See I can't help but burst out laughing watching that clip. And that's the problem. It's too ridiculous. We can't even manage to be disgusted or scared by this guy, which are the reactions we should be having. Instead, we're laughing. That's the problem Hillary faces. That's what she needs to overcome. This guy is a buffoon, but you can't look at him that way when he's this close to the nuclear codes.
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His legacy is in the hands of the writers/biographers. Some will say he should be in the company of Roosevelt and Lincloln, others with GWB. Neither are correct in my opinion.
Black has some good points, but he loses all credibility when he says, "Trump is the last chance for policy moderation".
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The Conrad Black article is interesting, but it did not mention what to me is the biggest folly of repeating the same mistake in Libya that Bush made in Iraq.
I suppose it calls for a Bushism: "..fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again..."
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Is it just me or is this whole process like an episode of South Park?
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Conrad Black writes very well, but there is some real BS content behind it.
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“The green energy initiatives that have paid dividends” were an egregious waste of money deployed to fight the now vanished bogeyman of global warming.
Eloquent or not, anyone who writes this should be treated as either massively biased or totally uninformed. He's not totally uninformed, so this is just a well-written troll article.
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Conrad Black writes very well, but there is some real BS content behind it.
Eloquent or not, anyone who writes this should be treated as either massively biased or totally uninformed. He's not totally uninformed, so this is just a well-written troll article.
Here's another example of his bias.
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he sat contentedly for 20 years in the church of Jeremiah Wright, who believed the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington were justified
Wright never said the attacks were justified, only that they were blow back.
Obama clarified his position, because you know an adult is capable of thinking for themselves.
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Sen. Obama told the New York Times he was not at the church on the day of Rev. Wright's 9/11 sermon. "The violence of 9/11 was inexcusable and without justification," Obama said in a recent interview. "It sounds like he was trying to be provocative," Obama told the paper.
And it gets worse for Clinton, declassified Clinton emails released under FOIA now show that her servers and emails outed concealed intelligence officials and agent names. Her emails are peppered with names that are redacted under the central intelligence act of 1949.
Basically the redactions fall under a category that makes it exempt from FOIA requests. Judicial Watch made this discovery. Given that Russian hackers are claimed to have compromised her servers on several occasions, her emails may have actually compromised the safety of active CIA agents, officials and operations. CIA and FBI are probably pissed. Petraeus got dismissed in disgrace for a much more minor violation, lets see how well connected Clinton establishment members are within the FBI.
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The CIA justifies “(b)(3)” redactions with this description: “(b)(3) Applies to the Director’s statutory obligations to protect from disclosure intelligence sources and methods, as well as the organization, functions, names, official titles, salaries, or numbers of personnel employed by the Agency, in accord with the National Security Act of 1947 and the CIA Act of 1949, respectively.”
Not sure how much Trump should cheer for that, I think Bernie would beat him pretty easily. Trump needs her to barely scrape by and to use that against her.
We'll see how big of a blow back this will have on Hillary, but if true, that's incredibly bad.
You suddenly have a potential president with a compromised security clearance.
Bernie Sanders might win this by default if she's indicted because she'll have to step away from running for president.
But we'll certainly see how corrupt the system is.
If normal people and journalists can already see the level of security violations, two separate laws have been clearly broken and there is no prosecution, then the US judiciary has been corrupted too and the democratic party establishment has to be razed by a humiliating defeat in order for a cleanup to occur.
