Hillarious vs Valerie! Call Senators! Rethinking Trump!

A "deadly" article (posted in 2010)  on Caruba's blog site.

"I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group (George Soros, maybe? or Frank Marshall Davis??) took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.

In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father" was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The "Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a "communist with a small 'c' was the real author.

His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois House to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his disposal.

He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?

He out maneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.

And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska . It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.

The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.

Now, 6 full years into his presidency, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.

Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish away" some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain.

The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign "world tour" were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions. Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.

Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar." The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.

He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America. He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.

The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.

Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual's life.

When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.

Even his wife has mentioned they visited the country of his birth, Kenya. You did note she did not accompany him on the trip to Saudi Arabia on which he actually bowed to the king. Being a Muslim required him to do so and that same faith prevented him from taking her with him .

We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States.

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Sent to me by a fellow memo reader after my own memo of yesterday. (See 1 below.)

Sent to me by a fellow memo reader whom I love:

"Best news all day that Hillary's private servers are being investigated by FBI.

Maybe she'll become  a server.In a Federal Penitentiary?

If they could imprison Jonathan Pollard for as long as they did, and for something more

benign, why not her?  ...".

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I have  reservations about Trump but I also understand the nation is hungering for a non-traditional candidate they can believe in and whom they may be willing to take a chance on if they become convinced he can move us forward and help to restore our greatness through non-conformity, non -political common sense leadership.

If Trump is to trump the other candidates then he must begin to offer a peek into what he will do and why and, above all, he must quit his nasty rhetoric and pissy fanny responses to those who attack him.

We already have a narcissist as president and we do not need another who boasts  he is capable of walking on water.

Time will tell if Trump can/will come off his pedestal,  prove he is for real and convince us he could function as president.
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For those who wish to leave a message  urging these Senators to vote against the Iran Deal here is a message you can leave.. (See 2 below.)
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Dick
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1)

Is Obama taking Hillary out?

By Monica Crowley

The Washington Times

Hillary Clinton is not going to be the Democratic nominee for president.

Yes, the conventional wisdom is that she is still the prohibitive favorite, armed with big money, big connections, and the Big Dog, Bill. But the so-called “wisdom” is “conventional” for a reason.

As a result of endless sordid scandals and predictably Clintonian evasions, her poll numbers on everything from favorability to trustworthiness are in a nosedive. A battery of new polls in key swing states such as Colorado and Iowa show her losing to a number of GOP challengers.

She’s also taking incoming from the left, particularly from Vermont senator and socialist Bernie Sanders, who is scoring major crowds and an increasing percentage of the Democratic vote, indicating that the leftist base sees him as a viable option and not merely a vehicle to register discontent with Mrs. Clinton.

Polls this early in the cycle can be unreliable. But they do indicate a significant downward trend for her that must have her campaign at DEFCON 3.

None of this, however, is her most serious problem. Instead, it’s something much closer to home, much more insidious, much more dangerous than anything else.

It’s President Obama. And he just made his move.

Here’s how it’s likely going down:

The Clintons' and the Obamas' have a long history of bad blood, dating to the 2008 primary race. After Mr. Obama creamed her, he offered her the plum gig of  Secretary of  State. Friends close, enemies closer. She tried to get her dirty tricks consigliere, Sidney Blumenthal, a top position in the State Department, which Mr. Obama pointedly denied. So she hired him anyway through the Clinton Foundation.

Through Mr. Blumenthal, she was fed all kinds of intelligence on global hotpots such as Libya, much of it inaccurate, as she circumvented traditional government communication chains via her private email server. What was she hiding from Mr. Obama? And why? Perhaps because she trusted Mr. Obama about as much as she trusted Bill.

Mr. Obama didn’t trust her, either. In a recently disclosed email, Mrs. Clinton complained that she heard “on the radio” that there was a “Cabinet meeting” that morning and wondered if she could attend. The  Secretary of  State — fourth in line to the presidency — was frozen out, so she set up her own fiefdom.

Mr. Obama needs a successor whom he can control to ensure that the “fundamental transformation of the nation” continues. He cannot control either of the Clintons'. In a revealing “tell” this week, he said, “In 18 months, I’m turning over the keys. I want to make sure I’m turning over the keys to somebody who is serious about the major problems he country and the world faces.”

He will therefore back the one person he knows will do his bidding: his  V ice  P resident, Joe Biden, whom he summons to his side for every critical photo op, including the announcement of the Iran deal. There’s more going on there than just symbolism.

