tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38203773902812031072024-03-07T02:17:34.566-08:00Tom In PaineNotes From the Revolution: Politics, current events, failures of the mainstream news media and Living in the Age of Stupidity.Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.comBlogger574125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-62666338602175668512017-06-06T11:20:00.001-07:002017-06-13T09:40:13.821-07:00My Own Q & A With Comey, Brennan and Clapper.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With former FBI Director Jim Comey having testified yet again to another congressional committee, and with former CIA Director John Brennan and former DNI James Clapper having already testified before congressional committees investigating Russian hacking and interference in the 2016 election no doubt many watching those hearings have moments where they wished they could be the ones asking the questions especially when they feel the obvious is being missed which inevitably leads to teeth gnashing and shouting at the TV screen. So to clear up many unanswered questions relating to the investigation into Russian interference with our democratic process, I had a number of questions to pose to former Directors Comey, Brennan and Clapper. And I present their answers here with a 100% certainty of their accuracy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: We hear the same generalized phrases repeatedly that the Russians interfered with our elections and democratic process and the possibility of collusion. But the primary and specific action the Russians took that is referred to as "interfering with our democratic process" was the hacking into the emails of the DNC and Clinton campaigns, then turning those emails over to Wikileaks who authenticated them and published them. Is that accurate?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brennan, Clapper & Comey: Yes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: Mr.Brennan, when you stated during your last appearance that Russia gave those emails to WikiLeaks for publication because they wanted to "denigrate" - your word - Hillary Clinton, was it the authenticity of what was in the emails, their content and what they showed that was denigrating to Hillary Clinton and her campaign?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brennan: Yes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: Mr. Comey and Mr.Clapper, do you both agree with that assessment?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Comey & Clapper: Yes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: So just to be clear, when you or Congressman Adam Schiff or Senator Warner or anyone refers to Russian interference that "denigrated" or was "damaging to Hillary Clinton" "denigrated and damaging" refers to exposing to the public what was in those emails is that right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brennan Clapper & Comey: Yes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: Among the items exposed was a secret recording made during the campaign where we hear Hillary Clinton describe young Bernie Sanders voters as "baristas living in their parents basement". Based on the analysis by the intelligence agencies and those conclusions, was there any evidence that was a Russian agent imitating Hillary Clintons voice?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brennan, Clapper & Comey : No.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: So that was actually Hillary Clinton saying that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: There was another leaked recording of a private closed door meeting with Clinton campaign donors where we hear Hillary Clinton's voice refer to Trump voters as "irredeemable deplorables". Any intelligence that showed that was a Russian agent imitating Hillary Clintons voice?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brennan, Clapper, Comey: No</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: So that was really Hillary Clinton saying that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brennan Clapper, Comey : Yes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: There was a Podesta email published by WikiLeaks, a fragment of one of Hillary Clinton's closed door speeches to Wall Street,one of the $21 million in paid speeches she gave that she refused to make public despite calls for her to release them much like the calls for Trump to release his tax returns, and in the speech she tells Wall Street executives that at times she thinks it's necessary for her to say one thing publicly for political reasons about her policies but privately she would do something else. Did the Russians fabricate that transcript to denigrate or damage Hillary Clinton? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brennan, Clapper, Comey: No</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: So it was genuine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: So Hillary Clinton actually said that to Wall Street executives in one of her closed door speeches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brennan Clapper & Comey: Yes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Q: And the email showing Donna Brazille while at CNN stole questions for an upcoming CNN presidential debate and gave them to Hillary Clinton in advance was also authentic?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Brennan,Clapper, Comey: Yes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: There were DNC and Clinton campaign emails published days before the Democratic nominating convention that showed extensive collusion between Hillary Clinton, Debby Wasserman-Schultz, the DNC and many in the news media to undermine and sandbag Bernie Sanders to rig the nomination for Hillary Clinton and that Debby Wasserman-Schultz had been publicly lying about the DNC being impartial and neutral. Were those emails not only damaging to Hillary Clinton but coming before the nominating convention also beneficial to Bernie Sanders?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brennan Clapper &amp Comey: Yes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: And all the polls up to that time showed Bernie Sanders beating Trump by as much as 15 points in a general election while the same polls showed Clinton's lead to be about 6 points.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brennan Clapper and Comey: Yes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: So based on all those polls is it fair to say Bernie Sanders was the candidate most likely to beat Trump?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brennan,Clapper & Comey: Yes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: But the intelligence report written at the behest of president Obama and made public concluded the hacking and exposing of the DNC emails which benefitted Bernie Sanders was because the Russians wanted Trump.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brennan Clapper & Comey: Yes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: Even though Bernie Sanders was the candidate most likely to beat Trump?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brennan,Clapper& Comey: Yes </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Q:So the hack of the DNC by the Russians was to the benefit of the candidate who was most likely to beat the candidate the intelligence report said the Russians wanted to win.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Brennan,Clapper, Comey: Yes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: My time is short so I only have a few more questions. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Were all the documents and emails from the Clinton campaign and DNC published by WikiLeaks that have been called damaging and denigrating to Hillary Clinton authentic?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brennan Clapper & Comey: Yes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Q: So nothing was falsified or fabricated by the Russians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brennan Clapper & Comey: No </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Q: So what Congressman Adam Schiff, Senator Mark Warner and other Democrats have said denigrated and damaged Hillary Clinton was simply the truth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Brennan,Clapper,Comey: Yes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Q: And so far the only hard proof of any collusion during the 2016 presidential election was collusion between the Clinton campaign, the DNC, Democratic party super delegates, Debby Wasserman-Schultz and major print and TV news organizations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Brennan,Clapper, Comey: Yes.</span><br />
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Q: <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finally,Mr, Comey, you recently testified that in 2016 Attorney General Loretta Lynch ordered you to stop using the word "investigation" publicly in relation to the FBI criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's email and to use the word "matter" which dovetailed and re-enforced the Clinton campaign's use of the same word when referring to the email investigation. You testified that when you said, "Why would I do that? Its an investigation" Attorney General Lynch replied "just do it". Was that an attempt by the Obama administration and the Attorney General to politicize the FBI by having you use the Clinton campaign word "matter" instead of "investigation" to help the Clinton campaign in the 2016 election? Could that be called Obama and Attorney General Lynch using their power and position and authority to meddle and collude with the Clinton campaign during the 2016 election?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Comey: Yes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My time is up. Thank you all for clearing up how the Russians and WikiLeaks interfered with our democracy and undermined our democratic process.</span></div>
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Copyright Marc Rubin 2016</div>Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-70385286408071629082017-06-01T12:29:00.000-07:002017-06-09T08:28:07.539-07:00Hillary Clinton's Recipe For Nothing Burgers.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ever since Hillary Clinton claimed at a Codec conference in California that the investigation into her email server and mishandling of classified information was " the biggest nothing burger in US history" people have been clamouring for that secret Nothing Burger recipe. Thanks to an anonymous source here it is:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 private email server kept in a cool dry place (preferably a basement)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 years of lying </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">500 grains of salt </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1/16 oz of prevention</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia";">30,000 subpoenaed emails </span> </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 package of bleach bit </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 package Anthony Weiners combined with 1 guilty plea </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">10 lbs scape goat cheese, finely crumbled</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">5 State Department adjudication guidelines for handling classified information broken and scrambled until security clearances are revoked</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">300 pieces of classified information repeatedly mishandled </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 State Department Inspector General criminal referral to the FBI</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Compound entire mixture, mishandle repeatedly until everything mushrooms, g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rill on low heat by the FBI</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Serve with your favorite whine </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wrap leftovers in the New York Times</span></div>
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While many say Hillary's Nothing Burgers don't pass the smell test, all seem to agree, serving Hillary's Nothing Burgers to your guests will have them all saying: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Clinton doesn't deserve a break today.</span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Everyone has seen this Democratic Party-media dance before . They've been dancing together ever since the start of the Democratic primaries when they,the DNC and Clinton campaigns colluded to sandbag Bernie Sanders to hand the nomination to Hillary Clinton and continued the dance clumsily through the general election, the email hack exposing the extent they were cheating and willing to cheat to win the trophy they wanted. In the end the prize they won was Donald Trump.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They tried the same feverish dance when Sally Yates an Obama administration leftover whose days were numbered anyway as soon as Sessions was confirmed, was fired for doing her imitation of the Supremes over the 6 country immigration review executive order and Democrats and their partners in the media cried "Saturday Night Massacre" then too. But that was also more "Saturday Night Fever".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They're trying again after Jim Comey was fired largely ignoring the case made by Rod Rosenstein, the new Deputy Attorney General who wrote a lengthy letter to Trump outlining the reasons why he felt Comey needed to be replaced, especially important since it is the Deputy Attorney General who the FBI Director reports to on a regular basis and who must work closely together. Rosenstein was so critical of Comey's decision not to prosecute Clinton he made a point of writing, " I cannot support it". Neither could a lot of rank and file FBI agents. But you dont hear the name "Rosenstein" much in all this because he was appointed as a US Attorney by Obama and recommended for the job as Deputy AG by two Democratic senators from Maryland.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nevertheless, "Saturday Night Massacre!" and historically ignorant Watergate analogies has been the cry by Democrats and their usual dance partners in the media showing that, like most things they report, they have no real knowledge of Watergate or the real</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Saturday Night</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Massacre making them sound like characters in a "Peanuts" cartoon making accusations against Charlie Brown.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the wake of Jim Comey's firing Democrats continue to grasp for comparisons to Watergate and the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Saturday Night</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Massacre every chance they get either exposing themselves as completely ignorant as to facts and circumstances related to Watergate or hoping the people they want to influence are.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is obviously no comparison to be made between the firing of Jim Comey to anything related to Watergate and Nixon's firing of a special prosecutor who was gathering evidence to use in actual criminal trials to prosecute actual crimes that had been actually committed by actual persons who had been part of the Nixon White House and as high up as the former Attorney General himself and was investigating just how far the criminal conspiracy went.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Which also makes Democrats repeated calls for a special prosecutor not just embarrassingly ignorant when it comes to history but what a Special Prosecutor actually is and what they do.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The only reason there was ever a special prosecutor in the first place during Watergate is because the people who would normally be charged with prosecuting those indicted for crimes at the Department of Justice were themselves many of the criminals. There was actually no one else to do the prosecuting and nothing else to do but appoint a special prosecutor. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was not possible for the Department of Justice to do the prosecuting when two Attorneys General, some of their staff and an acting Director of the FBI along with members of Nixon's White House were among the people being prosecuted. And lest the Democrats or their dance partners forget, the Special Prosecutor in Watergate was appointed by a judge -- Judge John Sirica who was presiding over the Watergate trials, not congress .</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Right now there is no judge to appoint a Special Prosecutor because there are no trials to preside over because there are no defendants to prosecute because there are no crimes that have been committed and no crimes even alleged. In fact no one is even investigating a crime because the current FBI investigation into the Russian email hack is a counter-intelligence investigation not a criminal investigation which would never be conducted by any prosecutor anyway no matter how special he or she was. So there is no need for a Special Prosecutor when there is nothing to prosecute. But that doesn't stop Democrats from calling for a special prosecutor anyway like "Special Prosecutor" were their first words out of their mouths when they were infants.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But if Democrats want a special prosecutor which they have been been demanding for months now anyway, it was only because they said they had no faith in Comey to preside over the counter-intelligence investigation,so why are they and their dance partners complaining about replacing Comey now when Trump played the same music theyve been dancing to for months? Democrats called for Comeys firing repeatedly. Now its a "massacre".because Trump did it. So they change their tune.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The idea that firing Comey would have anything to do with either interfering or impeding or shutting down the current FBI counter-intelligence investigation is as blatantly stupid as thinking that if the Board of Directors of General Motors fired the CEO they would stop making or selling cars until there was a replacement. Any journalist or politician that tries to use that as criticism or as "evidence" of hoping to impede the investigation into the Russian hack of the DNC and Podesta emails or any connection with someone in the Trump campaign, is revealing themselves to be either incredibly stupid or incredibly dishonest as the Acting Director of the FBI proved in shooting down more false headlines and stories from the Times and Washington Post that Trump fired Comey because Comey wanted more resources.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For now the mock hysteria of Democrats and their dance partners in the media including a couple of paid for pea brains at CNN putting out their prearranged prefabricated opinions which is standard operating procedure for most issues at CNN, calling it the "act of a tyrant" while forgetting that president Bill Clinton had fired FBI Director William Sessions, is "Saturday Night<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3820377390281203107"> </a>Fever" not Saturday Night Massacre. Which makes Democrat and their media dance partners still look clumsy and out of step no matter how hard they try to impress the judges. </span></div>
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important story but not the one the Times hoped to tell. It tells a story of
media collusion with the Clinton campaign and the DNC that was and is and has been the real threat to democracy.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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When was the last time anyone saw a banner headline in the
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">The answer is never.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">And what were they reporting? That a number of anonymous
super delegates who called the AP in the middle of the night, no doubt at the behest of Debby Wasserman-Schultz, the night before the
crucial Democratic California</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">primary, the last big piece in a primary battle where Bernie Sanders had already won 23 states and by landslide numbers, to say
they would vote for Hillary Clinton at the Democratic convention to give her
enough super delegate votes to win the nomination. Even though those anonymous "declarations" at the time didnt actually count as votes and there was no guarantee they ever would. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">The message intended for Sanders voters by Clinton,the DNC and the media sending the message was clear: don't bother to show up tomorrow.No reason to vote. It's all over. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">It was not just dishonest dirty politics,it was false and its distinct purpose was to undermine our democracy and the single most important component of it -- the vote -- for the benefit of Hillary Clinton helped by a cabal of news organizations who for their own purposes were in on the collusion. Everything Democrats have tried to accuse the Trump campaign of doing without any proof or evidence, that there was collusion with Russia to undermine the election, was true of the Democrats, Clinton and a dishonest news media.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"> It was the equivalent of the Democrats',<a href="http://tominpaine.blogspot.com/2016/10/why-clintondemocrats-and-news-media.html" target="_blank"> the DNC, Clinton campaign and news media colluding </a>to pull off a Putsch -- a German word for the kind of middle of the night power grab
that happened in Germany in the 1930's -- collusion to rig the nomination for Hillary
Clinton and supress the vote for Bernie Sanders. And they did it with the help of a dishonest news media, the DNC and the unethical use of super delegates which the media also aided and abetted. Unethical because <a href="http://tominpaine.blogspot.com/2016/02/hillary-clintons-super-delegate-lies.html" target="_blank">never in the history of the Democratic party has even one super delegate </a>ever voiced a
preference before the last primary was over, yet they began announcing preferences at the behest of Debby Wasserman-Schultz, to selected media outlets anonymously back in February who then included and counted the superdelegates,whose declarations didnt count along with pledged delegate totals to try to blunt the effect of landslide victories by Sanders over Clinton. And to also give the false impression that Clinton had an insurmountable lead.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Friendly to Clinton news media outlets like CNN and MSNBC included those "declarations" without even verifying them and added them to the raw totals of pledge delegates won in primaries, the only delegates that actually counted at the time. Super delegates hadnt voted to decide a nominee in
32 years. And there was no indication they would this time when their anonymous "intentions" were added to thepledged delegates won in primaries.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"> It was all designed to help rig the nomination for Hillary Clinton with the help of a Soviet style Pravda-like news media. They eventually succeeded when it came to the nomination. They tried it in the general election and failed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">After Clinton lost the election, the Democrats refrain or excuse, was that
somehow the Russian</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">email hack and subsequent publishing of those emails by Wikileaks was why Clinton lost. But all those emails did was expose the real fraud, rigging,deceit,rigging and collusion between the DNC,Clinton and her campaign and many in the mass media. What the emails partially exposed was the real undermining of democracy. But Democrats tried to make the issue focus on who exposed it instead of what was
exposed.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">It was almost like a burglar breaking into a house and discovering a man beating his wife, reporting it to the police and the abuser trying to make the case that everyone should ignore what the burglar saw because he was a burglar doing something illegal and had no business being in his house. The Russians had no business hacking the DNC and Clinton emails but what they found was domestic political abuse being committed by Clinton, the DNC and media outlets.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">While the consensus of the intelligence agencies said that it was the
Russians who hacked the DNC and Clinton campaign emails, then turned them
over to Wikileaks, what Adam Schiff, the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font: medium "tahoma"; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">Democrats' spin merchant on the Intelligence</span> C</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font: medium "tahoma"; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">ommittee keeps trying to do using the Democrats predetermined strategy of hoping to bury what the emails exposed with over-generalized and even blatantly false language like "the Russian hack of the election" (they didnt "hack" the election which insinuates hacking actual vote) is try to shift the focus away from</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"> the <i>content </i>of those emails and the truth that they exposed and focus on who exposed
it. They get some help from anti-Russian Republican hawks.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Any damage to Democrats, the DNC and the Clinton campaign
as a result of those emails being made public was damage they did to
themselves because of what those emails contained, not who exposed
them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">So when you hear words like "Russian interference in our election that was damaging and denigrating to Hillary Clinton" what was "damaging and denigrating" to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party was exposing the truth about what they were doing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> And what was exposed was emails showing Debby Wasserman-Schultz lying about her role and DNC collusion, doing everything she could to rig the nomination for Clinton, evidence of fraud in the results of the New York State primary, Donna Brazile feeding CNN presidential debate questions in advance to Clinton then lying about it,emails and transcripts exposing Clinton admitting in a closed door speech that she says one thing publicly about policy but privately intends on doing something else, Democratic super delegates colluding to rig the nomination for Clinton regardless of the vote, colluding to suppress the Sanders vote and his fund raising ability, and a lot more. None of which has anything to do with the Russians. The Russians, assuming they were the guilty party in the email hack,saw things that made their eyes light up and just exposed to the public through Wikileaks, what they found.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Though using the word "damaging to Hillary Clinton" is a little disengenous considering she began with the worst unfavorable ratings of any
presidential candidate in history and polls showed 65% of the American people believed she was dishonest and
untrustworthy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The other false premise Democrats and the media have tried to push to both save face and continue the same deceit is that the email hack was done specifically to help Trump get elected. The argument is provably preposterous on many levels. And in the future could get some officials in legal trouble for inserting false information into an intelligence report.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First, given there were 20,000 emails from the DNC alone and another 20,000 0f Clinton campaign emails and that the Russians would have had to read them first and then give them to Wikileaks who would also have to read them<i> and</i> authenticate them, and given when they were released, days before the Democratic National convention ( timing the Russians had no control over) the timeline indicates the hack of the DNC first occurred sometime in February but no later than March,months before Trump won the nomination and months before he was even being taken seriously.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> At the time of the first Russian hack and handing over the emails to Wikileaks most people including Republicans and almost every media outlet were mocking the idea that Trump was even running much less that he would win the nomination. So that it was done to specifically help Trump win is clearly false. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The other fact that proves it false is that the first batch of emails were released right before the Democratic convention, before Clinton was officially nominated. If anything those emails and what they exposed were to the benefit of Bernie Sanders, showing how Clinton and the DNC they were virtually cheating him and his voters and were trying to rig the system for Clinton. There was no way to know what affect those emails would have on the nominating process since neither candidate had won enough pledged delegates to secure the nomination so superdelegates were going to decide who it would be. And as every poll showed, Sanders was the candidate mostly likely to beat Trump, consistently beating Trump by 15 points, a much bigger margin than Clinton.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> So idea that the Russians wanted Trump and colluded with the Trump campaign to win but released emails that would benefit the candidate most likely to beat Trump is as ludicrous and dishonest as every other argument that has been made and in some cases is still being made regarding Trump campaign collusion with Russia for which there hasnt been a shred of evidence. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Democrats and their allies have continued to deflect those facts with dishonest, distorted and overly exaggerated language like "a Russian attack on our democratic
institutions".</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Hillary Clinton and her presidential
campaign were not "one of our democratic institutions".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">People like playing the "imagine if the roles were
reversed" game and often its a good way to get to the truth. And if the roles were reversed and an email hack by any foreign government, or even domestically, exposed the kind of lies, deceit, fraud, collusion and the rigging of the democratic nominating and election process by the GOP to help the Trump campaign despite public statements to the contrary and in collusion with friendly but corrupt media outlets trying to help rig the general election for Trump,one can imagine Democrats while admitting the hack illegal, praising the exposure as helping to save the democratic process and that we should all be grateful. And they would be right. We all should be grateful for what the emails exposed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Had those DNC and Clinton campaign emails revealed paragons of
honesty and truth protecting our democratic ideals and processes, had they shown Clinton and Democrats to be pillars
of integrity instead of the opposite, the Russians would have had nothing to show for their hack. But what they found didn't
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">That the Democrats would rig a nomination for a candidate with the highest unfavorable rating in history and a candidate who 65% said was dishonest and untrustworthy is something Democrats cant blame on the Russians. That has a lot more in common with Groucho Marx than Karl Marx.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">In an answer to a question by Rep (D) Denny Heck of
Washington State during the House Intelligence Committee hearings in exploring unproven ties between the Trump
campaign Director of the NSA, Admiral Mike Rogers said that what is most important and
inherent to democracy is to preserve the choice of the
voters.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><br />To that end Rep. Heck who comes from a state whose voters in
the Democratic primary voted for Bernie Sanders to be the nominee 80-20 over Hillary Clinton but
as a super delegate voted for Hillary Clinton to follow the corrupt party line, as did Al Franken in Minnesota and both senators from Washington state as well as all super delegates in states Sanders won by landslide numbers, all of them did more to undermine our democratic processes and institutions by not preserving the choice of the voters and doing what the party ordered, than Vladimir Putin and the Russians could ever do.</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Marc Rubin
Copyright Marc Rubin 2016</div>Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-83671829327661945672017-01-20T04:07:00.000-08:002017-02-13T06:34:39.692-08:00It Didnt Take Russian Intelligence to Expose Clinton,DNC and News Media Fraud. Just Intelligence. <br />
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Back in February <a href="http://tominpaine.blogspot.com/2016/02/hillary-clintons-super-delegate-lies.html" target="_blank"> I wrote a piece</a> that generated over 100,000 hits in one day and was picked up and republished by other Democratic and liberal leaning web sites that generated additional hits (and hundreds of comments) when it became clear to me that the Clinton campaign and the DNC were trying to rig the nomination for Clinton with the full cooperation and collusion of mainstream media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, the AP,Washington Post, New York Times and others.<br />
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It was February 23,2016 before a single DNC email had been released and months before the Podesta emails were released that exposed Democrats, the DNC, Clinton campaign, Debby Wasserman-Schultz and most in the mainstream media as a vipers nest of lies, personal and political dishonesty, fraud, rigging, and trying to undermine our democratic principles and process, all the more ironic since that is what Democrats have been trying to laughably blame the Russians for doing by hacking into their emails and exposing the dishonesty and fraud.<br />
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Except it didnt take Russian intelligence to see the extent of the lying cheating and rigging that was going on within the Democratic party. Only basic intelligence.<br />
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This is being written a day before the Inauguration of Donald Trump something even I could have never envisioned last February.But before a single hacked DNC email was published by Wikileaks, or any of the Podestas emails, it was clear that the fix was in for Hillary Clinton. And that in the end it would never work. And I said so.<br />
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How dishonest are Democrats, or anyone for that matter,trying to claim the Russians wanted to elect Trump or that the emails had anything to do with Trump's election? All of the DNC emails exposing the lies,fraud,collusion and institutional dishonesty going on within the DNC,Clinton campaign, Democratic party and news media was, at the time, all to the benefit of Bernie Sanders, the candidate every poll showed beat Trump decisively head to head, some by as much as 15 points while head to head match ups with Clinton showed a much closer race of between 4 and 6 points with a 3 point margin of error. That the Russians hacked the DNC because they wanted Trump who was not even the nominee at the time and dismissed by almost everyone, is as preposterous as Democrats trying to rig the election themselves with the help of a patently dishonest news media and thinking they would get away with it.<br />
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But before Wikileaks released a single DNC email, I could see with my own eyes the fraud and rigging that was going on by the Clinton campaign, the DNC and news media in trying to do to Sanders what they eventually tried to do to Trump but failed. It didnt take Russian intelligence to see it.<br />
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In recently re-reading the piece from almost a year ago,I had the urge to say to the DNC, the news media and everyone connected with the Clinton campaign," I told you so". All I had written last February, all I predicted if Clinton and the DNC insisted on continuing the dishonesty, the fraud and rigging and how she and the Democrats would lose in the general election including down ticket Democrats has come to pass.And so this is the "I told you so".</div>
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The emails eventually did offer documentary proof of what I could see with my own eyes and knowledge of the system given my support of Hillary Clinton in 2008 as Executive Director of a PAC supporting Clinton's candidacy for the nomination, though this time around I was supporting Sanders.</div>
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Unfortunately for Democrats they not only havent learned the valuable lesson afforded them by losing the election, they continue to lie about it. To themselves and anyone dumb enough to listen. Which aside from suffering the losses I predicted both in terms of the presidency and down ticket Democrats, should have been a wake up call to reform the party and end the corruption and the corrupt leadership that was evident even back in February and subsequently confirmed in the emails.</div>
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Instead the Democratic party establishment has decided otherwise, re-electing Pelosi, inventing empty and dishonest excuses for why they lost including the preposterous excuse of blaming Russia for hacking emails which resulted in exposing the truth as if to say, if people didnt know the truth we would have won.</div>
