November, 2016, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: HIllary's Insulting of Most Of America and the Political Corruption and Hypocrisy Via Wikileaks

The current monthly record for the number of posts that were needed to cover one month's worth of insanity is ten. We equaled that record last month when we needed ten days to cover one month’s worth of political class insanity. There is a very good chance that the ten day record could fall this month since as we get closer and closer to the election, the volume of ineptness grows almost exponentially. 

But today and for all of the insanity posts this month, let’s start off with a welcome piece of honest political dialog. It comes from a State Department spokesperson. Mark Toner, who is about to start the daily State Department press briefing. In a joking matter, he makes the following quote: "Welcome to the State Department. I think we have some interns in the back. Welcome. Good to see you in this exercise in transparency and democracy." 

He then burst out laughing at his own quote, indicating he also knew what a joke the Obama administration has been, especially Mr. Toner’s State Department, when it comes to cover ups, lack of transparency, denial of Freedom of Information Act requests, the prosecution of whistleblowers, etc. But at least it was a little refreshing to finally hear some actual honesty out of Washington as we see from the actual clip of the news conference:

http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2016/08/when-even-the-state-department-spokesperson-cant-keep-a-straight-face-about-things-anymore-video/

With that context of honesty, let’s see what other insanity has been going down:

1) As we have said a number of times this past week we have mostly stayed clear of the Clinton/Trump insanity and idiocy since trying to keep up with all of the sexcapades, pay for play instances, name calling, and lack of discussion on the issues would likely take up multiple blogs writing multiplied posts per day. But today let’s take a quick a look at some of the rich but disgusting information that has come to light via Wikileaks regarding how little Hillary Clinton and her staff think about probably the majority of Americans.

Before get to the latest condescension from Hillary, let’s review how she has already insulted and spit on tens of millions of Americans:

• She called half of Trump’s supporters “deplorables” which probably encompasses tens of millions of Americans.
• She said that Bernie Sanders supporters still live in their parents’ basements.
• She stated in an email that African Americans and Muslims are “professional never do wells,” implying that these people cannot ever rise up and better themselves.
• Her staff lumped together every different Hispanic and Latino sub segment of the population when they asserted in an email that that they needed a “taco bowl” outreach effort, certainly a racist statement.

So before we even get into the latest Wikileaks documents we know that Hillary and her staff have insulted half of Trump’s American voters, all African Americans, all Muslims and all Hispanics. That is a heck of a start. But Jay Guy, writing for the iPatriot website on October 21, 2016, had a number of other insulting remarks and attitudes from the Hillary staff:

• In February, 2016, a number of emails were exchanged between John Podesta and Frank White, Jr., members of Clinton’s campaign staff, in which they divided Americans into seven different “food groups” so that they could analyze which Americans they wanted to consider for Vice Presidential candidates. 
• The "food groups" included Latinos, women, black men, business magnates and one group that included just one member - Bernie Sanders.
• Notice that they were willing to consider black men but no black women, a distinction and omission that one could categorize as both racist and sexist.
• In December, 2015 Podesta called Bernie Sanders a “doofus” for opposing the Paris Climate Change Conference.
• In September, 2015, Philip Munger, apparently a big Democratic Party supporter and donor and big Clinton supporter, wrote an email to Podesta where he said that Clinton is “going to have to kneecap him [Sanders]. She is going to have to take him down from his morally superior perch.” Given the Clinton penchant for having associates or political enemies end up dead, one has to wonder exactly what Munger met via his kneecapping reference.

So we now know that there are whole other sub segments of the country that Hilary and her people do not like including black women and Bernie Sanders (or doofus) in addition to the “food groups” of Trump supporters, blacks, Muslims, basement dwelling Bernie supporters, and Hispanic folks. Pathetic and so condescending.

2) But HIllary and company are not done insulting whole groups of Americans, according to reporting on Wikileaks documents that were discussed on the I Have The Truth website in a recent article:

• Marketing Executive Wendy Bronfein was introduced to Clinton campaign manager John Podesta in an email as someone who “could be immensely helpful in improving HRC’s [Hillary’s] connection to millennials.”
• She provided advice on how to reach “f***ing dumb” young people, with her version not striking out the uck after the f.
• Bronfein went on to explain to Podesta that Hillary “may not be the best face” to attract younger voters and that she needs to utilize “trending figures” as part of an “infusion to pull younger voters” because “that’s the crap that young people pay attention to. It’s f**king dumb but being “cool” counts for more than it maybe should.”
• The original email as released by Wikileaks follows:

Yes, our young folks are f***ing stupid, nice respect to the future of the country.

3) Oh, but her insults are not over. At a recent Florida political rally, a member of the audience shouted out that Bill Clinton is a rapist. Now, I certainly never saw the reason or the rationale for trying to disrupt another candidate’s freedom of speech rights. Let them speak uninterrupted and speak their mind, interrupting them in such a way is juvenile and stupid.

