September, 2017, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama - The Epitome Of Political Class Insanity...And Ineptness

It is the beginning of another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

1) Let’s finish up this month’s political class insanity by reminiscing a little about the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton eras. Hopefully, both of these failures were quietly fade off into the sunset (doubtful), finally realizing that the damage they did to this country, its citizens, and our democracy was a lot of their personal doing. 

Let’s start off with the Obama administration. In my opinion, his was the worst Presidency of my lifetime, stretching back to the 1950s. He came into office as a community organizer and left it the same way, never evolving to a great leader or President. I dare anyone to give me a single thing he made better as President, a single issue he resolved, a single great piece of legislation he supported and got passed:

• Obama Care is a disaster. 
• He never put forth any ideas or concepts that would fix Medicare, Social Security, or Medicaid, all of which are hurtling towards fiscal insolvency. 
• He allowed Iran and North Korea to get closer to becoming nuclear weapons powers with his limp “strategic patience” doctrine. 
• He never fixed the broken public education processes in this country despite spending hundreds of billions of dollars.
• His economic stimulus program was an $800 billion failure.
• His legacy includes the reality that the infrastructure of this country (roads, bridges, dams) are in worse condition after he left the job vs. when he took the job as President.
• He allowed Russia to arise again as an international power broker.
• He allowed ISIS to arise, and possibly facilitated the rise, to become the worst terrorist organization ever.
• He almost doubled the national debt with his budgets, endangering the future economic security and prosperity of generations to come. 
• He broke numerous laws and treaties without ramifications. 
• He weaponized parts of the Federal government to attack his political opponents and shred the Constitution.

But do not take my word for it. Consider the sarcastic list of Obama’s historical “firsts” as President of the country, as put forth on September 8 on the Break Time Daily website:

• First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
• First President to have a Social Security number from a state he has never lived in.
• First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States Federal government by a major credit ratings agency.
• First President to violate the War Powers Act with his illegal and un-Constitutional intrusion into the Libyan civil war, an intrusion that helped destroy a functioning country and create a new haven for terrorists.
• First President to be held in contempt of court by a Federal judge for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
• First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party, i.e. forcing all Americans to purchase health insurance.
• First President to spend over $800 billion dollars on “shovel-ready” jobs when there was no such thing as “shovel-ready” jobs, instead wasting billions of dollars on idiotic make work projects with no redeeming societal benefit.
• First President to unilaterally, illegally,and arbitrarily change dozens of components of legislation (Obama Care) without Congressional approval.
• First President to by-pass Congress and implement immigration policy, i.e. the Dream Act, through executive fiat and without Congressional approval.
• First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
• First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
• First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
• First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to claim that America is no longer a Christian nation.
• First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
• First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law (DOMA) unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
• First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
• First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it could locate a factory.
• First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
• First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
• First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
• First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office and illegally avoid Constitutionally mandated approval by Congress.
• First President in about 60 years to golf more than 300 separate times in his years in office.
• First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
• First President to spend over $100 million of taxpayer money to support his lavish vacation trips.
• First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
• First President to repeat the Holy Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
• First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
• First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences.”
• First President to allow Iran to inspect their own nuclear facilities.
• First President to have blood on his hands from Benghazi.
• First President to stand up in front of the American people and the world, at the United Nations, and lie about the true cause of the Benghazi disaster, i.e. it was a simple video that caused the terrorist attack.
• First President to trade 5 important terrorists for a single Army traitor and deserter.
• First President to facilitate the Iranians to acquire nuclear weapons.
• First President to try to unilaterally enforce radical public restroom policies on Americans and American businesses.

I know that most of these items on this list of Obama “firsts” are true, we have previously cited reliable sources to back them up. I cannot vouch for all of them but would assume they are likely true, given the true reality of many facts we have already researched. Note: I dropped out a small set of “firsts” that the website included given that I found either highly speculative or strictly opinions, not facts.

But the article on the website did not cover some other Obama administration failures and dubious achievements in the area of fiscal and economic responsibility:

• Federal budgets that were 25% of GDP, highest level since World War II.
• Federal government debt rising to over 100% of GDP, highest level ever.
• Lowest labor participation rate since the Carter years.
• Lowest annual economic growth following a recession in over seventy years..
• Lowest home ownership rate in decades.
• First administration to run a trillion dollar annual budget deficit.
• First administration to run four trillion dollar annual budget deficits.
• Highest level of government dependency ever, defined as percentage of Americans receiving one or more direct Federal benefits payments.

To be honest, Obama had a lot of help creating all of these failures. But the failure of his Presidency is that he did not stop them and in most cases, he facilitated them. A total Presidential failure, based on the facts and realities he left behind.