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So the dishonesty that cost them the election in the first place continues: Its everybody's fault but theirs. It's the Russians fault ( for hacking DNC and Clinton campaign emails that did nothing other than expose the truth) Its Wikileaks fault for publishing them, its Comey's fault, its the Electoral College's fault (the genius of which is apparent) it was the Founders fault for creating the Electoral College (complete with misquoting Hamilton), it was Sanders fault,Sanders voters fault who wouldn't vote for Clinton, everyone but those who deserve all the blame -- themselves, their dishonesty and the dishonest news media that backfired. </div>
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The original piece from almost a year ago is<a href="http://tominpaine.blogspot.com/2016/02/hillary-clintons-super-delegate-lies.html" target="_blank"> linked here.</a> Its was worth my re-reading. Maybe others will think so too. Many of the predictions and warnings came to pass.Almost all of the observations of fraud were verified by the emails even though the piece largely dealt with super delegates and how Clinton, the DNC and news media were using them to fraudulently create the expectation that Clinton was the inevitable nominee and this after only 3 primaries which resulted in two ties and one landslide victory for Sanders in New Hampshire.</div>
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Which leads to another prediction: unless the Democratic party reforms in a major way -- that's reform, not re-tread, accepts the truth as to why they lost, knock off the dishonesty and arrogance when they have nothing to be arrogant about, and stop all the lying, they will lose again in 2018 and lose big. And keep losing until they decide that really, honesty is the best policy.And so far they are not convinced of that. </div>
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Copyright Marc Rubin 2016</div>Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-90372511290862279312016-12-15T07:58:00.000-08:002017-01-06T15:52:01.110-08:00Washington Post Story That CIA Reported Russia Wanted Trump Proved a Lie.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Democrats latest attempt to try and undo an election they legitimately lost is now being fueled by an article in the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.4a34fc4acc1c" target="_blank">Washington Post that claimed that the CIA concluded</a> that the Russians not only were behind the hacks of the the DNC and Podesta emails, but the element that has gotten the most traction is that the Russians did it because they wanted Trump to win.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Washington Post article and its assertions are bogus. False.A lie. And provably false. And are as much "fake news" and more hackery as any "fake news" that people consider a problem because there are those who believe it. There is proof that the story was nothing but a hatchet job by 3 unscrupulous Washington Post reporters,Adam Entous,Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller, and their editors and the unnamed anonymous "official" who had been "briefed". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Washington Post story has been picked up and spread by the usual suspects in the news media about CIA "conclusions" that the email hacks of the DNC and John Podesta were not just carried out by the Russians but with the intent to elect Donald Trump and have formed the basis of Democratic attempts to get Trump electors to betray their voters in states Trump won much the way Democratic super delegates betrayed Democratic voters in states Bernie Sanders won to nominate Hillary Clinton. And its at the heart of their campaign. And the reason for its fabrication.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Post article which claimed the CIA concluded that the Russians hacked the DNC and John Podesta because they wanted Trump to win is not just false, not just provably fake, but another attempt by Democrats colluding with the Post whose reputation for honest journalism along with that of the Times and CNN, MSNBC and others were already exposed as dishonest by those same hacked emails.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> So far the "CIA conclusions" reported by the Washington Post have been debunked by the FBI and NSA who say no such conclusions exist. Which means they cannot be called "conclusions" at all since "conclusions" are conclusive.In fact they may not be CIA conclusions at all. James Clapper testified they dont even have strong enough evidence to prove Russia was behind the hacks in the first place much less that it was done to elect Trump. But beyond that there is obvious proof the only real 'intent" exposed in the Post article was the intent of the Post in collusion with others, most likely a member of the Obama administration, at fabricating this "conclusion" to suit their own agenda to undermine the election by hoping to convince Trump electors to betray the voters of their own states on December 19 when electors meet.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First,no document or report exists that states the CIA concluded Russian hacks of Podesta and DNC emails was motivated by Russia wanting Trump to win. And the reporters didnt ask for any, otherwise they would have said so. And if such a document did exist they would have seen it or at least referenced it. The "conclusion" was an obvious fabrication fed to them by this unnamed "official" not in the CIA as will be proved, and which the Post willingly reported while offerering nothing to substantiate the claim.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The source of this "conclusion", the "anonymous government official" is clearly not connected to CIA. We know this because this "official" is described as "having been briefed". The CIA is not briefed, they do the briefing. And it is clear this "conclusion" comes from this "anonymous official" not the CIA and who is almost assuredly a Democratic member of the Obama administration with a high enough security clearance to be credible and who intentionally fed this "conclusion" to the Post reporters without anything to back it up which the Post reporters and editors willingly used to further the Post and Democratic party agenda.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We know there is no such document or conclusion as to Russian motives in wanting Trump for two reasons. One,it's demonstrably and easily proved false, a truly stupid conclusion which can be proved false on the facts already known and the CIA is not stupid. But</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> dishonest journalists and dishonest politicians always are. Secondly the CIA by its nature and history does not typically draw or offer conclusions and certainly not without hard and irrefutable evidence. And as we already know both Clapper and the FBI have stated they have no hard evidence. Even Peter King, the Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee said all this is news to him. If he wasnt briefed and the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee wasn't briefed, and he wasn't, there was no briefing to be done and no such conclusion by the CIA, a false conclusion intentionally fed to the Post reporters with the sole intent of committing a hatchet job to further an agenda and not honest reporting.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In addition, Julian Assange who rarely speaks about sources, publicly stated in light of the Post article that the source of both the DNC and Podesta emails did not come from any government and was not state sponsored and came from no one outside the United States but from an internal source within the United States with access to the emails who was disillusioned with what they were seeing, information the Post reporters could have gotten from Assange himself had they wanted to.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Drawing conclusions is not what the CIA does.They gather facts and, information, what is sometimes referred to as "actionable intelligence" if they can get it and they do analysis which everyone knows is an inexact science. That is their spycraft. Then they present this intelligence and facts to civilian authority and leave it to them to draw conclusions from these facts and act on them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Civilians rarely get to see inside the CIA and how they work but the de-classified intelligence leading to the Cuban missile crisis is a window. The CIA and their U-2 spy planes discovered the presence of Soviet missiles being assembled in Cuba. They analyzed the photographs, were able to identity the missiles and their range and capability and presented the facts to the president. They drew no conclusions and offered no opinions as to the Soviets motives. That was for Kennedy and his advisors. Offering "conclusions" as to motives without hard evidence to back it up is not the CIA way.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There was and is no actionable intelligence that Russia hacked those emails and turned them over to Wikileaks to elect Trump or as the Times dishonestly reported, to "tip the scales in Trump's favor" .Its obvious from the Post article that it wasnt the CIA drawing the conclusion it was the non-CIA" official" who was clearly making a politically motivated insinuation, not a finding.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yet the Post reported the CIA "concluded the intent and motive" of the Russian hacking was to help Trump win without pointing to any specific evidence or even claiming the CIA had such evidence to support it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The Post reporters didn't even allude to any evidence or documents that supported this conclusion because they werent shown any. Because the "official" feeding them his or her own"conclusion" didnt have any to show and never saw any themselves. Because the evidence doesnt exist. And, as pointed out, the person on whom they were quoting isnt even CIA. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Without hard specific evidence the CIA never draws specific conclusions and with hard specific evidence they wouldnt have to since the evidence would speak for itself.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The attempt to claim the CIA has ascribed intent by the Russians to elect Trump is so obviously stupid and clumsy aside from having already been debunked it is clearly a fabrication by a politically motivated "official" tying to poison the well with the help of the Washington Post as a conduit before the electors meet December 19 in the threadbare hope of undoing the election. So we know the assertion could not have come from the CIA as an offcial CIA "conclusion". Because the assertion is not just provably false but demonstrably stupid. And the CIA is not stupid. Even when they are wrong they are not stupid.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nowhere does this "official" claim they saw any CIA documents or memorandum that drew this conclusion and the FBI and NSA said that evidence that it was Russia behind the hack is "tenuous"in itself much less that the hack was motivated to make Trump president.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Instead the Post article is based on a "government official who had been briefed". And no attempt was made or offered at corroborating this "conclusion" with another source. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anyone who ever saw "All the President's Men" knows that Post editor at the time,Ben Bradlee, insisted Woodward and Bernstein corroborate a Watergate story with 3 independent sources before the Post would publish it.Yet a story of this magnitude, that the "CIA concluded" Russia hacked the emails to help Trump was printed without a single corroboration from any other source and the "reporters" didnt even try to get any because they would have failed and its clear their own source, the anonymous "official" couldnt offer any either.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It can't be overstated: the Washington Post story did not quote and did not cite an actual CIA source for their story. Or any documents. Or any substantive proof. Or get any corroboration.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But what completely exposes the Post story as "fake news" is that the hack of the DNC emails during the Democratic primaries, supposedly also by Russia, were all to the benefit of Bernie Sanders, the candidate all polls showed was the most likely to beat Trump. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The DNC emails exposed Clinton, the DNC and Debby Wasserman-Schultz, their Democratic party enablers and the news media in places like CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times and Washington Post, as a vipers nest of lies, rigging, collusion, fraud, dishonesty all in a concerted effort to rig the nomination for Clinton and defeat Bernie Sanders who blindsided them with the strength of his support. It greatly damaged Clinton and the DNC during the primaries, forced Wasserman-Schultz to resign, angered Sanders supporters, showed the DNC and Clinton campaign privately mocking Sanders and if anything, weakened Clinton's chances at the nomination during the primaries all to the benefit of Bernie Sanders.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If the Russians were behind the hacks (and the FBI and NSA say that is "tenuous") and if they did it because they wanted Trump to win as the Post story stupidly claims, then why would they give DNC emails to Wikileaks that damaged Clinton and benefitted Bernie Sanders when all the polls showed Sanders the candidate most likely to defeat Trump? Every poll showed Sanders beating Trump by double digits while the match up between Trump and Clinton was much closer with Clinton having an edge of 4-6 points. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The DNC email hacks and what they exposed cast Bernie Sanders as the victim of Clinton and DNC deciet,fraud,lies and collusion with an in the tank dishonest media at CNN, MSNBC,the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico and other lesser outlets, helping in their attempts at suppressing Sanders turnout and fundraising, and aiding in the collusion with Debby Wasserman-Schultz to rig the nomination for Clinton all of which angered Sanders voters.So what's the explanation for Russia helping the candidate who had the best chance of beating Trump if they wanted Trump to win?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The answer lies with the Woody Allen line,"when you tell the truth all the time you never have to remember anything". In the Democrats and Washington Post's haste to create fodder and lies to try to convince Trump electors that the Russians were behind his victory with a non-existant CIA "conclusion" that Russia wanted Trump to win, ,Democrats and their allies</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> forgot that the DNC hacks, supposedly also by Russia,were all to the benefit of Bernie Sanders, the stronger candidate most likely to beat Trump.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That fact exposes the dishonesty, absurdity of Democrats and the news media trying to push the story that the Russians wanted Trump. A story for which the Washington Post provides no corroboration because there isnt any, only a politically motivated "official" planting a story for which they offered no evidence and politically motivated reporters and editors at the Washington Post and New York Times willing to publish fake news. Its sole purpose was to to try and delegitimize or undo the election.The irony of course is that Democrats and the media were trying to do exactly what they accuse the Russians of doing. Interfere with the election.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And if it doesnt do a thing to change the outcome of the election which it almost surely wont, it gives </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Democrats and Clinton supporters one more excuse as to why they lost. First it was Sanders damaging Clinton, then Sanders voters, then Comey, then the need for recounts, then lies about hacking voting machines, then that the Electoral College is outmoded (they didnt complain in 1992 when Bill Clinton won the presidency and 270 electoral votes with only 43% of the popular vote) and a claim Clinton won the popular vote when she didnt, she won a plurality head to head with Trump with the majority of the country voting against her, 52-48. And to be clear, almost all of her 2 million+ vote plurality coming from her margin of victory in one state -- New York. Now its the Russians who "interfered" with the election and wanted Trump. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even if the Russians were behind the hack ,which Clapper says is "tenuous" the emails didnt "interfere" with the election. They exposed truths and facts about Clinton, the Democratic party and news media they didnt like.The emails were real and authentic. They exposed Clinton as being two faced on many issues especially when it came to economic issues, telling Wall Street executives one thing in private and saying something else to voters. That no doubt didnt go down well with many working class voters and only re-enforced the same problem Clinton has had with voters from the beginning: people dont trust her. That is supposed to be Russians fault? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Foreign hacking into the U.S. whether its Russia, China or North Korea is a serious issue especially because of its potential to cause damage in many areas, as a threat to the power grid, China stealing intellectual property from U.S. corporations, even a threat to the water system. But for Democrats to continue to try to use the exposure of their dishonesty in their hacked emails as an excuse as to why they lost shows they dont want to face why they lost. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Putin is not stupid. The CIA is not stupid. And their behavioral analysts are not stupid. But politically motivated, dishonest political "officials" and dishonest journalists with an agenda almost always are. That is what produced the Washington Post story, repeated by the New York Times and Democrats that the Russian hack was because they wanted Trump. And hope they could get away with it. So far they haven't.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ADDENDUM: At a press conference today (12/15) John Kerry when asked about the Post article refused to endorse it or give it any credibility adding, " I dont take seriously articles that quote 'anonymous officials".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ADDENDUM#2: Attorney General Lorretta Lynch released this statement: "There is no technical evidence to prove Russia was behind the hacks". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ADDENDUM#3: The unclassified report on hacking just released confirms the falsity and dishonest political spin of the Post story. The report clearly stated that hacking DNC emails which exposed lies,deceit, fraud and rigging on the part of Clinton, the DNC, Debby Wasserman-Schultz and collusion with dishonest media organizations, was to denigrate and undermine Hillary Clinton (with the truth, by the way) which explains the release of the DNC emails during the Democratic primaries which did in fact undermine and hurt Clinton but were all to Bernie Sanders benefit, not Trump's. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Based on the report Putin would have been just as happy for Sanders to have beaten Clinton for the nomination. The goal was to undermine Clinton not to benefit an opponent. Which is a long way from saying Putin did it because he wanted Trump to win. That was false. It was an attack on Clinton that started with the primaries, not to help Trump.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Further, the report says their intelligence shows that Putin believed Clinton would beat Trump in the general election and hoped that what the hacked Podesta emails revealed about Clinton and her credibility (or lack of) would undermine her presidency.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nowhere do the 17 intelligence agencies suggest that anything was done to intentionally help Donald Trump, making the Post story as dishonest and as much political spin and fodder to try and undermine Trump as much as Putin wanted to undermine Clinton, just as originally asserted.</span>
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Copyright Marc Rubin 2016</div>Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-1576079034704278252016-12-05T09:50:00.000-08:002017-01-09T08:32:06.056-08:00Hillary Clinton Didn't Win the Popular Vote, She Lost It. Along With Democrats Losing Their Minds.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If Democrats are trying to prove they are not only out of touch with reality, but are stupid on top of everything else they've been doing a good job since election day when they got their heads handed to them for a variety of reasons one of which<a href="http://tominpaine.blogspot.com/2016/06/if-california-or-fbi-doesn-end-clinton.html" target="_blank"> was predicted here back in June </a>before the DNC rigged the nomination process and handed it to Hillary Clinton.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Many Democrats and, based on their lack of honesty but no lack of stupidity can be called Tea Party Left support groups who both before and after the election have resorted to outright lying, are now making an issue of Hillary Clinton having "won the popular vote by more than 2 million" using it to both lick their wounds and even try to overturn the election i by hoping to pressure electors in states Trump won to betray their voters and elect the Democrats version of Imelda Marcos and Eva Peron. That's the current Democrats idea of democracy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What makes it even more comical, and quite frankly stupid, is that Hillary Clinton did not win the popular vote, she lost it. And so too it seems, have Democrats lost their minds in making that argument.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hillary Clinton won, not the popular vote which indicates a majority, ( as in most Americans) but a <i>plurality </i>48-46.7 versus Trump. She <i>lost </i>the popular vote 52-48 with 52% of the country voting against her for president. That's not winning the popular vote that's losing it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Maybe not figuring that out is why Democrats lose so many elections people think they should have won. In 2010 they couldnt figure out the majority of Americans wanted and expected the public healthcare option as the centerpiece of healthcare reform and when Democrats did nothing to stop Obama from dropping it in a sell out to the health insurance lobby, they seemed befuddled when betrayed Democratic voters destroyed them in the 2010 elections, something they are still paying for.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The simple fact is in 2016 neither candidate won the popular vote, just like in 1992 when Bill Clinton was elected president with the requisite 270 electoral votes but only had 43% of the vote. Democrats didnt complain. And neither Democrats, nor anyone else suggested we had to get rid of the Electoral College. This time around Clinton won 48% of the vote, Trump 46.7%. The electoral vote went to Trump 304-227 after 5 electors refused to vote for Clinton and 2 didnt vote for Trump.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The " popular vote" argument being used by disgruntled Democrats and their Tea Party Left groups is based on Clinton's 2.5 million vote advantage over Trump in the raw vote. But guess what? That is equal to Clinton's margin of victory in New York state alone, a state neither Clinton nor Trump even bothered to campaign in because it was a foregone conclusion New York's 29 electoral votes would to go Clinton and everyone knew it wouldn't matter if Clinton won New York, or any candidate won any other state by 2 votes or 2 million whoever wins the popular vote in that state gets their electoral votes. Thats how we have elected presidents since 1789. And Trump won the popular vote in many more states with more electoral votes than Clinton.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Clinton's victory in New York state by almost 2.5 million votes is exactly why Hamilton and the Founders created the Electoral College to prevent a candidate trying to appeal to only the most populous states to be elected president while the other states have no voice. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Many Clinton supporters trying to use Hamilton as a basis for their protests ignore what Hamilton said the Electoral College was created to prevent in the first place: to prevent "those who are well versed in the little arts of popularity" from becoming president.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />That Clinton won the two most populous states in the country by a combined 5 million votes, and the two states with the most electoral votes and still lost the electoral vote in a landslide underscores how badly she was beaten in the rest of the country and at the same time shows the genius of the Founders in creating the Electoral College, wanting specifically to prevent a situation where a large margin of victory in one or two high population states can skew the election results for the rest of the country in deciding the presidency. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What is also being ignored is that Trump never set foot in New York or California or Massachusetts to campaign, and neither did Clinton since they are all states that traditionally go Democratic and was a foregone conclusion Clinton would win. No one was trying to win the most votes, just the most votes in the most states. Thats what Trump did. And Clinton didnt but both were trying to do. Now that Clinton failed, what can only be called adolescent sore losers want to change the rules or even dumber, try to claim the rules are now unfair having no problem benefitting from them in 1992.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /> The claim of having won the popular vote also exposes an almost comical hypocrisy by Clinton and Democratic supporters by insisting on recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and PA where Trump's victories in those states by 1% is considered so close,so thin,so small, it justifies state-wide recounts but Clinton's 1.3-1.7% raw vote lead (depending on what web site you read) is portrayed as being so big that Democrats want to dump the Electoral College or pressure electors to betray their voters in the states Trump won. That is not just unethical hypocrisy (something exposed en masse about the Democratic party in those emails) but its stupidity</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Which shows Democrats still dont understand the election because even after losing both the electoral college in a landslide and the national popular vote, and Clinton's slim raw vote plurality attributable to one state, they are advocating the disenfranchisement of the very people they needed to win and instead want to do what the Founders specifically wanted to prevent in order to fraudulently get their way -- have one, or two or three high population states deciding the presidency on a raw vote and denying the voices of anyone else.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Donald Trump was elected president because he won the popular vote in many, many, more states than Hillary Clinton which accounts for his landslide win in the Electoral College 306-232 Which is exactly what the Founders intended by requiring a president to win 270 electoral votes. Not 232 with a big margin of victory in one or two highly populated states.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And so it is even with Michael Moore, also touting the need for the raw vote to decide the presidency, advocating that voices and votes in places like Michigan and Ohio count for nothing and New York, California and Massachusetts should decide the presidency and to hell with everyone else.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Clinton,like Trump concentrated her efforts and money in states that were not forgone conclusions and were needed to win the presidency,those so called "battleground"states and Clinton lost every one of them. Every one. Michigan,Wisconsin,Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. Which included states that traditionally went Democratic. And now Democrats and their support groups like MoveOn, DFA and ThinkProgress now want to say those states shouldnt matter.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Clinton lost them all despite raising and spending $1.1 <i>billion </i>in campaign fundraising<i> </i>compared to Trump having spent $100 million. Which has to make Democrats complaining about Trump being a billionaire and condemning big money donors in politics have egg on their faces when it was Clinton who was the darling of big money donors and spent more than any candidate in history. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With Clinton spending $1 billion and losing and Trump spending 1/10th of that and winning, it might be a sign that might bode well for taxpayers and not having their money wasted by Washington and what Trump may do for the economy. Clinton also had 500 campaign offices around the country expressly to win the electoral vote that Democrats now want to invalidate, Trump had 200 campaign offices. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But Democrats like Barabara Boxer and Elizabeth Warren and their in the tank ethically challenged journalists at CNN, MSNBC, New York Times or Washington Post,try to make the intellectually and politically bankrupt argument that for all intents and purposes Clinton's 2 million vote margin of victory in New York state alone is supposed to mean something nationally and that Clinton deserves to be president. She doesn't. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are 5000 counties in the US. Clinton won 300,Trump 4700. Clinton was thumped in the Electoral College 227-304. Instead of blaming themselves by going along with Obama and his sell outs or trying to cover them up which Clinton not only defended but promised to continue like Obamacare which was a Democratic party sell out of the promised government run public option, instead of looking to themselves, their compromises, broken promises and the dirty politics they tried to play, they want to rewrite the rules or blame them for their losses.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The "popular vote" crowd tries to argue that "the will of the people" in New York state or California, should be what decided the presidency for everyone else in 2016 even though the "will of the people" in far more states than Clinton won rejected her.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #272727; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 16px;">Ever since Trump won the election and Clinton was drubbed in the Electoral College 309-235 there's been a whiny thumb in mouth movement among the losers, circulating petitions and in the case of outgoing senator and fervent Clinton supporter Barbara Boxer, legislation that is going nowhere, to abolish the Electoral College and elect presidents by popular vote because they try to claim that if the popular vote was how presidents were elected Clinton would have won.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #272727; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #272727; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span>That argument is delusional,corrupt and dishonest the three big reasons Democrats actually lost the election and were demolished in congressional and state house elections as well. What Democrats really need to abolish is not the Electoral College but Democratic Party corruption, failed leaders and their sewer politics of the kind we saw exposed by Wikileaks from the corrupt Donna Brazile and Debby Wasserman-Schultz to the distinctly <i>un</i>-democratic super delegate system, collusion with the news media, rigging Democratic primaries and election fraud. The election results gave Democrats a head start they don't seem to want to take.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">First,hypocrisy. When Hillary Clinton won the popular vote against Obama at the finish of the 2008 Democratic primaries though Obama had won more pledged delegates and only by a a very small margin of 65 out of 4000 delegates won, no one said a word when Obama was given the nomination. No one howled or tried to make a case for Clinton winning the popular vote against Obama or suggested changes in how Democrats nominate. Not in the Democratic party, not in the media. So the selective whining by many Democrats now like Barbara Boxer and Michael Moore over the popular vote when no one cared when Clinton won the popular vote over Obama in 2008 takes hypocrisy to a whole new level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Second,they ignore that Clinton's popular vote lead is less than 1% out of 130 million votes which without the Electoral College would require a recount much of it by hand that would go so far beyond the Constitutional requirement of when the election has to be certified it would be impossible to do,would take months and cause Constitutional chaos which would have a domino affect requiring even more wholesale changes to the Constitution like extending the presidential term beyond 4 years and <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3820377390281203107"></a><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3820377390281203107">January 20</a>,changing the date of Election Day to months earlier and would change everything about the process of how we elect people for no good reason other than Democrats who rigged the nominating process to get Clinton, one of the most dishonest candidates they ever had, don't like that they lost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";"> Third if anyone thinks a recount would end up with the same results we have now it's a certainty it wouldn't. A recount could just as easily give Trump the popular vote if it increased his vote totals by less than 1% and if that happened then what? Democrats insisting on another recount? The more an intelligent person looks at it the more the Electoral College looks like genius . Maybe because the Founders were just that and complaining Democrats can't get out of their own way and were the Gang That Couldn't Campaign Straight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Fourth abolishing the Electoral College would do nothing less than disenfranchise every voter Democrats and Michael Moore claim to care about in all the states between the east coast and west coast and place the election of presidents only in those states with high populations and negate the votes of everyone in every state in between. New Hampshire wouldn't matter,Iowa wouldn't matter,none of the Midwest states would matter or have any say in electing a president. Candidates wouldnt even bother to campaign in those states because there are more raw votes in NY,California and Massachusettes than all the Midwest states combined.And the Founders foresaw that and didnt want a president to be elected purely by the votes in the high population centers of New York,Philadelphia and Boston.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Also,it's a fact that Trump never campaigned in NY,California or Massachussetts or other states that were certain to go Democratic because there was no reason to waste time money or resources campaiging there. Had the popular vote mattered and had Trump put significant resources in those states he would have surely gotten more votes even if Clinton still would have gotten the most. But Trump only would have needed 3/4 of 1% more votes in NY,Mass,NJ,or California combined, where he never campaigned and he would've won the popular vote and presidency anyway. To think Clinton would've won if it was only by popular vote is to ignore that both campaign strategies were meant to win the 270 electoral votes needed, something Clinton failed to do and Trump accomplished and by a wide margin.To think that campaign strategies would not have been any different in trying to win the popular vote and that the results would have been exactly the same is delusional. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Five: Clintons hairbreadth less than 1% advantage in the popular vote out of 130 million votes cast also proves the wisdom of the Electoral College. In a high population state like NY Clinton beat Trump 65-35 though again Trump never campaigned there. Clinton beat Trump by similar margins in California. Since her overall popular vote margin was only about 3/4 of 1%, Clinton winning NY and California by many millions shows how thoroughly she was trounced in other states and lost traditional Democratic states like Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan to go with North Carolina and Florida, states Obama won in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";"> Barbara Boxer and Michael Moore and mindless petition signers would have a system where New York alone could negate all five of those states and most of the rest of the country by using only the popular vote. That flirting with fascism. Clinton's minuscule lead in the popular vote does not reflect how badly she was crushed in the majority of other states and how many more states she lost, losing the Electoral College 309-235.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Finally ,knowing full well that the Electoral College system elects the president Hillary Clinton's entire campaign strategy and <i>all </i>her resources were geared to winning the Electoral College and the 270 needed which is why she,like Trump did virtually no campaigning in NY,Mass., and California where she felt sure of winning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Instead the candidates spent their time wooing voters in states that wouldn't have mattered if there was no Electoral College but did matter because of the Electoral College.States like Michigan and Ohio both of which Trump won. Clinton had 500 campaign offices throughout the country intended to help her win the electoral votes necessary. Trump had 207 offices. Clinton's campaign was built to win the 270 needed. She failed 309-235. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">As an aside, in terms of what Trump has said he can do for the country, getting more done for less money and dramatically improving the economy and employment, its worth noting that Hillary Clinton raised and spent more than $1.1 <i>billion</i><i> </i>and lost even with a corrupt news media shilling and lying for her. By contrast Trump spent $100 million and won.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">What we're hearing now from what might be called the "uneducated Clinton supporter", about abolishing the Electoral College because of a less than 1% lead in the popular vote when it was the Electoral College Clinton put all her resources into trying to win and couldnt so now try to claim that a system that disenfranchises more than half the country would be more "democratic" ignoring that Trump would have most assuredly gotten at least 3/4 of 1% more votes, enough to overcome Clinton's tiny lead, is not just vintage whine but uneducated sour grapes.</span></div>
