The REAL Hillary Clinton....er. well, OK, maybe not

Hillary Clinton spoke to the concerns of everyday Americans in a campaign video Monday. She mentioned the gays and lesbians and transgenders, but she made no mention at all of al-Qaeda. Until al-Qaeda registers in California as a sexual preference, Democrats are going to pretend they don't exist. Comedian Argus Hamilton

Ah, So: Chipotle CEO Spoke At Clinton Event Last Year  . . . " So it all becomes clear. After all, there are no accidents in Clintonian politics. Everything always goes back to cold hard cash and ‘pay to play.’ (For the record, the Clinton Global Initiative just a subset of the Clinton Family Foundation. Formerly known as the William Jefferson Blythe Clinton Foundation.)" . . .

Hillary’s Van Gets 16 MPG, Has Bed, TV, Much Leather

Hillary Clinton Ate Lunch " The Upshot: “Let others deconstruct her apparent anonymity or how her visit compared with President Obama’s. Here’s what The Upshot can contribute: Is Mrs. Clinton’s order like the normal Chipotle meals of everyday Americans, or is it polarizing?' ”    Sorry about the -----commercial.

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 More than 2 MILLION of Hillary Clinton's Twitter followers are fake or never tweet – and she's already under fire for 'buying' fake Facebook fans

• Two different online audit tools say no more than 44 per cent of Hillary's 3.6 million Twitter fans are real people who participate in the platform
• The newly minted presidential candidate is fending off accusations that her Facebook page is full of fake 'likes'
• Her Facebook fan base includes more people from Baghdad, Iraq than any US city
• When she was secretary of state, her agency paid $630,000 to bulk up its Facebook likes, but pledged to stop after she left

 

"ASTROTURF? A woman cast as a kindly, gardening grandma in Clinton's campaign launch video is actually a former abortion lobbyist who once helmed a campaign for Texas state Senator Wendy Davis"

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Pentagon to exhume remains of 400 Pearl Harbor Marines and sailors who died aboard USS Oklahoma in unprecedented bid to identify troops using DNA testing

UK Daily Mail

 

. . . "The ship capsized after being hit by nine torpedoes during the December 7, 1941 surprise attack from Japanese forces. Altogether, 429 sailors and Marines onboard were killed. Only 35 were identified in the years immediately after.

Hundreds were buried as unknowns at cemeteries in Hawaii. In 1950, they were reburied as unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific - also known as the Punchbowl - inside a volcanic crater in Honolulu." . . .

Obama and Revolutionary Romance

Victor Davis Hanson
 "His foreign-policy errors result not from incompetence but from a conscious agenda. "

 

"Lots of questions arise about the muddled foreign policy of the Obama administration. Critics suggest that America’s friends have now become enemies, and enemies friends. Others cite incompetence and naïveté rather than deliberate agendas as the cause of American decline, and of growing global chaos from Libya to Ukraine. 

 

"But, in fact, there is a predictable pattern to Obama’s foreign policy. The president has an adolescent, romantic view of professed revolutionary societies and anti-Western poseurs — and of his own ability uniquely to reach out and win them over. In the most superficial sense, Obama demonstrates his empathy for supposedly revolutionary figures of the non-Western world through gratuitous, often silly remarks about Christianity and Western colonial excesses, past and present. " . . .  Full article

Cultural silliness: Things You Can’t Wear to a Music Festival, According to Social Justice Internet

 

NRO  "Music-festival season is underway, and it’s important to make sure to dress appropriately — not just for the weather, but for cultural sensitivity as well. If you’re not sure what I mean, that’s okay! I spent some time on Social Justice Internet today finding some helpful tips so that you can understand what I mean and why it’s so important: 

 Aside from obvious no-nos like Native-American headdresses or Indian bindis, you also need to make sure that the patterns on your clothes aren’t offensive. That’s right — it’s not enough to simply make sure your shirt is clean and doesn’t have any insensitive or crude images on it, you actually also also need to research the pattern and make sure it couldn’t be interpreted as having been inspired by “tribal” or Aztec culture: 

“Even something . . . mainstream as ‘tribal” or Aztec prints are forms of cultural appropriation,” warns a post on the Source."  Katherine Timpf

DOONESBURY'S CREATOR TURNS TO VICTIM-BLAMING

Astute Bloggers
"Garry Trudeau, veteran cartoonist of Doonesbury, blames the late contributors of Charlie Hebdo for the horror they went through:

Less than four months after Islamic fanatics stormed the Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and butchered 12, while accepting the George Polk career award Friday, left-wing cartoonist Garry Trudeau blasted the dead with the claim that they had “wandered into the realm of hate speech.” He also added that “free speech… becomes its own kind of fanaticism.”
Without irony, after punching 12 of his dead colleagues, the creator of “Doonesbury” said that a cartoonist’s job is to “punch up” not down.
What Trudeau fails or chooses not to understand is that rebellion is not hate speech. Charlie Hebdo was not gratuitously mocking Mohammed or Jesus Christ or the Pope. For the cause of free speech, Charlie Hebdo was pushing back against what it rightly saw as creeping fascism, especially Islamic fascism, in the most blatant and in-your-face way possible.

