The Patriot Post Digest 7-25-2016

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The Patriot Post Digest 7-25-2016
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Mid-Day Digest

Jul. 25, 2016

THE FOUNDATION

“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808.)

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Kaine and Unable1

Following Donald Trump’s lead in announcing Mike Pence as his VP pick the Friday before the GOP convention, Hillary Clinton trotted out Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate Friday afternoon, just in time for the Democrat convention to stumble out of the gate2 today in Philadelphia. (More on that below.) Kaine is pro-Second Amendment, pro-life, pro-traditional marriage and supports tax cuts. Wait — scratch that. Kaine ran as a conservative in his 2005 race for governor, but, though he’s still a relative moderate in a far-Left party, he’s since skewed decidedly more “progressive” on every one of those issues.

That’s still not enough to placate Bernie Sanders. “Kaine’s support for fast-track authority for the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership and recent backing of bank deregulation will make our work more difficult,” Sanders said. (No wonder Kaine recently changed his mind on the TPP.) “He’s a very nice guy,” Sanders continued. “His political views are not my political views. Would I have preferred to somebody like an Elizabeth Warren selected by Secretary Clinton? Yes, I would have.”

Oh well. Unity!

Arguably, Clinton’s choice betrays her confidence that a win in November is a given. As The Wall Street Journal put it, “She can risk choosing a capable if conventional Senator who can help her govern perhaps more than he can help her win.” Instead of solidifying her left flank with Elizabeth Warren or minorities with Julian Castro, Clinton chose a milquetoast white dude to help lead the Identity Politics Party.

In any case, Clinton accomplished at least this: She’s got a likeable running mate. “He is a genuinely nice person,” her announcement fundraising email said. That is, of course, in striking contrast to Clinton herself.

Court Rules: No to Blanket Clemency for Ex-Felons3

The Virginia Supreme Court ruled on Friday against Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe’s unprecedented unilateral action of restoring voting rights4 to more than 200,000 ex-felons. Responding to the ruling, Virginia House Speaker William Howell, a Republican, said, “Our nation was founded on the principles of limited government and separation of powers. Those principles have once again withstood assault from the executive branch. This opinion is a sweeping rebuke of the governor’s unprecedented assertion of executive authority.”

The court ruled 4-3 against the governor, calling his argument for his decision “overstated at best.” Virginia law gives the governor the authority to grant clemency on a case-by-case basis, which the court found did not justify McAuliffe’s blanket pardoning action. McAuliffe was attempting to take a page out of Barack Obama’s playbook, with his similar executive action on immigration — knowing the courts would strike it down, he still got political credit with a key constituency. Democrats seem to have a hard time when it comes to playing by the rules, as Hillary Clinton and her personal server attest to.

But not to be thwarted, McAuliffe has already declared that he will now seek to grant clemency by personally signing each of the 200,000 plus individual pardon orders. It will be interesting to see how he will meet the “particulars of every case and state his reasons for each pardon” as the law requires. The court should easily see through this charade as well.

This was and always has been a play for more Democrat votes. Virginia was once staunchly conservative, but it has become a swing state. And this current election is no different, as Virginia is once again in play for both parties. Does anyone really believe that McAuliffe would have taken this unprecedented action if it were primarily Republican votes in play?

Trump Is A-OK for Malik Obama5

Malik Obama, Barack Obama’s half-brother, has let it be known that he will be voting for Donald Trump in November. For one thing, he’s inspired by Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again.” Obama said, “I like Donald Trump because he speaks from the heart.” But he also said that he has become deeply “disappointed” with his brother’s administration. Join the club. He specifically blamed brother Barack and Hillary Clinton for the death of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, who Malik called his best friend. He’s also not a fan of the Democrats' support for same-sex marriage — her prefers polygamy.

Registered to vote in Maryland, where he lived and worked for several years, Obama currently resides in Kenya but plans to return in November to vote for Trump. In the meantime, he plans to keep proudly wearing the famous “Make America Great Again” hat. We suppose Thanksgiving’s going to be awkward…

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

Rebecca Hagelin: PayPal, Toilets and Hypocrisy at the RNC6
George Will: Pence the Pliable7
Gary Welton: Seeing Through Rose Colored Glasses8

For more, visit Right Opinion9.

