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Title: The Patriot Post Digest 7-28-2016 Post by: nChrist on July 28, 2016, 05:55:41 PM ________________________________________ The Patriot Post Digest 7-28-2016 From The Federalist Patriot Free Email Subscription (http://patriotpost.us/subscription/new) ________________________________________ Mid-Day Digest Jul. 28, 2016 THE FOUNDATION “There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.” —James Madison (1786) TOP RIGHT HOOKS DNC Lowlights, Day 31 As Democrats gathered for night three of their convention in Philadelphia — the cradle of American Liberty — their socialist brethren in Venezuela were seeking to ban the opposition party2. We have no doubt Democrats are looking on with envy. With that, here are last night’s excerpts: Barack Obama: “While this nation has been tested by war and recession and all manner of challenges — I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am even more optimistic about the future of America. How could I not be after all we’ve achieved together?” Byron York replies3: “In the most recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 73 percent of registered voters said the country is on the wrong track, while just 18 percent said it is headed in the right direction. The 73 percent figure is the second-highest in the president’s nearly eight years in office. The poll was no outlier. These are the wrong-track numbers for the last ten polls in the RealClearPolitics average of polls: 67, 70, 67, 71, 73, 69, 79, 68, 60 and 66.” In other words, most Americans aren’t all that optimistic right now. “We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden. Through diplomacy, we shut down Iran’s nuclear weapons program.” Obama abandoned Iraq to the Islamic State and validated Iran’s nuclear program. Donald Trump laid it on thick: “I think President Obama has been the most ignorant president in our history. His views of the world, as he says, don’t jive and the world is a mess. You look at what is happening with migration, with Syria, with Libya, with Iraq, with everything he’s touched. He has been a disaster as a president. He will go down as one of the worst presidents in the history of our country. It is a mess. And I believe Hillary Clinton will be even worse.” “I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman — not me, not Bill, nobody — more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.” This “most qualified” trope has taken on the air of a desperate attempt to cover for a woman with a mediocre resumé, no actual accomplishments and utter disaster in her wake. “People outside of the United States do not understand what’s going on in this election. They really don’t. Because they know Hillary. They’ve seen her work. She’s worked closely with our intelligence teams, our diplomats, our military. She has the judgment and the experience and the temperament to meet the threat from terrorism. It’s not new to her. Our troops have pounded ISIL without mercy, taking out their leaders, taking back territory. And I know Hillary won’t relent until ISIL is destroyed. She will finish the job.” The Obama-Clinton foreign policy duo is the reason the JV team Islamic State exists in the first place. But we suppose we should be happy that, after two days of ignoring the global threat of terrorism, somebody at the DNC finally mentioned it. “Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order. We don’t look to be ruled.” Rich, coming from the guy with “a phone and a pen” who can do whatever he wants. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that together, We, the People, can form a more perfect union.” As has become a regular habit, Obama quotes the opening of the Declaration while omitting the part about rights being “endowed by their Creator.”4 Joe Biden: “You have all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve and character. One of the finest presidents we have ever had.” Obama is a man of dishonor, petulant character, and resolve for destroying the Constitution to advance his craven political agenda. He is one of the worst presidents we have ever had. “This is a complicated and uncertain world we live in. The threats are too great, the times are too uncertain, to elect Donald Trump as president of the United States. No major party, no major party nominee in the history of the station has ever known less or been less prepared to deal with our national security. … Donald Trump, with all his rhetoric, would literally make us less safe.” Why are the threats great and the times uncertain? Because Obama and Clinton have made such a hash of foreign policy, including abandoning Iraq, dragging Libya into chaos, and refusing to call the threat what it is — radical Islamic extremism. Obama practically wrote the book on making America less safe, and Biden is casting stones while in a glass house. Tim Kaine: “Can I be honest with you about something?” No, this is the Democrat National Convention, and you’re Hillary Clinton’s running mate. Beyond that, there was pretty much nothing at all memorable or noteworthy from Kaine’s speech. But hey, he’s Clinton’s running mate. Clinton Falls into Trump Trap5 “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 [Hillary Clinton] emails that are missing,” Donald Trump said Wednesday. His reference to the supposedly personal emails Clinton deleted from her private server unleashed a fire storm. Democrats were quick to responded with outrage citing “national security” issues. