"Bill Clinton's Lapse Into Trumpism"

"In his convention speech, he suggested that Muslims need to earn the rights that all other Americans enjoy."

Clinton said something dreadful: “If you’re a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together, we want you.” The problem is in the assumption. American Muslims should be viewed exactly the same way other Americans are. If they commit crimes, then they should be prosecuted, just like other Americans. But they should not have to prove that they “love America and freedom” and “hate terror” to “stay here.” Their value as Americans is inherent, not instrumental. Their role as Americans is not to “help us win” the “war on terror.”

Whether Clinton meant to or not, he lapsed into Trumpism: the implication that Muslims are a class apart, deserving of special scrutiny and surveillance, guilty of terrorist sympathies until proven innocent.

Meanwhile, earlier outside the convention...  "The organizer of a “Black DNC Resistance March” in Philadelphia Tuesday demanded white supporters and “white media” move to back of the crowd."

"White media get to the back. Black media, come to the front," organizer of "Black DNC Resistance March" demands. pic.twitter.com/uqW5vwEWSn

— Shaquille Brewster (@shaqbrewster) July 26, 2016

"Lynch to Accept F.B.I. Recommendations in Clinton Email Inquiry"

NYT:  Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch plans to announce on Friday that she will accept whatever recommendation career prosecutors and the F.B.I. director make about whether to bring charges related to Hillary Clinton’s personal email server, a Justice Department official said. Her decision removes the possibility that a political appointee will overrule investigators in the case.

The Justice Department had been moving toward such an arrangement for months — officials said in April that it was being considered — but a private meeting between Ms. Lynch and former President Bill Clinton this week set off a political furor and made the decision all but inevitable.

Republicans said the meeting, which took place at the Phoenix airport, had compromised the independence of the investigation as the F.B.I. was winding it down. Some called for Ms. Lynch to recuse herself, but she did not take herself off the case — one that could influence a presidential election.

Her reassurance that she will not overrule her investigators is significant. When the F.B.I. sought to bring felony charges against David H. Petraeus, the former C.I.A. director, for mishandling classified information and lying about it, Mr. Holder stepped in and reduced the charge to a misdemeanor. That decision created a deep — and public — rift.

The F.B.I. is expected to make a recommendation to the Justice Department in the coming weeks, though agents have yet to interview Mrs. Clinton. While some legal experts said they believed that criminal indictments in the case were unlikely, the investigation continues to cast a shadow over Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign.

"Loretta Lynch, Bill Clinton meet privately in Phoenix"

ABC15:  Amid an ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of email and hours before the public release of the Benghazi report, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton.

The private meeting took place on the west side of Sky Harbor International Airport on board a parked private plane.

Sources say the private meeting at the airport lasted around 30 minutes.

"There was no discussion on any matter pending before the Department or any matter pending with any other body, there was no discussion of Benghazi, no discussion of State Department emails, by way of example I would say it was current news of the day, the Brexit decision and what it would mean."

When loved ones get mixed up in your head

"MSNBC host mistakenly calls Bill Cosby "Bill Clinton" during report on his sex assault case." Watch...

Link to video

Bill: Obama's "awful legacy"

"In comments video-captured and distributed by the Republican National Committee, Hillary Clinton's hubby said, "If you believe we've finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us, and the seven years before that...then you should vote for her.

A quick calculation of his years would mean that the gravy years were when he was president."

(video at the link)

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/strike-2-bill-clinton-again-hits-obama-and-his-awful-legacy/article/2586418?custom_click=rss

"Bill Clinton snaps at veteran during speech: ‘Shut up and listen to my answer’"

Link to story

Bernie's New Ad

h/t AllenS

Hillary Clinton bad health rumors continue

Did Hillary Clinton really recover from her "serious concussion"? Or, are we just going to have to take her word for it? 

From a FrontPage online article: Hillary Health Horrors

“Strong source just told me something I suspected. Hillary’s debate ‘bathroom break’ wasn’t that, but flare up of problems from brain injury,” former New York cop John Cardillo who provided VIP security details tweeted.

