The Patriot Post Digest 10-10-2016

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The Patriot Post Digest 10-10-2016
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Mid-Day Digest

Oct. 10, 2016

IN TODAY’S EDITION

    Trump faced three opponents in the second debate, and he held his own.
    Contrasting Trump’s boorish comments with Clinton’s criminal behavior.
    Hillary’s hypocrisy revealed in Goldman Sachs speech leaks.
    The DOJ rides to Clinton’s rescue, dropping Libya gun-runner investigation.
    And more news, policy and opinion.

THE FOUNDATION

“Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.” —George Washington (1787)

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
The Second Presidential Ambush, er, Debate1

This was not a debate, it was a seemingly coordinated ambush of Donald Trump by Hillary Clinton, Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper. The “moderators” asked questions from the town hall audience, from social media, and of their own. There were questions about ObamaCare, Clinton’s email and her deplorable2 remarks, but it was clear from the outset that Clinton had a tag team in the moderators, who incessantly interrupted Trump, chased him for the answer they wanted or flat out cut him off in the middle of answers. Not once did they do that to Clinton. They both actually debated him on his tax returns and Syria. “It’s one-on-three,” Trump rejoined at one point. He was right, and in spite of it all he had a pretty good night.

The bias extended to the treatment of the audience. Early on, Raddatz rebuked Trump supporters for cheering, but not 30 seconds later, Hillary’s fans went wild without a word from the moderators. Five minutes later, the moderators chastised Trump supporters again — Cooper even lectured, “You’re just wasting time.”

Clinton cleverly avoided the much-talked-about Trump tape3 (more on that below) while answering the first question about “modeling appropriate and positive behavior for today’s youth.” Perhaps that’s because she was biding her time for the second question, which, right on cue, hit directly on the recording. Cooper repeatedly badgered Trump to actually confess to a crime on national TV. Clinton then declared Trump to be the first Republican unfit for office. But remember: She is the alternative, and she is decidedly unfit to serve.

Trump hit back, though Raddatz stopped him in his tracks to ask again about the tape. So he attacked the Clintons' record of deeds: “If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse. Mine are words, and his was action. His was what he’s done to women. … Bill Clinton was abusive to women. Hillary Clinton attacked those same women and attacked them viciously.” He even brought up Hillary’s treatment of a victim of rape. “Don’t tell me about words,” he said. “What President Clinton did…”

(Significantly, just before the debate Trump held a press conference featuring three of Bill Clinton’s victims — Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick. Also present was Kathy Shelton, who was raped as a 12-year-old girl, only to see a young Hillary Clinton defend her rapist and besmirch her character. The press event was a brilliant stroke for Trump, and set the stage for the debate in a way even the Clinton Machine must envy.)

Briefly, a couple of other key moments.

At one point, Clinton launched into her feel-good leftist bromides, saying, “We are going to respect one another, lift each other up. We are going to be looking for ways to celebrate our diversity.” Later, she criticized Trump’s proposed Muslim ban, saying, “We are a country founded on religious freedom and liberty. … Are we going to have religious tests when people fly into our country?” We have one simple rebuttal: Let’s ask the bakers, florists and photographers being run out of business by the Rainbow Mafia for declining to service same-sex weddings whether they think we’re having religious tests or celebrating diversity in a country founded on religious liberty. Let’s also ask the “basket of deplorables2” whether Clinton is tolerant.

Furthermore, the most dangerous thing for Muslims is not Trump’s rhetoric but the Clinton-Obama record. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are dead or facing humanitarian crisis4 in Syria and Iraq because Clinton and Obama created the Islamic State5.

Taxes were another moment that Trump more than held his own, and that’s because, despite the Clinton-favoring question about the wealthy “paying their fair share,” Trump boiled it down to this: “She is raising your taxes and I’m lowering your taxes.” That was a moment to remember.

Best line of the night was when Clinton patronized, “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.” Without missing a beat, he said, “Because you’d be in jail.”

Clearly, Clinton brought a knife to a gunfight.

All in all, Trump kept himself in the race in the wake of his worst weekend yet. The firestorm over his “locker room talk” won’t soon go away, but he parried the charges well enough and counterpunched Clinton where it hurts. He also answered one much broader question — he isn’t going anywhere.

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Donald’s Boorish Comments and Bill’s Criminal Actions3

Hillary Clinton and her Leftmedia super PAC got their dream candidate. We warned throughout the primary that the Leftmedia wanted Donald Trump as the Republican nominee because stories like the one that broke Friday afternoon would help boost Clinton, an incredibly weak candidate. And indeed, the Left couldn’t ask for a better October surprise than to be able to run headline after headline about Trump’s awful comments coupled with GOP leaders withdrawing their support and calling for the nominee to step aside.

We’ll leave Trump’s actual lewd and despicable comments for others to repeat, but the reason they’re so devastating is, as Andrew McCarthy put it, “The power of a tape to make its mark on our consciousness is simply unequaled by written and oral descriptions.”

In any case, there are a couple of primary takeaways. First, Trump is Trump, and he’s not going to change. If that wasn’t clear before, well … it should have been. Second, for Clinton and her Leftmedia allies, this is all about women voters. How they feel about Trump will either depress his support and/or increase Clinton’s. She’s depending on women to win.