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This isn't about Trump. Its about a Democratic party and a colluding segment of the mainstream news media who have become and are now, perhaps the most dishonest, fraudulent, unscrupulous collection of politicians and complicit journalists in our history, people who have no scruples when it comes to undermining and interfering with the democratic process in order to win and represents a real and present danger and threat to our democracy and democratic institutions, ,more so than Putin ever could.<br />
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The above headline in the New York Times is a product of that corruption and undermining of democracy in collusion with the Clinton campaign and the DNC by helping to rig the nominating process that essentially stole the nomination, something thats clear that Clinton and the Democratic party were intent on from the beginning, and did it,not just with collusion but by also ignoring the Democratic party's own rules and procedures in the process and not worrying about being caught..<br />
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Regardless of what anyone thinks of Trump, this same kind of fraud, dishonesty,collusion and deceit that rigged the outcome of the nominating process is also being used to influence of the outcome of a presidential election, this time not against Sanders but against Trump.<br />
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For anyone with short term memory loss, the above New York Times headline came out the day before the crucial California Democratic primary and its purpose was clear -- fraudulently announce that Clinton had sewed up the nomination to supress the Sanders vote in the hopes of convincing people it was over when it wasn;t.<br />
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Had Clinton lost that primary or had it even been close her nomination would have been in serious jeopardy. So to insure it, the AP, colluding with the Clinton campaign and the DNC reported that a group of super delegates anonymously called the AP and said they would vote for Clinton which in the corrupt world of Democratic party politics and colluding segments of the news media, that meant put out the story that Clinton had "clinched" the nomination. So its over. No need for anyone to actually go out and vote,super delegates will do it for you.<br />
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That the media like the AP and New York Times so brazenly colluded in what amounted to a putsch, should concern everybody. And the collusion was done in broad daylight.<br />
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When was the last time anyone remembers the New York Times, running a "Men Walk On Moon" size banner headline that was not even the product of their own reporting but was simply reporting what the AP was reporting? And without a shred of corroboration to back it up?<br />
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So this isn't about defending Trump. Its about defending the true democratic process from a corrupt process by both the DNC and a news media willing to collude to undermine the democratic process to further their own agenda. And that agenda is also obvious:: Because the establishment wants Hillary Clinton.And both Sanders and Trump have been a threat to both.<br />
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It's become a pattern. And for the same reasons. And that pattern and those reasons are a direct threat to our
democracy and what George Orwell warned against in 1937 and collective news media dishonesty in what he called "the gramophone of the mind and the record they are playing at the moment".<br />
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What's even more ironic is Clinton and the Democrats and those in the news media willing to do whatever dirty work they are told, journalists like the New Times Glenn Thrush who was exposed in an email to John Podesta submitting to Podesta what people were supposed to believe was an honest piece of objective journalism for his approval and suggestions of what Podesta wanted in or out. The only thing honest was Thrush admitting in the email " I know Im a hack".<br />
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And with the help of the media, Democrats are trying to distract people from what was exposed by the hack of the DNC and Clinton emails by trying to get people to focus on who the suspect was -- Russia -- as opposed to what was exposed which was Clinton, Democratic party and news media were involved in colluding to interfere and undermine our democratic process with lies, smears, corruption and collusion. Regardless of who hacked the DNC emails or John Podesta, what Clinton and the Democrats are really upset about is what was exposed. Who exposed it is another issue.<br />
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So forget about policy for a moment and think that something bigger could be at stake. Like
democracy itself.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">If anyone thinks for one second
there was an iota of civic responsibility or legitimate concerns for the
country or nobility behind the leak of the 2005 video of
Trump with some school boy adolescent braggadocio about what
some women will <i>let</i> a celebrity do, think again. Dishonest Democrats and the news media have used that to simply lie about it and call it "Trump bragging about sexual assault". Which manages at the same time to trivialize the real pain of what real sexual assault victims go through by trying to draw an equivalency to Trumps comment which had nothing to do with sexual assault. But thats how low the DNC and the Clinton campaign want to go. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Regardless of the immaturity of the bragging, Trump talking about what some women will "let" a celebrity do -- as in <i>consent -- </i> in terms of making themselves sexually available is not "sexual assault". Its bragging. Which didnt stop the news media and the Clinton campaign from accusations which were entirely false even if crude. And showing that there was nothing the Clinton campaign,DNC and news media wouldnt do, it finally included a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"> spate of women coming
out of the clouds to make unsubstantiated, in some cases preposterous and in other cases unprovable accusations
against Trump just two weeks before the election.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"> Accusations which, if true and sincere, could have been made when Trump first announced his candidacy. They could have been made anytime during the Republican primary process especially when Trump was winning all of them and racking up delegates. Or the accusations could have been made after Trump won enough delegates to clinch the nomination. Or even days before the Republican convention when there was a substantial movement among the Republican establishment to look for any excuse to keep Trump from getting the nomination.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Instead, nothing. Why? Whatever the reason the fact that these women came out only two weeks before the election when polls showed the race tightening reeks of the kind of politics and smears that people, honest people, have rejected. Its also dangerous.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Its no coincidence that every day that Wikileaks dumped Clinton or DNC related emails that exposed dishonesty, double
dealing, duplicity and a political staff who doesnt even believe her another woman from nowhere made claims of
"sexual assault" for which there was no proof. Clinton and the news media have tried to use "sexual assault" like Joe McCarthy used communism back in the 50's where it was hoped the allegations alone would do the damage.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">In political science circles its called The Big Lie, repeated over and over in the hopes enough people believe it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">So far if there is any real indecent exposure in terms of national importance its been what the Wikileaks exposure of Clinton campaign and DNC emails have exposed. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">We've already seen proof of the Clinton campaign and the news media colluding to stop Bernie Sanders. It's not any less insidious or undermining of democracy that the Clinton campaign, Democrats and news media are trying to do to Trump what they did to Sanders.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">So this isn't about Trump its about the </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">subverting of the democratic process by Clinton, Democrats and the news media.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">For the
record, in terms of the federal case Clinton, Democrats and the news media tried to make of Trumps sexual bragging,</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"> and what makes someone "unfit to be president" one of JFK's aides
disclosed in a book some time ago that JFK told Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at a dinner, "
if I don't get some new pussy every 4 days I get a headache". Some versions of
the quote use "piece of ass" and some sanitize it completely by
saying "woman". Decide for yourself if Hillary Clinton or any Democrat would say that disqualified JFK from being president.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">And lest anyone forget during the 1992 Democratic primary
campaign, an Arkansas woman named Jennifer Flowers claimed she had
an affair with Bill Clinton while he was governor. Bill denied it, said Flowers was lying. Flowers then made public a recorded phone
conversation where Bill can be heard lauding her sexual prowess in a particular area telling her she "could suck a golf ball
through a garden hose". Obviously Hillary Clinton and the Democrats didnt feel that "disqualified" Bill from being president.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"> Instead it led to the "60 Minutes" interview which
was later called Hillary's "Stand by her man" interview in which Hillary defended Bill and said every marriage has its ups and downs. Bill finished 2nd in
the New Hampshire primary and the news media dubbed him </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">"the comeback
kid". The hypocrisy and insincerity and gutter politics at work is obvious.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">There is no doubt there has been clear collusion between the largest mainstream news
outlets to first take to down Bernie Sanders and now Trump. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">The question is why? What could both Sanders
and Trump, two men so seemingly different have in common that would unite the mainstream media. most of them owned by conglomerates, and the political establishment to go all out to defeat in support of a clearly well documented dishonest candidate in Hillary Clinton?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">The answer is </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">what Sanders and Trump have in common.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">Sanders ran on a "rigged system and rigged economy" which benefits the top 1% and that resulted in the income inequality evident today and he was going to do something about it. Sanders campaigned on big changes in healthcare, the way American corporations did business, closing off shore tax loopholes and increasing corporate taxes to pay for things like free college and healthcare. Chuck Schumer the no. 2 Democrat in the senate on the other hand recently announced Democrats are going to push for a big corporate tax <i>cut.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">Trump says he wants to impose a 30% tariff on all goods made by
American companies overseas using cheap foreign labor. The idea is to keep jobs from leaving by making it more expensive to leave than to pay higher wages to American workers. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">Both men oppose the TPP which
Clinton called "the gold standard of trade deals" and Obama supports. We know from leaked excerpts of Clinton speeches to Wall Street</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"> she believes in "open borders and open trade" meaning no trade restrictions and contrary to everything she says publicly has told Wall Street she thinks they should be allowed to police themselves. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Both Sanders or Trump would shake the status quo to its core,turn it upside down and make big changes that would cost tens of billions in corporate profits by overhauling the "rigged system" and rigged economy both talked
about. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Hillary Clinton is all about the status quo and preserving it especially since she has benefitted from the status quo and its where most of her political contributions come from.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">But the most important common denominator with Sanders and Trump, the one that would be the biggest threat to the status quo is this: Neither Sanders or Trump can be
bought. Sanders because of his philosophy, Trump because of his money. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">In 2008 David Axelrod, Obama's campaign manager wrote in an
intra-campaign memo that was never intended to be public:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">"Clinton is driven by political calculation not conviction
regularly shifting positions for political expediency". </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">"Clinton's prescription is old politics and political power
ahead of principle".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">"Clinton has never embraced reforms and opposes many that
would scale back the powers of powerful special interests".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">"Hillary is the problem not the answer".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">"Clinton's submission to powerful interests shuts out the
voices of average Americans".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">I</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">f it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck its a duck. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">And it's
a</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"> duck that will keep on quacking until or unless the American people see through it and decide they've had
enough which would defeat Clinton and a corrupt mainstream news media and the politicians
they collude with and let them know its time to finally shut the duck up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">ADDENDUM: On November 8, three weeks after the above was written, people went to the polls and did in fact decide it was time to tell those who needed to be told to shut the duck up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">Hopefully they'll listen.</span></div>
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Copyright Marc Rubin 2016</div>Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-15248025088407744972016-09-17T06:31:00.001-07:002016-09-20T07:06:44.129-07:00Penn State Honoring Joe Paterno Is a Reminder of the Dishonor of Everyone Else.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Penn State is going to honor Joe Paterno on Sept 17 commemorating the first game Paterno ever won as Penn State head coach and his career as the winningest coach in the history of college football. He is also scheduled, in October, to be inducted into the Pennsylvania sports Hall of Fame.</span><br />
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">But after all the lies told about Paterno, all the media dishonesty,the
cowardice and deceit of the Penn State Board of Trustees who fired him because they
didn't have the guts or integrity to stand up to a corrupt and dishonest news
media, highlighted by Penn State Trustee and former governor of Pennsylvania Tom
Corbett who when running for re-election made a too little too late admission
that Paterno never should have been fired in the first place, after all the
blatant lies and smears designed to appeal to the double digit IQ mob,
that Penn State is now going to honor Joe Paterno without first calling a
press conference to publicly apologize for all their own
cowardice, dishonesty, hypocrisy, incompetence and behavior and act like it
never happened is one more disgrace.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">They didn't call that press conference or issue a statement apologizing for
their crass dishonesty and cowardice at the time because they didn't want to face
the cameras or the music. They didn't want to stand there and admit they made a
horrendous mistake and discarded every principle of idealism and integrity a university is
supposed to stand for,instead caving in to smear merchants like Louis Freeh, hired
by certain members of the Board of Trustees to do just what he did -- <a href="http://tominpaine.blogspot.com/2012/07/red-flags-and-personal-fouls-dishonest.html" target="_blank">smear Paterno with a report so absurd, inaccurate </a>and full of intentional
untruths only a journalist could believe them.And the remaining idiots in this
country who still believe anything journalists write.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><a href="http://tominpaine.blogspot.com/2012/07/demolishing-freeh-report-and-people-who.html" target="_blank">The Freeh Report was so corrupt </a>it
was anonymously disowned by one of Freeh's own investigators but typically the
news media virtually ignored it knowing how badly it would damage their already damaged credibility. Either that or expose their reading comprehension as something on the level of a 3rd grader.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">In many ways its as if Penn State is still doing PR wanting to pretend the
whole dishonest sordid mud slinging witch hunting smear tactic mess committed by
people with no integrity themselves against a man whose integrity was and still is
unquestioned, never happened. Except that it did. <a href="http://tominpaine.blogspot.com/2011/11/sanctimonious-railroading-of-joe.html" target="_blank">As was reported here from the beginning.</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">The NCAA and Mark Emmert have already been exposed as a fraud,some of their internal emails made
public as a result of discovery in a law suit filed by the Paterno family
that proved it was all about bandwagon jumping PR for the NCAA, as it was for
all of the hack journalists trying to pretend they were being noble. The emails
showed the NCAA themselves knew they had no jurisdiction to impose
any of the sanctions they did and didn't even believe the allegations against
Paterno themselves but saw it as an opportunity to look good and felt they could get away with it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">So before any more of the emails could be made public the NCAA caved in and
settled out of court restoring the 111 wins to Paterno's record they tried to
steal and made a series of other agreements rescinding almost all their
sanctions though there is no undoing the damage they did to the football
program, though that is the least of it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">It was also an admission that the NCAA along with most of the mass media were more interested in grandstanding and their own self serving interests at Paterno's expense, than anything resembling the truth.Which is exactly how a mob behaves.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Like Sean Gregory at Time magazine </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">who outright lied in his first article about Paterno and the McQueary suspicions because he was
too lazy, too dishonest too lacking in integrity or competence to find out the truth first so instead made things up out of his own head, falsehoods that were so outrageous and blatant that within days of it being written here that he had</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><a href="http://tominpaine.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-joe-paterno-should-sue-for-libel.html" target="_blank"> </a>opened himself and Time Warner up to <a href="http://tominpaine.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-joe-paterno-should-sue-for-libel.html" target="_blank">an open and shut case of libel</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><a href="http://tominpaine.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-joe-paterno-should-sue-for-libel.html" target="_blank"> by Paterno </a>the blatant falsehoods were scrubbed from the story no doubt at the insistence of Time Warner lawyers because at that point it was about money and millions in an out of court settlement, not a man's reputation. So it was the lawyers who scrubbed it rather than Time editors who allowed the story to be published without vetting or any corroboration.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"> Gregory had written that Joe Paterno sat in his office and did nothing while he knew a 10 year old boy was being raped in the Penn State showers by Sandusky only a few feet away. That was Time magazine. O</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">bviously not a word was true. Gregory made it up out of his own head and incompetent surmising without lifting a finger to find out what was true. And neither Sean Gregory nor his editors cared. Only the lawyers did when it became a matter of money. That was the level of journalism being practiced by a major media outlet (and still is by most of them). But it was enough to get the self righteous bandwagon rolling. And that was just the beginning.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Joining the mindless media mob was almost everyone at ESPN, like Keith
Olbermann, Jay Bilas, Jonette Howard and Jemele Hill, and almost every other sports and mainstream media outlet who in
their own way were and are no better than Jerry Sandusky himself, a group of opportunistic journalistic predators who without any conscience molested and abused the truth and a man's
reputation for their own self serving grandstanding purposes not caring who they
hurt in the process as long as they got what they wanted. Just like Sandusky himself.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">And of course there was Louis Freeh who as FBI director smeared
Richard Jewel as the 1996 Atlanta Olympic bomber without a shred of evidence to
get the heat off himself because they had no leads in the highest profile
criminal case in the world at the time. The Freeh Report was, to anyone with a
high school reading level nothing but trash without a shred of evidence -- not a
shred --<a href="http://tominpaine.blogspot.com/2012/08/why-freeh-didnt-interview-paterno.html" target="_blank"> to support the conclusions designed to indict Paterno </a>and the idiots in
the news media ate it up. Even after former Attorney General Dick
Thornberg and a former FBI agent tried to do a "see Dick run" with the media tearing the report to
pieces factually, the media ignored it because to admit it would be to admit things about themselves not Paterno, none
of them wanted to face. And still don't. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">But it was the throughly and easily discredited Freeh Report,so obviously an intended hatchet job that <a href="http://tominpaine.blogspot.com/2012/08/why-freeh-didnt-interview-paterno.html" target="_blank">Freeh refused requests by Paterno himself to be interviewed </a>for the report, that the media used to justify their attacks. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">That Freeh did an "investigation" and refused to interview or even take a statement from those at the center of it all, Paterno, Curly, Schultz and Spanier, should have in the minds of any rational human being, discredited the report before it was even released. But notfor our intrepid, crusading pillars of nobility and truth known as journalists. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Why did Freeh refuse to interview Paterno for his report? Because every prosecutor or defense lawyer knows you never call a witness who is liable to say things or present facts or evidence you dont want public and that would scuttle your case. And Freeh at the direction of those members of the Board of Trustees who hired him, acted like a corrupt prosecutor (which is what Bloomberg Businessweek accused him of being in 2000 as FBI Director demanding his resignation) not an objective investigator. And that's why Freeh never interviewed Paterno, McQueary, Curly or Schultz. The last thing he wanted was the truth. Just like the news media.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Also ignored by the media to this day is that the much publicized indictments
at the time of Gary Schultz, former overseer of Penn State Campus police to whom
Paterno first reported McQueary's suspicion which as it turned out, was unfounded,Tim
Curley former Penn State AD, and Graham Spanier, Penn State president have all been dropped. The Pennsylvania Attorney General who started the cases which were all PR and no truth to begin with is long gone and the AG who replaced her has just resigned before she was to be impeached for corruption. There was no trial against Spanier, Curley and Schultz
because there was no case to begin with. That fact is being buried by the same media that tried at one time to bury them along with Paterno and Penn State over an abuse that never took place. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">It remains a fact that given a specious, vague and unproven suspicion of
possible child abuse in a Penn State shower which, for all that Jerry Sandusky
was eventually convicted of through his charity Second Mile, was the one thing proved to have never happened, Joe Paterno did more within 24 hours of being told about an unfounded vague suspicion of child abuse by reporting it to his superiors including Penn State police than every priest, bishop, cardinal, or Pope in the Catholic church has in the last 1700 years. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">A topic our crusading news media would still rather ignore and do, like the admission by the archbishop of Australia in his recent testimony before their Parliament investigating church abuse, that child sexual abuse at the hands of the church has been going on worldwide for <i>centuries</i> (his word) and the number of children molested and abused by priests and others in the church is in the <i>millions</i>. That testimony never made it to any news outlet in the U.S. though widely reported by the BBC and other outlets in Europe and Australia.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Its called U.S. media cowardice and fear because for them it's about what they think will sell and what won't. Paterno sold. So they sold out.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">By contrast, the news media never reported on the documents made public by court order from both the Milwaukee and Los Angeles archdioceses detailing specific (and horrific) incidents of church sexual abuse of children in great details that numbered in the tens of thousands over the last 6 decades and covered up by the church (approximately 8,000 in Milwaukee and 40,000 in Los Angeles). Yet for 3 straight weeks in November of 2011, Joe Paterno (not even Sandusky) was the biggest media story in the country. A media group that tracks these things reported that Paterno's name and picture were used at a ratio of 20-1 compared to Sandusky. And it was Sandusky who was the abuser. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">For the media it was all about self-serving grandstanding and increased revenue in attracting a larger audience and that meant Paterno's name, stature and accomplishment, not Sandusky's.</span></div>
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">Joe Paterno deserves his day of recognition. What he didn't deserve was the self serving cash register ringing unfounded attacks by an unprincipled dishonest news media looking to cash in on his accomplishments and reputation and equally dishonest collection of pandering Penn State officials and politicians, some of the pariahs gone and some still with us as is apparent during this election season. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Honoring Paterno at Penn State and the restoring of his 111 wins dishonestly taken in the first place is the
beginning of an attempt to start to return to Paterno some of his due including his reputation smeared by a media mob without a shred of integrity. But while Paterno is starting to get back some of his due,it's still worth remembering there are a lot of devils out there who still need to get theirs.</span></div>
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Copyright Marc Rubin 2016</div>Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-48555945712634618922016-09-13T08:27:00.001-07:002016-09-13T16:38:42.266-07:00Why Bush and Rice Were Never Held Accountable for the 911 Attack.<br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What the 911 Commission hearings revealed was that the September 11, 2001 attacks was nothing less than a result of the worst case of gross,even criminal negligence,ineptitude and incompetence by a president and his national security advisor regarding national security in the history of the United States.</span><br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But unless you watched every minute of the 9/11 commission hearings or read the report you'd never know it. You also wouldn't know that the September 11 attacks which changed the course of history could have easily been prevented. You wouldn't know it because to this day neither the mainstream news media nor our politicians have the courage or integrity to admit it and say so,each for their own reasons.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Instead they created the journalistic legacy that exists to this day of burying the truth along with their heads,turning their backs, looking the other way and promoting lies and propaganda to avoid conflict with people in power and some in the public unless they think it's safe to do otherwise. And so with 911 they constantly repeated as if it were fact the White House myth and cover story that it was an intelligence failure on the part of the intelligence agencies that resulted in 911 and that there was nothing Bush or Rice could've done. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The intelligence failure took place in the Oval Office not with the intelligence agencies who could not have done more or better. The lie that it was a failure of the intelligence agencies that resulted in the 911 attacks was also used by the NSA and its defenders in congress as an excuse to justify the illegal collecting of information exposed by Snowden claiming that if they had those capabilities in 2001 it would've prevented the attacks. It was a lie.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice had so much actionable intelligence given to them which would have prevented 911 there was not a cabdriver in New York City who, with the same intelligence could not have stopped the 911 attack in its tracks. It wasn't just preventable. It was easily preventable.And Bush and Rice had all the intelligence information they needed. They just ignored it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>For eight months leading up to the attack George W Bush and Condoleezza Rice were told repeatedly by Richard Clarke the White House anti-terrorism czar for four presidents and CIA director George Tenant that intercepts of Al-Qaeda chatter indicated the United States was going to be hit with a "spectacular" terrorist attack within the United States. And in July and August of 2001 were told that the intercepts indicated the attack was "imminent".Bush,Rice and others in his administration as per Bush administration policy,ignored it.</span></span></div>
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<span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Many months before as president elect George W. Bush, at his intelligence briefings at Blair house before taking office was told by the FBI and CIA that Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda were the single biggest threats to US national security in the world. In private meetings during the transition with both Bill Clinton and his national security adviser Sandy Berger, Bush and Rice were told again that Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda were the biggest threat to US national security in the world. And to make the point even further Berger told Bush and Rice that the threat of Al Qaeda was so great he predicted the Bush administration would be dealing with Al Qaeda and terrorism more than any other issue throughout his entire presidency.</span></span></div>