TOP HEADLINES

ISIL Suicide Bombings in Kabul Kill 80+10
DOJ Sues Pennsylvania Town for Rejecting Mosque11
DNC Agrees to a Compromise on Superdelegates12

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report13.

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
The DNC’s Grand Illusion2

By Robin Smith

What’s in store at the Democratic National Convention beginning today? Be ready for four days of illusions to hide the party’s dysfunction, as well as truly delusional rhetoric meant to secure a third term of Barack Obama despite almost eight years of American collapse.

Following the earthquake of the WikiLeaks publication of 20,000 emails from key Democrats, Bernie Sanders and his campaign were completely vindicated in accusations of unfair treatment. The Democratic National Committee unquestionably interfered with the voice of the voters throughout the entire DNC primary to assure Hillary Clinton’s ascension to become the nominee. More leaks will continue as details emerge throughout the week.

So clear was the trail that, on the eve of the convention, DNC chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced her resignation. It’s more than ironic that the party led by the woman FBI Director James Comey called “extremely careless” in her handling of Top Secret communications is forcing out another woman who was extremely careless in DNC communications. It’s also ironic that Democrats blame Russia for the leaks after Clinton’s (ahem) successful “reset” there.

James Carville, a longtime Clinton friend and operative quipped, “In politics, you need to not only know when to draw your sword, but also when to fall on it.” It was also clear that Clinton was grateful. She named Wasserman Schultz “honorary chair of my campaign’s 50-state program to gain ground and elect Democrats in every part of the country.”

Still, this is not how Democrats wanted to kick things off in the “City of Brotherly Love.”

The topics and copy of these tens of thousands of electronic pieces of evidence ranged from a Politico writer sending his pre-published articles to the DNC for approval to actual sabotage of Sanders' campaign. There was evidently a mole working within the Sanders campaign, and emails were uncovered plotting an attack on Bernie’s Jewish religion so as to scare southern Democrats.

Bernie was right. If not for the clear orchestration by the Leftmedia, Sanders might very well have beaten Clinton to become the Democrats' nominee. Hillary’s winning formula for coronation, however, included a tag team of superdelegate status awarded to hundreds of Clinton machine political insiders and the inescapable power of the media. Presstitutes who masquerade as journalists created an echo chamber of supportive stories and press for Hillary during her Benghazi failures and her law-breaking personal email scandal.

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So much for organizational bylaws, transparency and fairness from the partisans who screech about rights, civility, oppression and disenfranchisement.

We’ll see how that affects Sanders' address tonight.

This week’s partisan proceedings were meant to only be a formality and a huge pep rally to launch Hillary’s second presidential effort. It was supposed to show how unified Democrats are in contrast to the GOP. Now, the smoke, mirrors and every ounce of pixie dust they can sprinkle are needed to cover up the unindicted felon’s standard operating procedure: Winning through corruption.

More than 1,000 protesters mobilized Sunday evening chanting, “Hell, no, DNC, we won’t vote for Hillary” in the streets of Philadelphia as they waved a flag with the Democrats' donkey in distress — flying upside down. Without question, Wasserman Schultz’s resignation was aimed to stem any uprising by the energetic groupies of Sanders still feeling “the Bern.” But just as those who felt betrayed by elected Republicans ended up supporting Donald Trump, Sanders' supporters are likely fueled by the same treachery on display.

By the way, in sharp contrast to the low-key protests in Cleveland’s RNC convention, the City of Philadelphia expects 35,000 to 50,000 protesters a day, with marches supporting of Sanders daily that may even feature a mock trial of Hillary Clinton.

As part of the Democrats' stage props, every effort will be made to blame the Republicans in Congress for the slowest and weakest economic recovery in history. A pathological processional of lies and liars will be featured that say nothing about “black-on-black crime” as black unemployment is at 8.3% — almost double the rate of white unemployment. Instead, mothers of police shooting victims will be featured to continue the absolute untruth that blacks are disproportionately shot by law enforcement. Will there be any reference to the Washington Post’s data collected14 that of the 990 fatal police shootings in 2015, some 50% of those victims were white, while about 17% were Hispanic and 26% were black?