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook charged that Trump was “calling for a foreign power to commit espionage in the U.S.” Then there was this statement by Jake Sullivan a senior policy adviser to Clinton: “This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent. That’s not hyperbole, those are just the facts. This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue.” Thus Trump’s seemingly off the cuff remark effectively accomplished two things. First, it redirected the media spotlight from the Democrats joyful celebrations of Hillary’s coronation to outrage over Trump’s audacious comments. Conventional (pun intended) wisdom is that presidential candidates let the opposing party have the spotlight during their conventions. Trump is not conventional. Second, and far more important, Clinton is now caught in a major contradiction. Ironically, when Democrats call Trump’s remarks a “national security issue,” they have exposed Hillary’s actions in attempting to avoid oversight by setting up a private server as being more than an inconsequential “mistake.” Either those deleted emails were personal notes about yoga and wedding plans, or they contained more classified information that presents a potentially catastrophic national security breach if Russia already has them6. Democrats can’t have it both ways. In a 2012 debate, Mitt Romney warned that Russia is our greatest “geopolitical foe.” Obama scoffed, retorting that the 1980s are “calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.” Now the Leftmedia would have us believe the Democrats are the party taking Russia seriously. Instead, they’ve nominated a candidate who was “extremely careless” in handling classified information — some of it Top Secret — leading to our preeminent geopolitical foe likely already accessing it. On a final note, remember that time Ted Kennedy actually invited the Soviets to interfere in the 1984 election? The Leftmedia certainly don’t want you to. Bernie Dumping Dems Frees Hillary7 On Tuesday, Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Democrat Party presidential nomination. On Wednesday, he said goodbye to the party, saying he will return to being an independent. He said, “I was elected as an independent; I’ll stay two years more as an independent.” While this news may come as a surprise to some, it really shouldn’t. Sanders, a self-described socialist, won his senate seat running as an independent. When he entered the race for the Democrat nomination, he was clearly on the far left of the party — and he drove it even further left8. It was surprising for many of the establishment Democrats how well Sanders did in the primary, as the DNC emails9 show that Hillary was their choice from the beginning. But Sanders leaving the Democrats, which may appear as a quiet protest to his supporters, is actually a strategic move for the party. Hillary Clinton will have to moderate for the general election, as evidenced by her choice of Tim Kaine10 as a running mate. Freed from the hard-left tilt she took when campaigning against Sanders, she will now be steering to the middle as she seeks to paint herself as the centrist candidate. Fake right, govern left. Title: The Patriot Post Digest 7-28-2016 Post by: nChrist on July 28, 2016, 05:56:56 PM ________________________________________ The Patriot Post Digest 7-28-2016 From The Federalist Patriot Free Email Subscription (http://patriotpost.us/subscription/new) ________________________________________ Don’t Miss Alexander’s Column Read From #NeverTrump to #NeverClinton11. Vote for the Supreme Court! Choosing not to vote for the “lesser of two evils” is a vote for the greater of those evils. If you’d like to receive Alexander’s Column by email, update your subscription here12. BEST OF RIGHT OPINION Gary Bauer: ISIS Threatens the West13 Michael Reagan: Donald Trump, the ADHD Candidate14 Victor Davis Hanson: When a War Went Worldwide 75 Years Ago15 For more, visit Right Opinion16. TOP HEADLINES Would-Be Reagan Assassin to Be Freed17 Study: Dems' $15 Wage Would Kill 7 Million Jobs18 Feds Probe de Blasio’s Involvement in Brooklyn Hospital Sale19 For more, visit Patriot Headline Report20. FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS ‘What if Hillary Clinton Were a Man?’21 By Allyne Caan Was that the sound of a glass ceiling breaking? Or was it Bill Clinton diving over the Oval Office desk in pursuit of an intern? It’s hard to tell. Hillary Clinton claims it’s the former, saying her selection as the first female presidential nominee of a major political party put the “biggest crack” yet in the proverbial glass ceiling — the term feminists love to use for the limits on what women can do. But is being nominated because you’re a woman — and, more specifically, because you’re a woman who effectively played the role of devoted wife defending her high-powered husband’s seduction of women — really something to tout? Let’s be honest. Hillary’s policies haven’t driven her career. Her gender, combined with her last name, have. If you want to track Hillary Clinton’s rise, start with her marriage certificate. This makes the irony of Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen’s missive this week even more potent. “What if Hillary Clinton were a man?” he asked22. “What if she were a 68-year-old man rather than a 68-year-old woman? Would we think differently of her? Her raised voice would be lower. She would be better at physically commanding the stage. Her indomitability might be seen as manly. If she were taller and bigger, might she have been able to get away with saying nothing about her email server — as Donald Trump has with his tax returns? As they say, I’m just askin'.” Well, to answer, if Hillary were a man, she never would have gotten to the Senate, let alone to the presidential nomination. Even the Democrat Party wouldn’t nominate a man as inept and unlikeable as Hillary. In fact, Cohen himself writes, “I understand the criticisms and don’t reject them out of hand. She has been slippery. She has fibbed. She has used a private email server, which was wrong and careless. She has been the marital partner of a man who has taken other partners. She did not leave him, as many women wanted her to do. To them, she became the personification of the female doormat.” Yet, he laments that “the dislike of Clinton is so palpable that it has become akin to a prejudice.” Did