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<span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bush and Rice dismissed the warnings. They were convinced they were overblown. Al Qaeda specifically and terrorism in general were dismissed as a major threat.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>Instead Bush made the number one national security priority getting out of the ABM treaty with Russia and considered the biggest threat to national security to be China. Terrorism was a minor issue. As a result Richard Clarke who had been the anti-terrorism chief for four presidents and held a cabinet level position in the Clinton administration was demoted by Bush to a subcabinet level position with </span><span>no direct access to the president. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span><br></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>Bush also did away with the Meeting of the Principals, a meeting that took place daily during the Clinton administration in which Clark chaired a meeting with the heads of every government agency that had anything to do with terrorism including the Attorney General,CIA director,FBI Director, head of ATF, Immigration and any other government agency related to terrorism. The purpose of the meeting was for the head of each agency to share any intelligence related to terrorism they had recieved within the previous 24 hours with the other agencies. One of the major failings of the Bush administration according to the<span> 911 Commission</span></span><span> was the lack of sharing of terrorist information between agencies.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In July 2001 CIA intercepts of Al-Queda chatter were so alarming that George Tenant felt he had to have an emergency meeting with Condoleezza Rice and showed up at the White House virtually unannounced such was the urgency Tenant felt. The purpose of his visit was to discuss a possible imminent terrorist attack against the United States. Rice refused to see him. She not only refused to see him but took the threat of terrorism so lightly that she testified to the<span> 911 Commission</span> that she didn't even remember Tenant requesting a meeting. The White House logs prove otherwise.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In August 2001 CIA intercepts grew more frequent and more alarming. One of the CIA intercepts of an Al Qaeda message translated to "the match has been lit". Other intercepts indicated that the United States was about to be hit with a massive terrorist attack in the United States that in the words of the CIA translator was going to be "spectacular".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Richard Clark testified that in August of 2001 he and George Tenant were "running around the White House like men with their hair on fire" trying to get Rice to do something. George W. Bush had gone on vacation to Crawford and refused to see them. Rice refused to intercede or do anything on her own. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This was the result of official Bush administration policy that terrorism was not a major threat overblown and exaggerated by the Clinton administration. This dismissal was so complete that the assistant director of the FBI testified to the 911 Commission </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">that when he went to see attorney general John Ashcroft in July to inform him about intelligence regarding a terrorist attack within the United States Ashcroft told him "don't ever come into my office with anything related to terrorism again".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the summer of 2001 the suspicious owner of an Arizona flying school called the FBI office in Phoenix. He was suspicious because two Middle Eastern men had shown up at the school wanting to learn how to fly jumbo jets. What made the owner suspicious was that neither one of them wanted to learn how to take off or land. Only to fly. The owner called the Phoenix office of the FBI who forwarded a report to FBI headquarters. Louis Freeh then director of the FBI did nothing. In keeping with Bush administration policy that relegated terrorism to a low priority the information provided by the flight school owner in Arizona was relegated to "routine".One of those men at the Phoenix flying school was Mohammed Atta.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some months before Minneapolis FBI agent Colleen Rowley had arrested Zaccariah Moussai who would come to be known as the 12th hijacker. Except he never got on a plane because he had been arrested by Rowley and her agents.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Like Phoenix, Rowley had been alerted by the owner of a Minneapolis flight school who called the FBI when Moussaui showed up wanting to learn how to fly jumbo jets but didn't want to learn how to take off or land. Rowley acted on her own, arrested Moussaui and confiscated his computer.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was information gleaned from Moussaui's computer that was included in the now infamous August 6, 2001 presidential daily briefing given to both president Bush and Condoleezza Rice.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That intelligence briefing had enough information to have stopped 9/11 in its tracks had Bush acted . It told him not only was bin Laden determined to attack within the United States,which re-enforced what Bush and Rice had already been told by Tenant and Clarke, it also told them Al-Qaeda cells were already in the U.S., and that they had been seen putting buildings in New York City under surveillance. But the most stunning revelation was that Bush and Rice were told on Aug 6 2001 that the means of the terrorist attack was going to involve the hijacking of US airliners.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bush and Rice did nothing.Nothing.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The hijackers who showed up at each airport were all Middle Eastern men in their 20s and 30s, all bought one way tickets to the West Coast, none had reservations so had to pay top dollar for a first class ticket which was $2500, all paid cash and none had any luggage. What do you think would've happened had Bush did nothing more than order the FAA to put out a top priority security bulletin to all US airlines and airports warning of the possibility of hijacking by Middle Eastern men and to report any suspicious activity? None of those hijackers would've ever gotten on those planes. They would've been reported by the ticket agents alone. Middle eastern men buying one way tickets to LA and San Francisco? No one with reservations? All buying first class tickets that cost $2500 each? All paying in cash? No one with any luggage? The attack would have been stopped right then and there.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.apfn.org/apfn/wtc_whistleblower1.htm" target="_blank">Agent Rowley's scathing 13 page post 911 letter to then new FBI Director Robert Mueller </a>is one of the most devastating indictments of the Bush administration and its policies of lackadaisical disinterest and gross negligence and incompetence regarding terrorism and their gross failures of policy which affected FBI investigations ever written. Agent Rowley also accused Mueller of covering up for Bush for "political reasons" in supporting Bush's false assertions that nothing could have stopped the attack.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When Condoleezza Rice testified before the 9/11 commission and was asked by commission council incredulously how she and Bush could have possibly ignored intelligence reports of an imminent terrorist attack that would specifically involve the hijacking of US airliners and still do nothing her answer was so incredulous that it was in itself an indictment of her, the entire Bush administration,it's gross failures and the cowardice of the news media and politicians,both Democrat and Republican in not demanding the resignations of both Bush and Rice. Or at the very least holding them accountable for the attack.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rice's explanation for why they didn't act <span>was, "we had no idea they were going to use the planes as missiles". </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>Meaning that hijacking US airliners and holding possibly 1000 or more American passengers hostage would've been OK?</span></span></div>
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<span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ironically the only news organization that was stunned by the revelation and considered it the bombshell and smoking gun that it was and gave it the significance it deserved was the Rupert Murdoch owned,Republican and conservative leaning NY Post that blasted it on their front page with white type against a black background. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rice's bizarre,damning and incriminating testimony ended with her most memorable and what should have been her most damning and incriminating statement: when asked by an even more incredulous commission council how it was possible that with all of the actionable intelligence she and President Bush had been given which would have prevented the 9/11 attacks they didn't act, Rice replied: "we couldn't connect the dots".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No statement could have been more revealing of the gross incompetence and negligence of both Rice and Bush. Which might explain why the news media and politicians adopted it as their own phrase of choice using it to this day but still not comprehending it's meaning </span></div>
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<span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rice is an extremely intelligent woman, an ivory tower academic from Stanford with a sophisticated vocabulary. She could have chosen any number of words or ways to answer the question. The words she chose were illustrative, true, telling and definitive. Connecting the dots is a child's game. There are a number of dots on a page each numbered consecutively and all you have to do is draw line from one to the other in consecutive order and you get to see the whole picture. Rice admitted neither she nor Bush were able to do what a child could do.Because they never cared enough or took it seriously.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is still fitting that one of the most revealing and definitive statements defining ineptitude and incompetence was adopted by journalists and politicians as their own and phrase of choice becoming a media and political cliché to excuse or justify almost any kind of failure without understanding what it really meant: inexcusable negligence and incompetence.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Which is why Bush and Rice to this day have never been held accountable for their gross failures that allowed the 9/11 attack happen. They were never held accountable because of the sheer cowardice of the news media and Democrats who were afraid of Republican attacks on their patriotism for attacking a sitting president in time of war, and Republicans themselves who wanted to duck responsibility for what happened because of a Republican administration and what the consequences could be in the voting booth. They were prepared to attack Democrats for "politicizing" the attacks to defend themselves as if Bush's monumental failure and its consequences wasn't a legitimate target. Had it been a Democratic president there is little doubt that with the same set of facts Republicans would've been screaming "impeachment". At the very least holding Bush accountable would've been used to defeat the president in 2004.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But this isn't just about assigning blame where it belongs or finger pointing. It's about pointing out that the gross failures of the news media and politicians to tell the truth has serious consequences. One of those consequences post 911 was Iraq.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Had Bush and Rice and the Bush administration been held accountable for their massive failures of judgment and negligence with regards to 9/11 instead of blaming it on the intelligence agencies as the facts and Rowley's letter revealed, Bush never would've had the political capitol to invade Iraq. And even if Bush had not been forced to resign in 2002 he surely would have lost the 2004 election instead of the incredulous political incompetence of John Kerry and the Democrats in being afraid to even bring up the failures of Bush and Rice which had been by exposed by then.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Telling the truth would have changed history. But as the axiom goes the first casualty of war is truth and that was just as true for the war on terrorism.</span></div>
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Copyright Marc Rubin 2016</div>Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-34162534632535996172016-08-21T15:52:00.000-07:002017-01-17T13:14:25.464-08:00How Obama Lied About Obamacare More Than Nixon Lied About Watergate.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Let's be clear about one thing from the beginning: the whole point of healthcare reform, the reason for it in the first place, what healthcare reform promised by Obama and Democrats in 2008 was supposed to do was two things: get healthcare coverage for the 40 million people who didnt have health insurance because they couldnt afford it and to drive down the obscene cost of healthcare for people who did. The promised public option would have accom</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">plished both. Obamacare did neither.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Obama caved in to the health insurance companies who knew the public option would cost them money and even though the public option had the votes in the Democratically controlled congress to pass, Obama, buckling to the pressure from the health insurance lobby had Harry Reid remove it from the healthcare bill even after the public option was passed by the House. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Instead, what was finally voted on, what has been called Obamacare, was Obama and the Democrats' bait and switch which incredibly, allowed the insurance companies to write the most important part of the bill, what people would pay for healthcare coverage and what they would get for their money. In both cases, letting the insurance companies make that decision instead of offering the government run public option destroyed healthcare reform. And, deservedly destroyed the Democratic party's majority in congress since 2010 as their voters, betrayed by Obama and the Democrats on the single most important piece of legislation of his term, threw them out of congress.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Obamacare has been a momunmental failure on the two things healthcare reform was supposed to do, get healthcare coverage for the 40 million who didnt have it and to bring down the cost of health care for people who did. Obama and the Democrats with help from an either ignorant or sycophantic news media, have been brazenly lying about the number of uninsured who now have healthcare coverage who didnt have it before and have been trying to pass off the continued rise in healthcare costs as "success" because the rise has been slower.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">First,the assertion that there are 20 million people who didnt have health care coverage who have it now because of Obamacare is as much a lie as anything that came out of the mouth of Richard Nixon. As you will easily see.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">With Aetna announcing they are substantially reducing their presence on the
Obamacare exchanges following the announcement by United Healthcare that they
are leaving the exchanges altogether which follows the Inspector General report last year
that 22 of the 23 state Obamacare exchanges are folding and closing down because
they are hemorrhaging money because of low enrollments, none of these things would be happening if 20 million people had signed up for Obamacare. Or anywhere close to 20 million. A fact that even further detroys the credibility of most of the mainstream media who think their job is to repeat or not even check, the lies coming from Obama, the White House and Democrats on the "success" of Obamacare.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">So it's time to look at again how we got here and how is it that Obama
and Democrats and a sycophantic news media tried to claim success when it has been failing. Because all of them and Obama in particular have been lying about Obamacare from the day Obama caved in to pressure from the insurance companies and agreed to drop the public option from the healthcare reform bill but kept it quiet and to this day has never admitted while he and the Democrats have lied and covered it up. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">And since that day, Obama has lied more about Obamacare than Nixon lied about Watergate. If Watergate was about abuse of power, Obama's sell out of the public option to the insurance companies and the bait and switch called Obamacare is certainly about misuse of power, the public trust,public policy and it's fallout.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">The media along with Democrats have been repeating lies from the White House from the beginning. The latest was an article in the New York Times repeating the same White House bogus claim that there are 20 million people who signed
up for Obamacare since its inception and now have health insurance they didnt have before.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">There are no 20 million previously uninsured who signed up for health insurance because of
Obamacare. Not even in Obama's dreams. Its only because Obama knows he can say anything and get away with it because most in the media are too incompetent, too lazy, too inept, too easily intimidated (as Ben Rhodes pointed out about the Iran deal) or too dishonest to question it, that Obama and Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, get away with it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Unfortunately for Democrats it was voters who who didnt let them get away with it in 2010 and 2014 and they wont be able to keep getting away with it. Democrats could be headed for an October surprise and a defeat in November to
go with the wipe out they experienced in 2010 and 2014 for the same reason, the massive failure of Obamacare. Both big defeats were predicted here in both 2010 and 2014 if Democrats didnt recognize Obamacare's failures and heed the warning and do something. They didnt and voters paid them back.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">It doesn't take much more than grade school math to know the 2o million figure that the New York Times,Obama, Democrats and others parrot is false. But all you need is a double digit IQ and a minimum of common sense.</span></div>
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">In 2008 the last year of the Bush administration the percentage of uninsured in America was 12.6%. Now, 8 years later, after 4 full years of Obamacare the number of uninsured is 9%. A measly drop of 3.6% in the number of uninsured. Do the math and you will see the numbers dont add up.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Based on a population of (approx) 335 million people, 12.6% represents about 40 million uninsured in 2008 a figure just about everyone agrees on. If the number has now dropped to 9% that would mean 30+ million are still without healthcare coverage and reduces the total number by 7-10 million, not 20 million. But keep in mind that in 2008 unemployment was over 9% which added to the rolls of the uninsured. Now unemployment is 4.9% which means about half of that 7-10 million reduction are simply people who went back to work and obtained coverage that way, not through Obamacare. Which leaves about 5 million who actually bought coverage through Obamacare and almost all of those were the older,sicker uninsured willing to pay the high premiums for insurance they couldnt get before. The rest were people who had individual insurance before and were looking for a better deal. Which explains why 22 of 23 state exchanges are closing and losing millions of dollars due to lack of enrollements and why insurers are leaving the exchanges.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">So how did Obama get to claim 2o million? By doing what would have gotten the CFO of any company in America thrown in jail. He counted the same people twice. And three times. As you will see.</span></div>
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">The first thing to know about Obamacare is that the public option, which was called "the centerpiece of healthcare reform" by Nancy Pelosi was something Obama had promised as part of his campaign as far back as 2007.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">The public option not only could have passed easily since Obama was elected with the biggest Democratic congressional majority of any party in 60 years which included a 60-40 majority in the senate, it actually did pass. In the House. Why it never made it into law is because of one person. Barrack Obama. And the willinginess of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to go along. And then cover it up.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">A CBS/ New York
Times poll in 2009 showed 72% of the country wanted the public option and a staggering 66% said they'd be willing to pay higher taxes to get it. In other words it was a slam dunk both in terms of policy and politics. But as Democrats have shown ever since 2000, even when they can't lose they find a way. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">Obama, showing why he accomplished absolutely nothing in his 11 previous years of elected office before running for president, didn't have the principles, convictions, integrity or values to stand up to the pressure from the health insurance
companies who lobbied him hard to drop it because it was going to cost them
money. It's hard to have the courage of your convictions when you have neither.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">Putting the health of the insurance companies ahead of the health of the American people Obama caved in and even though the public option had already passed the House, instructed Harry Reid to remove it from the senate version of the bill even though the votes were there in the senate to pass it also. Then Obama lied about it.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Obama campaigned on the public option and universal healthcare as far back as 2007 and every townhall meeting he had
from June of 2009 till Feburary of 2010 was in support of the public option. In the end he proved what everyone knows now about Obama when it comes to anything whether healthcare reform or retaliation against Assad for using chemical weapons -- his word is worthless.</span></div>
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">What the usual sycophants and incompetents in the news media didn't notice, was that late in 2009 and early 2010 the banners at Obama's town hall meetings changed from " healthcare reform" to " health <i>insurance</i> reform" signaling something was up. It was the first time the word "insurance" had been substituted for "care". And no one noticed. And Obama wasn't going to say.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">It was the first indication Obama was going to pull a double cross. And he did.He had Reid remove the public option from the ACA, and replaced it with a provision allowing the insurance companies to write the part of the bill related to the exchanges, what would be offered and at what cost. If most Americans are slaves to the insurance companies when it comes to health care,(and they are) what Obama did was nothing less than the equivalent of letting the plantation owners write the Emancipation Proclimation. The irony is self evident. It was Obama's cave in
that is the sole reason the public option was not included in the ACA. And Obama, Democrats, and their Tea Party Left support groups like MoveOn and DFA have been lying about it and covering it up ever since.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">It could be argued that the public option was the most important piece of legislation in terms of equality,establishing healthcare as a civil right, getting healthcare coverage for anyone who wanted it including the 40 million uninsured, something that had eluded presidents since Teddy Roosevelt, and doing more good for more people by leveling the playing field in a fundamental aspect of American life, than anything since the Civil Rights Act of 1965. And it was Obama who killed it.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">When Jim Lerher at PBS asked Obama about the ACA being passed, Obama said "
I got 98% of everything I wanted". Lerher pointed out there was no public option. Obama's answer? " I never campaigned
for a public option". Which belongs with the Nixon claim that Watergate was just a third rate burglary.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">Even the usually Obama-friendly Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC said Obama's statement was clearly a lie and within 24 hours Youtube exploded with Obama speeches going back to 2007
where he campaigned and advocated for both universal healthcare and the public option. Its goes without saying that the news media ignored Obama's biggest lie up to that point which concerned one of the most important policy decisions of the last 50 years and over 300 million Americans yet runs headlines about trivialities
involving Trump's verbal gaffes and sarcasms.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">In 2010, after the ACA was passed without the promised public option, Democratic voters paid the Democrats back handing them the biggest congressional defeat of any party in 80 years. Only two years into Obama's administration and winning the biggest congressional majority of any party in 60 years. And it was the sell out of the public option that is the sole reason.They lied about it then, and still do.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">It was the same in 2014 after the first full year of Obamacare. The miserable performance of Obamacare was bad enough. But Obama added to it by throwing Senate Democrats under the bus just
in time for the election. This time it was a lie of omission by Obama. To save his own skin.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"> Insurance polices were being
cancelled and Republicans pounced pointing out Obama's promise that " if you like
your health insurance you can keep your health insurance.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">It caused many
Democrats in the senate up for re-election to scramble. CNN repeatedly showed video clips of town hall meetings where Obama said " if
you likeyour health insurance you can keep your health insurance". Except that Wolf Blitzer and everyone else at CNN as well as other journalists,producers and editors were either too incompetent, ignorant or too intimidated to point out that Obama never said "if you like your health insurance you can keep your health insurance" about Obamacare. Not once. He said it only about the public option which he was promoting at the time and eventually dropped. Obama said it defending the public option against Republican attacks that it was a government take over of healthcare. He pointed out it was only an option, no one was being forced to enroll in the public option and that " if you like your health insurance you can keep your health insurance". He never made that claim about what became Obamacare.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">Rather than point that out, Obama kept his mouth shut. He let himself and
senate Democrats take an enormous hit on credibility rather than remind people that he dropped the public option. It would also be an admission that when he
said he never campaigned for the public option he lied.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">The second thing to know,the politics aside is that as policy Obamacare is a massive failure, something Democrats and Obama's sycophants in the news media still wont admit.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">As pointed out before, healthcare reform was supposed to do two things: get healthcare coverage
for the 35-40 million who couldn't afford it and so didn't have it and bring
down the obscene cost of health care and health insurance for
people who did. Its been a total failure on both counts where the public option would have succeeded.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">Typcial of media sycophants, a recent article in the Huffington Post by a reporter named
Jeffery Young pandering for White House wrote an article
with the headline, "Obamacare Cuts Uninsured to Single Digits".</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">Almost none of the 32 million younger healthier uninsured signed up, the group every economist said was needed to make the bait and switch version of Obamacare work.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">That they didnt shouldnt have surprised anyone. In places like New York City, rural Georgia,
Montana, Wyoming and other parts of the country a single person making $40,000 a year and so not eligible for subsidies under Obamacare were looking at Bronze Plans intended to appeal to those who couldnt afford insurance that came with premiums as high as $600 a month, $6500 deductibles and 40%
co-pays. No one in their right minds making $40,000 a year is going to pay $7200 a year for premiums for a health insurance policy where they have to pay out
<em>another $6500 </em>before the policy covers everything and a 40% co-pay
along the way. And just to rub more salt in the Obamacare wound, those policies were not accepted by the best doctors and hospitals. There are people who bought Bronze policies who had to travel more than 100 miles one way to see a doctor or clinic who would take the low end policies.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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The 3% who did buy in are for the most part the older, sicker and most
desperate of the uninsured. Which is one reason why Aetna and United are
leaving. They are losing tens of millions covering those people and dont have the 32 million younger healthier uninsured
that the insurance pools needed for balance because the policies
offered through Obamacare were all overpriced junk. <br />
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So much junk that a year ago Obama admitted in the New York Times that the low end
bronze plans were "substandard." An antiseptic way of saying "garbage",<br />
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As for Obamacare numbers Obama has lied about them too from the beginning.<br />
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Starting with the numbers announced for 2013, the first year of Obamacare and the exchanges, Obama and the White House
started cooking the books. They claimed in the first year there were 7 million enrollments.
First, even if the number was real (it wasn't) 7 million people signing up for
health insurance out of 40 million who didnt have it because they couldnt afford it is pathetic. The public option would have covered all of them. But the real Obamacare sign up number is lower.<br />
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According to the insurance companies who are to be believed more than White House spin, 20% of those who signed up
never sent in their first month's premium which invalidated the enrollments. Which
brings the number down to 5.6 million. Another 5-10% (we'll use the lower
number) were multiple enrollments by the same person who thought because of the infamous web
site glitches the first one didn't go through. That brings the number down to
5.3 million. And another 5% lied on their applications about their income to try and
qualify for subsidies they didnt qualify for bringing the actual number down to about 5 million or
less not 7 million. And that includes <i>all </i>sign ups which included people who had health insurance and were looking for a better deal, not just those who previously didn't have insurance.<br />
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The next year Obama announced that the number of people who signed up for
health insurance in 2014 who didn't have it before was 16 million. He said it repeatedly. He said in a speech to Catholic Hospitals. He said in his State of the Union message. It was and
still is a lie, the kind of careful lie where Obama has given himself an excuse if he was caught.<br />
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The claimed number of sign ups in 2014 was 9 million. That number is
also inflated for the same reasons cited earlier the true number closer to 8 million. But what Obama did in announcing 16 million was he counted the same people twice. <br />
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Obama got to 16 million by taking the 9 million claimed for 2014 and the 7
million claimed (falsely) for 2013 and <i>added</i> them to get to 16 million. The problem is that most of the 9 million in 2014 were part of the 7 million in 2013 and were <em>renewing </em>policies from the year before. They were not <i>new </i>sign ups. They were <i>renewals </i>from the year before. But Obama counted them as if they were new. They werent. They were the same people who bought policies in 2013. There were less than 2
million <i>new </i>enrollees in 2014. So the real total number of sign ups by the end of 2014 was about 6.7 million nationaly with adjustments. A pathetically small number. Which is why the biggest insurers are getting out, why premiums have skyrocketed and why healthcare exchanged have closed from lack of interest. Obama's claim that 16 million who previously didn't have health insurance got it through Obamacare is not only a lie its fraud.<br />
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Obama and Democrats and media parrots now claims 20
million in 2016. But the total number of those previously uninsured who now have insurance in the 8 years since 2008 is actually about 9-10 million out of the 40 million who had no coverage in 2008.And many of as a result of unemployment going from 9% to 4.9%.<br />
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It still leaves about 30 million today without healthcare coverage.Of that 9-10 million reduction only 6 million+ at most are a direct result of Obamacare. The rest are people who were
unemployed in 2008 and went back to work or those who became eligible for expanded Medicaid, the only partially positive thing about Obamacare but
still a failure in that it was left to the states to choose to implement or
not. And many didnt.In Louisiana for example there are 278,000 people qualified for expanded Medicaid who didn't get it because the state chose not to participate.<br />
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As for the cost of healthcare in general, the second major prong of healthcare reform, that too has been a disaster.</div>
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Had tens of millions signed up for the public option as the polls showed they would have,the government would have had the leverage to negotiate better costs in both drugs and treatment. It would have brought the cost of
health care way down,especially drugs. Obamacare? Costs keep skyrocketing but Obama calls it a success because costs are going up at a slower rate
than before, which is Cuckoos Nest thinking which says an insane system of health care costs are still getting more insane but at a slower rate and thats success.<br />
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Premiums have been going up for everyone ever since Obamacare began and the
biggest rise will be this year. Insurers have submitted proposals around the
country of increases from 8% to has high as 60%. And while states can make
recommendations nothing they do is binding. Which means there could be an October surprise for Democrats when the actual numbers are released. And
with the steep rise in premiums, insurers leaving the marketplace and the state
exchanges closing there will be disastrous Obamacare smoking guns that this time Obama, Hillary Clinton, Democrats and a sycophantic news media wont be
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Copyright Marc Rubin 2016</div>Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-52717841914937652282016-08-05T16:33:00.000-07:002016-08-06T12:10:36.721-07:00Will the Inspector General Have the Courage and Integrity to Revoke Clinton's Clearances?<br />
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<a href="http://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/60321.htm#k" target="_blank">Anyone looking at Section K of State Department guidelines </a>listing offenses
regarding the handling of protected State Department information will come to the same
inescapable conclusion -- Hillary Clinton blatantly and intentionally and
willfully for the sake of her own convenience and to keep hidden from public
view things she was doing she did not want the public to see, violated 5
specific guidelines that would lead to the revocation of any State Department
employee's security clearances. Any one of them would have an employee's
security clearances revoked. Clinton violated five.<br />
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There is also a separate section called "The Adjudication Process" which
lays out guidelines for what the adjudicator can take into consideration when
determining whether an individual who violated any of the guidelines should have
their clearances revoked.<br />
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Included in the guidelines are three "mitigating circumstances" that an
adjudicator can apply to a case. Hillary Clinton would not qualify for any of
those mitigating circumstances. In fact her conduct and behavior could be
concluded to be not mitigating, but aggravating circumstances and
behavior.<br />
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The guidelines and violations committed by Clinton are so specific to her own conduct someone reading them would think they were written by Trey Gowdy the
Republican Chair of the Benghazi Committee yesterday just to nail her. But they
weren't. They have been in place since 2006 and Clinton was briefed on all of
them when she became Secretary of State and even signed a pledge to uphold them
and to see that others do too.</div>
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Clinton's violations are so egregious and specific they are beyond debate. And while Clinton once again was caught lying in an interview with Fox's Chris Wallace
trying to claim that James Comey said she had told the truth to the American
people when he said no such thing and it had already been concluded by the
Inspector General that she had lied repeatedly to the American people about her
server, what Comey did say was that anyone who did the things Clinton did, while he didn't
believe was enough to send her to prison, was enough to face serious sanctions
regarding her security clearances.<br />
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So the FBI Director is on record after a
yearlong investigation as saying that Clinton did enough to warrant
sanctions levied against her on her security clearances.<br />
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But that is not in Comey's hands as FBI Director. Its in the hands of the
State Department Inspector General. And as a Democratic appointee one can only
imagine the pressure being put on him now and how he is being told by almost
everyone around him that he just cant do it -- he cant revoke her clearances no matter how clear and serious her violations are and be responsible for throwing the
presidential election into unprecedented chaos. Not to mention becoming persona
non grata in the Democratic party (as if given their unprecedented fraud,
rigging, lying and fixing the nomination for Clinton that would matter to anyone
with integrity).<br />
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One can almost hear the people around him telling him he just cant do it, to look the other way,how it will ruin his career, how he will turn the entire election and
presidential campaign on its head, how it would change history and he'd be
responsible because Clinton could no longer run because, you know, you cant have
a president who is barred from looking at classified and Top Secret intelligence. Though to hear and read the justifications and
rationalizations of some of her supporters despite her serial lying, rigging of
the nomination process and violating national security guidelines,there are Clinton supporters who would vote for her even
if it meant her having to wear an ankle monitor in the White House.<br />
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But as Secretary of State,which makes her top management, her violations are that much more
egregious.It was her responsibility to make sure others adhered to security guidelines yet she was the worst and most willful offender.So much so that had she not been a presidential candidate
or nominee her clearances would have been revoked by now.<br />
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There is also little doubt that someone connected to the Clinton
campaign or a congressional Democrat has gotten a message through to the Inspector General that if he keeps his mouth shut and
Clinton wins there is a nice big fat job in her administration waiting for him.
