Hillary and Barack: Liar, Liar, Pants (suit) On Fire, A Historical Perspective, Part 2

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." John F. Kennedy

I was originally going to write a post on the amazing number of outright lies that Hillary Clinton has put forth, both recently and historically. And there are a lot of them, making her no different than every other Washington politician. However, in researching her lies, I continued to come across the dozens and dozens of lies and deceptions of the current White House president, Barack Obama. Thus, as a warm up to today’s Hillary Clinton’s parade of lies, yesterday we reviewed the over seven years worth of lies and deceptions from the Obama administration.

Today, we will get to the original intent, reviewing the lies of Hillary Clinton over the years. The first and longest set of lies is based on the work of the Politifact website. The purpose of this website is to research and grade whether a politician's statement is true or false. It leans Democratic and liberal so when I find that it rates a Democrat’s statement as false it is usually REALLY false. Thus, the following review of Clinton lies is based on the fact finding and opinions of Politifact, not me:

Hillary Clinton: “The Clean Power Plan is something that Senator Sanders has said he would delay implementing.” 

Politifact: False. Sanders has said he supports the Clean Power Plan.

Hillary Clinton: “You are three times more likely to be able to get a mortgage if you’re a white applicant than if you’re black or Hispanic, even if you have the same credentials.”

Politifact: False

Hillary Clinton: “We now have more jobs in solar than we do in oil.”

Politifact: False

Hillary Clinton: "I am the only candidate on either side who has laid out a specific plan about what I would do to defeat ISIS.”

Politifact: False. While she may have the longest and most detailed plan, she is hardly the only candidate with a plan and no one knows if it is a good plan.

Hillary Clinton: “Every piece of legislation, just about, that I have ever introduced (in the Senate) had a Republican co-sponsor.”

Politifact: False

Hillary Clinton: “We now have driven (healthcare) costs to the lowest they've been in 50 years.”

Politifact: False. And anyone who reads our monthly series of posts under the theme, “The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care” knows that this is nowhere close to being true in any which way.

Hillary Clinton: “ISIS is going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists.”

Politifact: False. No evidence had emerged or was provided when she issued that statement. However, terrorist recruiting videos featuring her husband have emerged.

Hillary Clinton: “The gun industry is the only business in America that is wholly protected from any kind of liability.”

Politifact: False

Hillary Clinton: “The Benghazi probe is the longest running Congressional investigation ever.”

Politifact: False. With Politifact’s added commentary, “not by a long shot.”

Hillary Clinton: She stated that Wisconsin governor Scott Walker rejected state legislation to make college loan payments tax deductible and the result was “to raise taxes on students.” 

Politifact: False. The proposed legislation never even made it to the governor’s desk to sign never mind him vetoing.

Hillary Clinton: “Not one of the 17 GOP candidates has discussed how the’d address the rising cost of college.”

Politifact: False. Politifact specifically cited Rubio as having a plan.

Hillary Clinton: "Hedge fund managers pay less in taxes than nurses and truck drivers.”

Politifact: False. Politifact commented that even given extreme leeway in interpreting her comments that it is not true.

Hillary Clinton: “All of my grandparents immigrated to America.”

Politifact: False. Close, if you assume that one out of her four grandparents is “all.” 

Hillary Clinton: "The number of jobs created and people lifted out of poverty during Bill Clinton’s Presidency was a hundred times what it was under president Ronald Reagan."

Politifact: False. Not even close.

Hillary Clinton: “[Senator] McCain still thinks it’s okay when women don’t earn equal pay for equal work.”

Politifact: False. McCain never said any such thing, he just disagreed with a proposed bill on the subject.

Hillary Clinton: “If you are driving on average in America this summer you’ll save - according to Department of Energy figures, about $70.”

Politifact: False

Hillary Clinton: "I actually started criticizing the war in Iraq before [Obama] did."

Politifact: False. Clinton actually voted to go to war in Iraq while Obama voted against the move.

Hillary Clinton: “Obama only wants your children to have health insurance.”

Politifact: False. All of Obama's failed health insurance plans include adults also.

