Connecting the dots on Hillary Clinton

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[h=1]Philadelphia Police Union Rips Clinton, DNC for Not Including Families of Slain Police Officers as Convention Speakers[/h][h=2]‘You should be ashamed of yourself if that is possible’[/h]SHARE
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BY: David Rutz
July 21, 2016 11:47 am
Philadelphia’s police union is angry with Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Convention for giving speaking roles to family members of police shooting victims but not to family members of police officers who died in the line of duty.
John McNesby, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5, told Philadelphia’s local CBS affiliate that the speaker choices were “putting salt in the wound” and promoting an “anti-police movement.”
The union also released a statement that it was “insulted” by the exclusion of police widows and family members, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer:

“It is sad that to win an election Mrs. Clinton must pander to the interests of people who do not know all the facts, while the men and women they seek to destroy are outside protecting the political institutions of this country,” the statement read. “Mrs. Clinton, you should be ashamed of yourself if that is possible.”

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The statement came days after the Clinton campaign announced that former President Bill Clinton would speak Tuesday night along with members of Mothers of the Movement, a group that includes Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin; and Lezley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown.
Clinton’s campaign responded Wednesday, noting that two members of law enforcement are scheduled to speak at the convention, including former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey.
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The Clinton Scandal That Still Matters Is Not the One You Think

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The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were exaggerated by partisan Republicans and were mostly related to actions taken by Bill Clinton, who will not be on the 2016 ballot. But sweeping away all this history deprives voters of the chance to consider a largely forgotten financial scandal that directly involved Hillary Clinton during 1978 and 1979.
Under the guidance of an attorney representing Tyson Foods, Hillary Clinton made a $98,540 profit from a $1,000 initial investment in less than one year trading commodity futures. While $98,540 may not seem like much money relative to the Clinton family’s wealth today, it exceeded Bill and Hillary’s combined annual income at the time.
Related: Does Mike Bloomberg Know Something We Don’t About the Clinton FBI Probe?
When this story was revealed in the spring of 1994, Hillary Clinton’s press secretary suggested that the enormous profit was the result of the First Lady’s own research — but the Tyson-linked attorney, James Blair, admitted that he advised Clinton when to buy and sell the futures. Further, there was no evidence that Clinton had previously traded in commodity futures or knew much about the market.
Careful readers at the time also learned that Clinton’s initial trading also had a serious irregularity. Unlike stock investments, commodity futures are almost always purchased with high levels of margin, meaning that the investor is using a substantial proportion of money borrowed from the broker to control positions. Exchanges and regulators typically require investors to keep a minimum amount of cash in their futures accounts to avoid getting into a negative position if futures prices move in the wrong direction. In Hillary Clinton’s case, her $1,000 initial investment was well below the $12,000 deposit required by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for the first trades she executed. So not only did Hillary make an extraordinary profit for a novice investor, she did so without following the rules applied to less well-connected traders.
By the time the so-called “cattle futures” scandal fell out of the headlines, readers ofThe New York Times and Washington Post — mainstream outlets that both extensively reported the story — were left with the impression that Hillary’s trading activity was suspicious. But, since Hillary was not an elected official, the scandal was eclipsed by bimbo eruptions and the Whitewater Affair, both involving the president himself.
Related: Clinton Told Aide to Send Talking Points By 'Non-Secure' System
It also was not much of an issue in 2008 — but that was before the federal government started bailing out banks and other big corporations. In the aftermath of TARP and other widely reported instances of crony capitalism, Clinton’s behavior back in 1978 and 1979 warrants further scrutiny.
The factor that makes the cattle futures scandal relevant is that Hillary Clinton received her trading advice from Tyson Food’s outside counsel. Tyson was a major agricultural producer in Arkansas and had numerous issues that Attorney General and later Governor Bill Clinton could affect.
One such issue involved enforcement of environmental regulations affecting Tyson’s chicken-processing plants. It can be costly for factory farmers to properly dispose of chicken manure, but the failure to do so can cause serious damage. This was demonstrated by an incident at the company’s Green Forest plant in northwest Arkansas. As The New York Times reported in March 1994:
In 1977, the state pollution control agency reissued the license for Tyson's Green Forest plant on the condition that the company meet with city officials to work out a plan for treating its wastes. But the state never enforced the order, and in May 1983, the waste from the plant seeped into the town's drinking water. Residents became ill, and 15 months later Governor Clinton declared the town a disaster area.
Related: Here’s Why the Media Stopped Reporting on Clinton’s New Emails
So it is possible to link Tyson’s support for the Clintons to water contamination, an ironic circumstance given Hillary Clinton’s criticism of Governor Rick Snyder’s handling of the Flint water crisis.
The Times also reported, “During Mr. Clinton's tenure in Arkansas, Tyson benefited from a variety of state actions, including $9 million in government loans, the placement of company executives on important state boards and favorable decisions on environmental issues.”
Tyson appears to have obtained these results for what looks like a bribe delivered though Hillary Clinton’s commodities account. To quote the company’s former chairman: politics is “a series of unsentimental transactions between those who need votes and those who have money.”
This perspective should provide cause for concern today, since Hillary Clinton made $2.9 million in speaking fees from large financial institutions between 2013 and 2015. That total includes $675,000 from the much reviled Goldman Sachs. One is left to wonder whether Goldman and the other financial industry behemoths stand to gain any transactional benefits for their money.
While paid speech-making is not illegal, bribery is. Tyson might have simply made a campaign contribution to Bill Clinton back then, but that would have violated limitsthen in effect. Instead, Bill and Hillary pushed — and seemingly broke — ethical and legal limits to get the cash they needed.