2) Let’s move on to Hillary Clinton’s sad, sad history of failure. We have discussed the fact often that as Secretary of State she basically operated a crime syndicate out of the State Department. This syndicate and crime scheme allowed her to trade government favors and access for contributions to her charity, the Clinton Foundation, after which donors to her Foundation often had her husband, Bill Clinton, come by to their company or foreign government to give a token speech but receive hundreds of thousands of dollars each time for giving a speech.

But Hillary’s ineptness and greed and ego go way back in time. I have lifted a great historical summary of her checkered past off of a Facebook post by a guy named Robert Jones. I copied it and then realized I wanted to reprint it and now cannot locate the quote. There are so many Robert Jones on Facebook and he posted on a Facebook page that was not his own. 

Thus, I am taking a chance by copying it here without his permission. Hopefully, he is okay with it since it is a story that is well told by Mr. Jones and one that give anyone shudders if they ever thought Hillary Clinton was worthy and capable of being President:

If you're under 50 you really need to read this. If you’re over 50, you lived through it, so share it with those under 50. Amazing to me how much I had forgotten!

When Bill Clinton was president, he allowed Hillary to assume authority over a health care reform. Even after threats and intimidation, she couldn’t even get a vote in a democratic controlled congress. This fiasco cost the American taxpayers about $13 million in cost for studies, promotion, and other efforts.

Then President Clinton gave Hillary authority over selecting a female attorney general. Her first two selections were Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood – both were forced to withdraw their names from consideration. Next she chose Janet Reno – husband Bill described her selection as “my worst mistake.” Some may not remember that Reno made the decision to gas David Koresh and the Branch Davidian religious sect in Waco, Texas resulting in dozens of deaths of women and children.

Husband Bill allowed Hillary to make recommendations for the head of the Civil Rights Commission. Lani Guanier was her selection. When a little probing led to the discovery of Ms. Guanier’s radical views, her name had to be withdrawn from consideration.

Apparently a slow learner, husband Bill allowed Hillary to make some more recommendations. She chose former law partners Web Hubbel for the Justice Department, Vince Foster for the White House staff, and William Kennedy for the Treasury Department. Her selections went well: Hubbel went to prison, Foster (presumably) committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.

Many younger votes will have no knowledge of “Travelgate.” Hillary wanted to award unfettered travel contracts to Clinton friend Harry Thompson – and the White House Travel Office refused to comply. She managed to have them reported to the FBI and fired. This ruined their reputations, cost them their jobs, and caused a thirty-six month investigation. Only one employee, Billy Dale was charged with a crime, and that of the enormous crime of mixing personal and White House funds. A jury acquitted him of any crime in less than two hours.

Still not convinced of her ineptness, Hillary was allowed to recommend a close Clinton friend, Craig Livingstone, for the position of Director of White House security. When Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of about 900 FBI files of Clinton enemies (Filegate) and the widespread use of drugs by White House staff, suddenly Hillary and the president denied even knowing Livingstone, and of course, denied knowledge of drug use in the White House. Following this debacle, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office after more than thirty years of service to seven presidents.

Next, when women started coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment and rape by Bill Clinton, Hillary was put in charge of the #$%$ eruption” and scandal defense. Some of her more notable decisions in the debacle were:

She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit. After the Starr investigation they settled with Ms. Jones.

She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor. After $80 million dollars of taxpayer money was spent, Starr's investigation led to Monica Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs.

Hillary’s devious game plan resulted in Bill losing his license to practice law for 'lying under oath' to a grand jury and then his subsequent impeachment by the House of Representatives.

Hillary avoided indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice during the Starr investigation by repeating, “I do not recall,” “I have no recollection,” and “I don’t know” a total of 56 times while under oath.

After leaving the White House, Hillary was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork that she had stolen.

What a swell party – ready for another four or eight year of this type of low-life mess?

Now we are exposed to the destruction of possibly incriminating emails while Hillary was Secretary of State and the “pay to play” schemes of the Clinton Foundation – we have no idea what shoe will fall next. 

That about sums up the nonsense and incompetence we have had to put up with over the past eight years, in Obama;s case, or several decades, in Clinton’s case. True, true political class insanity!

That will do it for this month’s political class insanity. But you know that this time next month we will have to start all over again.

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What Good Is Your Blackberry, Mr. President, If You Never Use It?