Hillary Clinton: She claimed that the difference between her and Barack Obama is “about 35 years of experience.”

Politifact: False. Which they sarcastically described Hillary with experience but not at math.

Hillary Clinton: “It’s just outrageous that under President Bush, the National Institutes of Health have been basically decreased in funding.”

Politifact: False. NIH funding was up under Bush.

There you have it, twenty blatant Hillary Clinton lies. The troubling thing about these twenty lies is that they are easily researched to see if they are false, something that the Politifact folks did. What other things has she falsely said or asserted that have not been checked out or which are difficult to check out? I am pretty sure that these are not the only twenty false deceptions she has uttered over the years.

The other troubling aspect of these lies and the lies and deceptions of all politicians is this: do they actually believe the lies themselves or do they hold us in such contempt that they think that we are too stupid to see through the lies? If they actually believe their own lies, than we as a nation are in big trouble since if they do not understand reality, their chances of being successful in reality are next to nothing.

And if they think we are too stupid to see through their lies than we have really devolved into a two part society: the elite and condescending political class and the rest of us, mistrusting each other so much that no issues ever get resolved as we play the cat and mouse game of who’s lying and who’s too stupid to understand they are being lied to.

But twenty lies is just the beginning. Consider the other lies she has spewed and have proven to be false:

• Long ago when she landed in Bosnia, she claimed that her entourage came under sniper fire and they had to hurry into waiting vehicles to get safely away. However, actual video of her landing shows that sniper fire was not present or close to being present.
• She claimed that the emails she deleted off of her private server when she was Secretary of State included a multitude of emails that she and her husband had exchanged. However, video proof shows her husband claiming that he had used the Internet only twice in his life and that was to order something from Amazon, not communicate with his wife as she asserted.
• Hillary recently claimed that she had always been in favor of gay marriage. But again, actual video of her shows her claiming that marriage is a sacred vow between a man and a woman. She did not even try to use the Obama flip flop defense when his attitude on gay marriage “evolved,’ she just outright lied.
• Hillary has recently claimed that she was against the NAFTA treaty, but as always, historical video shows that she was a big advocate of NAFTA long ago.
• Andf who can forget her assertion long ago that she and her husband were the victims of a vast right wing conspiracy, a conspiracy that was never proven to exist.
• And most recently, and most atrociously, she recently asserted that: "Now, is Libya perfect? It isn’t. Libya was a different kind of calculation and we didn’t lose a single person … We didn’t have a problem in supporting our European and Arab allies in working with NATO.” - Seems to me that we lost four brave Americans in Libya, Benghazi specifically. All because her and this administration did not take dozens of security warnings seriously and who refused to send help to save the lives of dozens of trapped Americans, four of whom who died.

Pathetic excuse for a leader, pathetic excuse for someone trying to be President. Lies, deceptions, and denial, lord help us. 

To see some of Hillary lies being rebutted by her own video clips go to:

http://ihavethetruth.com/2015/12/19/this-video-of-hillary-is-going-viral-when-you-see-it-youll-know-why/

The Obama Epic Fail Series, Part 3B - Foreign Policy

We are going to take a few days and discuss the track record of the Obama Presidency across several perspectives. The impetus for this discussion and review was the fact that when the world leaders and millions of French men and women rallied in France to protest and take a stand against global Islamic terrorism, this President embarrassed himself and the United States by NOT attending the gathering of world leaders in Paris. In our opinion, this was an epic fail and a missed historical opportunity.

Not only did he not attend, no high ranking member of his administration bothered to make the trip either. While world leaders of over 40 countries attended and high ranking officials of other countries made the trip, the highest ranking U.S. person was just the current French ambassador.

This snub of the French is a tremendous, and possibly historic, missed opportunity. This could have been a defining moment in the Obama Presidency where he rallied the rest of the world in its fight against global terrorism. The whole world was watching but apparently the President was back in the White House, rumored to be watching NFL football games instead of leading in Paris. 

If Obama was a true leader, he could have used the commonality of the fight against terrorism to also work on other global issues. The leaders of Israel and the PLO were at the rally with a common, shared goal of fighting terrorism. What a great time in might have been of using that common objective to move onto other problem resolution opportunities.