 

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from the above article:

The Times also reported, “During Mr. Clinton's tenure in Arkansas, Tyson benefited from a variety of state actions, including$9 million in government loans, the placement of company executives on important state boards and favorable decisions on environmental issues.”

 

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[h=1]'Bernie or Bust' backers to flock to Philly to protest[/h] Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY3:29 p.m. EDT July 21, 2016

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Bernie Sanders may have ended his battle for the White House with his endorsement of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, but that’s not stopping thousands of his backers from planning to flock to Philadelphia next week to protest the Democratic National Convention and send a message to party leaders.
The fact that Sanders said last week he would do “everything I can” to help Clinton beat Republican nominee Donald Trump is not dissuading pro-Sanders protest organizers. They say Americans are frustrated with the Democratic Party establishment, and they'll still be out to protest in large numbers.
“It’s ‘We the People’ who are going to continue to lead this revolution,” said Billy Taylor, a pro-Sanders activist who was issued permits to hold rallies on each day of the convention. “We are not going to vote for the demon named Hillary just because you are threatening us with the devil named Trump.”
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The city of Philadelphia is projecting 35,000 to 50,000 demonstrators will gather at a half dozen sanctioned protest sites near the Wells Fargo Center each day of the convention, which opens Monday. A bulk of the permits issued by the city are to groups that indicated they are inspired by the Vermont senator.
The showing for the pro-Sanders demonstrations — whose organizers have received seven of the 20 permits issuedand are expected to draw the largest crowds, according to city officials estimates — could perhaps provide a sense of the road Clinton has in front of her as she tries to win over some of the Sander’s most rabid backers.

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A Pew Poll published earlier this month found that 85% of respondents who voted for Sanders during the primaries and caucuses say they will back Clinton in the general election, while nine percent said they’d vote for Trump. Six percent say they'll vote for a third party candidate or did not know how they’ll vote.
In interviews, some pro-Sanders protest organizers said they're still holding on to a thread of hope that a big showing will persuade super delegates committed to Clinton to vote for Sanders.
Short of a super delegate uprising for Sanders, organizers say they will use their protests to push for major reforms in the Democratic Party—including calling for abolishing super delegates in future elections, ousting Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and pressing party leaders to push for laws that would trigger automatic voter registration for Americans when they turn 18.
Without major reforms, Taylor and other protest organizers said they'll begin an effort to get voters to “deregister” from both major political parties to send a message that Americans are fed up.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re going to hold your nose and vote for Hillary,” said Taylor, who owns a Philadelphia landscape business. “We want people to know that you can still join denounce the party and join us and make an example out of the party. The Democratic Party has to earn back our respect.”