But the sad thing is that Hillary let it get to her. And rather than having security remove this individual from the audience she went off on him and her perceived belief that he was a Trump supporter: “I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive, dangerous vision and behavior of people who support Donald Trump.” So now, besides being deplorable, Trump supporters are dark and divisive. Nice way to unite the country.

She also failed to mention that Wikileaks hacks of her emails show that her staff and operatives actively planned and executing operations to intentionallyand violently disrupt Trump rallies and gatherings. She failed to mention how her allies worked with the Chicago local political class to shut down a planned Trump rally by denying him enough police support. She failed to mention or condone how her supporters and allies ran down, egged, and physically assaulted people attending Trump rallies across the country. And it is Trump supporters, assuming this guy was a Trump supporter, are “dark and divisive.” Talk about hypocrisy.

4) Last piece of insanity for today and for the month. The iPatriot website recently listed what it called the 13 most relevant Wikileaks released emails that show Hillary is guilty of treason. I think this premise is pretty much over the top but the list does show how corrupt the American political class has become, sleazy if not treasonous:

• Muslim country Qatar gave Bill Clinton $1,000,000 for his birthday. You know Qatar, a country where gay rights and women’s rights are quite limited. (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8396#efmAEOAGW)
• A Saudi Sheikh wouldn’t donate money to the Clinton Foundation unless he received a phone call from Bill Clinton. Staff responds: Bill won’t do it “unless Sheikh Mo has sent us a $6 million check” (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6775#efmACoADwAIqAJzAOXASM)
• Hilary publicly defends the ill-fated and flawed Obama nuclear weapons deal with Iran but her campaign manager, John Podesta says “yup” to the assertion that the deal “condemns the next generation to cleaning up a nuclear war in the Persian Gulf” (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/727#efmAAGAAJABQAEL)
• That same campaign manager, John Podesta, owns 75,000 shares in a Putin associated Russian energy company (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4635#efmAFyAGUAWLAYP)
• Clinton’s speeches to high powered Wall Street executives, speeches that she refused to release, have finally showed up and we find out that she agrees that being two faced is a good idea, i.e. you can have both a “public” position and a “private” position. (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927)
• Clinton’s leaked speech where she says her dream is a world without borders,national sovereignty be damned: (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927#efmFjUFkd)
• Clinton talked about putting the screws to China because she wants to “ring China with missile defense” and the U.S. has the right to rename Pacific Ocean the “American Sea”: (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927) 
• Clinton flipped her position on the TPP international trade treaty when it was decided that her support of the treaty would get her “eaten alive” by Labor: (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8452#efmAH1APRA0NA5c)

That will do it for this month’s insanity. Wikileaks is showing us how hypocrisy, name calling, and corruption are the most overriding traits of our political processes today.

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May, 2015, Obama Administration Foreign Affairs Failure Update

We have made it clear when writing this blog that we are not fans of just about anyone currently involved in the American political class. And that certainly includes our current President. Never has someone been so highly thought of and so much expected of coming into the White House and never has anyone disappointed us so much with their failed performance in that job.

To get a sense of how much of a failure this administration has been over the past six years, just enter the phrase, “obama administration failure” in the search box above. You will then see a series of past posts where we document the dozens of failures.

Just last month we did a series of failure posts and in one of them we focused on foreign affairs failures. That post can be accessed at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2015/04/meet-new-boss-same-as-old-boss-or.html

It was not a pretty post relative to the numerous times this administration has failed to develop and implement a coherent, integrated foreign affairs strategy. Unfortunately, just a few short weeks after that post went live, today we have to update it with another five foreign affairs disasters, from the dangerous to the mundane but embarrassing, that have happened since the post referenced above. That is how inept this administration and Washington in general has become.

1) The United States used to be the most powerful and respected nation in the world. Although you can make the case that it is still the most powerful along several dimensions, it is doubtful it is still the most respected. This reality was recently driven home when four Persian Gulf state nations, supposed allies of the U.S., decided not to send their most powerful leader to an upcoming summit of Persian states, hosted by the Obama administration. 

According to Fox News: “The White House was scrambling Monday to put a positive face on an upcoming summit of Persian Gulf states after learning leaders from four of the six invited nations are expected to skip. While those nations are still sending representatives to the summit being hosted by President Obama later this week at Camp David, the absence of crucial heads of state — notably, Saudi Arabia’s new king — could present an awkward situation for the administration.”

It is a summit for Persian Gulf states but two thirds of them decided it was not worth sending their top leader and office holder to the summit. Not sure this would have happened when the U.S. was respected around the world but it sure is happening now. Obviously, these leaders either thought they had better things to do than to listen to the President or they were sending a not so subtle message that Obama was getting much too cozy with their Gulf enemy, Iran, especially relative to the nuclear weapons that country is trying to develop.

In either case, this is a huge diplomatic snub to the this administration no matter how vigorously the administration’s spokespeople try to spin it.

2) And the President did not help matters much at all with the Saudis when he made two huge mistakes recently at a White House meeting with two powerful Saudi crown princes. Now, keep in mind that this administration has been in place for over six years. The following diplomatic failure cannot be attributed to just getting into power and learning on the job. The job learning should have been learned years ago from a diplomatic perspective.