The Russian Foreign Minister was also at the Paris rally. Why not use the common goal of fighting terrorism to talk about the Ukraine and other troubling Russian and U.S. issues? But the President missed this historic window of leveraging this common objective across most of the world.

But missed opportunities seems to be the theme of this President. Whenever an opportunity to be bold, productive, epic, and a leader arose, this President, and the administration he has put in place, has usually failed and failed miserably. Bad economic policies, divisive race politics, a failing health care reform law, a clumsy foreign affairs management history, bad management processes as a Federal government bureaucracy teeters on the edge of total incompetence, etc., this administration has not been able to get out of its own way to attain any problem resolution at all.

Given that we are comfortable calling his absence in Paris an epic fail, we are going to take a few days and see if there are other epic fails that this administration has attained. We will discuss the policies track records of this Presidency over the next few days according to the following general topics and see if the failure as epic as his absence in Paris has been repeated in other areas of governance:

• Transparency and integrity
• Economic policy
• Foreign policy
• Healthcare policy
• Government management policy

Foreign Policy Part 2

1) This past week, the Yemeni government, a supposed ally of the U.S.in the fight against terrorism, collapsed under the weight of a Shiite rebel force supported and funded by Iran. However, this was not supposed to happen. As late as last September, Obama proclaimed that: "This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us,while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years."

However, most of us and the rest of the world might have a different definition of "success" than the President's, based on the overthrowing of the current government this week. Even with a supportive government in Yemen, Al Qaeda's most vicious and successful branch was in Yemen.With the collapse of the government and the support they gave to Obama in fighting terrorism in general and Al Qaeda in particular, his strategy is now in tatters and an epic fail.

2)This President, and his closest advisors such as John Kerry, blatantly refuse to admit the obvious: most of the current terrorism going on in the world is being done by Islamic extremists. This does not mean that the majority of Muslims are like this, it just means that much of the terrorism is being done in the name of Islam.

However, failure to recognize a problem means that you will never resolve that problem. Consider a recent article from the Heritage Foundation that listed out recent terror attacks, all of which had an Islamic slant to them:

• December 2010: Stockholm – An Iraqi-born Swedish citizen who had lived in the U.K. carries out a suicide car bombing, injuring two and blowing himself up. Although the planned attack failed, Swedish authorities believed the terrorist intended to detonate the vehicle remotely in an attempt to kill as many people as possible during the busy Christmas shopping season.

• March 2012: Toulouse and Montauban, France – A French national of Algerian origin kills three off-duty soldiers, three Jewish children and a rabbi in three separate terrorist attacks in southern France. Before being killed by police in a shootout, the terrorist, who carried out the terrorist attack in the name of Islam, told authorities he did so in part because he was mad over France’s military role in Afghanistan.

• May 2013: London – British serviceman Lee Rigby is brutally murdered in broad daylight by two British citizens who were converts to Islam. Rigby is run over by the terrorists before being hacked to death as the murderers shouted “Allahu akbar.” Both terrorists are convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

• May 2014: Brussels – A terror attack carried out against a Jewish museum kills four. A French terrorist who had returned from fighting with Islamists in Syria and Iraq is charged with carrying out the attack. The terrorist is described by one former hostage as a “publicity-loving sadist,” whose depravity knew no bounds even prior to the attack on the Jewish museum.

• December 2014: Joue-les-Tours, France - A 20-year old French national, who is a Muslim convert with known sympathies to radical ideology, injures three after attacking police with a knife while shouting “Allahu Akbar.” He is shot and killed by police.

But this denial should not come as a surprise since this administration went years refusing to acknowledge that the Fort Hood attacks was a terrorist attack, classifying the attack as "workplace violence," an insult to those who died and were wounded. Failure to declare the obvious is an epic fail and an insult to the intelligence to the rest of us that see what is going on.

