BloggeRhythms

Yesterday, Charles Krauthammer was quoted here telling viewers Friday on “Special Report with Bret Baier” @FoxNews.com, “that President Obama’s comments following the nuclear security summit in Washington are evidence the president is divorced from reality, and from the real problems plaguing the world."

Now, today, confirming Mr. Krauthammer's conclusion that the POTUS truly is “divorced from reality,” Julian Hattem @thehill.com writes: "President Obama on Friday criticized Iranian leaders for undermining the “spirit” of last year’s historic nuclear agreement, even as they stick to the “letter” of the pact.

“In comments following the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, Obama claimed, that Iran’s troubles even after the lifting of sanctions under the nuclear deal were due to its continued support of Hezbollah, ballistic missile tests and other aggressive behavior. 

“Iran so far has followed the letter of the agreement, but the spirit of the agreement involves Iran also sending signals to the world community and businesses that it is not going to be engaging in a range of provocative actions that are going to scare businesses off,” Obama said at a press conference.”

“When they launch ballistic missiles with slogans calling for the destruction of Israel, that makes businesses nervous.” 

While some possibility remained that the POTUS might have some rational basis for simply being concerned about Iran's hostility rather than true outrage at being bilked, he then proved that he didn't by adding: “Iran has to understand what every country in the world understands, which is businesses want to go where they feel safe, where they don’t see massive controversy, where they can be confident that transactions are going to operate normally,” he added. “And that’s an adjustment that Iran’s going to have to make as well.” 

The good news for the POTUS regarding his wait for Iran to make any adjustment in its hostile ways is that, after this coming January, he’ll have the rest of his life to idly spend in anticipation of their acquiescence. Because, that’s how long it will take, as well as eons upon eons after that.  

Reader, Madderton, put it this way: “Seriously Mr President? 

“What else were you expecting? Arrogance has led you to believe this time would be different that all the other times the world has  worked with Iran?” 

And then, a Facebook friend posted this today: 

And one more from another pal, who wrote: “Congrats to all the McDonald's employees who demanded $15 an hour. Your replacements are arriving.” 

Without much else of importance appearing in the news, here’s today’s update on Bill’s wife, which regards an article @counterpunch.org via Drudge, titled: “How Hillary Clinton Bought the Loyalty of 33 State Democratic Parties” 

Although the details are typical of the Clinton’s, and not very startling either, what’s surprising is who wrote it. The author is, Margot Kidder who rose to fame in 1978 for her role as Lois Lane in the film Superman, with Christopher Reeve. She then also appeared in three following Superman sequels. 

According to Wikipedia, “Ms. Kidder has been a longtime supporter of Democratic and liberal causes throughout her career. She actively supported Jesse Jackson's bid for the Democratic nomination in 1984. In the early 1990s, during the first Gulf War, [she] was branded a "Baghdad Betty" and subjected to abuse for her remarks questioning the war.  In a piece called Confessions of 'Baghdad Betty' , styled as a letter to her mother and printed in The Nation, Kidder responded by explaining and defending her statements. 

"As of November 2009, Kidder was the Montana State Coordinator for Progressive Democrats of America. The organization's website carried her article "Ax Max," in which she criticized Max Baucus, Montana's Democratic senator. On August 23, 2011, Kidder, Tantoo Cardinal, and dozens of others were arrested while protesting in Washington D.C. against the proposed extension of the Keystone Pipeline."

Thus, with her credentials as a true, consistent, avowed Democrat supporter and activist, her thoughts and conclusions have considerable weight. Which  may prove problematical for Bill’s wife because, apparently Ms Kidder greatly dislikes her and her tactics and is spreading serious negativity about her. 

Ms Kidder writes: “Collusion between the Clinton campaign and the DNC allowed Hillary Clinton to buy the loyalty of 33 state Democratic parties last summer. Montana was one of those states. It sold itself for $64,100. 

“The Super Delegates now defying democracy with their insistent refusal to change their votes to Sanders in spite of a handful of overwhelming Clinton primary losses in their own states, were arguably part of that deal. 

“In August 2015, at the Democratic Party convention in Minneapolis, 33 democratic state parties made deals with the Hillary Clinton campaign and a joint fundraising entity called The Hillary Victory Fund. The deal allowed many of her core billionaire and inner circle individual donors to run the maximum amounts of money allowed through those state parties to the Hillary Victory Fund in New York and the DNC in Washington.” 

Ms. Kidder then explains, “The idea was to increase how much one could personally donate to Hillary by taking advantage of the Supreme Court ruling 2014, McCutcheon v FEC, that knocked down a cap on aggregate limits as to how much a donor could give to a federal campaign in a year. It thus eliminated the ceiling on amounts spent by a single donor to a presidential candidate. 

“In other words, a single donor, by giving 10,000 dollars a year to each signatory state could legally give an extra $330,000 a year for two years to the Hillary Victory Fund.  For each donor, this raised their individual legal cap on the Presidential campaign to $660,000 if given in both 2015 and 2016. And to one million, three hundred and 20 thousand dollars if an equal amount were also donated in their spouse’s name. 

“From these large amounts of money being transferred from state coffers to the Hillary Victory Fund in Washington, the Clinton campaign got the first $2,700, the DNC was to get the next $33,400, and the remainder was to be split among the 33 signatory states. With this scheme, the Hillary Victory Fund raised over $26 million for the Clinton Campaign by the end of 2015. 

“The money was either transferred to the Hillary for America or Forward Hillary PACs and spent directly on the Hillary Clinton Campaign, often paying the salaries and expenses within those groups, or it was moved into the DNC or another Clinton PAC.  Some of it was spent towards managing the Hillary merchandise store, where you can buy Hillary T shirts and hats and buttons.” 

So, although Ms. Kidder's explanation of campaign financial structure is certainly interesting, as well as is her apparent strong dislike for Bill’s wife, her detailed description underlines a consistently appearing factor for all Clinton’s in general. No matter the subject or situation involved, it’s always about the money.

 

And if someone as politically attuned as Ms. Kidder feels as negatively as she does, the following question needs asking again: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this?    

That’s it for today folks.    

Adios