Its called a bribe and thats how Washington works. And there is little doubt the bribe offer has been made because
there is no doubt Clinton deserves to have her clearances revoked.<br />
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All anyone has to do is <a href="http://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/60321.htm#k" target="_blank">look at Section K, and look at items b,c,g,h,i </a>and
see that Clinton's violations are open and shut. Even Bill Clinton couldn't
argue that she didn't violate every one of them. Then read the "mitigating circumstances" below the itemized list and
its clear there are no mitigating factors that apply to Hillary Clinton. To further understand the adjudication process one can scroll to the top of the guideline section and read them.<br />
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As for item "i:, no its not piling on as any one of Clinton's
violations would be enough to disqualify her from keeping her security clearances and even four are more than bad enough. But "i" still applies. Comey could not say whether she was hacked or not, only
that there were two attempts. He couldn't confirm one way or the other whether any
documents were stolen or seen by hackers. So why does that make Clinton subject to violating item "i" along
with the four others? Because the guidelines for the
Adjudication Process has a sentence that makes clear that if there is any
doubt regarding a person's fitness or any doubt as to whether a violation has
been committed "the doubt is to be resolved in favor of National Security".The
person does not get the benefit of the doubt, national security does.<br />
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It is for people to read Section K themselves with attention to items
b,c,g,h,i, and then the 3 mitigating circumstances listed under, to decide for themselves if
Clinton's violations were so clear, irrefutable, and indefensible that if it had been even a slightly
lower but still high level State Department employee their security clearances
would have been revoked before now.<br />
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Add the aggravating circumstances related to Clinton's lack of character as per the guidelines, her personal responses, her repeated and continued public lying and her high position as head of the department, all factors in the evaluation process with the
Inspector General already on the record pointing out that Clinton lied repeatedly to the
public when she said that her private server had been approved, and there are no mitigating circumstances to save Clinton.<br />
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Clinton's server was not only never approved Clinton never even sought
approval and had she the Inspector General said it would have been denied.
Which is exactly why Clinton did not seek approval and went ahead and violated
State Department and National Security guidelines anyway. Because she wanted to.
And knew her server would not be approved. And thought she could get away with
it.<br />
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Then add her refusal to cooperate with the Inspector General
investigation and it makes clear no mitigating circumstances apply and all her character evaluations mitigate against Clinton and in fact are aggravating
circumstances that would lead to anyone's national security
clearances being revoked.</div>
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FBI Director Comey thought they should be. It will be up to the Inspector General
and how much integrity and backbone he has as to stand up to an already exposed corrupt Democratic party as to whether he will do what is right and live up to his commitment to State Department rules and regulations on
national security and do
what James Comey said to Congress he would do if Comey was in his shoes.</div>
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Copyright Marc Rubin 2016</div>Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-78402032176393398812016-07-25T05:22:00.000-07:002016-07-26T06:09:19.985-07:00For Democrats It's Back to the Future: Chicago '68 Coming to
Philadelphia 2016<br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Not since 1968 and the massive demonstrations against the Vietnam war during the Democratic convention in Chicago will Democrats see the kind of anger, resentment and passion they will see directed against them by Sanders supporters and more specifically against Hillary Clinton who has
become the Ma Barker,Imelda Marcos and Eva Peron of American politics for her corrupting the democratic process in collusion with the DNC and a Banana Republic news media to steal and rig the Democratic nomination. </span><br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">The demonstrations and protests promise to be massive and disruptive against what amounted to a Hillary
Clinton-Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and DNC criminal enterprise to steal the
nomination from Bernie Sanders to make good on promises made to Clinton in 2008
in return for not contesting the nomination against Obama. Its already started to come back to haunt them.</span><br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">It was going to happen even before a Wikileaks email dump confirmed that Clinton, the DNC and the notorious Debby Wasserman-Schultz, their super
delegates and just about everyone associated with the Democratic party
establishment all the way down to Obama were part of what amounted to election fraud,rigging and collusion making them the most dishonest, corrupt,
fraudulent collection of Democrats overseeing the most dishonest election process since Boss Tweed rigged elections in New York in the 1850's.</span><br>
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There were going to be huge protests by Sanders supporters against Clinton anyway for the fraud and rigging of a nomination she
never would have won otherwise. But the email dump by Wikileaks confirmed how deeply politically corrupt the Democratic party was and how much in collusion with banana republic journalists at MESSNBC, the usual collection of sycophants and cowards at CNN, the corrupt journalists at AP, The Hill,Politico and NY Times Hillary Clinton's campaign really was. </div><div><br></div><div>Which explains why when anonymous superdelegates came out of the woodwork in Februrary to make unofficial declarations for the first time in political history for Clinton the news media not only didn't question what was going on they dishonestly added those unofficial declarations to Clinton's pledged delegate totals making the current collection of journalists at CNN,MSNBC,AP and others the most dishonest and politically corrupt the country has ever had. </div>
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<div>The corporate media was and is as opposed to Trump as to Sanders and ironically for the same basic reason: neither serves corporate interests. Trump can't be bought because of his money, Sanders can't be bought because of his integrity but they all know Clinton can be bought. And has been. And so the corporate media has been slanting coverage for Clinton in collusion with the DNC from the beginning.</div><div><br></div><div>The exposure of emails showing the depths of collusion between Clinton,the DNC and the news media with thousands more emails to come has created an even uglier situation for Democrats than they anticipated and has put them in a political quick sand which will continue to drag them down.And like real quick sand the more they struggle to get out of it the more it will drag them down.</div>
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<div>Debbie
Wasserman-Schultz' resignation as Chair of the DNC and her immediate hiring by
Hillary Clinton as co-chair of her campaign re-enforces the reality that Hillary
Clinton is a political criminal running a politically criminal enterprise and the DNC has been nothing more than her gang. And Donna Brazile who will replace Wasserman-Schultz is no better than she was. </div>
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It was Brazile who, in 2008 when super delegates looked like they would go Clinton's way, announced she would quit the Democratic party if super delegates decided the nomination. And they never voted. Instead a backroom deal was cut between Obama and Clinton which included Clinton being named Secretary of State. But it also included promises made for 2016 that we've seen played out during the primaries. Sanders was the fly in the ointment they never anticipated but the Clinton campaign knew the fix would be in one way or another. It was why they were so confident,making statements from both Clinton and Robby Mook her campaign manager that there was no chance she wouldnt be the nominee. It was a confession. They knew the process was rigged for Clinton.</div>
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With Donna Brazile now acting as Chair, Clinton has the same dishonest ally she had in Baby Faced Wasserman-Schultz. Brazile railed against super delegates in 2008 but as part of the fix for 2016 supported super delegate declarations for Clinton that started back in February.</div>
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But the chickens are coming home to roost. Brazile said in 2008 that if super delegates decided the nomination she would quit the Democratic party. Sanders voters are going to do the same and all those statistics put out by the same colluding news outlets claiming a majority of Sanders voters will vote for Clinton is as dishonest and fabricated as their other coverage since January. Sanders voters and supporters despise Clinton and the DNC to such a degree they would rather go without food than vote for Clinton. </div><div><br></div><div>And even Sanders anticipated support for Clinton won't change that. Everyone knows having run as a Democrat Sanders has no choice but to endorse her. Who else would he back? A 3rd party candidate when he has caucused with Democrats fur 25 years? </div>
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<div>But any attempt by Clinton supporters or the DNC to stifle or repress
Sanders supporters expressing their disgust for Clinton or their support for Sanders either inside the convention center or out is going to be met
with the kind of resistance that will overshadow Clinton and anything the DNC
does over the next three days. And if it gets really ugly Clinton and the DNC and for his part Obama who is actually the force behind all of it since the DNC marches to his orders, will be to blame. But that doesn't mean it has to be violent.<br>
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When people think of Chicago '68 they automatically think violence but
the violence in '68 was caused by the Chicago police who initiated
the violence in an attempt to silence or stifle demonstrators. They were ordered
to do it by Mayor Richard Daly who didn't want the demonstrations to overshadow
the convention. They got the opposite. And Democrats lost in November.<br>
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The DOJ investigation into the violence at the '68 convention
called it " a police riot". It was the Chicago police out of control and violent
not the demonstrators.<br>
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It is not likely Philadelphia's mayor will be that stupid even if Clinton and the DNC are, and so the
protests will be loud, raucous, embarrassing for Clinton and the Democrats and
will cripple their chances of winning in November, something the Democrats and
Clinton richly deserve but there is no reason to think it will be violent.<br>
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Unless the DNC does some really stupid things and from what we've seen from
their emails stupid is
very possible. Like trying to physically take way pro-Sanders signs from his
delegates in which case Sanders delegates will no doubt resist. Or even more stupid, if the DNC tries to skip a
roll call vote that Clinton cant win on the first ballot which would force super delegates to vote, the only way Clinton can get the nomination which will
certainly turn off viewers around the country including independent voters.<br>
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If the DNC tries to stop a roll call in order to avoid Clinton having to endure the national embarrassment of a prime time vote where Sanders will record almost as many pledged delegates as she did without securing the nomination on the first ballot, if they pass resolutions like trying to nominate Clinton through acclimation which means through a voice vote where its agreed Clinton is the nominee and all votes are officially recorded for her
(it was done dishonestly for Obama in 2008), if that happens and Sanders
delegates are denied the chance to cast their 1900 votes (to Clinton's 2200+) on
the first ballot all hell is going to break loose inside the convention center
and out. Hopefully the DNC isnt that stupid. <br>
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No matter which way it goes its going to be bad for the DNC, the Democratic
party as a whole and Clinton specifically.<br>
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The convention promises to be
everything Clinton and the DNC didnt want courtesy of Sanders voters who are not
going to take Clinton and the DNC's corruption lying down. And all of it is something Clinton, the Democratic party and the DNC brought on
themselves with their blatant cheating, lying, election fraud, news media
collusion distortion and manipulation. And with the emails confirming they are corrupt to the core they will probably pay for it dearly both in
Philadelphia and in November.</div>
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</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Marc Rubin
Copyright Marc Rubin 2016</div>Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-59605393632474574112016-07-22T07:38:00.000-07:002016-07-24T16:09:55.005-07:00For Obama and Nice (And Now Munich) a New Terrorist Attack But the Same Old Response.<br />
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(Note since publishing this piece this morning another terrorist attack, this time in a Munich shopping mall. Its still an ongoing situation but reports are multiple dead, some reports have the number at 15. And everything written below before this latest attack applies even more now)<br />
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Given the atrocities of the recent attack in Nice, it seemed appropriate<a href="http://tominpaine.blogspot.com/2015/11/obama-cameron-and-hollande-to-blame-for.html" target="_blank"> to recall what was written here </a>last November right after the Paris attacks,holding accountable those whose failures to act decisively both before Paris and after continued to allow these attacks and atrocities to happen thanks to their continued avoidance to do what needed to be done.<br />
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Unfortunately nothing has changed. And San Bernadino, Brussels, Istanbul, Orlando and now Nice is the result ( there is still no confirmation of who is behind the Munich attack).<br />
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There is and has been a steadfast refusal by Obama to send American troops to Iraq to destroy Isis. Instead we get the same worthless worn out cliches we've heard before when after the attack in Nice Obama issued a statement saying he "condemned the attack in the strongest possible terms". Which as everyone knows sent Isis doubling over with remorse and begging forgiveness. It didn't get them on the run either. Which,incredibly, is exactly what John Kerry, living in his unicorn fantasy world, claimed after the Nice attack. That Isis was on the run. Which was like telling someone who was just beaten and robbed that crime is going down.<br />
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After each attack we hear the same old broken record of how hard it is to stop these attacks from people who have been radicalized, how hard it is to prevent attacks by people who went to Iraq or Syria to be trained by Isis and then return to their respective countries to commit atrocities. And yet no one has given a thought to: what if there was no longer anywhere for these aspiring terrorists to go? What if there was nothing for them to return from? What if Isis was destroyed and there was nothing left of their fighters, or leaders, or web sites and computers or anything else? What if they were actually destroyed?<br />
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The deep thinkers that pop up on TV news shows say things like " but how do you defeat or destroy an ideology? How do you destroy an idea"? How about just destroy Isis first and worry about the ideas later? No one sat around during WWII worrying about how to destroy Nazi ideology. They destroyed the Nazis. That seemed to do the trick.<br />
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That means destroying Isis with deeds not words and what a real leader <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">would have done 3 years ago: send as many troops as necessary to destroy them. Which is what previous Secretaries of Defense had suggested before resigning over Obama's unwillingness to act and what former Chairman of the Joints Chiefs, General Dempsy testified to congress in 2014 he was prepared to do. It was Obama who wasn't.</span></div>
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The Nice attack is one more painful reminder of the failures of judgment, will and backbone that has been the hallmark of Obama's presidency in dealing with just about everything, a presidency Hillary Clinton, whose own failures as Secretary of State along with her personal failures thinks the country needs for <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">four more years.</span></div>
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It's not that we don't know where Isis is. And it's not like we don't know how many there are - 30,000 fighters in Iraq. Sending troops to destroy them with air support already there means no more Isis fighters in Iraq,no more training facilities,no more infrustructure,no more places in Iraq to attract and train and radicalize more terrorists to send back to their countries. But instead of sending troops Obama sends thoughts and prayers. And he sent them again after learning of the attack in Munich.<br />
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Today (July 22) it was announced in Paris (before the Munich attack) that France would not send French ground troops to Iraq. Its understandable. If the U.S. is not going to lead, if the U.S. is not going to send troops it makes no sense for the French to go it alone.</div>
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In Sept 2014 then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Dempsey testified in front of two congressional committees that he was prepared to recommend sending 90,000 U.S. troops to Iraq to defeat and destroy Isis once and for all. Obama said no.Which is probably why Dempsey is no longer Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Its why three of Obama's Secretaries of Defense resigned.<br />
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Instead,Obama did what he does most and does best -- he lied to avoid having to do anything.<br />
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At a press conference the day after the Paris attacks (which was two days after he said Isis had been "contained ,a statement he made the morning of the attack) Obama said in answer to a question about sending ground troops to defeat Isis, "not one of my top military advisors has ever recommended sending ground troops to fight Isis". Perhaps Obama didnt consider the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs one of his top commanders. Or maybe he knew he could lie to a collection of incompetent dead fish posing as journalists and get away with it as he has many times before.<br />
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Since then Obama has authorized a few hundred commandos to be sent to fight Isis. Dempsey said 90,000. Dempsey's number makes sense. With 30,000 Isis fighters in Iraq you send in overwhelming force which makes it safer for the troops going in and accomplishes the mission faster. And that number doesnt include forces from NATO countries who would join including the French. So the 90,000 doesnt have to be all U.S. troops.<br />
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Dempsey didnt pull that number out of a hat or ask a Magic 8 Ball. He had military planners at the Pentagon war game a mobilization and give a force assessment needed and a plan. Dempsey wouldnt have bothered to have military planners come up with a plan if he thought sending troops to destroy Isis wasnt necessary.Or advisable.<br />
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How many attacks and loss of life will it take before Obama decides that his condemnations and thoughts and prayers and his heart going out are not enough? No one can say. But a leader acts to prevent a tragedy. And Obama is not a leader. Hopefully it won't take another mass casualty attack in the U.S. to force his reluctant hand. But it might. </div>
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And let's not forget the refugee crisis with tens of thousands of refugees pouring into Europe while many are seeking asylum in the U.S. which has created another problem of its own.These refugees are coming from Syria.Running from Isis.<br />
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Bernard Henri-Levy a French writer and philosopher said after the Paris attacks, "no boots on the ground in Iraq means more blood on the ground in France and the U.S." He's been proved right. And if there is any real controversy over whether troops should be sent, there are two choices: follow the advice of the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, three Secretaries of Defense and the dictates of common sense, or the judgement of the president who three years ago shrugged Isis off as no problem and called them "the junior varsity".<br />
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From the beginning three years ago and with each subsequent attack it is Obama's handling of Isis and terrorism that deserves to be condemned. And now more than ever in the strongest possible terms.<br />
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Copyright Marc Rubin 2016</div>Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-77915838659772452662016-07-14T10:28:00.001-07:002016-07-15T11:50:10.001-07:00Clinton and the FBI Decision: A Comey of Errors.<br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">James Comey is an honest man. A man who's integrity is beyond
reproach. And nothing about that has changed with his decision not to recommend
prosecution of Hillary Clinton for what was clearly her blatant disregard for State Department
rules regarding the protection of sensitive to classified national security documents and in his words, her "extreme carelessness" which many argue is the same as negligent which by statute would rise to the level of a felony.</span><br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">But the error James Comey made in deciding against recommending criminal prosecution for Clinton was not about the evidence which speaks for itself, it was Comey's reasoning, not some adolescent comic book conspiracy theory about a fix that some believe.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">The primary reason Comey gave for not recommending prosecution was that he could not find any precedent to prosecute based on
Clinton's actions. And, he said, he went all the way back to 1917 and the origin of the statute through to the present to look. And therein lies his error.</span></div>
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James Comey felt because there was no precedent there ought not to be a prosecution. However in the case of Hillary
Clinton based on the facts,specifics and the times in which we live and technology available that was not available to any other Secretary of State or State Department employee between 1917 and 2008, what was needed in Clinton's case was not to look for a precedent but to set one.<br>
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And the reason setting a precedent in Clinton's case was called for was the simple fact that everything Hillary Clinton did was in fact, unprecedented.<br>
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Her actions and behavior were aided and abetted and made possible by a technology that simply didnt exist from 1917 through 2008. And her motive, to avoid her emails being disclosed through the Freedom of Information Act, also didnt exist until 1967 and was then had to be amended in 1996 to cover electronic communications like computer email.<br>
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Because of all these things, Clinton's actions deserved a precedent setting prosecution based on unprecedented behavior made possible by unprecedented technology and a motive that didnt exist until 1996.<br>
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Clinton is only the third Secretary of State to serve during the high
tech era of Information Technology and the information age. The first two were Colin Powell from 2001-2004 and
Condoleeza Rice from 2004-2008.<br>
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technology available during Powell and Rice's tenure was almost horse and
buggy compared to what exists now and what was available to Clinton when she was Secretary of State and what she in fact used.<br>
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What Clinton did with her private server and multiple hand held devices violated multiple and serious specific State Department rules regulations and guidelines against doing specifically those things and would disqualify anyone from having any security clearances at all from sensitive to Top Secret. Those guidelines didnt exist till 2006, before Powell's tenure and two years into Rice's and so to look for precedent to use to prosecute Clinton made no sense.<br>
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Clinton's violations had no relation to anything that could have been envisioned from 1917 through 1996-2006. And no relation to anything Colin Powell or Condoleeza Rice did or could have done, which Clinton dishonestly has tried to use to compare and justify her own blatant violations.<br>
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For the record, the "same thing" that Powell did that Clinton had tried to use as an excuse to justify her conduct was that from 2000-2004 when he was Secretary of State Colin Powell had an AOL email account. AOL.<br>
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Hillary Clinton wants you to compare Powell having an AOL email account which was never used to communicate sensitive or classified information, to her own use of a private email server in the basement of her home used with mutiple hand held devices (which blows her "convenience" story of only wanting one device for everything for anyone brainless enough to have believed it in the first place) in which she sent and received over 55,000 State Department emails, 110 of them classified.<br>
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That is Clinton's idea of Powell's having done the "same thing". It shows an almost pathological willingness to lie about anything for self-serving reasons. And she wonders why a large majority say she is dishonest and untrustworthy.<br>
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It was an error of logic and reasoning on Comey's part to recommend against prosecuting Clinton based on
a lack of precedent when, in the case of Hillary Clinton precedent was exactly what was called for.What Clinton did was unprecedented and she did it with unprecedented equipment and it called for an unprecedented prosecution.<br>
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In citing the case of David Patraeus Comey pointed out that he had physical
hard copies of classified material hidden in a drawer in his home. That could easily have found precedent and similar conduct between <a dir="ltr" href="tel:1917-1995-2008" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors="true">1917 - 2008</a> and so precedent was easy to find. There was no precedent to what Clinton did and so precedent should never have been the deciding factor.<br>
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Investigators and prosecutors when looking at a crime and a suspect always boil it down to means, motive and opportunity. From 1917 <a dir="ltr" href="tel:1995-2000-%202007" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors="true"> -
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Her motive didn't exist because prior to 1996 there was no Freedom of Information Act covering electronic communications which was her motive for using a private server to prevent her emails from being made public. And the means
and opportunity didn't exist because the technology she used didn't exist between
1917 and 1996-2008.<br>
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No one can disagree that what Clinton did was unprecedented. It should have been met with a precedent setting prosecution applying today's realities, facts and technology, facts and realities that existed while Clinton was Secretary of State which gave her the means motive and opportunity to do what she did but did not exist for anyone else between 1917 and 2008.<br>
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It will now be up to the Inspector General of the State Department to
decide whether or not Clintons security clearances will be revoked for her irrefutable disqualifying violations of 5 applicable State Department guidelines that
disqualify someone from a security clearance. Those disqualifying guidelines are specified in paragraphs <i>b,c,g,h,i</i> of Section K on handling protected information <a href="http://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/60321.htm#k" target="_blank">which can be read here. </a></div>
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There will be no need to review Clinton's security clearances for
a precedent because the guidelines which were written in 2006 are so specific and apply to Clinton's
violations, conduct and behavior with such specificity you would think they were written by a
Republican committee member two weeks ago just to apply to Clinton.<br>
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As Comey pointed out, in spite of deciding not to prosecute, just because he found no precedent to charge Clinton with one or more felonies,(error or not) that did not mean there would be no consequences for someone who did what Clinton did and Comey mentioned security clearance sanctions as an example.<br>
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If Clinton's security clearances are revoked it will have almost the same effect as her being indicted. It would be impossible for her to run for president in spite of many of her supporters who think it would be ok even if she had to wear an ankle bracelet and report to a parole officer while president.<br>
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If on the other hand Clinton's security clearances are not revoked when any State Department employee with the same violations based on established guidelines would have not only been fired but had all their security clearances stripped, if after all of Clinton's deliberate and
intentional disqualifying violations along with her repeated
public lying about those violations and her refusal to cooperate with the Inspector General, if after all of that her security clearances are not revoked as they would with anyone else,it would be the biggest breach
of public trust in government since Watergate. And that would not be a comedy of errors, but a tragedy. For the whole country. And for the future.</div>
</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Marc Rubin
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evidence laid out against Hillary Clinton by FBI Director Jim Comey, he made
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Comey presented a case littered with conduct by Hillary Clinton that included "extreme carelessness" in mishandling classified government
information that ran the gamut from "sensitive" to "Top Secret"and how thoroughly dishonest Hillary Clinton was in lying to the
public about everything related to her server from "there was no classified
information on my server" ,"I did not send or receive any classified
information" ( she sent or received 110 documents that were classified) "I turned over everything" ( there were thousands of her emails she did not turn
over) and more which to many seemed to violate laws that Comey believed couldn't be</div><div>successfully prosecuted.</div>
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One of the main bones of contention with Comey's decision was his finding
that there was no "intent" on Clinton's part to violate these laws. But the
wording of the law itself is not limited to "intent", but says "intent or
negligent" . Comey has characterized Clinton's conduct as "extreme carelessness". Many have wondered what the distinction is between "extreme
carelessness" in handling classified material and "negligence" especially when
Comey said Clinton "knew or should have known" the material was classified, some
were actually marked "classified" and that "someone in her position knew or should have
known that her unsecured private server was no place to have these
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Why that isn't negligence hasn't been answered but Comey's
presentation against Clinton was as devastating politically as an indictment
would have been criminally. </div>
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Its a reflection of those supporting Hillary Clinton that many think its a
positive to be able to say Hillary Clinton is not a felon. But were it not for
Comey making a distinction between "extreme carelessness" and "negligence"
Hillary Clinton would be on her way to getting a mug shot.</div>
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Regardless Comey's statement about Clinton makes her the most untrustworthy
patently dishonest person the Democrats have ever run for president placing Barrack Obama firmly in second.</div>
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But glossed over by almost everyone in their focus on whether Clinton would
be indicted was something almost as serious that still hangs over her. And
may still end her candidacy. And Comey alluded to it.</div>
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Comey said in his decision not to recommend an indictment," this is not to
suggest that a person engaged in this activity (all the things Clinton did)
would face no consequences. To the contrary. Those individuals (like Clinton)
are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what
we are deciding now".</div>
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Saying " this is not what we are deciding now" clearly leaves the door open and implies other decisions in the future regarding Clinton, and his statement at the time was
purely about whether Clinton would be criminally indicted.</div>
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Which means there is reason for Clinton and her supporters not to breath
too easily yet. Its not over. </div>
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There is good reason to believe based on Comey's statement and
presentation of evidence against Clinton which rose to the level of "extreme
carelessness", combined with what we know were her intentionally false public statements from "my server was approved" to her false claims (the AP counted 7)made regarding her handling of classified
documents as well as other transgressions including the possibility of her
unsecured server being hacked and using her private server to discuss
sensitive matters while within countries that are "adversarial to the United
States", there is every possibility that Hillary Clinton is going to lose her
National Security clearances.</div>
<div> </div><div>The State Dept announced they are opening investigations into all of Clinton's staff to determine if security clearances will be revoked at State. It's unclear if Clinton is included in the review but there is no reason to think she wouldn't be.</div><div><br></div><div>If Clinton has her security clearances revoked for her clear and irrefutable violations of 4 and possibly 5 of the guidelines that can disqualify someone from a security clearance her candidacy is over. It's farce to think anyone who is disqualified from a security clearance and can't receive classified or Top Secret information can be president.</div>
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Being labeled a security risk and losing her security clearances would end
Clinton's candidacy as much as an indictment. </div>
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After viewing State Department guidelines related to national security clearances and what disqualifies someone from a security clearance that allows them to handle classified information defined in Section K under "handling protected information" it's clear Hillary Clinton violated
a minimum of 4 and probably 5 of the guidelines (par. <i>b,c g,h,i </i>of Section K) that would disqualify her from seeing or handling classified information of any kind.(<a href="http://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/60321.htm#k" target="_blank">The guidelines can be read here)</a></div><div><br></div><div>There are 3 mitigating circumstances in which someone violating national security guidelines might not have their clearances revoked and not one of them apply to Clinton.</div>
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In other words, right now Hillary Clinton couldn't get a
job at the State Department or get a Top Secret security clearance. In fact she would probably be disqualified from having any
security clearance at all. Not a good thing to have on your resume if your running for president. And it is axiomatic that all government agencies honor the security clearances or disqualifications from one agency. </div>
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Right now based on Comey's presentation and State Department guidelines regarding handling of classified information, Hillary Clinton would be considered a security risk and denied security clearances at State.</div>
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Comey's statement that someone who did what Clinton did would face
consequences such as security sanctions and ending with " but that's not what we are
deciding now" implies that is going to be decided.</div><div><br></div><div>Its almost impossible to believe that given what Comey laid out and existing precedent <i>and </i>State Department guidelines regarding handling of classified information and what constitutes a "security concern", that Hillary Clinton will not face security sanctions as anyone else would who, as Comey said, engaged in similar conduct and violated the same security rules Clinton did.</div></div>
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If State is going to make that evaluation one would think it will be soon. Before the
Democratic convention. Because it is obvious that no one who is disqualified
from having a national security clearance can be president. </div>
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If Clinton is not disqualified while her aides are it might cause the biggest breach of public trust since Watergate. And people are going to want to know why.But given the scathing report against Clinton issued by the Inspector General at State it's not likely Clinton will get a pass.</div>
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Because as Comey said, there is precedent for people
who engaged in conduct similar to or less than Clinton's who faced " security
sanctions" . That means being stripped of your national security clearances. As Patraeus was. And
there is every reason to believe the same will happen to Clinton. If she is part of the State Department investigation it is a certainty Clinton cannot survive a security review. If she is not part of the investigation people are going to want to know why and in all likelihood all hell will break loose in congress since there is no reason to exclude her.</div>
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For now Clinton and her supporters still have to shoulder Comey's scathing
indictment of Clinton, her lying, her "extreme carelessness" in mishandling
classified information and a litany of other transgressions from "knew or
should have known", to making US classified information vulnerable to "hostile
actors", and so much more that even some friendly news outlets have called it "devastating" and have been pounding away at her. That
is not going to go away.</div>
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The last straw may come with the State Dept revoking her security clearances.That would effectively end her run for president.</div>
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If that happens,in spite of not being indicted for felonies,stripping Clinton of her national security clearances would end her presidential run.She would have to drop out. And if that happened it could be said that in the end the punishment will have fit the crime.</div><div><br></div><div>NOTE: The State Department announced today (July 8) they have opened an investigation into Hillary Clinton's security clearances.</div>
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</span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Marc Rubin
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Bill Clinton off her plane. And maybe it's valid. But its also true that Lynch was ambushed by Bill
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too.There is also little doubt that Bill knew that what he was doing was not just inappropriate but putting Lynch in the position of having to violate the DOJ's code of conduct to talk to him. Clinton knew that too and didnt care. For one reason. Desperate times call for desperate measures.</span></div>
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That all Clinton did was talk about golf and his
grandchildren is no doubt true. But it had a purpose.</div>
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Bill Clinton is a smart guy. Even his enemies wouldnt take that from him. Bill was on an intelligence mission to see what if
anything he could glean from making small talk with Lynch and how she acted and related to him based on whatever she might know about the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton. Bill was smart enough never to go near questions related to the investigation. That wasnt his purpose. It was to use other means to see what he could find out.</div>
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Was she cordial?