But we’ll say this to Clinton and her leftist gaggle: Spare us your indignation.

What Trump said and did is horrible and inexcusable. But Bill Clinton raped several women, had an affair with another in the Oval Office itself, and Hillary Clinton viciously attacked those women in public in a craven attempt to save her own political future. This was consistent with her character, too. As a young lawyer, Clinton defended a child rapist, happily destroying the victim’s character in the process. As the nation’s top diplomat, Clinton broke federal law regarding classified information, endangering national security, and she ran a pay-to-play operation called the Clinton Foundation. And Democrats do nothing but rally around the Clintons. What Trump said 11 years ago doesn’t change the fact that Hillary is manifestly unfit for office. And either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is going to be president come January. Make your choice, America.

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Goldman Sachs and Hillary’s Hypocrisy6

Over the weekend, WikiLeaks released excerpts from some of Hillary Clinton’s paid Wall Street speeches — speeches for which she collected over $22 million since serving as secretary of state. The released excerpts reveal that Hillary advocated playing both sides of an issue. She told a Goldman Sachs audience, “If everybody’s watching, you know, all the backroom discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So you need both a public and private position.” She called this “balance.” When questioned in Sunday night’s debate about the excerpts, she tried to evoke Abraham Lincoln, saying, “President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments.” In other words, Hillary is fine with playing to the audience even if it means contradicting her privately held positions. Not only that, she considers it “a great display of presidential leadership.”

The WikiLeaks release also noted another Hillary contradiction regarding her position on immigration and open borders. In a 2013 speech, Clinton stated, “My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, something in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.” When accused by Donald Trump of wanting open borders, Clinton explicitly and publicly denied the charge. Could this just be Hillary applying her “balanced” “public” vs. “private” approach toward the issue? She sounds more like a hypocritical pandering politician seeking votes rather than a principled leader guided by a reasoned conviction of what is true and right.

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

    Ken Blackwell: Twenty One States Move to Stop New Obama End Run Around Congress7
    Peggy Noonan: The Kaine Impunity8
    Jeff Jacoby: Congress Unleashes the Furies, but Never at Itself9

For more, visit Right Opinion10.

TOP HEADLINES

    Obama Signs Historic Sexual Assault Survivors' ‘Bill of Rights’11
    The War Against Columbus Day12
    Obama Administration Draws Criticism Over Iran Investment Policy13

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report14.

MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST

    DOJ Rescues Clinton Again15 — A Libyan arms dealer tied to Hillary walks free.
    Hillary’s Missing Boxes of Emails16 — A few more drips came from the notes of the FBI “investigation.”
    Broaddrick, Jones and Willey Talk About Bill Clinton17 — Remember this when Hillary claims the mantle of being for women.

OPINION IN BRIEF

Peggy Noonan: “[A significant piece of news]: Bill Clinton’s admission that ObamaCare is a mess, ‘the craziest thing in the world.’ At a rally in Michigan he said ‘you’ve got this crazy system’ in which millions more people have insurance, but ‘the people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.’ Later he tried to walk it back but you can never walk back an obvious truth. Mr. Clinton grew up in Arkansas in the days when America wasn’t crazy. He was alive to the realities of those struggling to keep everything afloat. Through ObamaCare they lost out. Barack Obama sees things more abstractly: Portions of the middle class may have experienced some dislocations, but progress is never easy. Mr. Clinton was speaking, knowingly or not, of the unprotected who bear the weight of the elite’s experiments. Congratulations to him for veering into public candor. In another world what he said would be front-page news every day.”
SHORT CUTS

“Ask yourself, ‘Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago? Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago? Is America as respected throughout the world as it was?” —The Gipper

Predictions: “If you’re shocked that Donald Trump was capable of being this much of a pig3, you let yourself be deluded. If you’re surprised that the Clinton campaign — or some allied party — found something like this, you willfully chose to live in a fantasyland. If you think there isn’t more of this stuff waiting, you’re doubling down on your delusions and fantasies.” —Jonah Goldberg

A real victim: “Actions speak louder than words. Mr. Trump may have said some bad words but Bill Clinton raped me and Hillary Clinton threatened me. I don’t think there’s any comparison.” —Juanita Broaddrick

“Hillary put me through something that you would never put a 12-year-old through. And she says she’s for women and children.” —Kathy Shelton, whose rapist Hillary Clinton defended in 1975

For the record: “We are one month from an election, and President Barack Obama’s signature achievement is cratering, destroying millions of pocketbooks in its wake. States are reporting premium increases of 60%, 70%, 80%. Insurers, sagging under losses, are fleeing. Nearly a third of U.S. counties are now down to a single ObamaCare plan. Seventeen of 23 ObamaCare co-ops have imploded. Tennessee’s insurance commissioner warns her state’s exchange market is 'very near collapse.’ The law’s supporters are flailing, incapable of defending it during this public death spiral.” —Kimberley Strassel

Confessions: “I wanted a single payer [health insurance system]. … I would love a single-payer [system], but we’re not there. I wanted a public option which would address that.” —Nancy Pelosi

“Nixon covered up someone else’s crime and resigned the presidency. Hillary covered up her own crime and thinks she deserves the presidency.” —Twitter satirist @weknowwhatsbest

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson

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