“I got this from both a [federal agent] … and I also got it from a New York [NYPD] guy who worked security at a Hillary event in New York City,” Cardillo said, adding:

"These are two people that aren’t just personal friends. I worked with one and then post law-enforcement worked with another on some related things. So, these aren’t anonymous people. These are good friends. Both of them told me the same thing, that after her speeches, whether she did a talk or a policy speech, she had to sit behind – she would come off the podium backstage – and have to sit and rest before making it back to the car because she was so fatigued, dizzy and disoriented."

Cardillo said his two sources, who don’t know each other and don't reside in the same state, have stories that "were almost identical.” One of the sources indicated Clinton was “very pale, kind of disoriented. He said she looked like she was about to faint. She was very pale, almost sweaty.”

The appearance of Bill Clinton on the campaign trail, despite the mortal danger of his baggage coming back to haunt Hillary, can only make sense in light of Hillary's inability to carry on a grueling campaign schedule. Bill is in the campaign trail because Hillary's poor health won't allow her to match, much less surpass, her rival's appearances.

If we had an unbiased media, today, we would have access to some kind of documentation reassuring the voters about her health.

The Long and the Short of It Part Three

The most bizarre tale of presidential belly buttons was that of William Jefferson Clinton. President Clinton had a severe problem with his belly button. It seems that when he was born he was actually had a twin who was conjoined with him in a complicated jumble of internal organs. The doctors knew that his twin brother Jesse could not survive so they decided to save the young Billy Blythe. Unfortunately medical science was somewhat primitive in Hope, Arkansas and a terrible error was made. They had removed most of Jesse from young Billy’s body but neglected to remove his testicles which were lodged in his lower abdomen right under his belly button which of course was an outie. This was not a problem until puberty when the buildup of Spermatozoon gave him tremendous stomach aches. The doctors were baffled and knew they could not remove the extra testicles as it could kill the young aspiring politician. So the rerouted the sperm ducts to his belly button so that he could find release. Unfortunately in the throws of passion he would often forget that he was spewing his vital juices from his belly button as well as his penis and he ended up staining many a carpet, couch, back seat and little blue dresses. Thus it can be said that President Clinton’s belly button eventually led to his impeachment.

Footnote: After his impeachment President Clinton had his belly button amputated and transplanted to Chastity Bono so she could pleasure her partner. This was only revealed after the above photo circulated from Presidents Clinton vacation cavorting with underage bimbos at his good friend Jeffrey Epstein's Caribbean estate. His belly button is now out and it is proud.

(The Long and the Short of It, Presidential Penises by DorisKearns Goodwin, St. Martins Press)

"Camille Paglia: How Bill Clinton is like Bill Cosby"

"In exclusive Salon interview, the cultural critic finds parallels between Cosby and Clinton, takes down modern p.c."

The banner on the Drudge Report this morning is that Kathleen Willey is starting a site to collect harassment claims against Bill Clinton. New York magazine, meanwhile, has the stories of 35 women who say they were raped or assaulted by Bill Cosby. I wonder if you see a connection between the two stories: Would Bill Clinton’s exploits be viewed more like Cosby’s if he was in the White House now, instead of in the 1990s?

Right from the start, when the Bill Cosby scandal surfaced, I knew it was not going to bode well for Hillary’s campaign, because young women today have a much lower threshold for tolerance of these matters. The horrible truth is that the feminist establishment in the U.S., led by Gloria Steinem, did in fact apply a double standard to Bill Clinton’s behavior because he was a Democrat. The Democratic president and administration supported abortion rights, and therefore it didn’t matter what his personal behavior was.

But we’re living in a different time right now, and young women have absolutely no memory of Bill Clinton. It’s like ancient history for them; there’s no reservoir of accumulated good will. And the actual facts of the matter are that Bill Clinton was a serial abuser of working-class women–he had exploited that power differential even in Arkansas...

