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Clinton’s Simple, Two-Step George Costanza Defense

"Insist that the rules were unclear and that everyone was breaking them anyway."

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National Review  "In her latest defense of her unlawful e-mail server, Hillary Clinton is following the playbook of Seinfeld’s lovable loser George Costanza. In one memorable episode, Costanza fulfills one of his fantasies with an after-hours romp with a cleaning woman at his office desk. Confronted by his boss after his paramour turns him in — George had tried to buy her silence with a defective cashmere sweater — Costanza insisted that the standards for workplace intimacy were not clear at the time of his indiscretion: “Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here, that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, ’cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time.” 

"Hillary Clinton did not choose to go full Costanza from the outset. When initially confronted with reports that she had circumvented federal-records laws by maintaining an e-mail server in the basement of her Chappaqua home, Clinton insisted instead that she had faithfully complied with the law. In July 2015, she told CNN that “everything I did was permitted. There was no law. There was no regulation. There was nothing that did not give me the full authority to decide how I was going to communicate. . . . Everything I did was permitted by law and regulation.”
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"In the aftermath of that devastating conclusion, Clinton has adopted George Costanza’s simple, two-step approach to controversy." . . .

Jerry Brown’s Long, Strange Trip to a Clinton Peace

Roll Call  . . . "Brown was to Bill Clinton in 1992 what Bernie Sanders is to Hillary Clinton in 2016 — always trailing, but never failing to scold the front-runner for the nomination, tossing nettlesome anti-establishment liberal barbs that delayed his insider rival’s path toward the reconstruction of party unity.  

“The prince of sleaze,” Brown dubbed the Arkansas governor back then, an epithet Sanders has never come close to matching while working to derail the former secretary of state’s campaign."

. . . "California is the nation’s dominant “blue” state and so any Democratic governor has obvious economic and political reasons to be on friendly terms with a like-minded administration.  

"And this year the differences between the  state’s worldview and that of the Republican nominee are particularly stark: Under Brown, for example, the state has set policies on the environment and the rights of migrant workers that are totally antithetical to Donald Trump’s views about climate change and immigration. " 

Did Obama pay a ransom to Iran for our captured sailors?

OUTRAGE! Iran Mocks Captured US Sailors at Revolution Day Parade  Do they have one sailor sucking his thumb?

Rick Moran  "One day after Iran released the 10 sailors they had abducted for strayinhg into Iranian territorial waters, the administration released $1.7 billion in taxpayer dollars to Iran. The money was part of a settlement of a decades old legal claim by Iran and came from a special fund that the executive department can tap to pay claims against the US.

"Or was it a ransom paid for the kidnapped sailors?

"The administration insists the timing of the released funds is coincidental. But legislation introduced in Congress now seeks to discover the truth of the matter." . . .

"Why would Congress disbelieve the president? Perhaps because the Iranians themselves are claiming the money was part of the deal to release the sailors."  Emphasis added, TD
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"The final report on the incident has been continuously delayed by the [Obama] Pentagon. A Congressman who has seen the details of the capture says that the American people will be shocked when the truth comes out:" . . .

Honest Hillary Might Not Be the Nominee

Douglas Schoen: A Sanders win in California would turbocharge the mounting Democratic unease about her viability.  "There is now more than a theoretical chance that Hillary Clinton may not be the Democratic nominee for president.

"How could that happen, given that her nomination has been considered a sure thing by virtually everyone in the media and in the party itself? Consider the possibilities.

"The inevitability behind Mrs. Clinton’s nomination will be in large measure eviscerated if she loses the June 7 California primary to Bernie Sanders. That could well happen." . . .

. . . There is every reason to believe that at the convention Mr. Sanders will offer a rules change requiring superdelegates to vote for the candidate who won their state’s primary or caucus. A vote on that proposed change would almost certainly occur—and it would function as a referendum on the Clinton candidacy. If Mr. Sanders wins California, Montana and North Dakota on Tuesday and stays competitive in New Jersey, he could well be within 200 pledged delegates of Mrs. Clinton, making a vote in favor of the rules change on superdelegates more likely. . . .

Hillary’s long record of lying to keep the public in the dark



2015: Hillary Clinton -- Once a Congenital Liar, Always a Congenital Liar   . . . "But the late New York Times op-ed columnist, William Safire, had her number early on, as this gem from 1996 about the prevaricating first lady illustrates:

Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady -- a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation -- is a congenital liar. Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.

1. Remember the story she told about studying The Wall Street Journal to explain her 10,000 percent profit in 1979 commodity trading? We now know that was a lie told to turn aside accusations that as the Governor's wife she profited corruptly, her account being run by a lawyer for state poultry interests through a disreputable broker.

 Hillary is still a bad liar despite decades of practice

"Hillary Rodham Clinton lies.

"This is a widely acknowledged fact among people who pay attention and aren’t on her payroll.

"Nearly 20 years ago, New York Times columnist William Safire wrote: 

“Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our first lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar.' ” . . . 

Target boycott petition surpasses a million signatures

WaPo  . . . "Melissa Arnoff, on the other hand, doesn’t see cause for worry. The senior vice president at crisis communications firm Levick told USA Today that she didn’t think the boycott will hurt Target in the long run. In fact, it could actually help the brand as it upholds its self-curated identity.

“ 'I don’t think they stand to lose much at all,” Arnoff said. “This isn’t unusual for them. It’s actually very true to who they say they are as a brand. I think the people who shop there loyally know that.' ” . . .

What Target is doing with rest rooms it is also doing with toys and bedding   . . .  "Of course, getting rid of gender-based marketing is a marketing move, too. Target will surely be looking out for customers’ reactions, and so far, many of them are major eye rolls at this show of political correctness.
“ 'Why don’t you paint your store white so you offend nobody at all,” one Facebook commenter wrote.

“ 'This is a pr stunt and a bad one. All they want is to save money on decorating the section,” another said.

"Next to watch: toy makers such as Lego or Disney and similar retailers, i.e. Walmart and Toys ‘R’ Us." . . .