Relaxed? Was she stiff and formal? Did she look him in the eye or evade his glance? Bill was looking for anything that would give
him a clue, her body language, her voice inflection, her tone, anything. Did she
seem at ease meaning everything with the FBI was hunky dory and there was nothing to worry about? Or was she a little tense, seem distracted, did small talk make her uneasy meaning Billary had a lot to worry about?</div><div><br></div>
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That was the purpose of Bill's intelligence mission. Except it showed a
complete lack of intelligence since not only was it unethical for him to be
there it put a spotlight on the investigation that had been going on in the background for some time and added to public perceptions of Hillary as unethical and dishonest. </div>
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There was backlash from the meeting in every quarter except for Hillary's robots and has been so negative it put Hillary back on the defensive and made headlines everywhere. Even congressional Democrats
admitted it looked bad and the meeting and its fallout has been front page lead news all around the country.<br>
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But Bill's gambit to have a one on one to see what he could learn by making small talk showed a lot more than bad judgement. And it's something no one is talking about. It showed that Bill and Hillary are very, very worried. About the
investigation and its possible outcome.<br>
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So much so that Bill was willing to risk how bad the appearances were going to look to take the opportunity to ambush Lynch on her
plane to see what he could learn. Inquiring minds wanted to know. Does Hillary have anything to worry about
it or not? The risk Bill was willing to take was proportionate to how worried they are and how much they think there is something to worry about.</div>
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In all likelihood Bill learned nothing specific from Lynch's demeanor and at the
same time made it a lot worse for Hillary. Its put the criminal investigation under even more scrutiny than before and everything the FBI and the DOJ does will be under a microscope. But it also raises questions about Hillary suddenly (yes suddenly) going in for her long awaited FBI interview this weekend.<br>
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It certainly wasn't scheduled. If Bill and Hillary knew Hillary was going to request an FBI interview this weekend there is no way even Bill Clinton would
have risked trying to see Lynch days before. The fact that Hillary Clinton's request came so soon after Bill's meeting is enough to suggest it had everything to do with what Bill surmised from the meeting.<br>
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The FBI has made witness schedules public in the past for Clinton's
staff. They were no secret. They
are scheduled well in advance. This is to give witnesses time to prepare,
refresh their recollection as lawyers like to say and allows them to
arrange a day and time so their lawyers can be present. The interview this
weekend wasn't previously scheduled and could only have been a last minute result of Bill's
impromptu ambush of Lynch. </div><div>
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Hillary had been the last person on the witness list for a long time. Too
long. If the FBI had nothing they would have called Hillary Clinton as the last
witness a long time ago. They were content to continue the investigation without questioning her. That it was getting this close to the convention without her being called for an interview would be something to worry about it if your Bill or Hillary
or a supporter. There has to be a reason Hillary forced the issue this weekend.</div><div><br></div><div>Bryan Pagliano, the IT pro who set up her email server first pled
the 5th on the advice of his criminal defense lawyer who clearly believes
Pagliano committed one or more federal offenses. The FBI gave him immunity and he talked. Since everything he did was at
Clinton's direction it would be hard to think that if Pagliano committed an offense Clinton didn't. But we will soon know.</div><div><br></div><div>People are free to speculate what conclusions Bill mightve drawn that forced Hillary into the impromptu FBI meeting. Did Bill feel everything was good so now was the time to go? Or did he get a sense things weren't going well and thought Hillary better get in there and do damage control? </div><div><br></div><div>Anyone's guess would be valid. Mine is the latter. If you think things are going well you leave well enough alone and go on with your business. But if you think there might be trouble, now would be the time to get in there and try and right the ship. I think Bill smelled trouble and told Hillary to get in there ASAP,especially since it's a holiday weekend when people are paying less attention to the news.<br>
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With the Democratic convention only a month away it is a certainty the FBI
will not let the issue go until after the convention opens
July 25. With Clinton the front runner for the nomination (she still does not
have enough delegates for the nomination and needs 67 more of the remaining 137
non committed) its inconceivable the FBI or DOJ would wait till after the nomination process if they are going to indict Clinton or recommend charges.<br>
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Whatever is going to happen will be within the next 3 weeks.<br>
<br>But what Bill did in throwing appearances to the wind in order to find
out anything he could gives the appearance of being desperate.
And since Bill knows what Hillary knows maybe they think they have good reason
to be.</div><div><br></div><div>One other thing to keep in mind: indictments are only issued for felonies not misdemeanors. For anyone who thinks misdemeanors are trivial, like a parking ticket,former general and CIA Director David Patraeus pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge in his case of mishandling classified material. It resulted in his losing his job,losing his security clearance for life and 5 years probation. There could be no indictments and Clinton could still be charged with misdemeanors serious enough to end her candidacy.<br>
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If the FBI does have the evidence to warrant an indictment or multiple
indictments or charges of any kind, we are going to know by July 25. One way or the other the case and its conclusions will be made public before July 25th.<br>
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</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Marc Rubin
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"><br></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">That she was caught lying repeatedly about her server and willingly and intentionally broke State Department rules is, according to them, and many of her voters "nothing." But what the FBI is currently weighing isn't breaking government rules or lying to the public but whether or not what Clinton did and her subsequent use of her email server for her entire tenure as Secretary of State resulted in criminal acts and multiple criminal acts meaning that she violated statutes not just rules including multiple counts of mishandling classified documents, having them removed to an unauthorized location, a component of the Espionage Act, and additional felonies arising out of her unauthorized use of a private server and attempts at concealing it. And a decision on that is coming from the FBI very soon.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<div><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">The Inspector General Report on Hillary Clinton and her use of a private
email server, a report even friendly media outlets like MSNBC called "devastating" and revealed Clinton as " a liar" was an investigation Clinton refused to cooperate with. That ought to tell you something -- the former Secretary of State
refused to cooperate or be interviewed by the Inspector General of her own
State Department into an investigation of her email server that she said had been approved and that everyone knew about. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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it exposed Clinton for having lied multiple times in public
statements about her use of a private email server having been approved. Both the lies and the refusal to cooperate with the Inspector General has showed clear and intentional deception by Clinton. Her refusal to cooperate also was evidence that she was worried and proves intent to deceive. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"><br></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">But deception,while a crime that could lead to multiple counts of obstruction and conspiracy to obstruct, while serious, is the least of everything piling up against Clinton. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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The OIG
report set the record straight -- Clinton's server was never approved, Clinton never asked for
approval and had Clinton asked for approval it would have been denied.</div>
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That Clinton never even asked to have her private server approved indicates a state of mind for Clinton that could be used in legal proceedings against her. State of mind is important in evaluating intent
in criminal proceedings, since Clinton knew it would not be approved and decided
to go ahead anyway because she wanted it for her own purposes which had nothing
to do with convenience, the excuse she first gave. </div>
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And her state of mind clearly blows Obama's recent statement out of the water that whatever she did, he was sure was unintentional, a subtle indication that maybe he doesn't think the investigation is going Clinton's way. But a statement that is absurd on two levels. First lack of intent or unintended consequences is never a defense to breaking the law. You did or you didnt.Second, there is already proof that what Clinton did with her email server and keeping it a secret from authorities was intentional and that she knew she was violating rules and procedures. For the FBI they have to determine if all she did rises to the level of criminal. And all that matters on that count is did Clinton break any laws.</div>
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From a legal point of view lying publicly is not a crime. However lying does reveal Clinton's state of mind and intention to thwart, obstruct and deceive a
government agency in the lawful administration of its functions,and so her lying is relevant.
And Carl Bernstein's reporting has filled us in on her real motive, not convenience but that Hillary Clinton didn't want any of her emails subject to the Freedom of
Information Act and wanted to circumvent it. Maybe for the same reasons she has so zealously guarded her Wall Street speech transcripts. She just didnt want anyone, watchdogs, the congress or the public to know everything she was doing.</div>
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alone is a crime, both breaking the Federal Records Act (that's a law not a rule) and trying to keep State Department officials from knowing it means she was violating both department rules and committing a crime. And keeping it a secret could rise to the level of obstruction of justice. </div>
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Her public statements that she both had approval and it was known in the State Department were both lies. Her staff knew. That was it. Her public lying could also be used to show Clinton engaged in a cover up to keep
her use of a private email server secret.</div>
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That she conspired with others to do that is also a crime and there is
evidence she did -- with both her Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan and Bryan
Pagliano the IT professional who set up her email server and who, on advice of
counsel, pled the 5th amendment both in front of a House committee and the FBI.
The FBI granted him immunity. And he's talked.</div>
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Though admittedly speculation it is logical and informed speculation to
consider that if Pagliano and his lawyer believe that he committed at least one crime and
possibly more following Clinton's instructions in setting up her email
server and possibly conspiring to cover it up, its not illogical to think there is a good possibility that Clinton
did too. And that could be just the beginning.</div>
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According to the OIG report two lower Clinton staffers at the State
Department testified to the Inspector General that they expressed concerns about her use of the private home email server to a superior on Clinton's staff, another indication
that it was common knowledge that Clinton's private server was at least a violation of rules and possibly against the law. </div>
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The report states that
when the staffers expressed that concern they were told to "never
discuss or bring up the Secretary's private email server again".</div>
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While a lawyer could claim that was not an attempt to
obstruct, muzzle or conceal Clinton's private server from authorities by
instructing staff never to talk about it but that he simply meant there were
more important things to deal with, the FBI and their lawyers are probably at
this moment deciding if that is enough to get a conviction against that staffer and
Clinton on obstruction, conspiracy to obstruct and obstructing a government
agency from the lawful administration of its duties. As well as conspiracy to
violate the Federal Records Act. </div>
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One thing for certain. If the FBI does recommend an indictment its going to be big and involve a whole bunch of things, not some nickel and dime spitting on the sidewalk violation.</div>
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Clinton's repeated public statements that the server had been approved when
she, Sullivan her Deputy Chief of Staff and others knew it hadn't gives further weight to Clinton's state
of mind knowing that she was violating at least State Department regulations and possibly the law, knowing it was unauthorized but
being arrogant enough to think she could circumvent laws and regulations and decided she was going to use it anyway.</div>
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Those issues alone if corroborated could be enough to indict her. But there is a lot more.</div>
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Having not gotten approval for the private server there is no doubt that
legally every email sent to her server violated the statute that makes
unauthorized removal of a government document to an unauthorized location a
crime. The higher the classification of document the bigger the crime. It can be
argued that every communication from a .gov address to Clinton dealing with
government business violated that statue.</div>
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And by not getting approval and the OIG report stating
clearly Clinton would not have gotten it, it not only buttresses the legal
argument that any and all State Department emails sent to her server broke the
law but legally as soon Clinton opted to use her private unauthorized server as a
government server to conduct government business, it technically and legally
became the property of the government not Clinton's.</div>
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What that also means is that the 33,000 emails that Clinton destroyed from
her server may also be a crime. Especially since those very emails had been under subpoena. </div>
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That server had become government property and Clinton had no authority
to destroy or delete anything.It would have been left to a third party to go
through all her emails, probably
the Inspector General, and decide what was government business and what wasn't what she could keep and do with as she pleased and what she couldn't. Which would have meant that her private emails would be seen by someone she didn't
want to see them. So she destroyed them. </div>
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How much of a crime was it and how much did it reveal about Clinton and her state of mind? She destroyed those 33,000 emails while they were under subpoena. Which could also land her in hot water for destruction of evidence. And she did it thinking she could sell the idea that everyone would accept
her word for what was personal and what was government related.</div>
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By taking it upon herself to destroy those 33,000 emails she may have broken a number of laws including the unauthorized destruction of government records.And with it more of the laws of unintended consequences.</div>
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As for the email server itself as a violation of unauthorized removal of government documents to an unauthorized location remember that former general and CENTCOM
commander then CIA Director David Patraeus was charged with the same violation after an FBI
investigation proved he had taken documents home from CIA headquarters and had
them on his home computer where they were seen by a woman he was having an
affair with.</div>
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Patraeus pled guilty to unauthorized removal of classified government
documents to an unauthorized location, lost his job and is on probation.</div>
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Clinton is guilty of the unauthorized removal of approximately 55,000
government documents to an unauthorized location and the FBI has been
investigating how many of those might have been classified. To date the number
is 22. However even unclassified documents may be covered by statute which
Clinton violated just not as serious as classified.They certainly violated State Department rules. </div>
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It is part of the governments case against Snowden for espionage that he is guilty of unauthorized removal of classified government documents. The big difference is
that Clinton didn't turn documents over to anyone and Snowden did. But there are those who say that if those documents were highly classified, aspects of the Espionage Act would apply.</div>
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is already evidence of how fast and loose with the truth Clinton has been regarding her server to the extent of outright lying. But there might be something even more serious surrounding her penchant for lies and half truths.</div>
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Half truths could be at the heart of the 22 emails marked
"classified" that were on her server. </div>
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Clinton's defense has been they were not classified at the time she got
them and were only marked "classified" later. (which would be no
defense regarding the other charges stemming from having the private server
and unauthorized removal of government documents in the first place).</div>
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But there is some evidence though not complete or corroborated that Clinton
tried to circumvent the problem of getting classified
material on her server on some ocassions.</div>
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Knowing that some of the information Clinton needed to see was classified
and showing a knowledge that her email server was not authorized to receive
classified documents, there is some informed speculation based on knowledge, that Clinton may have had a staff member remove the
"classified" designation from documents she needed to see, had it sent via email as
a document with no "classified" heading, then after it was received, had the "classified" heading replaced on the document.</div>
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That would allow Clinton to claim the document wasn't classified when she
received it and was marked classified only later, after she received it which is what
she claims. </div>
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But if Clinton did have the "classified" designation temporarily removed,
that would be extremely serious and constitute multiple felonies. It would not only be a illegal for her
to have received a classified document on her server,but it would also involve
Clinton and a staffer altering and defacing a classified document as well as
removing it. It would put Clinton in the most serious legal jeopardy imaginable.</div>
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The FBI investigation is a criminal investigation into when why,and how the
22 classified documents had been on Clinton's server.Like all criminal investigations where leads and evidence are followed it can branch out into different directions. The fact that those documents were there at all is a crime. Since it's not up to Clinton to decide what is classified and what isn't having the server at all and having those documents in a place they were not authorized to be is an example of the laws of unintended consequences affecting Clinton. Saying the documents were not classified at the time would be no defense. It's not up to Clinton what gets classified or when.</div>
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Any hacker who obtained the documents later marked "classified" would have classified documents because Clinton was using an illegal unsecured server. Clinton's knowledge of whether the documents were classified at the time she got them would be irrelevant. She had no legal right or basis for having them on her server to begin with.</div>
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One thing is clear: all the other witnesses on the FBI witness list have been interviewed except one. Clinton. If the FBI had nothing on
Clinton and no reason to continue to investigate they would have called her for an interview more than a month ago and been done with it.They haven't.</div>
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That Clinton
broke a number of State Department regulations is irrefutable and Clinton voters
and supporters including former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, obviously don't care. And don't seem to care if she committed crimes or not, was lying or not was deceptive or not, broke laws or not. </div>
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The FBI does, and so may voters. And delegates at the convention.</div>
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If the FBI does in fact have enough evidence to show what Clinton did
rises to the level of criminal violations they must decide that soon. It means a decision as to whether to
change Clinton's status from a witness to a "target" of the investigation.</div>
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By law, if they change her status to "target" they must notify her and her
attorney before she is called. That gives her the legal right to refuse to be
interviewed. </div>
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If the FBI had nothing to implicate Clinton it's likely Clinton would have been interviewed by now and the matter closed. So there is enough for them to keep going. And keep Clinton waiting. Which is not to say
that alone means an indictment is coming. But its clear the FBI has enough to
review and weigh.</div>
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If the FBI does have evidence against Clinton, serious enough to
warrant recommending an indictment by naming her as a "target", there is no
doubt the FBI and Jim Comey understand the consequences . That means in all
probability they will not wait for the Democratic convention to start on July
25th before making a decision. Its inconceivable the FBI would have enough
evidence to charge her and allow her name to be put in nomination at the
convention and then name her as a target later which would throw the entire political process into
chaos.</div>
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That's why its a little better than 50-50 she will be indicted. Based on what
the FBI must have from Pagliano and the indications and inferences that can be
drawn from the OIG report, if it were anyone else they probably would have been
indicted by now. But the consequences of a presidential
campaign and nominating convention coming up given that Clinton is the front runner for the Democratic nomination
(yes front runner despite the fraud she, the DNC and the news media tried to
commit claiming she had clinched anything) the consequences of an
indictment goes beyond Clinton. There are no do overs. So the FBI knows they need to dot all their "i"'s and cross their "t"'s. And be sure.</div>
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Its useful supposition to consider there was a sense of urgency among
Clinton, her supporters, the DNC and super delegates to see what they could do
to head off an FBI announcement making her a target. Or make it more
difficult. Super delegates were clearly given marching orders to call the AP and say
they would vote for Clinton which were used by a colluding AP and a Simon Says New York Times in promoting the fiction
that she "clinched" to try and intimidate the FBI by claiming she was already
the nominee and it's too late to indict her.</div>
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It's not too late. And James Comey is as straight an arrow as they come. He won't be
intimidated. And Attorney General Lynch is on the record as saying if the FBI
recommends an indictment the DOJ will indict.</div>
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There are legal experts among them former U.S. Attorneys making the rounds of some TV news shows who make it
better than 50-50 she will be indicted. Some say its 60-40. And that's based on information that is public and their knowledge of federal statutes without knowing what the FBI has or their
witness statements.So its not about Clinton lying. Lying repeatedly in public is not a crime. If it were
Clinton would be wearing an ankle bracelet by now.<br>
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Joe DiGenova, a Republican but also a former U.S. Attorney has gone a step further and said in an interview that Clinton's indictment is virtually certain, citing many of the same points mentioned here. But he added one more thing that for Clinton would be chilling if true. As a former U.S. attorney Di Genova has contacts inside the FBI. And DiGenova said the evidence of Clinton's having committed crimes is so great, and that people have been prosecuted for less, he claimed that if the FBI recommends indictments to the DOJ, and there are no indictments of Clinton there will be a "revolt of Watergate style proportions" by FBI agents who had been assigned to the case. Meaning they would walk out in protest.<br>
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If what DiGenova says is true, then its not better than 50-50 Clinton will be indicted, its a certainty. Which might be one more reason Bernie Sanders has not made a single gesture towards endorsing Clinton, supporting Clinton, ending his campaign or giving any indication he is no longer a candidate for the presidential nomination. If anything all his words say the opposite.<br>
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DiGenova thinks indictments would come before November. But it wont take an indictment to force Clinton to drop out. The FBI recommending an indictment would be enough.<br>
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But one thing is certain. If the FBI is going to do something it doesnt make sense they would wait till November and throw the political landscape into utter chaos. It makes no sense that if they decide to recommend an indictment they wouldnt do it before July 25th the date the Democratic National Convention opens. If nothing happens by then, Clinton might be home free. But the fact still remains she has not been called as a witness in the investigation as the last witness to be called. And the longer that goes
the worse it looks for Clinton.</div>