3) The relationship with China has not gotten better during the Obama administration. China has been bullying nations in its region for a number of years now, claiming territorial and island rights that other nations have long held were theirs. There have been military and diplomatic confrontations with Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, and others, with the Chinese ignoring any Obama administration pleas to play nice.

In fact, some experts are saying that relations between the U.S. and China have not been this bad in decades: "U.S.-China relations are worse than they have been since the normalization of relations, and East Asia today is less stable than at any time since the end of the Cold War," Robert Ross, a political science professor at Boston College and an associate of Harvard's John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. 

So China ignores us and is not scared or respectful of us, Russia invades countries at will and is not scared or respectful of us, looks like the Obama administration has taken us back to the future with the advent of a Cold War atmosphere as a result of the bumbling foreign relations management of the Obama administration.

4) But it is not just Russia and China where the foreign affairs management of been an epic failure. By allowing the NSA to spy on foreign leaders, even those that were and are considered allies, the Obama administration ticked off a whole range of foreign leaders including such stalwart allies as Angela Merkel of Germany. You cannot spy on people and then expect them to embrace yourself or your foreign affairs policy.

The Prime Minister of Brazil was so ticked off by the spying that she cancelled herself out of a White House state dinner, a highest honor that the White House can bestow on anyone, that is how made the Obama administration made her. Time Magazine reported on how Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sirkorski truly felt about his country;s relationship with the U.S. during Obama's tenure: 

In tapes obtained by a Polish magazine, Radoslaw Sikorski sued an expletive to describe his country's alliance with the U.S. 

Polish magazine Wprost claims to have obtained recordings of a conversation in which Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski says that “the Polish-American alliance is worthless, even harmful, as it gives Poland a false sense of security. It’s bulls—t.

The quote is an excerpt of a longer conversation purportedly between Sikorski and former Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski that Wprost is expected to publish Monday or Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. The leaked recording comes just two weeks after President Barack Obama visited Poland.

Great, when an ally says the relationship is bulls--t, you really are an epic fail.

The following link to a CNBC news broadcast from earlier this year quite nicely summarized how erratic and non-effective the administration has been relative to all types of other countries, foes and friends alike:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2T304RS41k&app=desktop

From the collapse of Yemen to a new Cold War with Russia and China to ticking off many, many allies, this administration's voeign policy record can be viewed not other way than an epic fail. Today's and Yesterday's examples prove this conclusion, one could not do much worse if one was trying to encourage our enemies and piss off our friends.

This epic fail series will continue tomorrow when we switch gears to the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care.

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Middle East Embassy Riots - Unanswered Questions And Unequivocal Washington Incompetence

As we all know by now, this past week has been one of deadly and widespread riots and demonstrations across the Middle East. Tragically, this has resulted in the murder of four Americans, including our ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, injuries to many other Americans and the local citizens who aided them, and the breaching of at least three of our foreign embassies' perimeters. Our prayers go out to the families of loved ones lost overseas as they served their country.

On the surface, the cause of these riots is supposedly a low quality film that was made by someone in California that insulted those of the Islam religion. I have not seen the film but all news reports indicate that it was of the lowest quality, it was not a big studio production, and it is not likely will never be shown in any theater, with the Internet being its only distribution channel. This was just some amateur film hack doing a bad editing job with bad effects with bad acting.

It stretches the realms of believability that such a feeble, obscure film effort would result in such widespread rioting and violence months after it appeared on the Net, that it would lead to massive demonstrations on a single day, the anniversary of 9-11, across scores of countries. There is probably little chance that these attacks were not coordinated, planned well in advance, and timed for 9-11, using a little stupid film as the air cover.

But the whole situation stretches the realms of believability, especially as it relates to the overall incompetence and handling of the whole situation by Washington, especially President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, and the entire embassy security operating process of the State Department. This incompetence has resulted in the death of Americans. This is not some incompetent government bureaucrat wasting taxpayer money on a Las Vegas party (re: GSA employees). American lives may have been unnecessarily lost due to bad planning, ignorance, and incompetence. 