So what happened at the White House meeting? Unbelievably, Obama screwed the deputy crown prince's name and also the name of the king who helped build America's relationship with Saudi Arabia, King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. Specifically:

• Mistake #1: The deputy crown prince's name is actually Mohammed bin Salman (bin means son of in Arabic); his father's name is Salman.
• Mistake #2: The King whom President Obama called King Faisal is actually King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, who met with Roosevelt. That king's son was named Faisal.

This administration cannot even get basic names right and somehow we expect our allies in the Middle East to trust this Presidential administration on such topics as nuclear weapon development in Iran. According to Elliott Abrams of the Council on Foreign Relations: Getting the names wrong "will deepen the sense in the Gulf and the wider Middle East that the president of the United States does not know what is doing in their region." 

Certainly cannot disagree with Mr. Abrams. 

3) Let’s stay with the Saudis and the Obama administration's total diplomatic failure with this country. One theory is that if Obama signs off on a nuclear arms deal with Iran that paves the way, either in perception terms or in reality, to get nuclear weapons, then other Gulf nations, especially Saudi Arabia, will follow suit and develop their own nuclear weapons programs to protect themselves and their interests. 

But that might be a faulty logic flow but for reasons that were not obvious up until now. According to some credible news reports, rather than set up research programs to develop nuclear weapons in response to an Obama/Iran deal, the Saudis have decided that they do not need to develop their own nuclear weapons capability. They simply have already gone out and bought nuclear weapons from Pakistan.

According to the BBC and the Times of Israel: “Saudi Arabia may be prepared to field nuclear bombs it has purchased from Pakistan in response to Iran’s alleged military nuclear program, and may already have deployed missile systems capable of delivering the bombs, the BBC reported on Wednesday. According to Mark Urban, diplomatic and defense editor for the BBC’s Newsnight, there are suggestions that the Saudis have paid for a number of nuclear weapons that are ready and waiting in Pakistan. If the reports are accurate, the kingdom could have atomic weapons on its missiles even before Iran has that capability. Urban said it was an assessment shared by the former head of the IDF’s head of intelligence, Amos Yadlin, and cited comments Yadlin made to that effect at a conference in Sweden last month. “The Saudis will not wait one month,” Yadlin reportedly said. “They already paid for the bomb, they will go to Pakistan and bring what they need to bring.”

Great, Obama sets out to prevent Iran from going nuclear and possibly ends up forcing the Saudis to buy their way into the nuclear weapons club while he paves the way for the Iranians to develop their way into the nuclear weapons club. No way anyone in this administration can spin this evolving development into anything but incompetence.

4) Let’s move away from the Middle East because recent foreign affairs failures of this administration are not confined to that geographic area. It appears that two long time members of the nuclear weapons club, Russia and China, are now getting friendly with each other, a development that cannot be good for U.S. interests, militarily, economically, or strategically.

Specifically, China and Russia for possibly the first time ever,have decided to hold joint naval military drills. And they will conduct these drills in the Mediterranean Sea, right on the doorstep of NATO nations, not in some far away Far East location. The Chinese are sending two warships to participate in the drills and will dock them at the Russian port of Novorossiysk, the first time ever that Chinese war ships have entered a Russian military base.

Thus, after decades of cold and distant relationship between Russia and China, the failed foreign affairs strategy abilities of the Obama administration has been able to drive together two nations that usually had nothing to do with each other. Amazing ineptness.

5) One last foreign affairs fail.  According to recent Wall Street Journal reporting, Chinese nuclear weapons experts told the U.S. earlier this year that North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is larger than previously believed. The experts estimate that North Korea has already made 20 nuclear warheads and has enough weapons grade uranium available to double the number of warheads by 2016. The Chinese estimates were presented to U.S. nuclear specialists at a closed-door meeting at the China Institute of International Studies in Beijing this past February. 

The Obama administration has not had high level diplomatic talks on nuclear weapons since 2012, according to the Journal, after the North held a banned nuclear missile test. In the interim, they obviously have been busy building up a sizable nuclear weapons capability.

So let’s review:

• In the past month the administration has been snubbed by the King of Saudi Arabia and three other Gulf nation leaders who are not coming to Obama's Gulf nation summit.
• The President insulted two Saudi princes by screwing up Saudi family names.
• The Saudis may have already cut a deal with Pakistan to buy nuclear weapons to counter the emerging deal the U.S. is putting together with Iran that most in the Gulf region are opposed to.
• China and Russia are taking the first steps of getting real friendly with each other on the military front.
• And while Obama has been busy dealing with Iran, besides golfing and attending political fund raising events, the North Koreans have been busy building nuclear bombs at a rate that was not believed happening until earlier this year.

And these foreign affairs disasters have come to light in just the past month or so. Hard to see how any Presidential administration could have been less effective than this one, from screwing up names to allowing a nuclear arms race to take hold around the world.

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