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</span></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Marc Rubin
Copyright Marc Rubin 2016</div>Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-6025911867241302062016-06-14T09:48:00.000-07:002016-06-16T09:30:21.627-07:00Why Hillary Clinton Clinched Nothing. And Can't. Really.<br>
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There is an old Woody Allen line, "When you tell the truth all the time you
never have to remember anything".<br>
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What a dishonest Democratic party, super
delegates, a dishonest Debby Wasserman-Schultz and DNC and an even more dishonest collection of banana republic news media headed by the AP, New
York Times, CNN and MSNBC all colluding with Hillary Clinton in attempting to rig and steal the nomination,didn't remember was something obvious but crucial in their single minded intent of using unofficial super delegate declarations for Clinton to get her to the coveted 2383 delegate total.</div>
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And like most people who try to lie, cheat, or steal their way to something that isnt rightfully theirs and haven't earned, there is always
something they forget that trips them up. Its how criminals get caught. And the attempted putsch by Clinton,the DNC,her supporters and a corrupt colluding news media
is no different.<br>
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And what has tripped them all up and what usually trips up people so
arrogant as to think rules or laws dont apply to them is just that. The rules .Because its
the<a href="http://demrulz.org/wp-content/files/12.15.14_2016_Delegate_Selection_Documents_Mailing_-_Rules_Call_Regs_Model_Plan_Checklist_12.15.14.pdf" target="_blank"> Democratic Party's own rules that can be found here,</a> that proves Clinton clinched nothing. And not
only didn't clinch the nomination, but it is actually impossible for her to do
so.No matter how many super delegates actually vote for her. If they vote.<br>
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Like the movie War of the Worlds where the Martian invaders were felled by
the smallest most simple of things, so to is it with Hillary Clinton,the DNC and
their colluding partners in the news media and big money interests behind Clinton (for one simple reason: Sanders cant be bought because of his integrity and Trump can't be bought because of his money).<br>
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And this simple thing that they overlooked that upends all their well planned rigging since January when super delegates,arranged by Clinton and Debby Wasserman-Schultz began coming out the woodwork to make unofficial "announcements" to make it look like Clinton's lead was bigger than it really was, is right there in the Democratic party rules,
the official rules,not some banana republic AP "survey" to use as a substitute for democracy to shove Hillary Clinton down the throats of Sanders and his voters and America for that matter, but the official Democratic Party rules of what it takes to nominate a candidate.<br>
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Those rules show clearly that the number of pledged delegates in the
Democratic party is 4051. The number of super delegates is 712.<br>
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What they forgot because they were so fixated on getting Clinton to 2383, is that 2383 is approximately 60% (58.9% down to decimals) of the 4051 pledged delegate total. Which is what the rules require. But with the primaries over we know that neither Clinton nor Sanders got there. The Clinton camp in collusion with the media have tried to put out the fiction that Clinton will get there using super delegates. But what they forgot is that once super delegates vote its not the 2383 that matters anymore. Because it's not 4051 voting anymore. Add 712 super delegates and it's 4763 voting . And it's still getting 58.9% of the total delegate pool that matters. And Clinton can't get there either even with super delegates.</div><div><br></div><div>In almost every case except twice in the last 50 years a nominee has been able to win the approximate 60% of pledged delegates (the approximation is because of what the Democratic Party calls " at large" delegates - neither pledged nor super ) in the primaries. Which is why super delegates have actually only voted once to nominate a candidate and that was 32 years ago in 1984 when the total number of pledged delegates were 1000 fewer than today.<br>
<br>But what those trying to rig the nomination for Clinton with super delegates forgot is that as soon as super delegates actually vote at the convention, if they vote,those 712 super delegates increase that voting pool by 712 to 4763. The point is simple: increase the voting delegate pool and you increase the number of delegates a candidate needs to win the nomination. Because its the percentage of delegates won <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">that counts not the 2383.</span></div>
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on Democratic party rules that define a nominee as having to win 2383 of 4051 voting delegates or 58.9%, as soon as super delegates vote and add 712 to the delegate pool a candidate now needs to win 58.9% of 4763 not 4051. And 58.9% of 4763 is 2805. And Clinton can't get there even if all 519 super delegates who came out with "declarations" actually voted for her.</div><div>
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The best Clinton could do if 519 super delegates voted for her which would never happen, is 2738.She'd still be 67 delegates short of what the rules show is the 58.9% needed for the nomination. And no more delegates to be had. Not in Clinton's pocket or under Debby Wasserman-Schultz' dining room table. And again, that's if all 519 super delegates claimed in the AP announcement voted for her.(It should be noted that the final pledged delegate count is up in the air.Clintons reported pledged delegate count after California was estimated at 2026. California is not through counting.Some are reporting a pledged delegate count of 2219 after the DC primary.Clinton did not win 197 delegates from the DC primary so actual delegate counts are imprecise but using the 2219 total gives her the benefit of the doubt.)<br>
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Anyone who thinks the nomination can be rigged by claiming that super delegates count when they cast votes at the convention but don't count as part of the overall voting pool ought to think twice.<br>
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As they like to say, do the math. Its not who has the most or a simple majority as everyone knows. If that were the case there would never be a need for super delegates as part of the nominating process. Its who gets 58.9% of the delegates. So to reiterate: once super delegates vote and increase the pool to 4763 it is, depending on Clinton's final pledged delegate totals, to quote Robby
Mook,Clinton's campaign manager, almost "mathematically impossible" for
Hillary Clinton to get enough delegates to win the nomination on either the first or second ballots. And the same is true for Sanders. If Clinton's final pledged delegate totals are 2092 or less all 712 super delegates could vote for her, something that would never happen and Clinton still wouldn't have enough for the nomination.</div><div><br></div><div>So if super delegates, who haven't voted to nominate a candidate in 32 years, actually do vote they bring the total voting delegate pool to 4763 and what's needed to nominate is 2805 not 2383.<br>
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And no one, especially Debbie Wasserman-Schultz can say " it doesnt work that way" or "that's not how it's done". Neither she nor anyone can say the rules arent the rules and numbers arent the numbers.And neither she nor anyone say "how it's done" since this specific situation has never occurred. Thats why there are rules. And no, it didnt happen in 2008 because super delegates never voted in 2008. A deal was cut between Clinton and Obama before the roll call vote (can anyone say "Secretary of State"?) though Clinton never released her delegates.Obama was nominated in the end by acclimation as part of his deal with Clinton meaning all votes were recorded for him.<br>
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The only time in the history of the Democratic party super delegates ever voted to nominate a president was 1984 where Walter Mondale had a 500 delegate lead over Gary Hart with Jesse Jackson in 3rd with another 350 in a total delegate pool that was 1000 less than it is now. Hillary Clinton's pledged delegate lead over Sanders is half of what Mondale's was with 1000+ more delegates in the pool now. It took substantially fewer super delegates in 1984 to get Mondale to what he needed.And he got all of them.</div>
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<br>The irrefutable point is,Clinton clinched nothing. The 2383 she and the media are claiming as her having clinched is invalid if the super delegates that brought her to 2383 actually vote. </div><div><br></div><div>What those trying to rig the nomination for Clinton since January didnt count on was Sanders winning as much as he did, winning 22 states outright, tying in four others and in many states beating Clinton by margins so great she looked like a third party candidate winning at times by margins of as many as 60 points.The result was Sanders picking up more than 45% of the pledged delegates. Meaning the most Clinton could ever win in primaries was slightly less than 55% and so could never get to the 2383 or 58.9% of delegates needed. So she needed help.And they thought they could give it to her with anonymous last minute super delegate declarations arranged by Clinton and Debby Wassermsn-Schultz to aid the fraud. They were wrong.<br>
<br>Clinton does not have and likely cannot get with or without super delegates the number she needs to clinch the nomination either on a first ballot or second. Neither can Sanders.</div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">A candidate still needs approximately 60% (or 58.9% down to the last decimal) of whatever the total voting pool is. And with 712 super delegates voting that number is 2805. </span><br>
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If Democrats and the DNC at the convention try at some point to make some tortured claim that super delegate votes would count towards the original 2383, but somehow don't count as increasing the delegate pool as a way to rig it for Clinton, or if they try and change the rules or re-interpret the rules so that 2383 remains constant no matter the size of the pool to rig the nomination for Clinton they are guaranteed to bring the Democratic party to its knees
both in Philadelphia in July and in November.<br>
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So to be clear: the AP
announcement, the New York Times headline,Clinton the DNC and their allies in the news media who have been part of the collusion trying to claim that she has "won" the nomination were perpetrating a fraud, an attempt at a putsch by Clinton,the DNC and corporate media based on a 2383 number that is no longer what a nominee needs if super delegates vote. Clinton hasnt won a thing. </div>
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What happened on June 6 where the AP falsely proclaimed Clinton had won the nomination based on a "survey" of a handful of anonymous super delegates who said they'd vote for Clinton to get her to the mythical 2383, and then validated by the NY Times and CNN and MSNBC without, in their minds,the need to take a single vote, was not just fraud, it was the most
shameful episode in the history of modern American politics.It was an attempt at the very definition of a putsch and cheating democracy, Sanders and his 12 million + voters and either trying to get around Democratic party rules or forgetting the simple fact that when you increase the delegate voting pool you increase the number of delegates needed to win. </div><div><br></div><div>It was a bizarre game of "Simon Says" played by the New York Times and other media outlets as a substitute for voting except it was "the AP Says".</div>
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And to close any loopholes Debby Wasserman-Schultz or a rules committee might try to use if super delegates vote at the convention,(and remember, they havent voted in 32 years so its no guarantee) they do not vote selectively they vote
en masse. It's all or nothing.Once they are asked to vote (they do not automatically vote on the first ballot) all super delegates vote or none do. Anything else and its the Democrats and Hillary
Clinton playing "heads I win tails you lose" with Sanders,his voters, Democratic Party rules and anyone's idea of democracy.<br>
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What Clinton, the DNC and the colluding media, the AP, CNN, MSNBC and NY Times tried to pull on June 6th wasn't democracy but a putsch. It was the DNC and Clinton trying
to impose their idea of the Divine Right of Kings on the 2016 Democratic nominating process.
King George found out how Americans felt about that in Philadelphia in 1776. Hillary
Clinton and the DNC will find out,ironically, also in Philadelphia in 2016, if they persist.</div>
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So if neither candidate is able to get to the delegates needed on the first or second ballots what happens at the convention?<br>
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The answer is simple. Its how the Democratic party used to nominate a candidate for president for 200+ years before the creation of the much despised super delegates. Barring what many think may be an intervention by the FBI before the convention, Clinton and Sanders will both go to the convention unable to get the requisite number of delegates,pledged and super,needed for the nomination after two ballots (barring mass defections from either side after the first ballot which could happen if in fact there is bad news for Clinton courtesy of the FBI).</div>
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It means the nominee would be chosen the old fashioned way, the way Democratic candidates were chosen before super delegates existed in a contested convention: behind the scenes old fashioned horse trading. That mean each candidate and their surrogates making their pitch to the other's delegates to get them to switch after the first ballot(assuming the DNC recognizes that super delegates voting for Clinton at that point won;t matter and skip the process) ,making arguments, looking to make deals, cajoling, offering compromises, promises, concessions, arm twisting and all the rest to woo delegates. Some delegates will listen some won't, some will listen to their respective leaders, some will take into account any new facts or realities that could make delegates flip from one candidate to the other(Sanders leaves no doubt he would beat
Trump where Clinton is very much in doubt) and make up their own minds.A scary prospect for a candidate who tried to get there by rigging the process.<br>
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It will be up to each candidate,Sanders and Clinton to do whatever it takes to get enough delegates to switch so someone can get to the number needed. It took 5 ballots at the 1932 convention doing it just that way for Democrats to nominate FDR.And that didn't turn out too badly.</div>
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What the outcome of that kind of horse trading at the convention in Philadelphia would be no one knows. Would
it be Clinton or Sanders? After the first ballot pledged delegates are free to switch. Super delegates who wouldn't vote on the first ballot are also free to take those phony "declarations" which never officially counted in the first place and dump them. It would then be up to the delegates to decide who they thought the best candidate would be, a true democratic process, something it seems that Clinton and her allies were hoping to avoid.<br>
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It would also make great drama as well as finally being democratic because the outcome would be in doubt. But whatever the outcome, it wouldn't be the result of phony super delegates "declarations" that didnt count,voter fraud in at least 6 states, a president intervening on behalf of Clinton in the South while pretending he was staying neutral or a middle of the night putsch Clinton and the news media tried to pull on June 6, ironically the anniversary of D-Day
showing how oblivious they were in hoping to rig a nomination on that day. What mattered was that it needed to be done the day before the California primary to suppress the Sanders vote.<br>
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If there is going to be an FBI intervention with Clinton it's going to happen soon, before the
convention. If the FBI thinks they have enough to recommend an indictment its hard to believe they would let it go into the convention. If something is going to happen with that it will happen before July 25.</div>
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The OIG report didn't help her. Clinton is scheduled to be the last witness called in the FBI investigation but the law requires the FBI must notify her before she appears if her status changes from witness to target. That's because if she becomes a target (based on the FBI deciding they having enough evidence to show that she broke one or more laws) she has the right refuse to appear. It's not an indictment,only the DOJ can do that, but obviously if the FBI notifies her that she has become a target of the investigation its over for Clinton.<br>
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If there is no intervention by the FBI then a nominee will emerge from all the horse trading,haggling, arm twisting and deal making at the convention. </div><div><br></div><div>And in the end at least it has the possibility of creating some kind of unity in the Democratic party that is currently impossible since Sanders and his 12 million voters would at least have confidence that the outcome was honest and democratic as opposed to the dirty politics and rigging and fraud that's been going on for Clinton since January.It would be the way Democrats have traditionally nominated a candidate before the advent of not so super super delegates.As was the case with FDR on the 5th ballot in 1932.And with JFK in 1960 who sewed up the nomination and delegates needed by getting Lyndon Johnson on the ticket as his vice president at the convention. Similar strategies may be employed by both Clinton and Sanders to woo delegates. Some may succeed some may not.<br>
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Hopefully the DNC will not be so stupid as to try to change the rules or re-interpret the rules in some absurd or tortured way to hand Clinton the
nomination on a second ballot anyway by claiming super delegate votes count when they vote but don't count as part of the voting pool .If they try that magic act the DNC will be responsible for making Philadelphia look like Chicago 1968.Which it was on its way to becoming anyway.</div>
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And that doesn't mean violence. The violence in Chicago in 1968 wasn't caused
by the protestors who protested loudly and passionately against the Viet Nam war but were peaceful. A DOJ
investigation afterwards concluded the violence was caused solely by the Chicago
police in what the DOJ investigation called an out o control "police riot".<br>
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analogy to Chicago 1968 was not about violence but a massive and loud protest
and demonstration against Democratic party corruption that will continue past
the convention if it isn't stopped in its tracks in Philadelphia. It would also guarantee no Sanders voter would ever vote for Clinton. And no
amount of Democratic kicking and screaming would change that so they could forget
unity.<br>
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And lest it be overlooked Obama's hands haven't been clean in any of this despite his pretense of acting above the fray. He has been aware of or been a behind the scenes active participant in everything that has gone on since January. As president and the party's leader he controls the DNC and Debby Wasserman-Schultz his hand picked Chair,and she's been carrying out her marching orders from the beginning.Even David Gergen,one of the few honest faces on CNN said as early as February that "it's obvious the DNC is in the tank for Clinton".<br>
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Either way, no matter what the final outcome, and no matter who finally gets the
nomination, Bernie Sanders and his supporters need to make sure the DNC, Clinton and her Gang That Couldn't Count Straight play by the
Democratic Party's own rules. And the rules show that if super delegates vote 2383 isn't enough. And if Clinton or the DNC don't play by the rules, get
a federal court to force them to.A court will.<br>
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All good reasons Sanders is not going to quit, not going to drop out. Nor
should he despite the temper tantrums of some in the news media or those who misrepresent or misunderstand his own words, misreading his statements about stopping Trump as somehow being the same as endorsing Clinton. They aren't .Because there's a very
good chance that before the convention is over when all is said and done,if Democrats are forced to play
by their own rules and democracy prevails, Sanders could be the next president. Whether Clinton, dishonest Democrats and super delegates,and a conniving news media and big money
interests like it or not.The rules say it can happen. And so may the voters.</div>
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Copyright Marc Rubin 2016</div>Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-29639556564507939212016-06-05T11:27:00.000-07:002016-10-27T13:20:45.674-07:00If the FBI Doesn't End Clinton's Candidacy Obamacare Could.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">From the beginning Obamacare otherwise known as the ACA was the most unprincipled dishonest sell out of a government policy - the public
option - to a special interest group - the health insurance industry - in U.S.
history. It wiped out the Democrats in the House in 2010 and again in 2014 in the senate. And Hillary Clinton's loud, carnival barker-like support would, if super delegates are dumb enough to rig the nomination for her, finish her in a general election.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">In 2009 with Democrats holding the biggest congressional majority of any party in 60 years including a 60-40 filibuster proof senate, and with Obama and Democrats having promised a government run public option as the centerpiece of healthcare reform, passing it was thought to be a formality.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Healthcare reform with the public option was legislation that would have done more good for more people and would have done more to level the playing field on a basic human right - healthcare - than anything since the Civil Rights Act in 1964. And even though Obama had the votes to pass it he caved in to the health insurance lobby and directed Harry Reid to remove it from the senate version of the healthcare reform bill after it had passed the House and instead let the insurance
companies themselves write the part of the law that dealt with the insurance exchanges, what people would pay for coverage and what they would get. It
was like letting the plantation owners write the Emancipation
Proclamation,all the more ironic since the public option was sold down the river by a black president.</span><br />
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have been a boon to the economy since it would have put money for
health insurance premiums back into the pockets of workers and employers who chose the government public option.</span></span></span><br />
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In 2008 the last year of the Bush
administration 12.1% of Americans, about 35 million people had no health
insurance and no coverage. In 2016, 3 years after the implementation of the ACA, the uninsured rate is 9.1%.<br />
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Three years of a health care reform bill that was supposed to do two
things: provide health coverage for the 35 million who didn't have it and bring down the
obscene cost of health care for those who did. Obamacare is a major failure on both counts.</div>
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The drop in uninsured has been a measly 3%. Meaning 97% of those without health care coverage before Obamacare because they couldn't afford it are still without
healthcare coverage.<br />
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As for bringing down the cost of health care, it has done nothing but go up. And its going to <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3114af81d68645f4818f135bcb49b404/obamacare-worries-largest-texas-insurer-asks-big-price-hike" target="_blank">spike again to levels so high</a> that if super delegates are dumb enough to rig the nomination for Hillary Clinton, Obamacare alone and Trump's pledge to replace it will be enough to defeat her.Because insurance companies are going to be announcing these premium hikes for 2017 in October only weeks before the election.<br />
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The reason for the coming increases are that most of the 3% who did sign up were the older, sicker and most desperate, people who would have been covered anyway with a public option. The younger, healthier uninsured looked at the garbage the insurance companies were offering through
Obamacare - little coverage, very few medical facilities and doctors willing to accept the low end insurance and high premiums, (as high as $600 a month in some markets) $6,000
deductibles and 40% co-pays - and no government subsidies to single people making over $40,000 a year, said no thanks.</div>
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The fraud the White House,Hillary Clinton and other Democrats have tried to present as Obamacare success
is based on lies,distortions and smokescreens happily parroted by the press much like the lies
Ben Rhodes successfully sold to ignorant members of the media on the Iran deal. Obamacare
was no different. Despite constant White House lies, repeated by Hillary Clinton
and Democrats and parroted by the news media there are no 16 million people who bought health insurance through Obamacare who never had it before. It is a total and easily provable lie. That number is a product of Obama counting the same people two and three times. Do the math, as they say. If 16 million uninsured have coverage due to Obamacare, the uninsured rate would have dropped almost 50% from 35 million to 19 million. The actual drop is 3%.<br />
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In fact Obamacare enrollments have been so low the Inspector General reported 22 of the 23 state exchanges are folding because they've lost so much
money they cant continue. Insurers are losing even more since they have to cover the older sicker insured and those with pre-existing conditions ( all whom would have had coverage under the government public option) while the
younger and healthier have wisely decided they'd rather take their chances than waste their money on
policies that, incredulously, even the White House admitted to the New York Times were
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Expensive, substandard,ineffective and Clinton touts Obamacare as having made health care "affordable" sounding more like Marie Antoinette than FDR or LBJ. Or Bernie Sanders. </div>
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The bottom line to all this aside from the fact that people who needed health
coverage and couldnt afford still can't afford it, is that health insurance premiums for everybody are going to be skyrocketing in 2017.<br />
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Texas insurers, the 3rd largest in the country have applied for a 60%
increase in premiums in 2017. That's right, 60%. In other parts of the country
the increases will range from 5% for the lucky ones to 19% or more in other states. Those hardest hit will be in rural areas.