In this June 24, 2016, file photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, speaks in Albany, N.Y. Sanders has endorsed presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, but thousands of his supporters are still expected to protest outside the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia next week. (Photo: Mike Groll, AP)


Non-Sanders groups that were approved for permits by the city include Green Party candidate Jill Stein, the anti-gun violence group Americans for Solutions PAC, and the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC). Other demonstrators, including members of the Black Lives Matter movement, did not apply for permits but are expected to hold protests in Philadelphia during the convention. Demonstrators will not be arrested simply for not having a permit, said Mike Dunn, a spokesman for Mayor Jim Kenney.
Cheri Honkala, the organizer for the Philadelphia-based PPEHRC, said her group’s demonstration is meant to put a spotlight on the plague of homelessness and poverty in the city. She also is planning a bean supper for Sanders delegates ahead of Clinton’s acceptance speech on Thursday, hoping that the bean-filled Sanders supporters will return to the Wells Fargo Center and greet Clinton with flatulence.
“The idea is to send the message to the Democratic Party establishment that the whole system smells, and it must be changed,” she said.

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Laurie Cestnick, a Sanders supporter who has been organizing protesters to come to Philadelphia through her Occupy DNC Convention July 2016 Facebook page, said she was disappointed by Sanders' endorsement of Clinton. But she said too much is at stake to keep activists like her from speaking out at the convention.
Her group plans to gather on Monday in Camden, NJ—just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia—and march with several other groups to Philadelphia’s city hall and then on to the main protest site near the convention hall.
Cestnick, who volunteered at phone banks for Sanders in the Boston area, said the Facebook page she started to promote the Occupy DNC group’s protests has garnered more than 31,000 followers. Hundreds of activists associated with her group have reserved space at camping grounds in nearby south New Jersey for the days of the convention, she said.
“I won’t say that I’d rather see Trump get in, but I want (the Clinton campaign) to squirm for the rest of the election season, wondering what’s going to happen,” Cestnick said. “I just want them to know that our votes matter and you can’t do that to the American people again.”
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Interesting. The Republicans are upset because one of their own didn’t endorse their candidate while the Democrats are upset because one of their own did endorse their candidate.


Something is wrong with that.

 

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Can Hillary talk for 76 minutes without coughing LOL

 

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[h=1]Donald Trump on Hillary Clinton and Her Donors: ‘She Is Their Puppet and They Pull the Strings’[/h]

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[h=2]CLEVELAND, Ohio — Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton the “puppet” of her globalist donors in the most awe-inspiring and unconventional nomination speech by any Republican nominee in modern convention history.[/h]Trump said that Clinton has “big business” and “elite donors” who “know she will keep our rigged system in place. They are throwing money at her because they have total control over every single thing that she does. She is their puppet, and they pull the strings.”
“That is why Hillary Clinton’s message is that things will never change. Never, ever. My message is that things have to change. And they have to change right now.”
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“Her single greatest accomplishment might be committing such an egregious crime and getting away with it,” Trump said of her private email server scandal.
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This article came out in 2008 - needs to be exposed once again:

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[h=1]Shocking Revelations about Hillary Clinton's Watergate Committee Job[/h][FONT=&quot]By Rick Moran[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot][FONT=times new roman,times]According to this [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]Daniel Calabrese[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] article, Hillary Clinton was fired from her job as a staff attorney for the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigations for, among other things, lying:

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[FONT=times new roman,times]Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair.

When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.

Why?

“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”[/FONT]​

[FONT=times new roman,times]The fact that this hasn't come out prior to this election cycle (Patterico wrote [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]about it here[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]), is perhaps the most shocking revelation of all. One has to be convinced that if it were a Republican who had a past like this, the politician's career would never have gotten off the ground. Such a revelation - so easily discovered by simply asking her boss on the Committee - would have been all over the media if a Republican had been fired for "lying" amd violating "the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee, and the rules of confidentiality."

Hillary Clinton has been a public figure for 20 years or more. She has run for office twice in New York. I am absolutely flabbergasted that the press was so incurious as to not dig this information out earlier or if it has been in the public domain, why it hasn't been given a huge amount of play by the news nets and major media. Is lying, violating ethics and the Constitution in a candidate's past not important to the voter when they make their decision on who to support for president?

Regardless, among Clinton's transgressions while on staff at the House Judiciary Committee were her apparent lying about not seeking to change House rules by assuring her boss she had no intention of doing so and then later being discovered that she was already advocating radical changes including a recommendation to deny President Nixon the right to counsel. Ziefman wrote on his own website:

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[FONT=times new roman,times]In one written legal memorandum, she advocated denying President Nixon representation by counsel. In so doing she simply ignored the fact that in the committee’s then most recent prior impeachment proceeding, the committee had afforded the right to counsel to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. I had also informed Hillary that the Douglas impeachment files were available for public inspection in the committee offices. She later removed the Douglas files without my permission and carried them to the offices of the impeachment inquiry staff — where they were no longer accessible to the public.

