Democrat Hypocrisy

       Since this may be my last blog of 2016, I would like to wish you all a very happy and joyous holiday season.  The new year 2017 should bring us much happiness as we will be getting rid of the most harmful president in the history of the country.  I would like to thank you, my loyal followers, for your continual support.  With your help, my readership has grown to over 1000 and with your continued support and sharing of my blog, it will continue to grow. 

      The Democrats and a few Republicans are critical of Donald Trump's nominee Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State.  Objections seem to center around Tillerson's dealings with Russia. As CEO of Exxon, he negotiated deals with the Russian state owned oil company Rosneft.  As a result he was awarded a Russian Medal of Friendship.  A number of American have been awarded this medal since its inception around 1990 by Boris Yeltsin.  Americans that have received the award include the pianist Van Cliburn, Russian Museum of Art (Minneapolis) founder Raymond Johnson and other business people, historians, and an anthropologist.  Like Johnson, some never met Putin and the award doesn't imply close ties to the man.
     Both of Obama's Secretaries of State had much more serious issues  that should have been disqualifiers.  Hillary Clinton's ties to the Clinton Foundation were clearly a serious issue and despite her claiming to separate herself that was just not the case.  Pay for play ruled the day at the State Department and contributions to the foundation often accompanied face time with Secretary Clinton and many times the approval of arms sales.  Though she signed an agreement for Obama that she would separate herself from the Clinton Foundation, it was just for show as she continued to act as its agent and use of her private server were done with both Obama's knowledge and tacit approval.  Some of her State Department staff were also employed by the Clinton Foundation, which was illegal.
      John Kerry had a more serious conflict that he failed to disclose during the Senate Hearings for his confirmation. About the time he was being approved,  Kerry's daughter Vanessa married Behrooz Nahed, an Iranian American neurosurgery resident at Massachusetts General Hospital.  Dr, Nahed was born in New York City to Iranian parents who now live in California, but with many family members who still live in Iran. A matter of some controversy is the appearance of the son of Mohamed Jakad Zarih, the current Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs with whom Kerry negotiated the treaty (called an agreement by the Obama administration) with Iran.  Kerry was no stranger to Zahir as they met in NYC at a party thrown by none other than financial anarchist George Soros when Zahir was the Iranian Ambassador to the UN. It was claimed that Zahir's son, a friend of Nahed was his best man, but this has been denied though a wedding party photo has surfaced that included him.  Kerry should have not been involved in negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran and his Iranian friendships may indicate why the deal, with Obama's approval, was so bad for America.
      On the other hand,Tillerson was a tough negotiator for his company and stock holders when dealing with Russia and other countries with whom US relations may not be on the best of terms.  He has received very positive endorsements from both previous Secretary of State Condolezza Rice and previous Secretary of Defense under both Bush and Obama, Robert Gates.  He knows the world and many world leaders.  If the Democrats were so worried about cozying up to Russia they didn't do or say anything when Obama was caught on a live mike talking to Russian President Dimitri Medvedev that he will have "more flexibility to negotiate after the November elections."
      There is also some negative comments about Donald Trump utilizing his daughter Ivanka as the White House hostess. As we have seen she is attractive, smart, and, like her father, will work for free, a far cry from Michelle Obama who spent $85 million of our money on elaborate vacations. She will not be taking vacations at taxpayer expense.  Democrats should keep their mouths shut over this selection.  She will be a gracious hostess and I don't think the Trumps will leave the Israeli President Netanyahu waiting while they finish dinner.
     Trump seems to be assembling a cabinet of superstars who have been successful in the real world.  He has behaved like the CEO of a huge corporation,  assembling an executive  staff of intelligent successful people who can do the job, not a bunch of academics and  professional politicians.  We saw how a man, with little life experience except as a community organizer and two bit politician, could destroy a nation and an economy.  There are only a few spots left, but the most important nomination to come is to fill the empty Supreme Court seat.
      The Democrats and mainstream media would have gone crazy, if Trump had lost and requested recounts in the states he lost and they belittled him for saying he would contest the results if there were instances of voter fraud.  Miscounts were not the reason for Hillary Clinton's loss. In the previous blog I showed that the Democrats were attacking the messenger and if they had not performed unethically and criminally, the hacks by whoever and exposure by Wikileaks would have been meaningless.

      Thanks again for your support and I know we are looking forward to January 20, 2017 with eager anticipation.