United Healthcare, the country's largest insurer said they are pulling out of
the ACA exchanges in 2017 because they have lost hundreds of millions through Obamacare. In other words no one is happy and Obama's bait and switch and needless sell out has been a disaster for everyone.</div>
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The big rise in premiums is something Trump would obviously use against a Clinton candidacy but unlike Republicans who previously just wanted to get rid of it Trump has said he wants to replace it (without, to no one's surprise saying with what). But the reality is only Sanders and his universal
health care plan can save Democrats from getting clobbered again on Obamacare. And with Clinton as the nominee they will get clobbered.<br />
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What will happen in the California primary remains to be seen. Some polls
show it tied which usually means a Sanders victory and others (NBC) show
Sanders destroying Clinton among Independents <em>and </em>Democrats by
landslide numbers. And you can't put it past Clinton and the DNC to commit fraud with the vote to try and save Clintons candidacy. A loss would be more than an embarrassment and a big loss which some polls are showing would pull the rug out from under any argument Clinton has.<br />
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If Sanders wins California and 4 out of 5 primaries and super delegates still nominate Clinton (something we wont know for sure till the 2nd ballot at the convention) it will reek of rigging and dirty back room deals and will ensure Sanders voters will probably make Philadelphia
look like Chicago 1968 without the police riot, and assure Democratic defeat in November. Any idea that Clinton would attract Sanders voters by adding to the rigging and dishonesty that's been obvious from the beginning is so preposterous it's not worth discussing. And forget Sanders campaigning for Clinton. Clinton and her supporters would do well to stop using the word "unity". There isn't going to be any with Sanders voters if they are robbed by Clinton and the DNC. Clinton, Debby Wassermann-Schultz and many other Democrats have created so much had blood with their lies and underhanded fraud and dirty politics and attacks on Sanders, if Clinton were handed the nomination but can't win without Sanders voters she ain't winning. She will never get Sanders voters and if she ever won, it will be with less than 50% of the vote if there are 3rd party candidates.</div>
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There are already early polls showing a virtual tie between Clinton and Trump and a case can be made that a tie with Trump is evidence of how preposterous a Clinton candidacy is.She and Democrats would have to hope that Trump implodes which is not out of the question but his promise to end Obamacare and replace it is going to have a profound effect on tens of millions of disgusted voters without healthcare coverage because of Obamacare. </div>
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Will Democrats see it? No one misses warning signs like Democrats. They have been driving through "Bridge Out" signs since 2000 and are still trying to pull people out of the water from the debacles in 2010 and 2014.<br />
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Now there are "Bridge Out" signs for Democrats everywhere except in one place, Bernie Sanders. </div>
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If they still don't see it the one thing that might save them from themselves and their own corrupt nomination process is the FBI investigation of Clinton.</div>
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Democrats seem to be doing a lot of whistling past the graveyard,pretending there is nothing to worry about regarding the FBI and accepting assurances from the person who told everyone her server was "approved" and ignoring that Bryan Pagliano who set up Clinton's private email server in her home pled 5th amendment protection on advice of his lawyer who obviously believes, based on what Pagiliano told him, that Pagliano committed a crime. If Pagliano did, Clinton did since everything he did was at Clinton's direction. An exercise in 2+2= that is too hard for Democrats and the news media to add up.Or maybe too scary.<br />
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Pagliano has been given immunity by the FBI and is talking.And it bears repeating. If Pagliano committed crimes so did Clinton. </div>
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If the FBI decides they have enough evidence that Clinton broke the law that will change her status from witness to target. By law the FBI has to notify Clinton that she is a target since that would allow her to refuse to be interviewed.<br />
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There is a good chance Clinton has not yet been interviewed because the FBI is discussing among themselves and their lawyers whether to inform Clinton she is a target. It is a huge decision and the FBI is no doubt applying standards that go beyond the usual thresholds of any other case. If they recommend indictments they have to be 100% certain of a conviction. </div>
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The FBI knows what's at stake and so its unlikely they are going to wait till the convention. The decision will be made before then. If they notify Clinton she is a target and not a witness that will end her candidacy then and there.It means indictments are going to be recommended.<br />
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And if Democrats can't see that coming along with the spike in healthcare premiums and its affect on the election then they deserve to get
wiped out like they did in 2010 and 2014. And with Clinton as their nominee, its just as inevitable. Unless super
delegates wake up and end her candidacy with a vote. Or hope the FBI does.</div>
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Back in 2008 when she ran against Obama for the Democratic nomination,Clinton enraged, disgusted, and angered almost everybody when, in a Q&A with newspaper editors at the end of May before the last spate of 2008 primaries and still hoping to close a delegate gap between herself and Obama, Clinton was asked why she was staying in the race when it was clear Obama would finish with more delegates and Nancy Pelosi was publicly lobbying (or was it lobbing) the idea that even if neither finished with enough delegates for the nomination the one who had the most should win.<br>
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<a href="http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/us/politics/24clinton.html?referer=" target="_blank">Hillary Clinton's answer was to remind them that Robert Kennedy had been assassinated in June,</a>suggesting that,you know, anything can happen.Even an assassination. In other words,for Hillary Clinton in 2008, Robert Kennedy's June 1968 assassination was, like the slogan in the ads for the New York State lottery,an example of "hey you never know" suggesting the same could happen to Obama.<br>
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It goes without saying her answer both astonished and offended a lot of people.<br>
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It also goes without saying that the negative fallout was almost immediate. And as soon as Clinton started feeling the heat from her assassination comment she issued a familiar statement: she was sorry and "regretted it" something that has become a broken record in 2016. And if you want to believe this, Clinton said it was because Teddy Kennedy's cancer had been on her mind.Which goes right into the same folder as her private email server having been approved.<br>
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Invoking the RFK assassination to partly justify continuing her candidacy was not only politically incredulous on its own terms but obnoxious on human terms.To think of an assassination in self serving political terms is not only reprehensible it also underscores the tunnel vision of Clinton's blind ambition, her sense of entitlement and willingness to do or say anything to serve her personal political ambition and then try and justify it or apologize for it later. And, as we have seen in 2016 with her constant lying and obvious colluding to rig the nominating process against Sanders,when it comes to her ambition, nothing else matters.<br>
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Normal people dont think things like that. And given that she was running against the first legitimate African American presidential candidate and there was an undercurrent of unspoken concerns about some racist lunatic deciding to do a James Earl Ray,it made her comment twice as obnoxious.<br>
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Some of her supporters over the last few weeks had floated the idea that Bernie Sanders should drop out though unlike Clinton in 2008 they didnt raise the spectre of assassination. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Or considered the possiblity of assassination as an opportunity. </span></div>
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<br>They didn't count on Sanders winning 20 states and tying in 4 more out of 44 primaries so far making him more than just a major thorn in Clinton's side.But unlike 2008 Clinton hasnt suggested an assassination to get rid of him the way it obviously crossed her mind in 2008 with Obama. In fact what made Clinton's 2008 comments even more obnoxious and even worse, revealing of her character, is that given her ambitions she sounded like she almost keeping her fingers crossed. </div><div><br></div><div>For Sanders, based on the obvious rigging that has been going on with both the DNC and news media supporting her, Clinton and her cronies seem to think they have other ways of taking care of Sanders.They are so brazen about the process being rigged they practically admit it with Clinton as well as campaign manager Robby Mook and Debby Wasserman-Schultz guaranteeing Clinton will be the nominee.</div>
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Congressman Adam Schiff patronizingly suggested recently that its okay for Sanders to stay in, (big of you Adam) but that he should direct his fire at Trump not Hillary Clinton.<br>
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Unfortunately for Schiff, Clinton, and her supporters the Office of Inspector General at the State Department didnt get the memo and issued a report so scathing on Hillary Clinton that even the usually docile, sheep-like establishment pandering news media were attacking her.<br>
<br>On MSNBC Mika Breszeinski could not contain her disgust for Clinton virtually calling her a liar,along with the usually timid Andrea Mitchell saying she wouldnt go so far as to call Clinton a liar but that what Clinton said about her private email server being approved was not true. Even CNN's timid, pandering and ingratiating game show host Wolf Blitzer challenged Clinton in an interview on her previous statements about her server being approved as untrue.<br>
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The irony is that the "hey you never know" gambit Clinton was hoping for in 2008 when it came to an assassination may come to pass against Clinton. Based on the OIG report Clinton broke at least one law multiple times, the Federal Records Act ( "Act" means law not a rule) but there is evidence in the report suggesting she may have violated many more laws including the unauthorized destruction of government records, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct justice with a senior staff member,obstructing a government agency in the official administration of its duties, a myriad of national security violations and more.<br>
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All of which indicates Clinton could be headed for serious legal problems.<br>
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The further irony is that Eric Holder said in a recent interview that what Snowden did was a public service but still illegal and because he broke a law he must still do prison time. Since nothing Clinton did in breaking the law and violating national security regulations was a public service, one has to assume the legal standards that apply to anyone else have to apply to her.<br>
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There is every reason to believe the FBI, knowing full well she is a candidate for president, hasnt interviewed her yet because of that decision they must make, which is, if they have made a finding that Clinton violated one more laws, they must, by law, notify her before any interview that she is now a target of the investigation.<br>
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Though still to many journalists shilling for Clinton that laughably, still might not be enough. Lisa Lerer of the AP wrote in an article after the Inspector General report came out that" if Clinton is indicted it <i>could (my italics) </i>damage her campaign". Really?<br>
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That Clinton is the one who might be on the wrong end of an unexpected event, though not the assassination of Obama she suggested in 2008 would be a Shakespearean irony.<br>
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Clinton and unprincipled Democrats in and out of congress supporting her, once counted on a rigged convention to hand her the nomination and which Clinton, characteristically still believes is the case<br>
("Im going to be the nominee, that is for certain" she said only a couple of days ago, sounding very much like someone who believes the fix is in).</div>
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Bernie Sanders is finally talking publicly about the Democrats rigging the convention and nominating process which its clear they did and have been doing, and that doesnt bode well for Democrats or Clinton getting any Sanders voters most of whom actually despise Clinton and the DNC to begin with for the ways they have rigged the process and cheated democracy. Which is exactly what an assassination does.</div>
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With Clinton presently having a 270 delegate lead with 913 to be won, with California now 50-50 in the polls which usually means a Sanders victory, winning California and four other states might be something even corrupt super delegates cant overcome. They might even secretly hope for a Clinton indictment to get them off the hook politically as a reason to flip to Sanders.Because no one in their right minds thinks Clinton is a stronger candidate than Sanders. Or that she has a better chance to beat Trump than Sanders.Clinton's nomination if it were to happen is all dirty back room politics and corporate money. And would probably take down the Democratic Party anyway.<br>
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With the irony of Clinton now facing the kind of " hey you never know" event she was gambling on in 2008 when she invoked the RFK assassination, any kind of surprise could end Clinton's chances. Chuck Todd recently said Clinton couldnt even get confirmed as Attorney General.<br>
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Cheating democracy is exactly what an assassination does.It eliminates a candidate or leader and deprives people of the person they want to govern or deprives them of their choice. Sometimes character assassination can do that. The irony is that the candidate, Hillary Clinton, who brought up assassination in 2008 as a reason to stay in the race against Obama opening the door for her in 2008 is, with the help of the DNC, trying to carry out a different kind of assassination to accomplish the same thing by rigging the entire election and primary process against Bernie Sanders which in its own way does what assassinations do --cheats democracy, cheats the American people and cheats the democratic process by eliminating the opposition for that moment in time.<br>
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Copyright Marc Rubin 2016</div>Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-73319862035804851422016-05-20T05:47:00.000-07:002016-05-21T08:22:17.583-07:00For Democrats What Happened in Vegas Won't Stay in Vegas.<br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">There is nothing even handed about rigging and perverting democracy. And
that is exactly what happened at the Nevada state Democratic Convention. But in
the interests of being as even handed as possible, the videos here showing
and describing what happened at the convention are two of the more lower key even handed
explanations and presentations of facts, not emotion though its fair to say the outrage expressed by Sanders voters both at the convention and watching online is totally justifiable.</span><br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Sanders voters have every
right to be outraged at what happened and outraged at Roberta Lange, who you
will see in even the most even handed objective light, presided over the convention like a corrupt member of the Politburo complete with her lacky behind her trying to get the
crowd to support voice votes in what amounted to a one sided Hillary Clinton
rigged convention. People can watch the videos and make up their own
minds.</span><br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">But there is not the slightest doubt the Nevada State Democratic Convention was rigged for Hillary Clinton by
party chair Roberta Lange who is clearly a puppet carrying out marching orders
from Debby Wasserman-Schultz in collusion with the Clinton campaign. And this is going to have far ranging repercussions for the
Democratic party. It's not going to stay at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. The DNC can expect it to make its way to Philadelphia. And if they try and do anything to suppress it and the Clinton rigging continues that outrage will find its way to a place where outrage is best expressed, at the ballot box in November.</span><br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">The Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton and Debbie
Wasserman-Schultz have been courting disaster for months with their rigging, cheating, lying and
blatant voter fraud in at least 6 states. Not to mention Clinton's serial lying about Sanders record on guns and the auto bailout,her stealing Sanders positions and their fraud and dirty campaign tricks with super delegates all of which reached </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the boiling point in Nevada and they have no one but themselves to blame.</span></div><div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">The dishonest news coverage of what happened have only made things worse for the DNC and Clinton. Dishonest pandering journalists like Erica Werner and Ken Thomas at AP and all the
usual suspects on cable news, the useless Wolf Blitzer, Gloria Borger,Jeff Zeleny,John King and the rest of the gang at CNN, Andrea Mitchell, Maddow, Chris Hayes and the rest at MSNBC, clearly in the tank for the Democratic party establishment,virtually ignored the rigging and focused on the reaction, more interested in not offending or upsetting their establishment
political contacts.</span><br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">It has been clear that the Democratic party and everyone associated with it
have been hell bent on<a href="http://tominpaine.blogspot.com/2016/04/is-clinton-hoping-same-dirty-politics.html" target="_blank"> rigging the nomination for Hillary Clinton from the beginning</a> and the fix was in from the start. Sanders was the wild card they
never saw coming, an honest politician whose honesty and integrity and penchant
for actually meaning what he says continues to befuddle them leaving them
helpless over how to deal with him because most are so used to lying and
dodging the truth and talking out of both sides of their mouths themselves in a
world where "everybody does it" they assumed he was like they are and because he isnt, have no answer on how to handle Sanders and his voters who refuse to go
along with their games.</span></div>
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">And so they do the next best thing. They've resorted to cheating, lying, rigging and fraud to win. And somehow are stupid enough to think they will get away
with it or paper over it with empty denials.</span></span></span></div>
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<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"><br></span></span></span>
<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">What happened at the Nevada convention was the kind of rigging of the
democratic process that was commonplace at Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed in the
1850's. Except back then there was no Internet, no cell phone video, no social
media and no one willing to talk. It did have some crusading journalists who
tried to expose the fraud something completely missing today.</span></span></span><br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Instead we have corrupt party line journalists like Gloria Borger,Wolf
Blitzer,Andrea Mitchell and others who turn a blind eye to what happened as a
wink to their friends and contacts in power. Adding to it was a journalistic hack in Nevada named Jon Ralston who seems to have made his living as a journalistic water boy for the Democratic machine in Las Vegas. He supposedly was the source of a myriad of dishonest reports and tweets from the convention picked up by the usual collection of lazy mainstream journalists. Among the bogus reports was Ralston's wrong headed assertion that Sanders supporters threw chairs. Celebrity supporters of Clinton, equally ignorant and relying on false reports like Cher, parroted the report of chair throwing which Debby Wasserman-Schultz also parroted on MSNBC. There was no video to confirm it but a video of a man picking up a chair then putting it down was used by media to justify the chair throwing and picked up by equally dishonest journalists.</span><br>
<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"><br></span></span></span>
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complaints of Sanders voters to "conspiracy theories" as Gloria Borger on CNN termed them, while turning their blind
eye to fraud and dirty tricks that have been going on from the beginning, not even so much ignoring as colluding. Like super delegates who haven't voted in 32 years declaring for Clinton
in February with non-binding at the moment "preferences" which not only count for nothing unless and until they are cast at the convention but have nothing to do with the
2383 in <i>pledged</i> delegates a candidate must win to gain the nomination through
primaries.</span></span></span><br>
<span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;"><br></span></span></span><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: small;">It is only if and when that number cannot be met (and Clinton will
not meet it) that super delegates would be asked to vote. Something they havent
done in 32 years but which CNN reporters like John King, Jeff Zelney, Wolf
Blitzer and at MSNBC Chris Hayes, the over rated Rachel Maddow and Steve Kornacki all ignore even when informed of the facts and the actual DNC rules.</span></span></span></div>
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When Jeff Weaver, Sanders campaign manager appeared with Wolf Blitzer, he
questioned Weaver for almost 15 minutes on trivia, like an angry phone call made by one of the Sanders
supporters at the convention to Roberta Lange who helped rig the
convention,asking Weaver if he or Sanders owed Lange an apology for Sanders supporters getting angry.</div>
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Blitzer never once asked about or investigated the fraud that took place. CNN
didn't book one guest or interview one Sanders supporter who was there not even former Ohio State
senator Nina Turner who had appeared before on CNN, to ask what actually happened. Instead Blitzer characterized
the phone call as " making threats against Lange's life" when it was no such
thing. It was nasty, it was angry, it berated Lange deservedly for her
Politburo performance and yes the caller wished bad things on her but never
once made a threat to take any action against her. What was said in that phone call could only be called a threat if Blitzer believed in voodoo. And maybe he does.</div>
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Blitzer also made an issue of Wasserman-Schultz statement that Sanders reaction to what happened was "totally unacceptable". Sanders for his part has refused to back down and refused to cave in to
Blitzer's or Wasserman-Schultz's kow towing suggestion he should apologize. The only people who owe anyone an apology is Lange, the Democratic
National Committee and CNN for their dishonest news coverage.</div>
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People are angry and they are going to stay angry. Dianne Feinstein is
already invoking Chicago 1968 which has been brought up here a few times. And
the Democratic National Committee can expect tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of Sanders supporters in Philadelphia for the
convention to protest their dishonesty and fraud.</div>
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There is no reason to expect violence or for people like Feinstein who is
clearly ignorant about history, to compare it to Chicago '68 based on the violence that took place there.The violence in Chicago in 1968 wasn't caused by protestors but by police.</div>
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Chicago in 1968 saw tens of thousands of protestors,
mostly young, the same age as many Sanders voters, showing up to protest the
Viet Nam war which was being conducted by a Democratic administration. The
protests were all peaceful. The violence was started by the Chicago police and a
Justice Dept investigation months after the event termed what had happened as a
"police riot", Chicago police out of control and who were the sole perpetrators
of and instigators of the violence.</div>
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There is no reason to think Philadelphia police
would riot and be the cause of violence. Naturally they
have a duty to preserve the peace. But while there is every reason to expect hundreds
of thousands of Sanders voters to show up to make their voices heard both inside the convention and out with signs and demonstrations, there is not the slightest reason to expect violence. So far the only real violence was perpetrated by a Clinton supporter, actor Wendell Pierce who was charged with assaulting a woman when he found out she was a Sanders supporter.<br>
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What the DNC can be sure of is if they carry out their plan to hand Hillary Clinton the
nomination in a process that reeks of the kind of fraud and dishonesty that's been seen from the beginning, if there is anything similar to Nevada its going to get ugly. Not
violent. Ugly. Ugly for Clinton. Ugly for Democrats. And Ugly in
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There was a chant at the Democratic convention in 1968 as the police
cracked down and tried to silence the protestors, a chant that
echoed around the world and a chant that will probably be heard in Philadelphia. The
chant was,"<em>the whole worlds watching".</em></div>
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Its something Debby Wasserman - Schultz, Hillary Clinton, the DNC and super delegates aiding and
abetting the fraud ought to keep in mind. They've been committing fraud and perverting the democratic
process from the beginning and the whole world will be watching again in
Philadelphia. And if there is anything in Philadelphia similar to what happened in
Nevada they are going to be looking at a massive defeat in November, which also happened in 1968, since that
is the best way to clean house and rid the Democratic party of the kind of
blatant corruption and fraud that everyone has been seeing. And replace it in two years with Democratic candidates who are more honest.</div>
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Ed Rendall, a Clinton supporter recently scolded Sanders supporters that
they better behave themselves at the convention. Like everything else the DNC
has done, he has it backwards. Its the Democratic National Committee who better
behave themselves. And its going to start in June when neither Clinton nor
Sanders will have the requisite 2383 pledged delegates and no super delegate will have
actually cast a ballot. If Wasserman-Schultz acts like Roberta Lange and declares
Clinton the "presumptive nominee" without a single vote being cast at the
convention she and the DNC will have no one to blame but themselves for what happens at the convention and beyond. Which is going to do the Democratic party no good. They
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Lewes, UK, is a small town of 16,000. It also is a place where Thomas Paine once lived from 1766-1774 and who many credit with inspiring the American Revolution after moving to the American Colonies.<br>
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Paine,whose name is taken for this blog, was a revolutionary thinker and writer whose treatise "Common Sense" laid out the justification for a Revolution against the British and King George. It was the most widely read piece of printed literature in all thirteen colonies next to the Bible,aroused the colonists and led to the American Revolution. It also inspired the Founders who based many of the ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution on many of Paines practical philosophical ideas,not unlike many of Sanders' ideas <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">and were springboards for many of the principles on which the country is based. </span></div>
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A group of passionate Bernie Sanders supporters in Lewes assembled for this photo in front of the house where Thomas Paine once lived and it was sent to me by a reader. And like many others in the United States and abroad, they see parallels between Bernie Sanders and his political revolution and the ideas and ideals that helped sparked the original revolution of Americans who felt oppressed and unfairly treated by an handful of elitists in Great Britain that eventually led to the establishment of the United States.<br>
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The inscription on the house behind them reads:" In this house lived Thomas Paine, writer and revolutionary".<br>
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Which might be why Bernie Sanders, a revolutionary in his own right,has so many supporters in the small town of Lewes and why Sanders won the Democrats Abroad primary ballot over Hillary Clinton with 69% of the vote.It shows that Americans overseas are as passionate about Sanders candidacy as those in the States.<br>
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And like the townspeople of Lewes where Paine once lived, Sanders call for a political revolution is being heard all over the country and giving the Clinton campaign and their presumptions fits. </div><div><br></div><div>And in July at the Democratic convention ironically being held in Philadelphia, Bernie Sanders revolution and those who support it will become even more visible giving Clinton and the party elites even bigger fits by standing up to forces of elitism and their disdain for the kind of free, fair and honest representation that people stood up against in 1776 and,as a growing revolution could come to fruition this July in Philadelphia as it did once before,240 years ago.</div>
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Copyright Marc Rubin 2016</div>Marc Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746456438052849715noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820377390281203107.post-65139193789050016402016-05-09T05:23:00.001-07:002016-06-01T09:14:16.417-07:00Hillary Clinton's "Sorry" Campaign.<br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Back in 1970 there was a hit movie that was to tear jerkers what
Star Wars is to popular sci-fi. It was called "Love Story" and it was based on a best
selling novel by Erich Segal. The big line from the movie which was repeated endlessly, satirized, plagiarized,joked about by comedians and put on everything from T-shirts to tea cups as it became part of the
culture was "Love means never having to say your sorry".</span><br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">If being president means never having to say your sorry Hillary Clinton
might as well go home now because Clinton has been the "sorriest" presidential
candidate in history.</span><br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Hillary Clinton has had to she was "sorry" for things she said or did more times in 3 months than any presidential candidate in
history and more than any politician has in a lifetime. And as a result has had to run the "sorriest" presidential campaign in
political history.</span><br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">She said she was sorry for setting up her own private email server (and no
doubt she means it).</span><br>
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Bill himself says he isn't sorry for. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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saying young women who support Sanders instead of her deserve "a special place
in hell".</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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said the only reason young women went to Sanders rallies instead of
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She said she was "sorry" for NAFTA</div>
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She was sorry she referred to black criminals as "super predators" and that
they "need to be made to heel". (a term used in training dogs)</div>
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She said she was "sorry" for praising Nancy Reagan and crediting her
with starting the "national conversation" about HIV when she did nothing of the kind
and Clinton received a torrent of criticism from AIDS activists for saying so which made her
immediately backtrack and say she was "sorry".</div>
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Clinton has had to repeatedly said she was "sorry" about Iraq as if saying she is
sorry somehow excuses what amounts to approving the worst commander-in-chief decision in
history, a decision the country and the whole world is still paying for.</div>
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Her campaign surrogates had to back down and say "sorry" after questioning whether Sanders was really arrested in Chicago protesting segregation in 1961 after the Chicago Tribune posted a photo of Sanders arrest.</div>
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Other surrogates,especially the Mayor of Atlanta we're sorry for looking equally stupid in saying Sanders was late to the civil rights movement and they and the Clinton campaign had to back down and recant on that too.</div>
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<br>Clinton attacked Sanders on universal health care saying "no we can't" then recanted and supported it as an ultimate goal after a huge
loss in a primary and articles appeared showing Obama advocated universal healthcare during the 2008 primaries (before selling out the public option as president to the insurance lobby).</div>
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<br>Clinton attacked Sanders as "not being a Democrat" then had to back down when shown the DSCC asked Sanders to
help fund raise for Democratic senators and sent out an email titled "This is what leadership looks like" quoting Sanders on Republican obstruction of the Supreme Court embarrassing Clinton and undermining her attack.</div>
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<br>In New York Clinton was sorry for a skit she did with Mayor DeBlasio in which a joke was
made of DiBlasio being late to endorse Clinton because of running on CP time -- Colored People Time. <br></div>
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And most recently Clinton was sorry for comments she made about coal miners and the coal
industry about putting miners out of work which had much of the state up in arms forcing Clinton to apologize again with one of the most insincere, disingenuous, convoluted nonsensical apologies ever uttered by a politician: "I do feel a little bit sad and
sorry that I gave people an excuse to be so sad or sorry". Like the coal miners of West Virginia were looking for an excuse to be sad and sorry. (Clinton lost the primary to Sanders by landslide numbers) </div>
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<br>But just as illuminating are all the things Clinton hasn't been sorry for but should be. Like her political dirty tricks in collusion with the DNC with super
delegates, rounding them up and getting them to declare in February, the first time in the history of the Democratic party that superdelegates declared anything before the last primary was over. The purpose was to artificially pad her lead during the primaries and sucker the same gullible inept mindless journalists Obama suckered on the Iran deal into including them hoping to dampen the enthusiasm of Sanders voters and his fundraising and to grease the skids for rigging her nomination at the convention if it becomes necessary by creating a false expectation of inevitability which the media has both swallowed and promoted. Happily going along with the charade is everyone on CNN and Chris Hayes,Maddow and their graphics departments. <br>
<br>Clinton also isnt sorry for her blatant lying about Sanders not supporting the auto bailout when she knows he did and shameless lying about Vermont being the biggest source of guns committing murders in New York City when that was nowhere near true.<br>
<br>No one expects Clinton to be sorry for all the evidence of
voter fraud on her behalf in five states including New York where the Attorney General
is investigating a purge of eligible voters wrongly removed from the voter rolls. And a statistical analysis of the NY primary results which gave Clinton a margin of victory 400% higher than the 52-48 exit polls concluded that the odds of it not being fraud were 123,000-1.<br>
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Given Clinton's almost unprecedented dishonesty, dirty tricks in
trying to make her lead look bigger than it is, the DNC and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz doing all they can to rig the process in Clinton's favor, if Clinton were to get the
nomination as a result of corrupt super delegate following party bosses and a corrupt process there would very likely be a revolt of Sanders voters and protests that might look something like Chicago in 1968 without the police riot but with the same results for
Democrats in November. Resounding defeat. And deserved. Which would give the DNC and Clinton even more to be sorry for. <br>
<br>A good case can be made that not rewarding fraud and purging the Democrats of their political corruption like super delegates following the wishes of party bosses rather than their voters, cleaning house and starting over could make more sense in the long run for the future of the Democratic party. That future belongs to Sanders ideas and voters not Clinton's. Exit polls show Sanders destroys Hillary Clinton among voters 45 and under by 84-14 and among younger women 86-9. </div><div><br></div><div>As for Trump, he is so disliked by congressional Republicans because they dont believe he is really conservative he would be obstructed his entire term anyway, maybe more by Republicans than Democrats. Nothing would get done. Which,given a Republican congress many Democrats would view as a good thing. Even stranger, there are Republicans in congress and GOP donors who are leaning towards Clinton because they feel she is more Republican than Trump, which her transcripts would no doubt reveal. Meaning defeating Clinton if she cheated her way to the nomination is a viable, even preferred option. <br>
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That would pave the way for an honest Democrat and a new, honest, rejuvenated Democratic party to win in four years rather than have the DNC hand Hillary Clinton an undeserved nomination as the product of rigging, dishonesty, unethical fundraising and voter fraud which would only continue.</div><div><br></div><div>Which is not to say sanity and self preservation cannot prevail at the convention.Sanders can still win the nomination. Sanders is clearly the stronger candidate on every level. Take away Clinton's 369 delegates and 4 million votes which all came from the South as a result of Obama's influence on her behalf in a part of the country where his influence is greatest and Clinton is significantly behind Sanders in votes and delegates. Had Obama endorsed Sanders all those votes and delegates would be his. It had nothing to do with Clinton's strength as as candidate. As Elizabeth Warren said in another context Clinton didn't get those delegates and votes on her own. </div><div><br></div><div>Add to that the fact that those delegates are all in red states Democrats can't win in a general election and Sanders is clearly the stronger candidate because he beats Clinton almost everywhere else and in some cases by unheard of landslide margins of as much as 60 points. And is stronger against Trump.</div><div><br></div><div>As for superdelegates that preposterous undemocratic element of the Democratic Party, self preservation might save the day. Every super delegate in states Sanders won and by huge margins would be ending their political careers voting for Clinton. All incumbents,they would all lose primary challenges from a Sanders Democrat next time they were up for reelection.<br>
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Given all Clinton has to be sorry for, if super delegates at the convention, especially in states Sanders won, corruptly hand Clinton the nomination which is the only way she can win, they can probably forget unity. Which means when it's all
over, if Clinton does cheat her way to the nomination, the campaign song Clinton and the Democrats are liable to be hearing from Sanders voters is "Who's Sorry Now"? While Clinton and Debby Wasserman-Schultz might do a duet of "It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To". <br>
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</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Marc Rubin
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