At the very least, this administration needs to answer the following questions and respond to the following news reports and rumors as to whether gross negligence was at work in the Federal government that has exposed Americans to unnecessary danger: 

1. Is it true that President Obama has skipped more than 50% of his daily intelligence updates meetings while in office, including many leading up to the embassy attacks? We all know that President Bush got grief for his rumored lackadaisical approach to security meetings the month before 9-11. Is this a similar situation under Obama?
2. Is it true that the President skipped his daily intelligence briefing meeting the day AFTER the Egyptian and Libyan embassies were attacked? One would assume that if any intelligence meeting should have been attended by the President, that one would have been the critical one.
3. Were there Marines guarding the embassy in Libya or was security indeed contracted out to outside companies? If so, why was it contracted out?
4. If there were no Marines present, were the outside contracted security guards actually armed at all or armed appropriately to defend American lives? Various news reports are claiming that explicit State Department guidelines forbid the availability of live ammunition both at the Libyan embassy and elsewhere in the Middle East. True or false?
5. If U.S. embassy security forces anywhere in the world are not allowed live ammunition, then the reasons need to be explained in the context of the four deaths in Libya.
6. Who is responsible in the State Department for working with local security authorities to ensure the embassy perimeters are secure and why did that security process fail in so many locations, allowing the embassy perimeters to be breached and the Libyan embassy to be burned to the ground?
7. News reports indicate that many Americans at the Libyan embassy had been relocated to a secret safe house away from the demonstrations but that the safe house was also attacked. What caused this security breach to occur and who is responsible?
8. Is it true that the ambassador's body was at one point in the possession of the attackers and was defiled in the streets outside of the embassy? If so, why was the ambassador so lightly protected that such a heinous act could even occur?
9. The Libyan doctor who eventually treated U.S. ambassador, Ziad Abu Zeid, at a local hospital told The Associated Press that the ambassador was brought to the Benghazi Medical Center by Libyans the night of the attacks, with no other Americans present, and that initially, no one realized he was the U.S. ambassador. If true, the same question applies: why was the ambassador so lightly protected that no Americans were with him when he was brought in for emergency treatment and that he was so exposed that the treating doctor did not even know who he was treating?
10. News reports have claimed that the State Department knew 48 hours in advance that there was going to be a good chance of demonstrations and potential violent actions against the embassies. If so, why were the local security authorities not asked to beef up perimeter security and why was any American in any of those locations?
11. Why were the Libyan and Egyptian ambassadors to the U.S. not hauled into the Oval Office within hours after the violence started? Isn't that standard diplomatic protocol to formally protest to a foreign government over grievances that have occurred on that foreign government's soil?
12. Why have our ambassadors and staffs not been recalled from Egypt and Libya "for consultations?" Isn't that standard diplomatic protocol for formal protests to a foreign government over severe grievances?
13. Why was foreign aid to the Egyptian and Libyan governments not suspended immediately, according to standard diplomatic protocol, in order to force them to step up to their responsibilities for security and to apprehend the offenders?
14. In the light of all this Middle East danger and violence, why did the President have enough time to do extensive political campaigning in Las Vegas and numerous other places this past week but he will not have enough time honor a meeting request from the Israeli Prime Minister due to "scheduling conflicts?" Isn't Israel one of the few true allies we have in the critical Middle East region, especially in these times of unrest?

So many questions and rumors that are unanswered but which need to be answered swiftly before more deaths and destruction occur. This administration, especially it's State Department, needs to come clean on what went wrong, why it went wrong, who is responsible for what went wrong, and the steps that are to be taken so this type of unnecessary tragedy never happens again.

If government employees in the GSA organization lost their jobs for spending $832,000 on a Las Vegas party, someone surely needs to lose their job in the State Department, up to and including the Secretary of State, for allowing four Americans to be murdered and millions of dollars of U.S. property to be destroyed. If the administration refuses to answer these questions, then it is the duty of the Congress to find out answers to these questions and take the necessary punitive and remedial steps necessary based on these answers.

This type of fatal incompetence is a disgrace to the government employees, military personnel, and their families that serve our country here and abroad. We have been in the embassy security business for over two hundred years, how could this have gone so wrong, given how much experience the Federal government and this administration should have had.

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