Just days after becoming President, I recall a picture of President Obama at the White House, using his Blackberry smart phone. The accompanying article swooned over how tech savvy this President was. Great, but it seems that the President rarely uses his Blackberry when it comes to governing and, more importantly, leadership. How much different would life be if he had picked up his Blackberry and made the following calls:

• Several months ago, a flotilla of ships headed for the Gaza Strip from Turkish ports, supposedly carrying only non-military, humanitarian cargo to relieve the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza. This flotilla would be in violation of the naval blockade that Israel has imposed on the Gaza Strip and had all of the potential for an ugly confrontation. And this is exactly what happened, Israeli ships and commandos attempted to stop the flotilla and violence erupted, resulting in numerous deaths. I would have hoped that the President would have made a few calls on his Blackberry (or whatever the President uses to call foreign leaders) to the leaders of both Israel and Turkey and tried to personally work out some way for the non-military goods to reach those in need and avoid a fatal confrontation. Apparently those calls were never made and many people lost their lives as a result.
• As most of you know, there is a highly volatile debate going on in New York City about whether or not a Muslim mosque should be allowed to be built in the same neighborhood of the World Trade Center footprint. Some Americans who had lost loved ones on September 11, 2001 felt that since they had lost their loved ones because of attacks by Muslim radicals that it would be better and more sensitive to their feelings if the mosque was moved a little further away from Ground Zero, even though the mosque supporters were well within their rights to build where they want to build. If he had any foresight, the President could have made a few calls and tried to mediate a viable solution before the entire matter got politicized. He did not make that call and now the debate rages on and extends into areas (e.g. freedom of religion) that never should have been reached to begin with. In fact, the President added to the firestorm by throwing a verbal grenade into the issue at a dinner he was speaking at and then spent the following few days trying to put the grenade back together. He reached out and conducted the "beer summit" to smooth over hurt feelings between one of his friends and a Boston area policeman, why not take the initiative early on, make a few calls, and smooth over hurt feelings in this case? It's called leadership and his Blackberry would have served him well in this regard.
• Now we have a small time, small town, and small minded minister in Florida that has been threatening to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of 9-11 to protest the Muslim religion. Rightly so, just about everyone in public office, both Democrats and Republicans, find this concept repugnant and are worried how it will affect the safety of our troops and ordinary American citizens overseas. Although this minister has the freedom to do this under the Constitution, shouldn't the President gotten on his Blackberry and maybe made a call to this gentleman and appraise him of the danger he could be causing and ask him to stop the burning? He made the call when his friend got entangled with a police matter, a matter that affected very few people? Why could he not make a call on a matter that has world wide repercussions? The press crucified Bush when he refused to talk to Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in fighting in Iraq. By not talking to this minister on this critical matter, Obama looks just like Bush on Sheehan, make the call, have the discussion. [On a side note, what does it say about the country's foreign policy when a small time minister in Florida can come up with a screw ball stunt like this and possibly upset the entire foreign policy strategy?]
• When Charles Rangel likened Americans opposed to Obama Care to the racists who opposed the civil rights movement of the 1960s or when a Texas Congresswoman did the same analogy or when Florida Congressman Grayson likened those Americans opposed to Obama's policies to terrorists, knuckle dragging Neanderthals in white sheets or when Pelosi called those opposed to Obama Care as being unpatriotic or when one of his czars called Republicans a__h___ s, the President, in my opinion, should have whipped out that Blackberry and told all of these Democrats to knock it off for a few reasons. First, he is the President of the entire country and allowing Americans citizens to be called these degrading names for expressing their opinions serves no constructive purpose and further divides the country. Second, from a political strength perspective, he has weakened himself since you cannot allow citizens to be called racist, Neanderthal, unpatriotic, white sheet wearing a__h___s and expect those same people to take you seriously on anything going forward. He should have made a few calls and told these people to cool the wild rhetoric, for the good of the country and the good of his Presidency. Alas, it does not appear any of these called were ever made.
• When the BP oil rig blew up in the spring, the President should have burned up that Blackberry on both domestic and overseas calls. Domestically, he should have made a call to every domestic oil industry company and immediately called them together in a search for the best ideas for stopping the runaway well. Overseas calls should have included calls to foreign governments and foreign companies that had any kind of expertise that we could have used to stop the well. It does not appear any of those calls were made since it took months and months to cap the darn well. We also now know that some foreign entities did offer their help only to have their calls symbolically not returned.

Imagine if the President had made those calls and how much better the world might be today. Humanitarian aid might be reaching the Gaza Strip in the absence of any deaths, Israel and Turkey might be on better speaking terms if they were brought together to work on a peaceful flotilla, we might be talking about the opening of the NFL season rather than a religious book burning or a controversial mosque in NYC, Obama's foreign policy relative to the Muslim world might still be intact rather than in imminent danger, the President might be governing a more united country if he had reigned in the name calling of ordinary American citizens, and the Gulf and the Gulf states might have incurred far less damage than they did from the BP well. Technology, no matter how up-to-date does not matter if you do not use it, Mr. President.



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