I was enraged! My publicly stated opinion at the time was that I don’t care what public figures do in their private life. It’s a very sophisticated style among the French, and generally in Europe, where the heads of state tend to have mistresses on the side. So what? That doesn’t bother me at all! But the point is, they are sophisticated affairs that the European politicians have, while the Clinton episode was a disgrace.

"£50 million of British taxpayer-funded foreign aid money has gone to Clinton charities"

"Some claim charity is inefficient and taxpayers could simply be funding management charges"

British politicians – including Gordon Brown – stand accused of diverting huge amounts of cash through the organisations after falling under the spell of the US presidential candidate and her husband Bill.

The UK is one of the biggest donors, handing over more than £20 million last year alone to the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), an organisation chaired by former President Bill, 68, and whose board includes the couple's daughter Chelsea, 35. Since 2011, a total of £48.9 million has gone into the coffers of this charity alone.

Tory backbenchers say the revelation is symptomatic of the fact that the Department for International Development has so much money to spend that large amounts have to be simply handed to global charities, often leading to huge amounts of waste.

"Bill Clinton company shows complexity of family finances"

"None of the proposals detailed how much Bill Clinton would be paid." Excerpts...

While Bill Clinton's lucrative speeches have provided the bulk of the couple's income, earning as much as $50 million during his wife's four-year term as secretary of state in the Obama administration, the former president has also sought to branch out into other business activities in recent years. Little is known about the exact nature and financial worth of Bill Clinton's non-speech business interests...

WJC, LLC was set up in Delaware in 2008 and again in 2013 and in New York in 2009, according to documents obtained by The AP. The company did not appear among holdings in the Clintons' financial disclosure released last week or in previous Hillary Clinton disclosure reports between 2008 and 2013, when she resigned as secretary of state. Bill Clinton signed a document as its "authorizing person" in a corporate filing in Delaware in 2013...

In February 2009, Clinton's counselor, Douglas Band, asked State Department ethics officials to clear Bill Clinton's consulting work for three companies owned by influential Democratic party donors. Memos sent by Band proposed that Bill Clinton would provide "consulting services regarding geopolitical, economic and social trends affecting the entity and philanthropic opportunities" through the WJC, LLC entity.

State Department officials approved Bill Clinton's consulting work for longtime friend Steve Bing's Shangri-La Industries and another with Wasserman Investments, GP, a firm run by entertainment executive and Democratic party donor Casey Wasserman. The ethics officials turned down Bill Clinton's proposed work with a firm run by entertainment magnate and Democratic donor Haim Saban because of Saban's active role in Mideast political affairs.

If understand this right, it sounds like Bill had a "shell" company. What's the point of having a shell company (if he did) when you also have a charity foundation?

Bill Clinton: "I've got to pay our bills"

"Foundation's done nothing 'knowingly inappropriate'"

 

Nelson Shanks

Portrait artist Nelson Shanks revealed in an interview with Stephanie Farr his take on various subjects he's painted. This is my favorite part, when asked if he recalls his first painting as a child, Shanks responded early on his father went off to war leaving behind an oil painting kit. At age five he got hold of the kit and set up in the dining room, and that right there shows admirable maternal support because those paints smell really bad.

My aunt was working in Los Alamos. She sent a picture of an adobe house and it had the poles sticking out and the poles were casting shadows in a diagonal. So I sat down and I painted that. I remember being more intrigued, not about painting an adobe house, but in capturing the way those shadows worked.

When questioned, "Who did you find hardest to capture?" Shanks answered, Bill Clinton. Why? Because the reality is he is the most famous liar of all time.

Goodness. Worse than the Trojan horse? Worse than Piltdown Man? Worse than Watergate and worse than Bush lying about weapons of mass destruction? Surely there are other lies worse.

Shanks said that he never could get the the Monica thing completely out of his mind and it is subtly incorporated in the painting.

It is also a bit of a metaphor in that it represents a shadow on the office he held, or on him. 

And so the Clintons hate the portrait. They want it removed from the National Portrait Gallery. They're putting a lot of pressure on them.

He said made its way in to the painting subtly.