As Ed Morrissey points out:

If all she did was to propose that as a tactic, that would not make it terribly concerning — but she did much more than just spitball ideas. When informed that public evidence showed a precedent for the right to counsel, she absconded with the files to eliminate the evidence.

Does that remind anyone of later incidents in the Clinton narrative, such as the billing records for the Rose Law offices and the 900+ raw FBI files on political opponents of the Clintons?

Hillary’s advocates could accuse Zeifman of conjuring up these stories in order to draw attention to himself in the middle of a presidential campaign. However, Calabrese reports that Zeifman kept diaries during this period, urged on by friends mindful of the historical nature of the Watergate investigation. No one would have known at the time that this 27-year-old barracuda would have any sort of national significance — which makes Zeifman’s testimony all the more compelling.​

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[FONT=times new roman,times]Indeed it does. Read the whole shocking story and then wonder anew at either the unbelievable laziness of the press or their rank bias - the only two possible explanations for why this is just coming out now.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot][FONT=times new roman,times]According to this [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]Daniel Calabrese[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] article, Hillary Clinton was fired from her job as a staff attorney for the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigations for, among other things, lying:

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[FONT=times new roman,times]Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair.

When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.

Why?

“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”[/FONT]​

[FONT=times new roman,times]The fact that this hasn't come out prior to this election cycle (Patterico wrote [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]about it here[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]), is perhaps the most shocking revelation of all. One has to be convinced that if it were a Republican who had a past like this, the politician's career would never have gotten off the ground. Such a revelation - so easily discovered by simply asking her boss on the Committee - would have been all over the media if a Republican had been fired for "lying" amd violating "the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee, and the rules of confidentiality."

Hillary Clinton has been a public figure for 20 years or more. She has run for office twice in New York. I am absolutely flabbergasted that the press was so incurious as to not dig this information out earlier or if it has been in the public domain, why it hasn't been given a huge amount of play by the news nets and major media. Is lying, violating ethics and the Constitution in a candidate's past not important to the voter when they make their decision on who to support for president?

Regardless, among Clinton's transgressions while on staff at the House Judiciary Committee were her apparent lying about not seeking to change House rules by assuring her boss she had no intention of doing so and then later being discovered that she was already advocating radical changes including a recommendation to deny President Nixon the right to counsel. Ziefman wrote on his own website:

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[FONT=times new roman,times]In one written legal memorandum, she advocated denying President Nixon representation by counsel. In so doing she simply ignored the fact that in the committee’s then most recent prior impeachment proceeding, the committee had afforded the right to counsel to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. I had also informed Hillary that the Douglas impeachment files were available for public inspection in the committee offices. She later removed the Douglas files without my permission and carried them to the offices of the impeachment inquiry staff — where they were no longer accessible to the public.

As Ed Morrissey points out:

If all she did was to propose that as a tactic, that would not make it terribly concerning — but she did much more than just spitball ideas. When informed that public evidence showed a precedent for the right to counsel, she absconded with the files to eliminate the evidence.

Does that remind anyone of later incidents in the Clinton narrative, such as the billing records for the Rose Law offices and the 900+ raw FBI files on political opponents of the Clintons?

Hillary’s advocates could accuse Zeifman of conjuring up these stories in order to draw attention to himself in the middle of a presidential campaign. However, Calabrese reports that Zeifman kept diaries during this period, urged on by friends mindful of the historical nature of the Watergate investigation. No one would have known at the time that this 27-year-old barracuda would have any sort of national significance — which makes Zeifman’s testimony all the more compelling.​

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[FONT=times new roman,times]Indeed it does. Read the whole shocking story and then wonder anew at either the unbelievable laziness of the press or their rank bias - the only two possible explanations for why this is just coming out now.[/FONT][/FONT]
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Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/04/shocking_revelations_about_hil.html#ixzz4F8tXhLWn
Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook[/FONT]

 

[SheriffJoe]

Can Hillary talk for 76 minutes without coughing LOL

her DNC speech will probably be less than quarter of an hour

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In just 8 years, interest on the national debt will be our 3rd largest federal program.


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Hillary has no plan.....

 

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Is it possible to spend millions/billions at this poiint to persuade your vote?