you catch that? Hillary is a lying, crooked, adulterer-enabler, but those who don’t support her — say, those who value honesty, honor and faithfulness, for instance — are prejudiced and sexist. Makes perfect sense. Tennis legend and Clinton supporter Billie Jean King complained, “What bothers me the most is that there’s not very much excitement about Hillary being the first woman.” As if women must check their brains at the voting booth and vote with their ovaries instead. Then again, if everyone who disagrees with Barack Obama is a racist, everyone who disagrees with Clinton must be a misogynist. This includes the many women who aren’t jumping on the Hillary bandwagon. As the Wall Street Journal reports23, “While 52% of female voters from both parties support Mrs. Clinton, the proportion falls to 36% among white women ages 50-64 and 34% among white women ages 35-49, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll this month.” In other words, all women are not the ignorant dupes24 Democrats take them for. Certainly, the fact that we live in a nation where a woman can win a presidential nomination is something to celebrate. But the fact that we live in a nation where this woman won the nomination is deplorable. As National Review’s Ericka Anderson writes25, “There is a small part of me that celebrates but more than that, I’m sad. I’m sad that the woman who represents our gender in this pretty cool moment of history is of such low moral character, and has clawed her way here in the most politically calculated climb in history. … Hillary Clinton has defended a man time and again who has been accused of sexual assault, rape26 and of course, infamously taking advantage of a young intern during his time in the White House. … If nothing else, just remember that women are celebrating today a defender of a serial sexual assaulter, a woman who told any number of other women they don’t deserve to be believed or heard.” If there really is a “war on women,” picking one of its chief enablers as a presidential nominee is hardly worth celebrating. MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST 2016 DNC Repudiates Bill Clinton8 Is Reality Starting to Set In?27 Leftist Support for Natural Gas Sits on Empty28 OPINION IN BRIEF Gary Bauer: “Before we move on and forget what happened to Father Jacques Hamel, here are some of the latest details. There is a mosque just a block away from the church where Father Hamel was murdered. Ironically, the mosque sits on land that was donated by the Catholic Church. … Islam means submission. Some say it means peace. But look at how the faith is practiced: Muslims get on their knees and prostrate themselves en masse bowing to Allah in submission. What did the Islamic supremacists do to Father Hamel? They forced him to his knees. They made him bow in submission and then they killed him. … Sadly, as Europeans have become ever more ‘enlightened’ and progressive, they have abandoned their traditional faith. The great churches of Europe are largely empty. Many have been converted to mosques. And as Europe imports more and more Muslims, Islam is filling the void left by a decaying and decadent culture.” SHORT CUTS Insight: “The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.” —Theodore Roosevelt Democrat “patriotism”: “Crowd chanting ‘USA! USA!’ Delegate in front of me stands up and yells, ‘Stop that! That’s a Trump chant!’” —Shannon Bream reporting from the Democrat National Convention Predictions: “Listening to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders lament the economic ruins of American life, you’d think the sitting president was George W. Bush and that we were in 2008’s Great Recession. In fact, many Americans tell pollsters they think the country is still in a recession. If someone thinks he’s in a recession, he is. Unless Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump deliver stronger economic growth than we’ve had the past eight years, he or she will be a one-term president. One and done in 2020.” —Daniel Henninger Braying Jenny: “I actually believe that in the end by repealing the Hyde Amendment29 we will actually save this country money, because rather than having all kinds of unwanted pregnancies, there will be … the ability for women to have greater choice over their bodies no matter what their income level is.” —Rep. Judy Chu Non Compos Mentis, part I: “We’ve got to understand this situation with these guns is not unlike climate change. It’s not unlike [regulating] tobacco… It’s not unlike trying to restrict lead. Big industry making money off a particular activity that’s harmful to the public and they lie about it so they can preserve their profits and they spread campaign donations around to loyal members of Congress who will protect their financial interests — that is what’s happening here.” —Rep. Keith Ellison Non Compos Mentis, part II: “There’s plenty of guns in Canada. But they don’t kill each other, like 10,000 a year with handguns. I mean the bottom line is, there are meaningful things we can do to preserve life and we’ve got to do it. And I’m on the side of Moms Rising. I believe we can ban these handguns.” —Keith Ellison Down the memory hole: “Mr. Trump has said that his taxes are under audit and he will not be releasing them. It has nothing to do with Russia, it has nothing to do with any country other than the United States and his normal tax auditing process.” —Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, announcing Trump’s broken promise30 Late-night humor: “Thank you, Hillary Clinton, for possibly becoming the first f— president. I would have said ‘female,’ but someone deleted the ‘email.’” —Jimmy Fallon Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis! Managing Editor Nate Jackson Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots in uniform — Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen — standing in harm’s way in defense of Liberty, and for their families. |