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American Exceptionalism

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…seen from the other side of the world.  Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has a perspective.

Every one of America’s important trading partners in Asia, he points out, now has China as its “biggest trading partner.”  These nations know they will have a freer and more open trading system if America, not China, is writing the rules.

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What makes it all so twisted [the debate over the TPP], says Mr Lee, is that no one in Asia is rooting for an American retreat.  To the contrary, Asian leaders are eager to make America great again….

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“Your role,” says Mr Lee, “remains indispensable, whether you are prepared to step up to it or whether you decide to chuck it.”

And one last bit, which might seem self-serving but, even were it so, is no less true for that:

…you are wealthy enough and resilient enough to be able to help those who are buffeted and to take advantage of the opportunities which are out there, rather than say “I don’t want the competition….”

DC John

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In his finest imitation of an erstwhile Baghdad Bob, DC John Kerry, the motorboat skipper who sits in the Secretary of State’s chair, has really shown the level of his—and by extension, his boss President Barack Obama’s (D)—contact with international reality.

The very reason that Daesh is resorting to actions outside of the Middle East is that its fantasy of a caliphate is collapsing before their eyes[.]  Its territory is shrinking every day, its leaders are being decimated, its revenue resources are dwindling, and its fighters are fleeing[.]

Fleeing.  All the way to Paris and Brussels, and other places in Europe, to inflict their barbaric savagery.  Fleeing.  All the way to Libya, to expand Daesh’s oil holdings and to inflict their barbaric savagery on Libyans.  Fleeing.  All the way to San Bernardino to inflict their barbaric savagery on us.

Fleeing.  Sure.

Governor Mike Huckabee has a good read on the quality of DC John’s performance.

It’s really embarrassing that the secretary of state wants to say that the carnage that we saw in Brussels is the result of us doing something wonderfully right….  And I thought Kerry’s remarks were totally embarrassing for the United States.

It Doesn’t Get Any Clearer Than This

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Ex-First Lady, Ex-Secretary of State, Public (but no transcripts available) Speaker Par Excellence, and Progressive-Democrat Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton has known the non-secure nature of her cell phone for quite some time.  And since she knew this much, she’s known all along the non-secure nature of her personal email server through which she handled so much classified information, to say nothing of all the OPSEC and COMSEC information that she handled via her server.

Here’s proof.

 

H/t Fox News Insider

The Truth

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…is beginning to come out.

At a CNN Ohio coal country Townhall involving Progressive-Democrat Party Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders (I, VT), Clinton said, in all seriousness,

I’m the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country, because we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.

Her campaign then clarified, in a post-Townhall statement, that her plan “would also safeguard workers’ retirement and health benefits.”  But do nothing about their current jobs so they can get to retirement, apparently.

In an MSNBC-hosted Townhall, Clinton also said this with a straight face:

Now, is Libya perfect? It isn’t.  Libya was a different kind of calculation [from Syria] and we didn’t lose a single person….

Because #FourLivesDon’tMatter.

Hmm….