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Whether the Democrat presidential nominee winds up being Sanders, Bill Clinton’s wife, or someone else in a contested convention, the POTUS is doing all he can to insure as many new voters for his party as possible before he leaves office. 

And one of his insidious plots is providing jobs for immigrants, many of whom are surely here illegally.  

According to Victor Skinner @theamericanmirror.com, via Drudge: President Obama said of his new Summer Opportunity Project: “Access to a job in the summer and beyond can make all the difference to a young person – especially those who don’t have access to many resources and opportunities.” 

The White House and U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday: “The project spends a total of $21 million on a variety of programs in 11 communities nationwide with the focus of helping young people find summer work, and permanent part-time jobs.” 

A White House statement Monday reads: “Since 2009, more than fifteen Federal agencies have launched dozens of initiatives and partnerships with over 1,800 rural, tribal and urban communities. Building on that work, the White House and 16 federal agencies announce an effort today to provide tailored support from the federal government to 16 Summer Impact Hubs to upgrade and expand their summer jobs, learning, meals, and violence reduction “ 

In addition there’s a White House Monday Fact Sheet/news release saying: “The President’s FY 2017 Budget proposes new investments – nearly double last year’s request – to connect more than 1 million young people to first jobs over the summer and year-round. It would also create a new $2 billion competitive grant program designed to connect at-risk and disconnected youth to educational and workforce pathways. DOL will work with Treasury to ensure that young people participating in these programs have access to safe and appropriate financial products and accounts.” 

 

“At least $2 million of the total will be set aside to help 400 refugee students in Utica, New York get to work through the New Americans Career Pathways Project, the Utica Observer-Dispatch reports.”

In that regard, Mr. Skinner writes: “Nearly everyone who discussed the Utica program in the Syracuse.com comments was appalled that the president seems to be prioritizing illegal immigrants over U.S. citizens for summer jobs in their region. 

“Most divisive president ever adds to the legacy,” Dawn Of A New Day posted. 

“This is absurd!” greats wrote. “Yes people, vote for Hillary. She wants this too. To heck with American youth. Let’s employ refugees who can’t even speak English! Go Trump! Stand up for America!” 

“So legal Americans are not worthy of summer jobs?” RockwellSprings questioned. “Can’t wait for November.” 

“What about OUR kids?” bastracker wrote. “I am thoroughly disgusted.” 

All of which goes a long way to explain the falloff in Democrat voter turnout in the primary’s and the continuing rise of Trump. 

On another matter, the administration is quickly becoming embroiled in the ramifications of Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes admission that the terms and conditions of Iran nuclear deal were falsely presented to Congress. 

Adam Kredo @Washington Free Beacon, writes that lawmakers wrote to Obama on Monday demanding that Rhodes be fired or forced to resign as a result of his actions. Signatory’s included: Sens. Mark Kirk (R., Ill.), chair of the Senate’s subcommittee on national security and international trade and finance, John Cornyn (R., Texas), Senate majority whip, John Barrasso (R., Wyo.), who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, and David Perdue (R., Ga.) 

Quotes from the text refer directly to Rhodes dishonesty, as follows: “While members of the Executive and Legislative branches may sometimes deeply disagree on issues of vital importance to our nation’s security and prosperity, we should all agree, for the greater good of our Republic and the citizens whom we represent, to engage in our debates in a respectful, honest, and constructive manner.” 

“Mr. Rhodes’s disrespectful, deceptive, and destructive conduct has fallen appallingly short of this standard, however. Indeed, if he had conducted himself this way in a typical place of business outside Washington, where American taxpayers work, he surely would have been already fired or asked to resign.” 

Further accusing the administration of breaching the American people’s trust and of insulting Congress, the lawmakers ask: “What steps will your Administration take to restore the trust of the American public and members of the news media after Mr. Rhodes’s admitted that he purposefully ‘created an echo chamber’ during the debate over the Iran nuclear deal with the objective of propagating misconceptions?” 

What’s most interesting about this development is that the subject relates to the “honesty” of a key figure in the administration’s party. Because on the very same day, according to FoxNews.com: “Hillary Clinton is under fire in a new online viral video that purports to show her lying or changing her tune “for 13 minutes straight,” tapping into widespread voter sentiment that the Democratic frontrunner is untrustworthy. 

“The video, which has picked up nearly 7 million hits on YouTube, is a long highlight reel of Clinton contradicting herself or saying things that turned out not to be true on issues from gay marriage and Wall Street to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and her private email server.” 

All of which means, that in a presidential contest where Democrats are expected to attack the veracity of their likely opponent, Trump, as a major point, he may very well prove to be more honest than they are when the truths become known.   

Which brings us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife. This one from John Podhoretz @nypost.com, who titled his column today: “Hillary is running a painfully stupid campaign” 

To make his point, Mr. Podhoretz questions several critical issues that indicate what he deems to be totally unnecessary, self-inflicted wounds on her part, as follows: 

“Many Democrats are disenchanted with her ideologically, but that’s not the only reason she’s suffering. Hillary is a politician in the John Kerry mold — she does inexplicably self-destructive things without actually having an impetuous, id-driven self-destructive streak. 

“Who else but a tone-deaf bumbler would have spoken the insanely infelicitous words — “we are going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business” — that destroyed her in West Virginia and made Kentucky so hard for her Tuesday night? 

“But forget that recent boner. How about the fact that she took giant speaking fees from banks and hedge funds and Wall Street in 2013 and 2014 knowing full well she was about to run for president in a party that hates banks and hedge funds and Wall Street? 

“And did so, moreover, when it was money she didn’t need, given that her family net worth was north of $100 million when she did so? 

“Just imagine if she had denied Sanders that issue by never having taken the dough in the first place; his candidacy might never have taken off had it not been for the way he hammered her over her refusal to release the texts of her Goldman Sachs speeches. 

“Call it greed if you like, but idiocy is another suitable word for it.” 

Furthering his point, Mr. Podhoretz sums up the email scandal by opining: “Look, the least damning theory anyone can come up with about the decision to shield her emails from public view by setting up a private server is that it was an act of paranoid stupidity.” 

And then he sums up her whole history in one brilliantly insightful paragraph: “Her uncommonly gifted husband was always getting himself into trouble, but at least it was fun trouble. Her trouble is boring, plodding, unimaginative, ill-considered trouble. Bill Clinton is larger than life. Hillary Clinton is smaller than the office she’s trying so hard to occupy.” Which is not only patently true, but leads to the ongoing question once 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