I think at this point in the game we all know what we are going to do. Hillary could raise all the money in the world at this point and still lose.


She's a loser.

 

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Hillary Clinton’s strange convulsions during interview – tries to play it off

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^^^^^^^^^stranger than fiction that is for sure

 

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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a bar. Donald leans over, and With A smile on his face, says, "The media is really tearing you apart for That Scandal."
Hillary: "You mean my lying about Benghazi?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean the massive voter fraud?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean the military not getting their votes counted?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Using my secret private server with classified material to Hide my Activities?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything Else?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Using the Clinton Foundation as a cover for tax evasion, Hiring Cronies, And taking bribes from foreign countries?
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean the drones being operated in our own country without The Benefit of the law?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million, and right afterward it Declared Bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean arming the Muslim Brotherhood and hiring them in the White House?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Whitewater, Watergate committee, Vince Foster, commodity Deals?"
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "The funding of neoNazis in the Ukraine that led to the toppling of the democratically elected president and to the biggest crisis that country has had since WWII ?"
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "Turning Libya into chaos?"
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "Being the mastermind of the so-called “Arab Spring” that only brought chaos, death and destruction to the Middle East and North Africa ?
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "Leaving four Americans to die in Benghazi and go to sleep?
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "Trashing Mubarak, one of our few Muslim friends?"
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "Encouraging and supporting the murders of Palestinians and the destruction of their homes, towns and villages by Israel ?"
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "The funding and arming of terrorists in Syria, the destruction and destabilization of that nation, giving the order to our lapdogs in Turkey and Saudi Arabia to give sarin gas to the "moderate" terrorists in Syria that they eventually used on civilians, and framed Assad, and had it not been for the Russians and Putin, we would have used that as a pretext to invade Syria, put a puppet in power, steal their natural resources, and leave that country in total chaos, just like we did with Libya?
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "The creation of the biggest refugees crisis since WWII
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "Leaving Iraq in chaos? "
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The DOJ spying on the press?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean HHS Secretary Sibelius shaking down health insurance Executives?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Giving our cronies in SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 Months Later they declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The NSA monitoring citizens' ?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The State Department interfering with an Inspector General Investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Me, The IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Threats to all of Bill's former mistresses to keep them quiet"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "I give up! ... Oh wait, I think I've got it! When I stole the White House furniture, silverware, when Bill left Office?"
Trump: "THAT'S IT! I almost forgot about that one".

 

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Inside the VP hunt: How Clinton picked Kaine

How tough was the vetting? Finalists had to turn over every password for every social media account for every member of their families.
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They had to turn over every password for every social media account for every member of their families.
They had to list every piece of property they’d ever owned, and copies of every résumé that they’d put out for the past 10 years. Every business partner. Every gift they’d ever received, according to those familiar with the details of the vetting process.

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For the finalists in the hunt to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate, it was five weeks of questions and follow-up, and follow-up to the follow-up questions, starting from when they were summoned one-by-one to meet with campaign chairman John Podesta and lawyer Jim Hamilton and told to bring along just one trusted person who’d serve as the point of contact.
Last Friday was interview day at Clinton’s D.C. home, the final exam that some of the VP candidates had spent weeks with their staffs preparing their pitches for. Clinton, with Podesta seated nearby as the only other one in the room, would start the session by talking them up.
Then she’d ask: “Why do you want the job?”
It was a simple end to a complicated process, one that concluded with Clinton tapping Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her choice for the Democratic vice presidential nominee.
She didn’t call all the finalists herself last night, once the decision was made and the meticulous plans were put into action. Some got word from Podesta, who’d only say that they’d decided “to go in a different direction.” He called the congressional leadership to tell them it was Tim Kaine. And he called Bernie Sanders. She didn’t.

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Kaine also made a call to Sanders.
The Virginia senator was never on the Friday schedule for the meetings with the others. The night before, after the pair had campaigned together in Northern Virginia, she’d invited him back to her house for what her campaign calls an “informal” conversation, but that 90 minutes together served as the interview—and Saturday, he and his wife headed to the Clintons’ Chappaqua, New York, home for lunch with all the Clintons to see how they’d all get along.