So here’s the likely plan: Mr. Biden will announce that he is running for president (the reported dying wish of his late son, Beau). After a respectable amount of time, Mr. Obama will announce that while he admires all of the Democratic candidates, Mr. Biden has earned his particular loyalty. 

Following his presidential endorsement, Mr. Obama will then support Mr. Biden with the full weight of the White House, including the sophisticated technical infrastructure his campaigns used to win in 2008 and 2012. For years, Mrs. Clinton has begged Mr. Obama to turn it over to her, and he refused. He’s been saving it for someone else.

Mr. Obama will also use his considerable influence with black and Latino voters to support Mr. Biden, which may be enough to help him significantly.

But Mrs. Clinton is a survivor, they will say. The media protects her. True. But it will be a much different situation if she’s under criminal investigation by the Justice Department or worse, crippled by a Special Prosecutor or even an indictment.

Don’t think Mr. Obama will go there? He already has. Last week, the New York Times reported that two inspectors general from his administration recommended that the Justice Department open a “criminal” inquiry into her handling of classified material. The leak to the Times came from a “senior administration official,” which some have speculated was Mr. Obama’s own consigliere, Valerie Jarrett. The Times walked back some of the details, but the damage was done. If Mr. Obama did not want a DOJ criminal investigation of Mrs. Clinton to go forward, he would not have let it go this far.

He wants the investigation, wants her nailed, wants her out. And he’s doing it, slowly, steadily.

The Clintons' used to be champion Machiavellians. But in Mr. Obama, the Clinton team looks like they are being outmaneuvered — again — by the ultimate take-no-prisoners master.

Hillary is being given the Judas kiss by her former boss, a man loyal to no one but himself.

•    Monica Crowley is online opinion editor at The Washington Times. 

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2) You Can Make a difference        

                         SIRC Phone Bank  “NO” to Iran Nuclear Agreement

1.      Call between 7;00 pm and 6:00 am You can break up calls into short periods

2.      Leave message on answering machine.

3.      Names with *  Thank them for supporting Iran Nuclear Agreement. The purpose of this is to keep them committed to voting “NO”.

4.      This is just half of the list. The other half will be sent next week for you to call.

                                                                         SCRIPT

Hello, this is _____Name_______. I am calling to ask you to vote NO on the Iran Nuclear Agreement. Put politics aside and vote for what is best for America. The agreement didn’t bring back our citizens held in Iran. The money we give them will be used to strengthen their terrorist organizations and their nuclear expansion. And most of all, it is detrimental to the security of the United States of America. Thank you.

Name	DC Office Phone Number	State Office Phone Number
Richard Blumenthal   D  CT	202-224-2823	860-258-6940
Corey Booker  D  NJ	202-224-3224	973-639-8700
Barbara Boxer  D  CA	202-224-3553	916-448-2787
Sherrod Brown  D  OH	202-224-23315	614-469-2083
Kirsten Gillibrand  D  NY	202-224-4451	518-431-0120
Lindsey Graham   R  SC  *	202-224-5972	803-933-0112
Susan Collins R  ME	202-224-2523	207-780-3575
Johnny Isakson  R  GA *	202-224-3643	770-661-0999
Claire McCaskill  D  MO	202-228-6326	816-421-1639
Patrick Leahy  D  VT	202-224-4242	802-863-2525
Jeanne Shaheen  D  NH	202-224-2841	603-647-7500
John McCain  R  AZ	202-224-2235	602-952-2410
Heidi Heitkamp  D ND	202-224-2043	701-258-4648
Mitch McConnell  R  KY  *	202-224-2541	502-582-6304
Robert Menendez  D  NJ	202-224-4744	973-645-3030
Barbara Mikulski  D  MD	202-224-4654	410-9624510
Jack Reed   D  RI	202-224-4642	401-528-5200
Mark Warner   D  VA	202-224-2023	703-442-0670
Harry Reid  D  NV	202-224-3542	702-388-5020
Charles Schumer  D  NY  *	202-224-6542	518-431-4070
Joe Manchin  D  WV	202-224-3954	304-342-5855
Debbie Stabenow  D  MI	202-224-4822	616-975-0052
Dick Durbin  D  IL	202-224-2152	312-353-4952
Tom Udall  D  NM	202-224-6621	505-346-6791
Diane Feinstein (CA)	202-224-3841	415-393-0707