BloggeRhythms

Today’s one where you have to sit back and really think about the news. Because huge underlying damage often gets dwarfed when we lose perspective.

 

For example, Jon Bowne & Kit Daniels of Infowars.com write that, “Small towns and counties in states bordering Mexico are drowning in debt due to the swarm of illegals stealing and destroying property, requiring expensive medical care and needing proper burials, all of which the federal government has largely refused to pay for.”

 

Now, most look at this item and focus on the issues at the border itself, being overrun by illegals. However, a much better idea of what’s really occurring would be to picture strong-arm thugs opening the door to your home and not only allowing any and all in who wished to enter, but giving them free rein to do as they choose there, as well. And that’s precisely what the incumbent’s doing to the nation.     

 

Then, while so-called environmentalists preclude us from drilling for oil ourselves or importing it from our Canadian neighbor, USA Today via Drudge posted an article by Rick Popely saying, “Gas prices continued to rise in most parts of the country the past week to a national average of $3.68 for a gallon of regular unleaded, the AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report said Thursday. That's just 2 cents off of 2014's previous peak price.

 

In its weekly assessment of price trends, AAA said concerns over the ongoing violence in Iraq were keeping oil prices hovering around $106 a barrel, making it more expensive to produce gasoline.

 

Previously, AAA predicted gas prices would fall 10 to 15 cents per gallon during June, following a typical pattern for lower pump prices in early summer, but in a statement the organization said "that now appears unlikely due to higher oil costs. This means that even though the national average has only increased a few cents per gallon since the Iraq violence intensified, drivers are likely to pay substantially higher gas prices than they would have otherwise."

 

So, in this case the incumbent’s done us in economically twice. First by totally mistaken foreign policy regarding Iraq, compounded by his pandering to bribes from cash-paying global-warming lobbyists. 

 

Moving on, it looks like Elias Benjelloun, the UNLV student body president, and Daniel Waqar, the student government's public relations director, finally woke up to a point made here a couple of days ago regarding Bill Clinton’s wife charging outrageous fees for a graduation  speech. Today they, “slammed the university's foundation for paying Clinton so much for the event.”

 

According to www.businessinsider.com, Waqar said on the Nevada political program Ralston Reports, that, "We really appreciate anybody who would come to raise money for the university. But anybody who's being paid $225,000 to come speak, we think that's a little bit outrageous. And we'd like Secretary Clinton — respectfully — to gracefully return the money to the university or the foundation." Benjelloun echoed Waqar's remarks.

 

"When we heard $225,000, we weren't so thrilled," he said. "We would hope that Hillary Clinton commits to higher education ... and returns part or whole of the amount she receives for speaking."

 

Then, as far as Bill’s wife’s new book “Hard Choices,” goes, it’s been eclipsed by Ed Klein’s “Blood Feud, ” chronicling the Clinton-Obama family rivalry. On the Amazon best-seller list. Klein’s is ranked No. 3; Clinton’s No. 34. 

 

However, what’s important here when reading reviews, or the books themselves, is to not overlook the Clinton character flaws that come through in the texts.

 

For example, Benjamin Weingarten in the Blaze reports that Klein writes that Hillary Clinton, “was stunned when she heard the president talk about the Benghazi attack,’ according to a member of her team of legal advisers who was interviewed for this book. ‘Obama wanted her to say that the attack had been a spontaneous demonstration triggered by an obscure video…Hillary told Obama, ‘Mr. President, that story isn’t credible; among other things, it ignores the fact that the attack occurred on 9/11.’ But the president was adamant. He said, ‘Hillary, I need you to put out a State Department release as soon as possible.”

 

Thus, in this case, while fully aware that lies had been told, Bill’s wife still went along with the sham whereas politics and image remained far more important than truly informing the American public of the facts, much less the world.   

 

After that, “Obama mentioned Benghazi in kind of a vague, confusing way that led Bill to believe that the White House was going to dump political and legal blame for the mess on [his wife.]”

 

And then for the present, Bill said, ‘We’ve got to list all the situations that Obama’s screwed up. Benghazi, the IRS, healthcare, you name it. We’ve got to explain,’ he said, looking over at Hillary, ‘how you would do everything different and better. It has to be made crystal clear that you understand Obama’s mistakes and would never have made them yourself.’”

 

Therefore, here again, knowing all along what a disastrous situation the entire administration was, and being a part of it as well, personal political goals and ambitions far overrode any attempt to do what was best for the nation by exposing the truth as it occurred.   

 

And not only that, Klein writes that Bill's even prepared his wife to go on alone, should something happen to him, by telling her, “Obviously, you have to have a big state funeral for me, with as much pomp and circumstance as possible. I’m thinking maybe I should be buried at Arlington [National Cemetery] rather than at my library in Little Rock…Wear your widow’s weeds, so people will feel sympathy for you. Wear black for a decent mourning period and make my death an asset. The images on television of the funeral and the grieving widow in black will be priceless…you’ll have to take maximum advantage of my death…It should be worth a couple of million votes.”

 

So, there you have it. A not very surprising disclosure of two people driven solely by fulfillment of personal ambition with no concern for those they claim to care for, whatsoever. And the most horrifying thing about the “Blood Feud” is that whichever side wins, the incumbent or the Clinton’s, the nation, it’s citizens, allies and friends still all lose whenever these folks are involved.   

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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