Hillary Clinton is a very successful and
extremely powerful political figure. A politician if you like. Does anyone
think she’s telling us the truth? That her campaign promises are worth the
sound bites the talking heads replay until our ears bleed? Of course not!
Let’s start off with a joke. Question: How do
you know a politician is lying? Answer: Their lips are moving! I think that
pretty much sums it up for the trust issue. In case it doesn’t, let’s look at
the example of John Kerry. He’s the Secretary of State. He has Hillary’s old
job in the Obama administration and ran for President against George W in 2004.
Enough background. If you need more, you can google him. It’s what I did. That
counts as research, right?
A week ago last Tuesday, June 28, 2016, at
the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, (see, more research right there, pat on
back) Secretary Kerry floated the idea ISIS was ramping up its’ terrorist attacks
against us because they were “desperate”. I kid you not. Of course the
Republican side countered with, and this is from House Homeland Security
Committee Chairmen Mike McCaul, (that titles a mouthful) a Republican in case
you couldn’t figure it out yourself, “…absolutely defies reality”. Now I know
the Obama Administrations position is we are winning the war against radical
terrorism. Not radical Islam, but radical extremist. However, I don’t think the
radical Islamists of ISIS are attacking across the world because they are
“desperate” as Secretary Kerry suggested. It seems to me that as we curb their
military expansionism, they grow their external attack capabilities.
Remember, ISIS promised to slip in fighters
with the Syrian refugees the EU accepts. They promised that a while back. I
have a feeling we are seeing the poisonous fruit of that labor. President Obama
can claim we are winning against ISIS, and he does regularly, just google it.
However, keeping them from expanding their territory is not the same as containing
them. And the Obama Administration know this all too well.
Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State when
the Obama Administration labeled ISIS the “JV Squad” And what a winning squad
they’ve been. Although I doubt that’s what the administration had in mind. If
you underestimate your enemy, you will lose. And I think we are losing. ISIS
continues to attack us and our allies with impunity. We only react. We clean up
the mess and blame it on a lack of gun control. Or my personal favorite,
“workplace violence”. Even though many of these attacks take place in countries
where the only ones to have guns are the Islamic terrorists. Somehow, it’s our
fault?
How does this relate to Hillary Clintons
trust issues? All politicians have an agenda. Hillary Clintons agenda is
Hillary Clinton. If, as Secretary of State, Hillary was going to toe the line,
she was going to make us believe we were winning. This belief might be
delusional, but that doesn’t stop them from promoting it.
Now, with the conclusion and recommendation
from the FBI’s investigation that Hillary not face criminal charges, President
Obama is on the campaign trail for her. I don’t know about you, but I knew
Hillary Clinton wasn’t going to face criminal charges. When you hear talk about
the Democratic establishment, that talk is about Hillary and her political
machine. With the Obama Administration backing her stint as Secretary of State,
no way was the FBI going to recommend charges against her. Even when House
Speaker, that’s the position third in line for President, (best to keep in mind
he’s a Republican) says “The finding of this investigation also make clear that
Secretary Clinton misled the American people when she was confronted with her
criminal actions.”
If you, or I for that matter, treated
classified intelligence with what FBI Director Comey calls “extremely
careless”, we’d be locked up and the key thrown away before we could even ask
for a lawyer. But not Hillary. She just says she didn’t know anything was
classified and when pressed replies with the fact nothing was labeled
“classified”. True enough on the face of it, but she ordered any classified
labels removed. I’m guessing here, but I think she did that so she could say
none were labeled classified.
At least I can say this: Hillary Clinton’s
lies are completely transparent. So, maybe her administration will be too? She
definitely plans ahead for them, the lies that is. But all politicians lie. Ok,
they say things in just a way that it’s not quite a lie. Such as Hillary’s
assertion that no emails were labeled “classified”, but come on, how stupid are
we? We’re not really buying that line, are we?
As for the trust issue. If you trust a
politician, you are a special kind of stupid. Donald Trump isn’t a politician.
You can trust he believes he’ll do the things he promises. Currently, this
seems to resonate with some of the American people, but remember this: if
elected President, he will be a politician and the joke applies.
Don’t believe anything any politician
promises you during this election cycle. Take everything said by the talking
heads on the major media channels with a grain of salt. Probably should make
that a truckload, and not a grain. Decide for yourself what you think the two
candidates for President will actual try to accomplish if elected. And
remember, Democrat or Republican, they’re just different sides of the same
coin.
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