Philly.com 

The story is all over the place. I didn't even think of this, Shanks did. One item I read Shanks says that he actually set up a mannequin with a blue dress and a light behind it to cast a shadow on the fireplace when the president was not there. He always did like the effects made by shadows. 

Yahoo.com

"Bill Clinton’s libido threatens to derail Hillary — again"

"Just a few weeks ago, reports broke that Bill Clinton had flown at least 11 times on “The Lolita Express” — a private plane owned by the mysterious financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. According to Virginia Roberts, who claims to have been one of Epstein’s many teenaged sex slaves, Clinton also visited Epstein’s private Caribbean retreat, known as “Orgy Island.”

“I remember asking Jeffrey, ‘What’s Bill Clinton doing here?’ ” Roberts said in 2011. The former president, she added, was accompanied by four young girls during his stay — two of whom were among Epstein’s regular sex partners. “And [Jeffrey] laughed it off and said, ‘Well, he owes me a favor.’ He never told me what favors they were.”

The Clintons Money Troubles

"Protesters gathered outside the Clinton Foundation in New York City to complain about "missing money" from the Haiti recovery effort from the 2010 earthquake:"



"The protesters claimed that the $10 billion meant to help rebuild Haiti did little to help the country after the devastating quake. And that much of the money went to non-Haitian companies."

 

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From Early April Last Year...

The State Department misplaced and lost some $6 billion due to the improper filing of contracts during the past six years, mainly during the tenure of former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, according to a newly released Inspector General report."

The $6 billion in unaccounted funds poses a “significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department’s contract actions,” according to the report.

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Then there was that time Hillary said they were "dead broke" when they left the White House.
 

And Democrats want the Clintons back in charge after what Obama has made of the presidency?

Clinton, Bush Laugh While Launching New Program

"George W. Bush was known – and often criticized – for being insular during his eight years in the White House, but he made regular calls to a surprising adviser during his second term: his predecessor."

"Bill Clinton revealed on Monday that the second President Bush picked his brain twice a year for 30-45 minutes, in wide-ranging conversations that no doubt set the stage for the surprising, "brother-from-another-mother" relationship that the two ex-presidents now share."

Clinton “almost brags” about his decision not to take down Bin Laden

Hot Air: A time capsule from Australia via MSNBC, captured for posterity at what would have been around 11 p.m. New York time. The hijackers may have been ritually shaving themselves as he said it. Previewing the audio, the host says Clinton “almost brags” about his decision. Of course he does; at the time, it would have been a no-brainer for a politician to congratulate himself for sparing a terrorist in the name of also sparing dozens (or, if you believe Clinton, hundreds) of civilians, even if that terrorist was responsible for the U.S.S. Cole attack. Twenty-four hours later, I guarantee you he wasn’t bragging anymore. In fact, you can draw a straight line from this audio to America’s drone policy today. These 20 seconds or so are precisely why Obama ended up pulling the trigger on Anwar al-Awlaki and why he continues to pull the trigger on Al Qaeda’s bigger fish even if it means incinerating civilians in Waziristan or Yemen in the process. He’s never going to let a statement like this come back to haunt him. Post-9/11, when you’ve got a big fish on the hook, you reel him in come what may. A presidency can survive anger from doves and civil libertarians that the White House was overly aggressive in targeting jihadis. It can’t survive having skyscrapers knocked over by someone who, you’re sheepishly forced to admit, you had a clear shot at killing years before. By the same token, if the FBI had announced on the morning of 9/11 that they’d busted a spectacular Al Qaeda plot to fly planes into the Twin Towers, plenty of people would have chortled that that’s the most ludicrous, Michael Bay-ish nonsense yet cooked up by a government eager to find pretexts to roll back civil liberties. There’s a reason why the term “September 10th mentality” exists, and Bill Clinton’s not the only one who was guilty of it. (read more)

Here’s the clip. Link  key audio @ 5:30

"His father was a mudder, his mother was a mudder"

Bill Clinton on today's NY Daily News

 

If not for the U.S. invasion,

None of what is happening in Iraq right now would be happening