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With most headline news centered on the likely meaningless Iowa caucuses, two articles today make one wonder if the leading Democrat candidates ever actually think before they speak. And, in the event that they do intend to present what’s said, they must believe that their constituents are the least intelligent beings on earth.   

Lesley Clark, Anita Kumar and Maria Recio @ mcclatchydc.com, write that: “On the Democratic side, the discontent fuels the insurgent campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who vows a political revolution to fix what he says is a system skewed to favor the rich.

“I plead guilty. I am angry,” Sanders recently told an audience in Maquoketa, Iowa, pushing back against former President Bill Clinton’s critique that voters need “not anger, but answers.” 

Sanders then went on to say: “I am angry and millions of Americans are angry. We are angry that our people are working longer hours for lower wages. We are angry that our criminal justice system is broken. And we’re angry that we have a corrupt campaign-finance system that allows billionaires to buy elections.” 

However, those issues that Sanders claims “anger him and millions of others,” are the cornerstone of liberal political philosophy. What’s more, the nation is in its current disastrous condition, here and abroad, because liberals have been in control of policy-making for the past nine years. Democrats held a Congressional majority for the last two years of  the”W” Bush administration, while Obama has been at the helm for the past seven.  

Furthermore, were he empowered to introduce his own ideology, those issues he claims to find fault with would worsen significantly. Which means that not only wouldn't his presidency help those he claims are being harmed, it would hasten their economic and political demise considerably, as well.    

Along the same lines, Olaf Ekberg, headlined his article today @theamericanmirror.com: “Bill Clinton’s voice frail, hand quivers during attacks on Sanders”

 

As reported by Mr. Ekberg, Clinton said, his voice quivering: “Who will do the most to make you a .part of the future that the president painted in the State of the Union, How are we going to do it and who’s the best change maker to do it? 

“It’s not close. Hillary is the best change maker to do it,” Clinton said, his hand shaking as he pointed at the audience.

Mr. Ekberg went on to state that: “The once nubile Clinton is showing his age. It’s not 1992 anymore.” 

Adding further to Mr. Ekberg's sense that the Clinton aura has waned, he wrote: “KTVO reports 350 people turned out to see the former president, but notes “many” of them were Sanders supporters who turned out to see the former president. 

“The Clinton campaign has been plagued by low turnout at events, certainly an indication of enthusiasm — or lack thereof. 

“The Globe Gazette reported there were so many people at Bernie Sander’s rally in Mason City Wednesday night, some had to stand outside in the freezing cold and watch through the windows. 

“Sam Frizell of Time Magazine appeared on MSNBC Thursday and reported Clinton also appeared in Mason City Wednesday night and couldn’t match Sanders’s crowd. 

“Clinton had 300 attend while Sanders had 1,100 — nearly four times the former president’s total.” 

Thus, while the attendance statistics reflect significant drop-offs for the former president, Sanders isn’t drawing nearly as well as his Republican rivals, either. All of which indicates that as the the two Democrat contenders vie for party support, the general voting public doesn’t seem very enthusiastic about either one.   

Which brings us to today’s blockbuster update on Bill Clinton’s wife. 

By now, most readers are fully aware of the startling news that the the intelligence community has deemed some of Hillary Clinton’s emails “too damaging" to national security to release under any circumstances, according to a U.S. government official close to the ongoing review. 

As first reported by Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne @FoxNews.com: “The State Department formally announced Friday that seven email chains, found in 22 documents, will be withheld “in full” because they, in fact, contain “Top Secret” information. 

“The State Department, when first contacted by Fox News about withholding such emails Friday morning, did not dispute the reporting – but did not comment in detail. After a version of this report was first published, the Obama administration confirmed to the Associated Press that the seven email chains would be withheld. The department has since confirmed those details publicly.” 

Most damaging is the fact that: “The decision to withhold the documents in full, and not provide even a partial release with redaction's, further undercuts claims by the State Department and the Clinton campaign that none of the intelligence in the emails was classified when it hit Clinton's personal server.” 

However, aside from the potential negative impact of this new information on the presidential campaign is that, as also disclosed later in the article, this event reflects similar Clinton misdeeds from her questionable past.   

The authors explain that, “The developments, taken together, show Clinton finding herself once again at the epicenter of a controversy over incomplete records. 

“During her time as the first female partner at the Rose Law firm in Arkansas during the mid-1980s, she was known as one of the “three amigos” and close with partners Webb Hubbell and Vince Foster. Hubbell ended up a convicted felon for his role in the failure of the corrupt Madison Guaranty, a savings and loan which cost taxpayers more than $65 million. Hubbell embezzled more than a half-million dollars from the firm.   

“Foster killed himself in Washington, D.C., in July 1993. As Clinton’s partner in the Rose Law firm, he had followed the Clinton's into the White House where he served as the Clintons’ personal lawyer and a White House deputy counsel.  

“Clinton’s missing Rose Law billing records for her work for Guaranty during the mid-1980s were the subject of three intense federal investigations over two years. Those records, in the form of a computerized printout of her work performed on behalf of Guaranty, were discovered under mysterious circumstances in the Book Room of the private White House living quarters.”  

So, here we have history seeming to repeat itself, as far as actions above the law are concerned for both Clinton’s. But, the most important aspect of what took place in the past, is that the current headlines of impropriety are causing significant damage to the Clinton campaign on their own. However, in the event that Bill’s wife escapes her present woes, it’s a certainty that political rivals will quickly resurrect her highly questionable history.

 

Which leads to the ongoing question: Joe Biden, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this?     

That’s it for today folks.    

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