americans alone.
I hear North Korea is real nice. And it’s a “People’s republic,” too. With a brand spanking new dear leader messiah. You libs will like it just fine.
There’s just nothing like the economic “success” of leftism.
Someone commenting on the latest debt ceiling hike (which now makes Obama responsible for the THREE highest debt celing hikes in the history of the entire human race) asked a question. And then he answered it:
“Where does this end? When does this stop? I guess when there is no more money to take from us and then the riots start.”
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