Hillary's Campaign Kickoff

[Keukasmallies]

On a positive note: Hill'ry only took silverware and furniture out of the White House; the current POTUS has taken its soul and credibility.

[B-Man]

Forget the 21 Million in the past 4 years.

 

CNN: Clintons earned $153M over 14 years...

 

Woman of the people ...........my As s

 

 

 

 

What she knows

Hillary Clinton stepped out to make a statement claiming victory in the Iowa caucuses on Monday night. It wasn’t clear that she had won, but appearances had to be maintained. Clinton gave a six-minute speech (video at link) that almost captures her full awfulness. She lies with pathological abandon. She is a gold-plated phony. She has achieved plutocratic wealth through public service while holding herself out as a champion of the common man. She struggles to impersonate an authentic human being.

 

[truth on hold]

The Washington Post

 

Why wont Clinton release the transcripts of those paid speeches?

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/why-wont-clinton-release-the-transcripts-of-those-paid-speeches/2016/02/07/e76bdea0-cdc3-11e5-b2bc-988409ee911b_story.html

[B-Man]

Hillary and the Suspension of Disbelief

by Victor Davis Hanson

 

 

 

In a September 2007 congressional inquiry about the ongoing surge in Iraq, then Senator Hillary Clinton all but called Gen. David Petraeus a liar. After Petraeus gave a cautiously optimistic—and prescient—appraisal of the growing quiet in Iraq, Clinton curtly dismissed him with the literary term “suspension of disbelief,” which describes the creation of a fantasy world.

 

Clinton sarcastically rebutted Petraeus’s quite accurate data with the curt dismissal, “I think that the reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief.”

 

But Iraq was no make-believe place. Petraeus went on to quiet Iraq and it stayed that way until President Obama, with eyes on the 2012 election, yanked all peacekeepers out in December 2011—with the full support of Hillary Clinton.

 

In ironic fashion, Hillary’s own vocabulary best describes her conduct. A “willing suspension of disbelief” most aptly sums up Hillary Clinton’s disastrous 2016 primary campaign, which so far seems more disastrous than her 2008 disastrous campaign.

 

This time around, she is again blowing a huge lead in the polls, but not to an inexperienced, charismatic young African-American trailblazer. Instead she is neck and neck with a white 74-year-old socialist from Vermont who wants to make college free and up taxes to a 90% rate.

 

To trump Sanders, Clinton has reinvented herself into an anti-Wall Street populist. Suspend disbelief that she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, in just a 16-month period made over $25 million in speaking fees, largely from corporations with Wall Street ties.

 

{snip}

 

Recent news reports daily detail how former Secretary of State Clinton’s private emails—contrary to her early serial assurances—contained far more than just ordinary classified material. She sent communications of such a sensitive nature that they now cannot even be read by most government officials.

 

Mrs. Clinton, however, has demanded that these classified documents be released to the public. That gambit, she believes, will prove that she did not send anything top secret at all!

 

That con too requires a suspension of disbelief. Mrs. Clinton knows full well that it would be illegal for any official to release a highly classified document to the public. She is merely angling for a cheap talking point along the lines of, “I wanted to show the American people how innocent my emails were, but 'they' wouldn’t let me and covered them up.”

 

During the Benghazi scandal, Mrs. Clinton all but called the families of the four dead Americans liars. They had recalled that at the arrival of the bodies of their loved ones, she blamed the violence not on al Qaeda but on an obscure video maker. That myth conveniently fit the 2012 Obama reelection narrative that al Qaeda was “on the run” and not on the loose in Benghazi.

 

If we did not suspend disbelief about most of Mrs. Clinton’s claims, we would trust that all her grandparents were immigrants, that she was named after the explorer Edmund Hillary, that she braved gunfire in Serbia, and that after reading the Wall Street Journal she learned how to invest $1,000 in cattle futures and quickly earn $100,000 in profits.

 

https://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/hillary-and-suspension-of-disbelief/?singlepage=true

[Nanker]

As far as her assertion that she was never influenced by the money people were showering on her, while she was secretary of state, how does she account for this? She "signed off on a deal that allowed a Russian government enterprise to control one-fifth of all uranium producing capacity in the United States. Rosatom, the Russian company, acquired a Canadian firm controlled by Frank Giustra, a friend of Bill Clinton’s and member of the foundation board, who has pledged over $130 million to the Clinton family charity."

[Tiberius]

The attacks continue like a steady rain even though the Times reported in August that Clinton is “not a target of the investigation.” In September, the Justice Department put out a brief saying even when Clinton deleted personal emails without “agency supervision,” it was appropriate and legal.

A week ago Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, reiterated that “officials have said… she is not the target of the investigation.”

