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One of the most revolting revelations imaginable, appeared in an article this morning by Missy Ryan and Greg Jaffe @washingtonpost.com, as follows:

 

“President Obama’s most senior national security advisers have recommended measures that would move U.S. troops closer to the front lines in Iraq and Syria, officials said, a sign of mounting White House dissatisfaction with progress against the Islamic State and a renewed Pentagon push to expand military involvement in long-running conflicts overseas.

 

“The debate over the proposed steps, which would for the first time position a limited number of Special Operations forces on the ground in Syria and put U.S. advisers closer to the firefights in Iraq, comes as Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter presses the military to deliver new options for greater military involvement in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.”

 

So, only  a few weeks after deciding to deploy ground troops to Afghanistan,  the POTUS will now likely authorize troops in Syria as well. Which goes to establish that the pullback from the Middle-East was a huge mistake in the first place. All because political pandering always outweighs what facts might indicate to the contrary for this administration.

 

And what's worse, is that had U.S. forces been left where they were when the POTUS took office, Iraq would likely be stable, ISIS wouldn't even have come into existence, while Iran and Russia would surely have had second thoughts about their attempts to expand in the region. All of which goes to establish that the administration’s mistakes were far beyond incompetent. 

 

On another issue, a new CBS News/New York Times Poll shows Republican Ben Carson leading nationally with 26 percent, to Trump's 22 percent. Another indication that Trump seems to be waning, likely because his blustering style has no substance.

 

However, in what might be an even stronger indication of Trump’s wearing thin on the public, yesterday Rush said: “Ted Cruz is a dark horse candidate out there. He does not have in his record any statement like Trump does of having supported certain things the Democrats have done. Cruz is inarguably a thoroughbred conservative.”

 

Thus, by indicating that Trump isn’t truly a Conservative, Rush may be paving the way for Trump toward the exit. Something the party really needs if it expects to win a national presidential election.

 

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

 

Although her column was written about Matt Drudge, Susan J. Demas, political columnist for MLive.com, today demonstrated that Democrats may indeed live in an imaginary world of their own making. 

 

Demas writes that: “Drudge's motivation seems clear: He's utterly terrified at the prospect of President Clinton. He doesn't see anyone else sufficiently leading the charge, so he must speak out. 

 

"She's old and she's sick," Drudge declared desperately, slamming the media for "propping" her up.

 

“A few weeks later, Clinton testified before the hostile, GOP-led Benghazi Committee without breaking a sweat — something noted even by conservative pundits. That would seem to lay to rest any fears about her health and stamina.”

 

However, as far as appearing before the Committee “without breaking a sweat” is concerned, many news outlets reported: “Hillary Clinton stumbled at the Benghazi hearing today on Capitol Hill. As the hearing moved well past its tenth hour, Clinton had a serious coughing fit that prevented her momentarily from being able to speak.”

 

Drudge himself posted a headline: “Hillary Health Warning: Coughing Fit." And he tweeted: "Last time she showed up with prism glasses from blood clot, vertigo. Today obvious anti-anxiety meds, hypothyroid meds."

 

Then, refuting the “without breaking a sweat” gibberish further, Representative Jim Jordan showed an email Bill’s wife sent her own family, in which she said officers were killed in Benghazi by a group like al Qaeda.

 

“You tell the American people one thing. You tell your family an entirely different story,” Jordan said. While on the night of the attack, she had a phone call with the president of Libya where she told him Ansar al-Sharia was claiming responsibility.

 

The next day, Jordan said, she told the Egyptian prime minister something “significant,” where she acknowledged they knew the attack in Libya had nothing to do with any video.

 

“We know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film,” Jordan read out from Clinton’s email. “It was a planned attack. Not a protest. Let me read that one more time. We know, not we think, not it might be, we know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with a film. It was a planned attack. Not a protest. State Department experts knew the truth. You knew the truth, but that’s not what the American people got. Again, the American people want to know why. Why didn’t you tell the American people exactly what you told the Egyptian prime minister?”

 

So, if this is what Demas thinks is positive imagery for Bill’s wife, and Democrats in general, what could she possibly imagine as harmful? Because the picture presented at the hearing was that of an incompetent, ailing individual who fabricates in her own interest. And, unfortunately for her, it’s highly probable the voting public will see right through her deceptions as well.

 

Which leads 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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