Blaming the Messenger

      Unwilling to admit defeat based on a flawed candidate, the Democrats have blamed Vlad Putin and Russia for hacking Democrat Party officials and Clinton campaign chief John Podesta to sway the election in Donald Trump's favor.  Its always easier to blame the messenger, rather than the message. There has been virtually no comment that the hacks released in large batches by Wikileaks are not true.  The information gleaned from the Pedestal, DNC, and Donna Brazile emails was important and the America voting public had the right know the truth.  The Obama controlled CIA and FBI are at odds with one another as to whether these hacks, if by the Russians, were meant to sway voters to vita for Donald Trump.

      Shortly before the DNC convention, we learned that Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Chair of the DNC, clearly favored Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders.  She called Sanders' campaign manager Jeff Weaver an "asshole and liar" and discussed whether her misguided opinion that Sanders' religious belief of atheism (he claimed he was not an atheist) could be used against him, especially in the evangelical South, since his Jewish birth apparently was not effecting Democrat primary voters.  When these emails were posted, she was forced to "resign" just before the Democrat Convention.  Ironically, as we shall see, Donna Brazile was appointed to take her place.  A few months after the convention, Wikileaks exposed that as a CNN pundit, Bazile supplied at least one question to the Clinton team prior to the town hall style debate during the primaries.  It showed that the information she supplied was nearly word for word with the actual question on the death penalty. Brazile subsequently lost her job at CNN. The media giant denied that they had given out this information, as they were hosting the event.  So not only did an employee of CNN  offer a debate question, but the Clinton campaign accepted the offer.  Sanders had complained about a rigged system and these emails certainly confirmed it.

      Podesta's emails shed light on what a poor campaigner Clinton's team thought she was.  One of the talking points in her paid speeches was how out of touch she was with middle America and was why they were never to be released.  Another email thread, that began in 2011, when Pedesta was head of the infamous George Soros funded Center for America Progress (CAP),  was sent by John Halprin, fellow at CPA, to Podesta and Jennifer Palmiere, Hillary for America communications director.  The emails were critical of conservative Catholics in general and in particular media mogul  Rupert Murdock and Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thompson who were raising their children as Catholics. Another topic was also a discussion of whether Clinton should use Goldman Sachs in NYC as the venue for a meeting with the biggest donors to the Clinton Foundation.  Another thread discussed how to handle the reaction to the book Clinton Cash by Peter Schwitzer. The consensus was to emphasizing the good works of the Foundation and then use denials based on a series of fact checks by biased fact checkerss.

 

      Some of the most damning information did not come from the emails.  Instead it came from James O'Keefe's Project Veritas that taped Clinton operatives discussing starting violence at Trump rallies.  The two main characters involved in this were Scoot Foval and Robert Creamer.  Foval was field director for Americans United for Change, a George Soros funded group working for the Clinton campaign and Creamer worked for Democracy Partners, another group working for Hillary Clinton's campaign.  In the first video tape, they discussed hiring the mentally ill to incite violence at Trump  rallies.  When this information was made public,  there was obviously a public outcry and interestingly, when Clinton, during a debate brought up violence at Trump rallies, Trump fired back the she had paid for it. A second video tape showed both Creamer and Foval discussing voter fraud using illegal Hispanics as voters on a large and multistate scale.  A third party, Cesar Vargas, an illegal himself, also appeared on the tape.  Both Foval and Creamer were fired as a result.  There was some denial that the tapes were heavily edited, but even if that was the case, the intent was obvious.

      The old tired trick of blaming the messenger won't work, despite Democrat and the Obama regime's effort to say the Russians were trying to effect election results. Certainly Russian hacking ought to be investigated, but so should paying people to riot and commit violence to prevent others from exercising their First Amendment rights.  Don't count on in from the seriously corrupt Obama DOJ.  The Democrats have tried to obfuscate the real issue.  Very simply, if the Democrats and their operatives did not do and say what they did, there would not have been anything worth hacking or video taping.  In reality, the Democrats had a deeply flawed candidate and a terrible strategy.  Hillary Clinton had no positive message.  Her campaign slogan "stronger together" meant nothing to most people.  Her other slogan "I'm with her" would have been much more effective as "she's with us." Her history of lying and the multiple scandals that surrounded her adult life certainly didn't help.  Nor did her calling half of the American population "deplorables."  Both she and those running her campaign thought that the huge amount of money they had raised would be enough to buy the election.  Finally she had an obnoxious personality and phony demeanor that made it nearly impossible for her to connect with most thoughtful people.  The time may have be right for a woman to become POTUS, but Hillary Rodham Clinton was not that woman.