Later last week, NBC News reported that emails that had been retroactively declared classified had also been sent to the personal email account of former secretary of State Colin Powell and to key aides of his successor, Condoleezza Rice.

None of it quieted critics. They responded by suggesting a White House cover-up even as an October poll by Monmouth found 59 percent of Americans were “tired of hearing about Clinton’s emails.”

“She’s trying for the White House, but she’s probably more qualified for the Big House,” businesswoman Carly Fiorina said at a recent GOP debate.

“I find it hard to believe that they would be eager to nominate someone who is under indictment and could well face felony incarceration,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the winner of the Republican Iowa caucuses, recently told radio host Hugh Hewitt.

What felony charge is that?

Republicans often point to charges against former Gen. David Petraeus for sharing classified information with a former girlfriend. But even in a case where the general handed military information to an outsider, he pled guilty to a misdemeanor. He never went to jail.

It has never been shown that Clinton shared information marked as classified at the time it was sent or received.

And of course there is still no evidence that she broke any law.

 

http://thehill.com/opinion/juan-williams/268514-juan-williams-innuendo-fuels-clinton-email-saga

[3rdnlng]

Whether information was marked "classified" or not is immaterial. If she didn't have the sense to recognize that the material was sensitive then she has no right to even be considered for a secretarial job in a local high school.

[keepthefaith]

It's the decision to deploy her own private server knowing that it could be vulnerable to being hacked and then hiding the content that is so troubling. That along with the State dept and probably Obama knowing that she was doing it. No voter should give her a pass on that.

[DC Tom]

It's the decision to deploy her own private server knowing that it could be vulnerable to being hacked and then hiding the content that is so troubling. That along with the State dept and probably Obama knowing that she was doing it. No voter should give her a pass on that.

 

No, it's her decision to bypass congressional oversight that is so troubling.

[Tiberius]

 

No, it's her decision to bypass congressional oversight that is so troubling.

Well, when you guys decide why this is so troubling maybe after the screaming over her murdering Vince Foster, killing the Bengahazi troops herself and being too liberal, you can make a coherent argument to the American people why she is not better than The Donald

[DC Tom]

Well, when you guys decide why this is so troubling maybe after the screaming over her murdering Vince Foster, killing the Bengahazi troops herself and being too liberal, you can make a coherent argument to the American people why she is not better than The Donald

 

Shut up, idiot.

[B-Man]

 

Shut up, idiot.

 

Sadly,

 

He is incapable of that as much as his making a cogent post

[Nanker]

[Tiberius]

And of course there is still no evidence that she broke any law.

Legal analyst Dan Abrams recently reviewed the allegations and wrote on the LawNewz.com website that while Clinton was “foolish” to use a private server, “it is also indisputable that it was neither a crime nor even a violation of State Department procedure for Clinton to have used personal email for government business at that time.”

But nonpartisan assessments of the case have not stopped the drumbeat at every GOP primary event. A willingness to join in assumptions of Clinton’s guilt is a litmus test for anyone entering the conservative echo chamber on talk radio and the internet.

 

[Deranged Rhino]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/iowa-sanders-clinton-audit-218905

[B-Man]

You have to love George and Gracie.................

 

She ran once too.............long before Pat Paulsen or Steve Colbert.

 

 

[3rdnlng]

So, you want someone who is foolish for president?

[keepthefaith]

 

No, it's her decision to bypass congressional oversight that is so troubling.

Based on how those boobs in congress questioned her for 11 hours on Benghazi and couldn't get her to answer anything I'm not sure any house oversight of any kind would matter. She's Hillary, she does what she wants.

[DC Tom]

 

 

 

And The Hill's misrepresenting what was written on "LawNewz," which itself wasn't a very good "analysis," as it ultimately failed to prove its own thesis.

[B-Man]

POLITICO: HILLARY’S CAMPAIGN ON VERGE OF A SHAKEUP:

 

It sounds like a disorganized mess. Write Glenn Thrush and Annie Karni, “Ultimately, the disorganization is the candidate’s own decision-making, which lurches from hands-off delegation in times of success to hands-around-the-throat micromanagement when things go south.” Also:

 

from the beginning, there have been deeper issues simmering within the cheerfully-decorated Brooklyn headquarters — and much of that had to do with a disconnect between the candidate and her campaign.

Over the summer while her campaign was bogged down in the email controversy, Clinton was deeply frustrated with her own staff, and vice versa. The candidate blamed her team for not getting her out of the mess quickly, and her team blamed Clinton for being stubbornly unwilling to take the advice of campaign chairman John Podesta and others to apologize, turn over her server, and move on.

The entire experience made her a deeply vulnerable frontrunner out of the gate, and underscored a lack of trust between Clinton and her operatives, many of whom were former Obama staffers that she didn’t consider part of her inner circle of trust.

 

 

 

 

Read the whole thing.