WORSE AND WORSER
Democrats should unite against “prattling demagogue” Donald Trump, who is “a lightning rod for the politically disenfranchised and marginalized who trust in nothing but their misplaced biases,” Rob Biller wrote in a letter to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 19.
I’ve a newsflash for Mr. Biller: Democrats who voted for Hillary Clinton in the primaries are neither smarter nor more moral than the bigots, thugs, morons and gullible fools who voted for Trump in the Republican primaries.
It’s difficult to imagine how anyone could be less qualified to be president of the United States than Donald Trump. But he’s not the one who more than 100 FBI agents are investigating for multiple security violations and public corruption.
Hillary is a feminist heroine (at least to aging upper middle class white feminists.) It seems odd that this should be so, because “every stage of Clinton’s advancement has been based on her marriage,” Dick Morris notes.
Hillary has stood by her man despite repeatedly being humiliated by Bill’s philandering. She’s orchestrated smear campaigns against women Bill molested – which is not behavior we expect from “feminist heroines.”
Hillary has been a national figure for a quarter century…which makes it all the more remarkable that her public record is devoid of anything resembling accomplishment.
As First Lady, Hillary botched the one big job Bill gave her (a Rube Goldberg-ish health care “reform” which presaged Obamacare).
After eight undistinguished years in the U.S. Senate, Hillary became the worst secretary of state in American history. Everything she touched – from Libya to Syria to Iraq to “resetting” relations with Russia – turned to feces. (OK, Lurch Kerry is trying hard to be worse.)
The primary blame for chaos abroad rests with President Obama, whose catastrophic foreign policy she so ineptly executed. But – because she wanted to conceal from the American people information they had a right to know – Hillary alone is responsible for one of the most damaging breaches of security in U.S. history.
Intelligence experts say it may take decades to repair the harm done by the treasure trove of classified information America’s enemies obtained from hacking into her private email server.
Hillary knew conducting official business on that server was against the law, was warned repeatedly that it was insecure, concluded a scathing report by the State Department’s inspector general issued yesterday (5/25).
What Americans may find more distasteful is how often Hillary sold favors to unsavory characters here and abroad in exchange for (often massive) donations to the Clinton Foundation, described by an executive at a watchdog group as a “slush fund for the Clintons.”
Analysis of the Clinton Foundation’s public records indicate the “charity” is a fraud, said financial adviser Charles Ortel.
For a woman who has accomplished so little, Hillary has a profound sense of entitlement. She refused to cooperate with the State Department IG’s investigation, frequently stonewalls journalists. Her callous disregard for security procedures indicates she thinks laws are for the little people.
The one thing at which Hillary excels is influence peddling. Whether it be the $225,000 she’s collected for making boilerplate speeches to Wall Street firms, or obtaining $100 million for the Clinton Foundation from a Swedish-Canadian firm that traffics in “blood minerals,” no politicians have hung out a “for sale” sign as blatantly as the Clintons.
It’s difficult to lie more often than Donald Trump, but Hillary trumps him (can’t resist the pun). The “mainstream” media have downplayed evidence of Hillary’s wrongdoing, and her lies about it. But in the wake of the damning State IG report, that’s changing.
It feels like Hillary “has been lying straight out” about her emails, said MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski. The Washington Post editorialized against “Clinton’s inexcusable, willful disregard of the rules.”
A remarkable 63 percent in a NBC News poll May 24 said they disliked, or hated, Donald Trump. Nearly 60 percent said the same about Hillary.
I doubt Trump will become more popular. But if her shady fundraising practices get more scrutiny, Hillary could become more unpopular than he is. The race between Bad and Worse will get uglier.
Jack Kelly is a former Marine and Green Beret, and was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force during the Reagan Administration. He is the national security writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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