Forbe’s just released one of the most incredible occurrences imaginable. Their latest results show that the POTUS now ranks third, on their “World’s Most Powerful List.”
So, here’s a guy who was handed the most important job on the planet, heading the greatest nation that ever existed, with all of its resources as his disposal. And in just seven years, he now ranks behind Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Germany’s Angela Merkel.
And the funny thing about it is that, if he did nothing while in office and just let the nation run by itself like it always has, he’d have wound up as the most powerful person on the planet anyway. Just like all American presidents before him. Because it’s the people in the U.S. that make it great, not those holding public office. Which is why the nation will recover once he’s gone, but his legacy certainly won’t.
In that regard, while the world has watched the POTUS’s continual personal decline in status, making himself practically inconsequential to most other world leaders, there are indications that he’s seriously damaged his party as well.
The dramatic turn of politics in the recent Kentucky elections may very well be a strong indication of things to come across the entire U.S.
Bruce Schreiner @myway.com, began his column today: “In the heart of Kentucky's coal country, where sons followed fathers and grandfathers into the mines, support for Democrats ran as deep as the coal seams that powered the region's economy. But as the Appalachian coal sector's future has dimmed, so has political loyalty.”
In the 2010 Senate race, Republican Rand Paul nearly ran even with Democrat Jack Conway in a large swath of eastern Kentucky long controlled mostly by Democrats. By 2014, Mitch McConnell dominated the region, winning several Appalachian counties for his first time ever, securing a sixth U.S. Senate term. McConnell did it by successfully tying his challenger, Alison Lundergan Grimes, to Obama.
And now, last Tuesday, Republican Matt Bevin swept most of the eastern coalfields, including Pike County, in winning Kentucky's governorship. Republicans also picked up the auditor's and treasurer's offices, moving closer to consolidating political power in state government after years of dominating federal elections.
To illustrate the damage done to Democrat’s in Kentucky, “In 2007, the year before Obama was elected president, support for the state's Democratic gubernatorial candidate was rock solid. Steve Beshear outpolled Republican incumbent Ernie Fletcher by a 2-to-1 margin in that area of eastern Kentucky. Four years later, Beshear amassed a 20,000-vote advantage over GOP challenger David Williams in winning his second and final term.”
Mr. Schreiner goes on to report that: “Those days now seem like a different era. For example: voter George Blackburn, who spent 42 years working in the coalfields and “whose family backed Democrats for generations,” supported McConnell and Bevin. It was a vote against Obama, he said.
Blackburn said: “He's taken our economy away completely. He just all at once put the EPA on us so hard that we can't mine coal. It's on his shirt tail, I'd say, the Democrats got beat this time."
What’s most important here, is that this story repeats all over the nation from state to state, industry to industry and voter to voter. Whether its carbon pollution, overall air quality, water restrictions or the widespread damaging economic effects on almost all larger businesses due to the health care tax, millions of workers are negatively affected everywhere. And, as Kentucky has just illustrated, this will certainly repeat itself, as Democrat politicians lose elections nationwide in coming elections.
Which brings us to today's update on Bill Clinton's wife.
This morning, Jay Caruso @redstate.com, wrote that: “Lachlan Markey (one of the better DC based journalists these days) at The Washington Free Beacon broke the story about the non-disclosure agreement Hillary Clinton signed when joining the State Department.”
Several hours later, Politico published an article using an anonymous source to say emails identified by the inspector general’s office as “top secret” really weren’t. To which, Dianne Feinstein, “reacted like a kid at Christmas.”
According to Senator Feinstein, “DNI Clapper’s determination is further evidence that there was no wrongdoing by Secretary Clinton. The classification process is complex and subjective, but this confirms Secretary Clinton did not send classified information through her email account. It’s time to put this issue behind us and move on.”
However, Mr. Markey points out: “DNI Clapper said no such thing.”
Clapper spokesman Brian Hale said, “the review of the emails has not been completed. ODNI has made no such determination and the review is ongoing,”
In Mr. Markey’s opinion, “What it means is Hillary’s ready made excuse that an email didn’t have a huge red “TOP SECRET” watermark splashed across it doesn’t matter and that in her position she should have known and taken care to see to it that classified information was not handled carelessly.”
And then Markey makes the most important point of all, suggesting: “Perhaps when the rest of the media gets over the obsession with ten year old stories of Sen. Marco Rubio’s credit cards as well as old stories about Ben Carson and West Point, they can get around to looking into whether or not the former Secretary of State may have committed multiple felonies.”
Which brings up the continuing question: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you reading this?
That’s it for today folks.
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