"Trudeau has really scraped the barrel's bottom this time. I used to read Doonesbury years ago, but largely lost interest around 1995, and after learning what a screwball Trudeau's become, it's harder and harder to get interested in his long-running strip again. He must wear an ear-covering helmet more impenetrable than B.D's football helmet. Making matters worse, one of the New York Times' leading staffers is defending Trudeau's journey off the deep end. His own comic strip's long lost any relevance thanks to his plummet. I think it's about time he retire it for good. It probably didn't even have much cultural value in the first place."

The Daily Caller is a bit more blunt: Garry Trudeau Craps On The Corpses Of Charlie Hebdo. . . " Normally, Trudeau’s tedious, hamfisted harangues run the gamut: conservatives, people who hold conservative views, Republicans, right-wingers, and anybody who isn’t a liberal. And now he’s branching out to attack a whole new set of targets: left-wing atheists who were butchered at their desks by religious zealots." . . .

150 years later: Remembering the Lincoln assassination

CNN

"On April 14, 1865, an actor and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington. The following morning, less than a week after the end of the Civil War, Lincoln would become the first American president killed in office.                                             "It was the crime of the 19th century. Booth fled the building and, along with co-conspirator David Herold, evaded the authorities for nearly two weeks. Booth was shot and killed during capture in Virginia on April 26."

 150 Years Later

 

Read Original Associated Press Report of Lincoln's Assassination  "On the night Abraham Lincoln was shot, April 14, 1865, Associated Press correspondent Lawrence Gobright scrambled to report from the White House, the streets of the stricken capital, and even from the blood-stained box at Ford's Theatre, where, in his memoir he reports he was handed the assassin's gun and turned it over to authorities. Here is an edited version of his original AP dispatch:" . . .

Lincoln's Assassination story and links

Visit Ford's Theater, Then visit  the house where Lincoln died

Booth's escape route tour  Interactive map

Mad Magazine Pre-Apologizes UPDATED

 Althouse

. . . "By the way, Hillary's new logo really is terrible. If this were a design class, and the assignment were to make a logo for Hillary, I would think the teacher would get mad at a student who handed in that one. What, did you spend one minute on the assignment? You just did the most obvious thing, the letter H, the colors blue and read, and an arrow, the most cliché logo element possible?! An arrow to signify moving forward! That's what you came up with?" 

UPDATE: The internet reacts to Hillary’s campaign logo

"Could Hillvetica be the font that finally replaces Comic Sans as the worst font in all of fontdom?"

 

..."Hilarious and also the handy work of John Ekdahl of Ace of Spades fame:"

 

This from Josh Greenman:"New York Daily News opinion editor, editorial writer, human. What I write here is in my unofficial capacity as a human."

 

What does Hillary's Logo remind you of?

Gay Man In Hillary Clinton Video Worked At SEIU, OFA & White House

Polititainment
 "Hillary Clinton’s video was very slight on specifics and she appears in less than a quarter of the video.
"But what does appear is a bunch of people talking about proud they are of themselves and proud to vote for Hillary.
"Up first is Jared Milrad.  Seems legit enough at first.  Gay couple that doesn’t wanna be hassled by the man.
"Then you actually Google his name and find out that his career history is exactly what you’d expect."

 

5 Hillary Quotes That Foreshadow Disaster

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 Liberty Conservatives
"As a nation, if we only learned one thing while having Barack Obama as president for two terms, I hope that it’s to make sure, in the future, we properly vet our presidential candidates. We took a man that we knew very little about, with very little political experience and a questionable past, and we made him the most powerful man in the world based on the promise of “hope and change”. Now, as we approach the end of Obama’s presidency, we see a very real possibility of Hillary Clinton being the next Democrat candidate. While many might say that we know much more about Hillary, I would argue that we know what the MSM has pushed our way and not really the true “Hillary”. There are many quotes that the former first lady has said publicly over her last several decades in the public eye, but the following five I feel shed light on who this woman really is. She will lead us into an age of collectivism unlike any we have seen in the USA. She is the most “big government” politician the USA has seen and she will attempt to enact policies that make Obama look just “slightly left of center”." Excerpts:

1. “We must stop thinking about the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.” . . .

2. “There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don’t contribute to the growth of their countries.” . . .

3. “Europe is a miracle.” . . .

4. “It’s true that America can’t solve every problem, but I don’t know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.” . . .

5. “Don’t let anybody tell you it’s corporations and businesses create jobs. You know that old theory, ‘trickle-down economics.’ That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.” . . .  Full article   

Hat tip to Jeff Petermann

 

David Limbaugh: "Why Hillary's candidacy doesn't worry me"

 David Limbaugh has several reasons Clinton is 'a terrible' White House wannabe

http://comicallyincorrect.com/2015/04/13/hillary-launches-campaign/

 David Limbaugh  "Why is Hillary such a terrible candidate, you ask? Let me count the ways, in no particular order, as many of them vie for top seating.

