Inequality not a voter hot button

In my April 24, post, “Hillary to continue dividing the nation,” I related her charges that the deck is stacked in favor of those at the top and that CEOs are making 300 times more than the typical worker. She wants to be the champion of the middle class.

It doesn’t matter to her that in recent polls, one by CBS and another by Gallup, that income disparity was named by only 4 per cent and 2 per cent, respectively, as the most important problem facing the country.… read more

Hillary to continue dividing the nation

“ … the deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top.  And there’s something wrong with that. There’s something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.” – Hillary Clinton

While the latest news of corruption from the Clinton crime family is sorted out, and we are again told there’s no shred of evidence, let’s return to Hillary’s initial campaign charges in the above quote.… read more

A crash course analogy

After hearing one more statement or action taken by President Obama, do you feel helpless, unable to do anything about it?  Your Congressman never responds and letters to the editor only allow you to get it off your chest.  Helpless and hopeless, you feel locked out.

Hopeless (kitchentablenewsforkidsa.wordpress.com)

We’re at the intersection of Discouraged and Hopeless and all we can do is hang in there until 2016. (kitchentablenewsforkids.wordpress.com)

A friend recently sent me a copy of an analogy to this currently circulating on the Internet.

The writer* relates the harrowing 8-minute plunge of German Wings Flight 9525 in the French Alps, in which 150 innocent people met an immediate, unthinkable death.

The co-pilot Andreas Lubitz couldn’t be stopped because he had locked the pilot out of the cockpit. “It’s hard to imagine the growing feelings of fear and helplessness that the passengers felt as the unforgiving landscape rushed to meet them,“ the writer stated.

He wrote of the feeling in the pits of the stomach and hearing the shake and rattle of structures stressed beyond their limits.  And it was only near the end of the 8-minute plunge that everyone finally understood what was really happening and began to scream. Continue reading

Would Mika have called Obama “a little boy?”

Since most of you wouldn’t lower your standards to watch MSNBC, I thought I would tell you about an exchange of the talking heads on “Morning Joe” this week.

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MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski referred to Sen. Marco Rubio as “a little boy” on Morning Joe. Would she have called Barack Obama a “boy” in 2008? (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Donny Deutsch, an admitted Democrat, posed the situation.  “The Putin test.  Who do you want to see across the table?”

“That’s not even – this is not even conversation.  She (Hillary Clinton) eats him for lunch. Come on,” says Mika Brzezinski, the co-host.

Joe Scarborough tries to insert the names of Barack Obama and John McCain, only to be interrupted by Brzezinski, who exclaims, “No, like Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio.  There is no comparison.  Maybe this is my ideology, but I’m sorry, but that’s a little boy and that’s an experienced accomplished person who’s been elected to the Senate twice, who served as First Lady, who served as Secretary of State.”

Mika, Mika, Mika.  Yes, it is your fawning ideology.  Your inclination that Hillary would eat Putin for lunch couldn’t be more far-fetched.  Have you forgotten “the reset” fiasco? Continue reading

Another example of Admiral Mullen’s complicity

We learned this week that then Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen, while chatting with a group of soldiers during a December 2009 visit to Afghanistan, was asked about the desertion of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.  His response indicated that he was fully briefed on the circumstances surrounding Bergdahl’s disappearance.

Mullen  ( outservemag.com)

Soldiers serving in Afghanistan recalled Admiral Mullen’s acknowledgement of the Bergdahl desertion circumstances, causing questions about when the president knew. (outservemag.com)

It prompted many to speculate that he surely informed the president of what he had learned. Four years later, President Obama walked out of the White House with his arm around Bergdahl’s mother (below) and proudly talked of the sergeant’s return.

A reading of the transcript, however,  reveals the president carefully avoiding any overt praise for Bergdahl’s service leading one to believe Mullen had briefed him.  Yet, unbelievably,  he still thought it was wise to stage the Rose Garden appearance. Continue reading

Liberal columnist concedes Hillary has no message

A couple of years ago, the liberal Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen was  contemplating Hillary Clinton running for president in 2016 when he wrote, “All she lacks is what she has always lacked – an overriding, stirring message.”  The headline on his column read, Just being Hillary Clinton isn’t enough.

Cohen bumped into Hillary at a social event a few days later, and she said, “Richard, I will have a message, if I run.”… read more

You have to be a champion, Hillary, before you can champion for everyday Americans

“Everyday Americans need a champion.  And I want to be that champion.” – Hillary Clinton

Well, she’s in.  And she wants you to think the election isn’t all about her, but about the forgotten middle class with “the deck stacked in favor of those at the top.”

Her low-key social media announcement features everyday Americans – a black couple, Asians, Hispanics, white working-class people of all ages, students and, yes, two men who are planning to get married. … read more