Tuesday, July 5, 2016

David Brooks, "Choosing Leaders: Clueless or Crazy": One Set of Laws for the Clintons, Another for the Hoi Polloi



Hands off Hillary!

In his latest New York Times op-ed entitled "Choosing Leaders: Clueless or Crazy," David Brooks points an accusing finger at Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn, and tells us of the rise of "crazy incompetence" in the US and the UK. Primarily concerning himself with Brexit, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove in the UK, Brooks goes on to say in his opinion piece:

"The big historical context is this: Something fundamental is shifting in our politics. The insiders can’t see it. Outsiders get thrown up amid the tumult, but they are too marginal, eccentric and inexperienced to lead effectively.

Without much enthusiasm, many voters seem to be flocking to tough, no-nonsense women who at least seem sensible: Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton and, now, the Conservative Party front-runner, Theresa May."

Hillary Clinton is a "no-nonsense" woman who seems "sensible"? Grant it, I don't view Hillary as dangerous. (Donald's little fingers should not be allowed anywhere near the launch buttons of America's nuclear arsenal.) On the other hand, don't go telling me that Hillary's home email server was sensible. Rather, it stands as further stark evidence of her willingness to contravene governing rules of conduct that apply to all other Americans.

Bill's "chance" meeting with Loretta Lynch on a Phoenix tarmac? Yet another Clintonian scandal and further destruction of the rule of law in the US.

Commentary from Brooks regarding the charade in Phoenix? I'm still waiting, David.

4 comments:

  1. try reading Victor Davis Hanson for "...Commentary ...regarding the charade in Phoenix..." plus a nugget on Boeing sales to Iran, and more:

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437454/american-elite-and-american-people

    "...I should end by returning to Hillary Clinton, whose insider arc from the cattle-futures con to quarter-million-dollar Wall Street chats to the e-mail scandal shares the common and persistent theme of influence peddling, greed, and lying, while she lectures Americans about the need for trust, fairness, and transparency. Or perhaps I should finish with Chelsea, a chip off the old blockess, who became instantly rich as she decried the culture’s overemphasis on wealth, and whose husband’s hedge fund is tottering, after disastrously investing in Greek bailout bonds — at a time when his mother-in-law and Sidney Blumenthal were exchanging classified speculations over whether German banks would guarantee Greek debt and hence investors’ money. ..."

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  2. Hillary's paying today, July 5, 2016, for the ride on Air Force One:

    '(CNN) President Barack Obama will give Hillary Clinton a lift on Air Force One Tuesday when they fly to North Carolina for their first joint campaign appearance.'

    Does this trump Bill and Loretta's Phoenix tarmac?

    Can Trump landing in Raleigh trump Air Force One near Charlotte?

    all depends on whether it seems 'sensible' to make transgender bathroom access the trigger for the 2016Swing State of North Carolina...

    meanwhile, when do the son-in-laws get to duel?

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  3. [amended at noon EDT]http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/07/05/email-scandal-loretta-lynch-investigation-bill-clinton-hillary-column/86669526/
    Glenn Harlan Reynolds 12:16 p.m. EDT July 5, 2016
    "No reasonable attorney general meets secretly with the husband of someone under investigation.

    UPDATE: Shortly after this column went online, FBI Director James Comey announced that the FBI will not recommend charges against Hillary. Although he said that there was extreme "carelessness" in handling classified information, the lack of intent to violate the law precluded prosecution. That's a bit of a surprise given that the Department of Justice is currently prosecuting Petty Officer First Class Kristian Saucier for a similar crime where no intent was involved. This gives rise to suspicions, verging on certainty, that the law is different when your name is Clinton, that laws are for the "little people" and not those in charge. As Kurt Schlichter has recently warned, the sense that there's no such thing as rule of law in today's America is likely to be quite corrosive. If Hillary can do this much damage to America's fabric now, how much worse will things be with her in the White House? ...]


    my addendum: 'extremely careless' is when you wipe your server clean with soap and water...

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  4. What Comey should have said,is that there is no precedent for someone operating in such a manner at Hillary's level in gov't,so they,or is it rather "he", can't quite define it as a crime.
    ....ahh,if I ever get in trouble with the authorities,I'm pleading the extreme carelessness defense.

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