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By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL

Kaine wasn’t the only one to make the trek to New York. When Tom Vilsack flew in to see her in Chappaqua the day after Kaine, both Hillary and Bill Clinton walked out to greet him as his car pulled in the back gate.
The Agriculture secretary and former Iowa governor was an old friend, and he’d shot up in consideration right at the end, as Clinton considered the advice President Barack Obama gave when they’d talked about the decision.
Ignore the people telling you to worry about winning a state or a particular group, according to White House aides, go with the person that you’d want to turn to for advice in the Oval Office. And the president never hid how much he liked Kaine—eight years ago when he was on Obama’s shortlist, David Axelrod remembers the Virginia senator telling him and David Plouffe, “I'm flattered to be considered, but if I were Barack, I wouldn't pick me. We're too much alike."
Kaine later made the same point directly to Obama. “We’re the same person,” he joked. And not just because both their mothers were from El Dorado, Kansas.
Meanwhile, Labor Secretary Tom Perez stayed in the mix as an unlikely short-lister, helped by the relationship that he’d built up with both Clintons over the past year and by the interest in him among senior aides at Brooklyn headquarters, including Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager. Like Mook, who helped win Clinton family friend Terry McAuliffe the 2013 Virginia governor’s race by changing the pool of voters they chased, Podesta talks often about rebuilding the Obama coalition for Clinton. Perez would have helped on that score.
Podesta was the most partial to Perez of the small circle making the decision: besides Bill and Hillary Clinton, it was former State Department chief of staff Cheryl Mills, Hamilton, and closest aide Huma Abedin, with a consult from Podesta’s wife. Other top aides Jake Sullivan and Jennifer Palmieri weren’t involved in the deep discussions but were being kept up to date. And Chelsea Clinton—who, with her husband, joined her parents and the Kaines for their Chappaqua lunch last Saturday—also had a say.
The former president, according to an aide, wasn’t backing or pushing for anyone, leaving the decision to his wife, though he kept sounding people out for opinions.
But the efforts to make sure focus never slipped from Kaine were well underway. McAuliffe, who speaks to Bill Clinton several times a week and sometimes several times a day (as well as staying in touch with Mook), tried to patch over the fact that the Clintons barely know her new running mate by emphasizing the transitive property.
“He used every bit of his influence on Senator Kaine’s behalf during this process,” said one person familiar with the process.
McAuliffe wasn’t the only trusted hand making a push. Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, another close Clinton friend, was pushing Vilsack. Multiple sources say that James Carville was going hard for Elizabeth Warren.
"I like Kaine, too,” Carville said Saturday morning.
Others tried less direct ways of lobbying themselves. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper got himself as far as one of the interviews after spending the spring on a book tour. His near constant presence in Washington even put him meeting with former Congresswoman and longtime Clinton supporter Jane Harman at the Wilson Center to talk foreign policy, and hiring a New York-based public relations firm that urged reporters to interview him about gun control and terrorism.
“Governor John Hickenlooper of Colorado, who is still dealing with the fallout from the 2012 mass shooting in Aurora, is disturbed by [Donald] Trump’s comments about Orlando and is available to discuss it,” read one emailed pitch.
Hickenlooper got invited to Clinton’s Washington house last Friday, as did Julián Castro, the Housing and Urban Development secretary. So did Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, who were told that losing their Senate seats to a Republican governor’s appointment was a huge concern. Perez got to go last.

Kaine comes out against Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal

By DOUG PALMER

Podesta’s leak-protection plan assigned each candidate a different additional lawyer to handle the vetting. The 150 questions on the first part of the questionnaire were standard, with an addendum based on their individual histories that surprised some of the candidates with how much they’d already been vetted before they knew that the process had actually started. Round after round came back with more follow up questions, swamping aides for weeks.
Lesser known candidates were encouraged to get themselves out in the media, as Brooklyn watched for the kind of responses they generated—with particular attention on Kaine, when his record on abortion and in taking gifts as governor came up.
But they also focused on how candidates fared among the Sanders devotees. That hurt Castro, who’d been speculated on early as a favorite but rankled Clinton allies with the shadow campaign he’d launched for the job a year earlier. By the time the real process got underway, he’d faded from top consideration.
As for Obama, he “was thrilled about the pick,” a White House aide said late Friday. “Felt it said a lot about how Clinton approached the selection. Kaine is the guy you want to turn to in the Oval Office. Excitement in the White House about it.”
The president called Kaine right away Friday night to congratulate him, White House officials confirmed. They connected on the way as Clinton aides were driving him to the airport for his surprise flight to Miami.
From an initial group of what the campaign says was 24-deep in April, less than a dozen final reports were prepared for Clinton. She read them under the cloud of Orlando, Dallas, the attacks in Iraq and Europe, and as her campaign prepared a line of attack against Trump all about how he’s unprepared to lead the world. The interviews at her house on Friday came as reports were still streaming in from the truck attack in Nice.
"People have anxiety about the world and terrorism today, so she wanted someone more seasoned, more ready to be commander in chief,” said a person close to Clinton. “Without question, the idea of national security was very important for her at this uncertain time.”

