“WE WERE HAD!!!!”
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can’t change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don’t fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don’t fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
First I must apologize for my hiatus. Life has a way of interfering into the most private and important aspects of our lives and shared experiences. That being said I wish to first congratulate the new president selects fortunes in being elected Americas 44th president. Don’t get me wrong I hope he is successful and America will flourish as a result of his election but his first selections for his cabinet has greatly reinforced my belief in human nature that “Never underestimate the ability of the democratic party to do everything in their power to destroy the foundation of America”. Now let’s take a serious look at this candidate for change.
President-select Barack Obama has moved with unusual speed to select officials for his administration, almost as if he is waiting for his bubble to burst. As President-select Barack Obama quickly selects officials for his administration, attention is starting to turn to the potential obstacles they face in Senate confirmation hearings. Several key appointments, including State and Treasury Department secretaries, appear to be done deals, with Democratic officials confirming Obama’s intended nominees.
Allow me to elucidate on his biggest blunder to date….
Hillary Clinton (Secretary of state). The baggage she can claim and which still follows her are:
1) From her tenure as First lady of Arkansas,
a. She made a $100,000 windfall from cattle futures after a $1,000 investment.
b. She was caught up in the Castle Grande real estate scam. (Too much info here so do some reading….)
c. Her role as attorney for the Rose law firm in what would become the endlessly controversial-cum-criminal Whitewater affair that would follow her to the White House.
d. The serial philandering of her husband, which cast her – depending on one’s viewpoint – as a clench-jawed stoic, a perpetual victim, or a willing collaborator.
2) From her tenure as First lady of the united states,
a. Starting in May 1993, the co-president was accused of having a central hand in firing several long-time employees of the White House Travel Office, the better to give the pricey travel business to her Hollywood pals, Linda Bloodworth Thomason and Harry Thomason. In true scandal-mode form, Hillary denied everything and when Whitewater Independent Counsel Robert Ray investigated Travelgate, he concluded that there was substantial evidence that involved Hillary but not enough to warrant an indictment.
b. In July 1993, White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster was said to have committed suicide, although the case for his murder has been made persuasively by, among others, Christopher Ruddy, in his 1993 book, “The Strange Death of Vincent Foster: An Investigation.”(A little something called Whitewater).
c. This came back in 1996, l9ke the proverbial ‘Bad Penny’ when Hillary was accused by the Senate Special Whitewater Committee of ordering the removal of potentially damaging files related to Whitewater from Foster’s office on the night of his death. Hillary denied everything, once again proving her adeptness in the scandal patch.
d. In June 1996, White House security head Craig Livingstone illegally obtained over 700 FBI files of mostly White House personnel from former Republican administrations. Hillary was accused of requesting the files and, in fact, hiring Mr. Livingstone, but she denied everything to yet another Independent Counsel, and Filegate became one more notch in her cast iron Garter belt.
e. Unfortunately, or luckily, depending on where you sit, her co-presidency brought about the fall of more elected and appointed members of her and her husband’s ‘regime’, as well as “friends” who met untimely deaths, were indicted, pleaded the fifth, fled the country, and were imprisoned, than in any administration in American history. To the people who look back with fondness at the Clinton years only shows towards the acceptance of moral decay and a complete lack of even the most basics of decency and humanity.
1. The scandal list is too long to quote here but for a complete list of indiscretions please go to the liberal Progressive Review (http://prorev.com) . Under the listing of “Records Set’” by the Clinton administration (read: co-presidency), Progressive Review cites the following,
3) Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates.
4) Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation.
5) Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify.
6) Most number of witnesses to die suddenly.
a. Hillary’s Husband alone….
7) First president sued for sexual harassment.
8) First president accused of rape.
9) First president to be held in contempt of court.
10) First president to be impeached for personal malfeasance.
Hillary can proudly claim she….
11) Was the first first lady to come under criminal investigation.
12) Made the largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign-contribution case.
13) Had the greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions.
Because I am a big believer in numbers, democracy and all that, let’s look at the conviction rate of these “All Americans”,
14) Number of Starr-Ray investigation convictions or guilty pleas to date: one governor, one associate attorney general and two Clinton business partners: 14.
15) Number of Cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 5. (More on these winners later….)
16) Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine that were convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47.
17) Number of these convictions during Clinton’s presidency: 33.
18) Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
19) Number of congressional witnesses who pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122.
20) Guilty pleas and convictions obtained by Donald Smaltz in cases involving charges of bribery and fraud against former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy and associated individuals and businesses: 15; acquitted or overturned cases (including Espy): 6.
21) Clinton machine crimes for which convictions were obtained:
a. Drug trafficking, 3.
b. racketeering, extortion, bribery, 4
c. tax evasion, kickbacks, embezzlement, 2
d. fraud, 12
e. conspiracy, 5
f. fraudulent loans, illegal gifts, 1
g. illegal campaign contributions, 5
h. money laundering, 6;
i. perjury,6
Now these geniuses who were going to save the world and had all the answers to every problem that the world faced….
22) Number of times that Clinton figures who testified in court or before Congress said that they didn’t remember, didn’t know, or something similar:
23) Bill Kennedy, 116
24) Harold Ickes, 148
25) Ricki Seidman, 160
26) Bruce Lindsey, 161
27) Bill Burton, 191
28) Mark Gearan, 221
29) Mack McLarty, 233
30) Neil Egglseston, 250
31) John Podesta, 264
32) Jennifer O’Connor, 343
33) Dwight Holton 348
34) Patsy Thomasson, 420
35) Jeff Eller, 697;
36) And her royal thighness herself, Hillary Clinton, 250.
I must stop there my friends. This gets to depressing.
Some Democrats and government insiders have questioned whether Clinton is too independent and politically ambitious to be an effective secretary of state. But a senior Obama adviser said the president-elect has been enthusiastic about naming Clinton to the post from the start, believing she would bring instant stature and credibility to U.S. diplomatic relations and that the advantages to her serving far outweigh potential downsides.
All this from the candidate of “Hope and Change”? With, as of this moment, 31 of the 47 cabinet post being filled by Bill Clintons ex-cabinet members, I will wait until just before Obama’s coronation for the massive hue and cry from the entire democratic support system, “WE BEEN HAD….”