• Her main qualification is she believes it’s her turn; she’s entitled. It’s not about what she can do for her country; it’s about what her country owes her.
• Obama has been a dreadful president. Our economy and foreign policy are both in tatters. Our health-care situation is barely managed anarchy. America’s fiscal position, now and projected, is abysmal. People are out of work in record numbers. And never have Americans been more polarized.
• Obama’s record necessarily taints Hillary Clinton for multitudinous reasons. Her husband’s enthusiastic defense of Obama at the Democratic convention may have saved his presidency. Whatever policy differences the Clintons had with Obama, they effectively buried them there. If that weren’t enough, Hillary was an integral part of Obama’s administration as secretary of state, where she not only embraced his regrettable foreign policy but also contributed to making it worse. Though certain news reports alleged Hillary didn’t agree with Obama on isolated policies, she has been vocally supportive of his policies when speaking on her own behalf, from Obamacare to Israel to “women’s rights.” 

 Full article

 David's brother Rush isn't too worked up at present either . . . " RUSH: Saturday Night Live.  I didn't see it, but Saturday Night Live apparently ripped Hillary to shreds in a skit, in an opening skit.  I don't know what about. I don't know what the details were. I just read that it happened.  I don't know that it means anything.  I know a lot of people are going to write that it does.  A lot of people are gonna say, "Hey, you know what?  Saturday Night Live, no conservative show that, and if they start ripping into Mrs. Clinton, that's pop culture, a lot of young people watch Saturday Night Live." 

Alan Caruba; Avoiding Hillary Misery

Warning Signs

 

"While we endure the daily lies of President Obama, do we really want to have another four to eight years more of Hillary Clinton’s? It’s not like we don’t have ample evidence of her indifference to the truth and that is not what America wants in a President, now or ever.

"The office has already been degraded to a point where neither our allies nor our enemies trusts anything Obama says. Do we really want to continue a process that could utterly destroy our nation?



"Hillary Clinton’s announcement that she intends to run for President is predicated not on any achievements in her life beyond having married Bill Clinton. Instead, her message is that America needs a woman as President. Having already elected an abject failure because he was black, one can only hope and pray that enough voters will conclude that America needs to avoid race or gender to be the determining factor.

"In 1974 the 27-year old Hillary was fired from a committee related to the Watergate investigation. Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised her and when the investigation was over, he fired her and refused to give her a letter of recommendation. When asked why, he said, “Because she was a liar. 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.'” . . .

 

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"Noonan had earlier written a book about Hillary. “As I researched I remembered why, four years into the Clinton administration, the New York Times columnist William Safire called Hillary ‘a congenital liar…compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.’”

“ 'Do we have to go through all that again?” asked Noonan. “A generation or two ago, a person so encrusted in a reputation for scandal would not be considered a possible presidential contender. She would be ineligible. Now she is inevitable.”

"Well, maybe not inevitable. We have a long time to go until the primaries arrive and then the election. We have enough time to ask ourselves if we live in a republic where merit, integrity, and honesty are still the standards by which we select our President."

On red lines and smart diplomacy

Welllll, back in 2012 the story was:  Barack Obama's Global Job Approval Down Sharply, Poll Says  . . . " Approval rates for Obama's international policies dropped by more than six points from 2009 in most countries surveyed, and fell by double digits in the groups of European and Muslim countries featured in the poll, as well as in Russia, Japan and Mexico. The most significant change was in China, where approval fell from 57 percent to 27 percent over the past three years." . . . Superseding earlier polls around 2011 that like the guy and see O as the hope for the world.

Bill Whittle: The Leader of the Free World isn’t Obama  "Scott Ott first described him thus… a brave, thoughtful, serious man doing a brave, thoughtful serious job. In his latest FIREWALL, Bill Whittle provides the amazing and disturbing contrast between The President of the United States and The Leader of the Free World. See the transcript and video below:" . . .

. . . "THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD – you know, the chickens--t one — rescues his people when they are held hostage – PERSONALLY rescues them – and stands arm in arm with world leaders against the endless, savage, Islamic murders of Jews and all civilized people.

"THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES goes golfing while hostages are being murdered – PERSONALLY goes golfing – and will not so much say the words “Islamic Terrorists” or “Jews” as our time for chickens--t posturing and preening runs out as fast as the nuclear centrifuges spinning in Iran."

 A Foreign Policy Primer for Obama––and Rand Paul   "The president who thinks there’s such a thing as an “Austrian” language is advising Rand Paul to “bone up on foreign policy.” It’s now official: the Obama administration has become a recurring skit on Saturday Night Live" . . .

  How’s That ‘Obama Effect’ Working On Cuba?

 

Andrew Klavan explains it all "The producers at the David Horowitz Freedom Center tag Andrew Klavan’s video below with the explanation: In which our resident scholar on all things Middle-East – and circus related, Andrew Klavan, explains Barack Obama’s policy for that troubled region. Think of it as Smart Diplomacy for Dummies… Klavan calls it Obama’s clown-car diplomacy. Is that a subcategory of the killer clown horror genre?"