Here’s how they stand, via Watts Up With That. 
I’m happy with eliminating energy subsidies. Let’s get rid of all of them.
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Monthly Archives: October 2016
Democrats, Progressives, and Americans
This is what the Democratic Party and its Progressive center think of our government and of us plebeian citizens [emphasis added].
Dear John:
Well, we all thought the big problem for our US democracy was Citizens United/Koch Brothers big money in politics. Silly us; turns out that money isn’t all that important if you can conflate entertainment with the electoral process. Trump masters TV, TV so-called news picks up and repeats and repeats to death this opinionated blowhard and his hairbrained ideas, free-floating discontent attaches to a seeming strongman and we’re off and running. JFK, Jr would be delighted by all this as his “George” magazine saw celebrity politics coming. The magazine struggled as it was ahead of its time but now looks prescient. George, of course, played the development pretty lightly, basically for charm and gossip, like People, but what we are dealing with now is dead serious. How does this get handled in the general? Secretary Clinton is not an entertainer, and not a celebrity in the Trump, Kardashian mold; what can she do to offset this? I’m certain the poll-directed insiders are sure things will default to policy as soon as the conventions are over, but I think not. And as I’ve mentioned, we’ve all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands some serious, serious thinking – and not just poll driven, demographically-inspired messaging.
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Sent with a handshake,Bill
“John” is John Podesta, Democratic Party Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s senior campaign advisor. “Bill” is Bill Ivey, former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
This is what wants to occupy [sic] the White House come January.
Obama’s Foreign Policy Failure
Here’s an illustrative example.
While the press was focused on the Hillary-Trump debate, Iranian-backed rebels fired two missiles at the USS Mason off Yemen.
That’s how much respect President Barack Obama’s (D) foreign policy has earned us.
[As cited by Richard Fernandez at the above link] “Sending the warships to the area is a message that the primary goal of the Navy is to ensure that shipping continues unimpeded in the strait and the vicinity,” said a US defense official.
Message received. And contemptuously wadded up and tossed back at our feet.
Here’s another.
Only yesterday [9 Oct], Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Washington of aggression without raising so much as a ripple on Twitter.
This came as Russia, thumbing its nose at us, was moving nuclear-armed missiles into Kaliningrad. This occurred, also, without so much as a bleat from Obama. (Yes, yes, I know the missiles are rated only as nuclear-capable. But nobody moves nuclear-capable missiles anywhere without also moving their nuclear warheads along with them.)
Here’s another.
The Philippine defense chief [Delfin Lorenzana] said Friday that he had suspended participation in any joint patrols with the US of the disputed South China Sea, the first concrete sign of a crack in the military alliance following the election of President Rodrigo Duterte.
This is the foreign policy Democratic Party Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wants to continue.
Recall, though, her own foray into foreign policy with her Reset button when she was Secretary of State. She was so inept then, or so incompetent, or so…forgetful…that she couldn’t even get a simple translation of a single word, Reset, translated into Russian properly.
Even could a case be made that Obama’s foreign policy was a good idea, Clinton has shown she cannot be relied on from a simple competency perspective to carry it on.
Racism or just Stupidity?
The National Museum of African American History and Culture opened last month in Washington—and missing from the four floors of exhibits is any reference to [Justice Clarence] Thomas’ personal and judicial legacy, shocking for perhaps the second most powerful black political figure in America, after President Obama.
They do, though, have a large section of the woman who tried to smear Thomas and block his confirmation to the Supreme Court. Justice Thomas’ response to that attempt and to the complicity of the Democratic Party Senators complicit in the attempt puts it best:
This is a circus. It’s a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves … and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you.
Democrats haven’t changed in the 25 years since, either; they have, in fact, broadened their smear efforts. See, for instance, the routine Uncle Tom characterizations of ex-Republican National Committee Chairman and American who was black Michael Steele. See, too, their slut characterization of conservative ex-Vice Presidential candidate and American who was a woman Sarah Palin.
The broadening strikes me more as stupidity than bigotry. Or they just hate anyone who doesn’t agree with them.
Another Memory Failure
Sunday’s townhall debate between Democratic Party Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican Party Presidential candidate Donald Trump was memorable for a lot of exchanges, but this one may be symptomatic of a larger medical problem of Clinton’s.
When Trump brought up President Barack Obama’s (D) red line about Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s chemical weapon use and then proceeded to retreat from it when al Assad called his bluff, he said Clinton played a role in that failure through her position as Secretary of State at the time.
Clinton responded by saying that she was not Secretary of State at that time; she’d already left the office.
I was gone. At some point, we need to do some fact-checking here.
Indeed.
However, Clinton, in fact, ran the State Department for Obama from 2009 until 2013, during which time Assad continued to use chemical weapons.
This kind of memory lapse isn’t useful for our President to be having, nor is the rate at which she’s experiencing them.