Today, Dick and Liz Cheney in an article @wsj.com titled, “Restoring American Exceptionalism” explain the inherent dangers in the Iranian nuclear deal from an American historical perspective that is well worth reading.
The article encapsulates the growth of America into a nation that, per the Cheney’s: “has guaranteed freedom, security and peace for a larger share of humanity than any other nation in all of history. There is no other like us. There never has been.”
And in tracing the history and events that led to the attainment of that lofty and extremely responsible position, the Cheney’s illustrate why and how our nation has now reversed its former stance. Including, losing it’s way completely in the past six years of the Obama administration while before his election: “For the better part of a century, security and freedom for millions of people around the globe have depended on America’s military, economic, political and diplomatic might. For the most part, until the administration of Barack Obama, we delivered.”
As far as the present is concerned, the Cheney’s opine that, “Allowing the Iranians to continue to enrich uranium and agreeing to the removal of all restraints on their nuclear program in a few short years virtually guarantees that they will become a nuclear-weapons state, thus undermining the fundamental agreement at the heart of the NPT. President Obama is unraveling this international structure as part of an agreement that provides a pathway for the world’s worst state-sponsor of terror to acquire nuclear weapons.”
Aside from the well-thought out rationale for rejecting the Iranian deal and reinforcing sanctions, the historical performance of the U.S. as the world’s premier guarantor of “freedom, security and peace for a larger share of humanity than any other nation in all of history,” is very well worth reading. Here’s a link 'Obama has dangerously surrendered nation's global leadership'
With little else of significance in today’s headlines, here are a couple of daily updates on Bill Clinton’s wife.
A FoxNews.com article reports that, “The polls paint part of the picture, with the latest Quinnipiac poll showing her with her worst "favorability" rating yet. But the audiences at her campaign stump speeches really tell the story.”
Richard Viguerie, a longtime conservative media strategist, “blames the energy lag on Clinton’s political “baggage” and her demeanor, which he claims has never been “warm and fuzzy." Adding, "I hardly see any liberal enthusiasm for [Clinton], and they are concerned she could even drag down the entire ticket.”
Iona College political science professor, Jeanne Zaino, adds: “I think you see a certain amount of exhaustion amongst Democrats and a certain amount of Clinton fatigue. While “the drip-drip of email revelations have "taken their toll" and it is reflecting in the crowd sizes as well as poll numbers.”
Regarding the numbers specifically, “On Thursday at Case Western Reserve University in the battleground state of Ohio, Clinton spoke to a crowd of an estimated 2,800 people in an outdoor “commit to vote” rally. while her biggest crowd, of 5,500 people, was for her New York City kick-off rally which she hasn’t matched since."
Drawing an estimated 1,800 to a Virginia fundraiser in June, she’s held “grassroots organizing and town hall events more conducive to smaller crowds. Terry Madonna, director of the Franklin & Marshall College Poll, says this is likely designed that way, "because she is very good in small venues and not so much in big ones."
Examples include her choice to “unveil her college affordability plan to an audience of about 600 at Exeter High School in New Hampshire on Aug. 10. On Aug. 6, she jazzed up an estimated 300 supporters in a packed nightclub in Denver, and on Aug. 18, held a town meeting in a Las Vegas community center that drew an estimated 300.”
In her defense, Michael Cohen, a Boston Globe columnist, disagrees with the idea of low turnouts for her, saying the “enthusiasm gap” is a creation of media boredom during the dog days of summer. “I don’t think it much matters what is happening in August,” he told FoxNews.com. “I think it’s hard for anyone to get excited about politics right now. All of a sudden people are saying she is in trouble and I just don’t see any evidence of that.”
However, the facts say something else, entirely whereas “Sanders, who runs to the left of Clinton, has drawn well over 100,000 people combined at his summer rallies as of mid-August. In a pair of appearances in Portland, Ore., and Los Angeles in August alone, he attracted an estimated 55,000 people.” And even Trump “drew some 30,000 people at a pep rally in Mobile, Ala., on Aug. 21.”
So, it ain’t the doldrums or heat of summer that’s her problem, it’s her tired old recycled self that nobody really cares about, as reflected in the following article today, “America is so in Play,” by Peggy Noonan about Trump’s rise, including his ever-changing stance on immigration.
What was quite interesting was a comment from reader David Mcmahon who posted a comment about Bill Clinton's wife, as follows: ‘What a find. Mark Levin finds clip of Hillary ranting about illegal aliens.”
According to Jeff Dunetz on May 7, 2015, “Two days after she made a policy speech about illegal immigration saying that a comprehensive immigration bill must include a path to "full and equal citizenship," the RNC YouTube site posted an audiotape (see below) of a 2003 interview with radio host John Gambling where Hillary Clinton says she is anti-Illegal immigrant and that people should stop hiring them.
"I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants," she declared in the interview.
She also railed against businesses that hire illegals: "People have to stop employing illegal immigrants." She complained about seeing illegal immigrants "in the street corners in Brooklyn or the Bronx – you’re going to see loads of people waiting to get picked up to go do yard work and construction work and domestic work."
Then, at present, Ms. Clinton, reportedly told an audience on Tuesday:
“This is where I differ with everybody on the Republican side. Make no mistake, today not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one." Then she added: “When they talk about legal status, that is code for second-class status.
“She even went so far as to say that, given the opportunity, she would make executive orders granting amnesty for illegal immigrants that go further than the one President Obama made a few months back.”
Here’s a link to the article: http://bit.ly/1JCzK20
Thus, with vacillation like that, purely for electoral purposes, the openings certainly remain for a Democrat contender and lead to the ongoing 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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