Teflon Hillary Uncovered

If you missed the Senate and House hearings of Hillary Clinton’s testimony on Benghazi and then read or heard about it thru main street media reports, you probably think this fiery, assertive woman, who is the champion of women all over the world, really told off those Republicans asking those mean questions about her role in this affair. Well, nothing could be further from the truth. No wonder the uniformed and disinterested constituency of this inept Administration thinks that Mrs. Clinton has done a great job as head of the State Department by 59% to 28%. Obviously, I’m part of the 28% and wrote about it in a previous post on August 13, 2012.

If this performance along with her poor judgment and incompetent administrative ability does not convince you that she would be a terrible President, then nothing will. Although she is ready to “take full responsibility” for the mishandling of this terrorist attack, apparently no one is “accountable” for the death of four Americans in this incident. Anyway, “what difference, at this point, does it make?” Sorry Hillary, it matters when Administrations mislead Americans for political gain. It matters, when pleas from our foreign service people in harm’s way go unanswered, it matters when our top officials make poor judgments about security, it matters when the terrorists responsible can sit in a café in Benghazi talking to a NY Times reporter after the incident and is still on the loose in Algeria.

“Why did you let U.N. Ambassador Rice go on the Sunday talk shows with bogus talking points about a video?” Your answer, “I had nothing to do with the talking points and I was not consulted about Ms. Rice’s appearance”. Also, “I don’t do Sunday shows; I have better things to do on Sunday”. Wow! An Ambassador murdered and three others killed and you have something better to do than let us know what happened.

“I immediately called it a terrorist attack”. Well, I remember that all you talked about was a video, and you were still talking about it when the bodies came home, and the President was for 2 weeks after that.

Then she goes back on message, “We cannot afford to retreat now; when America is absent, especially from unstable environments, there are consequences. Extremism takes root; our interest suffers; our security at home is threatened”. Hillary, that’s the Republican message. This administration leads from behind, remember? Look at Syria, Libya, Mali, Algeria, Iran, Egypt, and now we’re scurrying to get out of Afghanistan.

Our foreign policy is an utter mess and all those Democratic Senators and Reps call her one of our greatest Secretaries of State, and how she elevated the reputation of the U.S. around the world, while our flag burns and our embassies are invaded. But I guess that’s George Bush’s fault.

It’s amazing the dangers you face when you are not aware of what’s going on around you. Remember, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Since we don’t have a media to give us the straight story, it’s up to you the readers of this narrative to get the word out.

Inauguration Day Remix

It feels like déjà vu! This inauguration felt like our President was just nominated again and that we all forgot the last 4 years. Also, his speech was like a State of the Union address, combined with the soaring rhetoric we have heard in the past meant to uplift the down-trodden and disenfranchised. It said nothing about his vision for the next four years, except for the generalizations of the past, like “we must respond to the threat of climate change and preserve the planet from these disastrous droughts, fires, and storms”. I thought that God played a major part in this! Current climate catastrophies can’t compare to the climate disasters of biblical times, the dust bowl in the U.S. of the 20’s, the hurricanes of the 50’s, and the major earthquakes of San Francisco and Galveston at the turn of the century.

The speech immediately jumps to the Declaration of Independence and says nothing about the Constitution, which he basically ignores in the way he governs. His opening paragraph is fraught with racial, class, and gender overtones; such as, we should not be separated “by the origin of our names (Obama?), color of our skin, or be a country where a few do well and many can’t make it". "We can’t be stymied by wars born by the lash and the sword”. Sounds like he reverts back to slavery and the Civil War here!

“We can’t be a nation where freedom is reserved for the lucky and happiness for the few, and where preserving peace requires perpetual war”. In another line he says, "we can’t be complete until our wives and daughters and gay brothers and sisters have equal pay and jobs". At the end he builds to a crescendo and starts to sound like MLK in a black church in Selma in the 60’s. “We must seize the moment and answer the call of history”. Just a few days ago his White House answered the call and issued a statement saying that this is the moment of opportunity but the Republicans are “not worthy of the moment”, and that’s why we can’t get anything done. In this speech Obama says “name-calling should not take the place of reasonable debate”. I guess he forgot how he demonized his opponent as a wife murderer, tax evader, corporate job exporter, and a corporate raider that bankrupts companies for his own personal gain. Selective memory or feigned amnesia is one of Obama’s greatest traits.

I now make an oath to you that I will stop bashing this guy, because we all know what we have and you are bored reading this stuff. Today we celebrate our system of government and the process by which we inaugurate Presidents. I was proud of the Brooklyn (my hometown) Tabernacle Choir, who stopped the show with “His Truth is Marching On”, and I must say Beyonce is no Whitney Houston, when it comes to the “Star Spangled Banner”.

I only wish that this President could speak to all Americans, not just lecture us as if we are a Third World country. Believe me, being poor in America is like the middle class in the rest of the world. We accomplished great things before he was elected and we will continue to long after he is gone from office.

Two-Bit Politician and Monarch

These are strange times in the U.S. We have a President who governs like a two-bit politician when he campaigns for election or deals with his adversaries, and then governs like King George III during our American Revolution. In addition, his negotiation tactics are predictable and since he is in charge and Harry Reid controls the Senate, the Republicans haven’t figured out how to get off defense. I look forward to Round 2 (the Debt Ceiling debate) because I believe the conservatives have more leverage then they did in Round 1(the Tax Debate).

After lying to the American public that the middle-class will see no tax increase in the fiscal cliff discussions, it’s clear that they will, if you see the list below:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                     2012-%             2013-%

 Top personal tax rate ($400k+)                                      35                     41

  Estate Tax                                                                     35                     40

 Capital Gains Tax                                                           15                     23.8

 Dividend Tax                                                                 15                     23.8

Medical device Tax                                                          0                       2.3

 Payroll Tax                                                                   10.4                  12.4

 Obamacare Surcharge ($200k+)                                    0                       0.9

It’s obvious that the middle class will be hit by much of this. The only good thing that came out of this is that the Bush Tax cuts after 12 years will finally become permanent for all incomes below $400k/yr. It’s about time! However, are you now happy that we have increased the tax rate on 1-2% of the population and have raised only $600B in revenue over the next ten years? This is a mere pittance, given our $16.5 trillion debt and $1.3 trillion annual deficit over the remaining years of Obama. This was done just to meet a campaign promise! Have no fear there is more to come.

The other President is King Barack, who dictates to the country and his opposition about what is right, what is fair, and what the conditions of any negotiations will be. It illustrates his total inexperience in business and his utter arrogance. For example, he demonizes those who disagree with him and at his orchestrated press conferences, it is now beginning to look like even the main street media is starting to challenge him because of his hypocrisy and his erroneous and contradictory economic comments. This is something he did not encounter in his first term.

His monarch mentality was illustrated when he recently gave the eulogy for Senator Inouye of Hawaii, and he used the “I” pronoun 30 times, “my” 21 times and “me” 12 times. Eulogies are generally more about the deceased than the eulogizer. Also, his use of children as props to issue his worthless executive orders related to the Newtown tragedy was rather creepy and reminiscent of tactics used by dictators to appeal to the emotions of the populace. Nothing from these laws for more gun control will do anything to stop a Newtown or Aurora from happening again, because nothing is done to address the root cause, such as child safety on school grounds and a definitive mental health system. This attempt to look like you’re doing something will cost us $4 Billion to implement. In the meantime, we disarm the good guys and the criminals and mentally disturbed ignore the new laws. The focus is on the gun, not the person holding it. This is the typical move you would expect from a two-bit politician and a king taking advantage of a traumatic event as an excuse to alter our constitution.