More irony to chew on is the response of the media to the Republicans' convention that featured the incredible stories of heroism offered by the family members' of the deceased who were abandoned in Benghazi. The collective harem of Presstitutes pitched a fit when Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith who died at the hands of terrorists, offered her emotional story of how then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stood before her son’s flag-draped coffin and blamed a YouTube video.

Please don’t allow the historical backdrop of Philadelphia, America’s first capital and the seat of our Founding Government, to hide the blatant disregard for America’s Supreme Law of the Land by this political party. The blatant disregard for America’s laws involving the enforcement of legal immigration, the sale of unborn infant body parts, the socialization of our health care (a sixth of our economy) and the pure corruption on display — including the IRS’s political targeting of conservative groups and the weaponization of our government against its people — are the hallmarks of this Democratic National Party.

As these four evenings pass, stay fixed on this reality: America cannot withstand a third term of Barack Obama. Therefore, the defeat of Hillary Clinton and her less-than-centrist VP candidate Tim Kaine must be the top priority.

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OPINION IN BRIEF

Rebecca Hagelin: “When PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel took the stage at the RNC last week, one might have expected him to speak only about the great innovative spirit that is allowed to blossom into new products, services and creations when government steps out of the way. Instead, this self-proclaimed homosexual activist chose to flush his credibility down the toilet with a ‘throw away’ line that was deliberately spoken in order to demean the concerns of moms and dads everywhere. ‘When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won,’ he recalled. ‘Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?’ Who cares about the bathroom debate? You do, Mr. Thiel. And that stench America smells is your hypocrisy. What Mr. Thiel did not tell the faithful gathered in Cleveland is that he is involved in targeting a Republican governor in North Carolina who is up for reelection this fall. What he did not reveal at the RNC and to the delegates from North Carolina is that his former company, PayPal, is boycotting their state. … PayPal refuses do business in a state where boys are prohibited from using girls' locker rooms, but has no problem making big bucks in Muslim countries that murder people for their sexuality. And the RNC featured a person who made a not-so-veiled attack against the good governor. Let that soak in a while.”

SHORT CUTS

The Gipper: “When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I’d follow the example of their nominee; don’t inhale.”

For once, she’s absolutely right! “I often feel like there’s the Hillary standard and then there’s the standard for everybody else.” —Hillary Clinton

For the record: “To be sure, the ‘Hillary standard’ isn’t entirely unique to Hillary. It’s more like the ‘Democratic standard,’ whereby Democrats generally are treated differently than Republicans. Democrats can lie, cheat, viciously attack opponents, be as corrupt as the day is long, and the press will play it down, ignore it, or make excuses, all while sending armies of angry reporters chasing after even the slightest perceived GOP wrongdoing. Clinton is like Nietzsche’s ‘Ubermensch,’ except in Nietzsche’s version, the Ubermensch didn’t whine about being above the law.” —Investor’s Business Daily

Belly laugh of the week: “I genuinely believe that there has never been a candidate better prepared for the presidency than Hillary Clinton. … I think that George H.W. Bush is one of the most underrated presidents we’ve had. I think he was and is, a really good man. The skill sets that Hillary has are similar to many of the skill sets that they had.” —Barack Obama

Well that’s embarrassing: “Hey @Reince — I’m in Cleveland if you need another chair to help keep your convention in order.” —Debbie Wasserman Schultz in a tweet to RNC chairman Reince Priebus last Monday

In Soviet Russia… “Well, what’s disturbing about this entire situation is that experts are telling us that Russian state actors broke into the DNC, took all these emails and now are leaking them out through these websites. … And … some experts are now telling us that this was done by … the Russians for the purpose of helping Donald Trump.” —Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook

And last… “Why would Russia try to stop Hillary? Did something go terribly wrong when they hit that reset button?” —Frank Fleming

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson

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