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., left, accompanied by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, right, speaks at a rally at Florida International University Panther Arena in Miami. | AP Photo

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The truth is, Kaine doesn’t have much foreign policy experience himself. He’s been in the Senate for three and a half years, and serves on both the Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees, but that’s it. In that time, though, he got deeply enough involved on the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) and Iran debates that some speculated he might have been a contender for secretary of state if he hadn’t been the running mate pick.
But compared to the rest of the options—who tried to convince Clinton that foreign policy and national security were the areas she had covered from her own time at State, and she needed the help instead on domestic politics and making people think she’d take chances—Kaine was way out ahead.
What the campaign didn't do at any point in the process was get anyone to make the affirmative case for Kaine, letting him languish under the almost universal media dismissal that he's boring. There wasn’t a whiff of the expansive argument Clinton made for him in his Saturday rollout, that he deepens the contrast she's trying to make to Trump (rather than balancing her, like a traditional running mate pick). That he and his biography fit into her campaign like a jigsaw puzzle piece, right down to the Marine son who's about to deploy to NATO, is something that largely remained unnoticed before he took the stage in Miami.

Tim Kaine's email trove

By POLITICO STAFF

The morning after Clinton cleaned up in primaries in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania (it was the week after the New York primary, when the steam came out of the Sanders campaign and he only won in Rhode Island), Kaine was tapped to join Madeleine Albright on a call with reporters attacking Trump on foreign policy.
It helped Kaine’s case with Clinton that after strategically rushing to be the first major politician to endorse her (he’d pulled the same move with Obama eight years ago, backing him before anyone other than home state Gov. Rod Blagojevich), he’d made another strategic decision to let the Clintons come to him, gambling that this would be the smarter play.
“There wasn’t, ‘Let’s get a bunch of people lobbying or calling,’” said one person close to Kaine. “The more high-profile others got, the more he put his head down.”
The Clinton campaign, which provided traveling reporters Friday night with a press release in background, bullet point form about the process, was carefully nudging narratives throughout. In late June, they purposefully seeded the same story to multiple reporters that the shortlist was Kaine, Warren and Castro—though they’d already all but ruled out Warren and Castro—in a successful effort to get stories out about the different possible factors that might make the decision, and to see the response those generated.
Extremely sensitive to foreseeable attacks that Kaine’s not liberal enough for progressives, a battle plan was in place to stress his credentials as soon as the word officially went out. They noticeably leaked right away that he’d told Clinton Friday he’d reread the Trans Pacific Partnership deal and decided to be against it, though he was speaking positively about the trade agreement just the day before. The “Progressive Groups Praise Kaine Selection” press release went out before they’d gotten the new joint logo to attach and, not coincidentally, his underappreciated lefty credentials were the main theme of the email Obama sent out from the DNC about him Saturday morning.
“There is not a lot known about Kaine, but he is a huge progressive. And POTUS will make that argument,” the White House aide said.

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Vanilla nice: Why Hillary picked Kaine

By ANNIE KARNI

For months, though, Clinton’s been pretty explicit in private about how much she likes Kaine according to a friend, and talked glowingly of him in very small private fundraisers since early summer, according to multiple top donors.
"Kaine was definitely the wire-to-wire leader,” one Democrat familiar with the search. “Some leaks had more to do with them being sensitive about looking boring than people being under serious consideration."
Even so, the Clinton campaign kept them guessing until the very end. Members of Kaine’s usual inner circle were left waiting in suspense as the sun began to set last night, though Podesta and a few aides had already sneaked off to intercept him in Rhode Island, where he was for a fundraiser.
Kaine himself didn’t realize how much of it had been cooked around him until Clinton let him in on it at the end of their call Friday.
“I don't mean to alarm you,” she laughed, “but John Podesta is outside your building right now."




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