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.

Rubio (win mcnamee-getty images)

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

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

Not all on left coast are clueless

Jeep Billboard No CompromiseHaving recently returned from a driving trip to the left coast, it was the last place I expected to get a favorable comment on the motto on the back window of my Jeep Grand Cherokee (left).

After all, we drove through the pass of the liberals’ ugly failure monuments to Obama alternative energy –windmills, we learned that it is permissible there for ISIS to set up a table with literature, and we heard Gov.read more

The best hits on Hillary Clinton at CPAC

While watching some of the televised speeches and panels at the recent Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) meeting, Sen. Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina impressed me with their candid views of Hillary Clinton.

Rubio’s single word responses to the series of names, issues and events during Sean Hannity’s lightning round was the most memorable for its simplicity.… read more

And she wants to be president, Part 9

As you probably know, Hillary Clinton is expected to make the issue of economic inequality in the United States the cornerstone of her presidential campaign in 2016.

Hillary (AP)

Hillary Clinton knows that the longer she isn’t a declared candidate the less time critics will have to pick apart her positions. (AP)

News that “the charitable foundation run by Clinton and her family has received as much as $81 million from wealthy international donors who were clients of HSBC’s controversial Swiss bank,” published in the UK’s The Guardian, should concern her followers.

Leaked files revealed accounts of seven donors to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. A Canadian mining magnate is one of the foundation’s biggest financial backers, and a British retail magnate, used his tax-free Geneva account to transfer $1 million into the foundation.

Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that “Dennis Cheng, a trusted aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton, will leave his post at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Foundation this week and is expected to join Mrs. Clinton’s campaign preparation efforts as a fund-raiser.  He helped the Foundation secure a $246 million endowment there in 18-months. Continue reading

In the media

                                                                                 Fox’s Jeanine Pirro tells it like it is

Jeanine Pirro (energytimes.com)

Jeanine Pirro tells it like it is on her Fox program, Justice with Judge Jeanine. (energytimes.com)

It’s unfortunate that Judge Jeanine Pirro’s program appears on Fox on Saturday night, when most people are having dinner out or are engaged in another social event.

While we frequently look to Charles Krauthammer or George Will to give us a commentary that clearly states a crisis and how we need to face it, I was duly impressed by Pirro’s opening statement on Feb. 7.  Please take seven minutes of your time to listen.  Click here.

                                             

         NBC’s Brian Williams to take some time off

While NBC’s management is investigating the material used by its Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, Williams is going to take some time off.  While he does, rumors are already flying that Katie Curic is waiting in the wings.

Most people don’t realize that while Williams is the anchor of Nightly News, he is more than a “news reader.”  He is the program’s managing editor, which makes him the decision maker on what airs and what doesn’t.  Hmmmm Continue reading