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George Will: Hillary “not a formidable candidate” (WATCH VIDEO)
Hotair ^ | 04/27/2014 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 04/27/2014 1:04:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Captured over at The Corner, George Will was on Fox this morning and asked (for, I assume, the 3 millionth time) about a possible Hillary Clinton run and her inevitable victory. As you’ll see in this video, Will was not impressed.

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“It’s reminiscent of when Roger Mudd of CBS asked Ted Kennedy a not unexpected questionin 1980: ‘Why are you running for president?’” Will said. “By the time Ted Kennedy quit stammering he was handicapped.”

I just finished a radio interview this afternoon where the same subject came up. For my part, I think George is being a bit optimistic. As far as the Democratic nomination goes – which wasn’t what Will was talking about, I know – the only person who can stop Hillary is Hillary, and that’s if she decides not to run or some aspect of her personal life makes her think better of it. Yes, I realize that she was “inevitable” in 2008 also, but I don’t see a parallel between the two. In that campaign, Hillary was inevitable until the Democrats found somebody more inevitable and with an equally, if not more compelling narrative. The First Woman President storyline was able to be trumped by the First Black President storyline. There is nobody waiting in the wings right now who can deliver that kind of bang for the buck as far as the Democrats are concerned. And if she decides to bail out, they’ll manufacture another one to match, likely in the form of Elizabeth Warren. (Or so I hope. She’s completely beatable.)

In the general election, it’s another story, but that inevitability narrative is still probably stronger than Will is giving credit. Her numbers have sunk a bit since her time at State, but she can still muster favorability near or above 50 and that’s a fairly golden ticket. She’s also got more experience in running under her belt and a fully formed team waiting to leap into action. (Not to mention a mountain of funding ready to shower down on her from numerous PACs and other resources.)

Perhaps Will – given his Kennedy comparison – means she won’t be formidable on the stump and in debates. That’s possible, I suppose. Even she was unable to name a significant achievement of her own as Secretary of State and neither can her supporters. But will that matter to the voters? A lack of accomplishments didn’t stop them from voting for Barack Obama in droves. (Twice!) We might be expecting a lot out of the national electorate to be that discerning. Still, at least Will isn’t throwing in the towel, which would be a pretty bad omen at this early stage.


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KEYWORDS: 2016; clinton; hillary
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To: grania
I see you haven't gotten the word. Despite the fact that he is a 43 year old man, it is considered quite clever to tell Cruz to step aside and let the "grown-ups" run things.

Nope. Jeb Bush is a our man. At least that's what the DNC has been telling us (and Jeb).

21 posted on 04/27/2014 1:37:57 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Pope Calvin the 1st, defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades)
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To: LMAO

Ignorance, ineptitude and incompetence is no impediment to becoming president, as we have seen.


22 posted on 04/27/2014 1:39:51 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: FreeReign

She’s short, won’t look you in the eye, has a wet noodle hand shake and shrieks when she’s nervous. She has no interpersonal skills.

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Sounds like a winner to me. Just the type of person this country values. /sarc


23 posted on 04/27/2014 1:43:32 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: R AND R IN 2012

You are right....it’s not her I’m afraid of, it’s the current voting public which gets more dense as the years roll by.


24 posted on 04/27/2014 1:46:36 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: All
Its a known fact that the grasping, ambitious Clintons used the WH to game the system---to enrich their cronies AND themselves. Self-serving Clinton and his decrepit wife aren't through w/ their craven self-aggrandizement----they now want back into the WH.

The Clintons even have their very own Muslim terrorist to carry out presidential orders.

BACKSTORY Billy Boy Clinton was grinning like a simpering fool at the annual meeting of the tax-exempt "Clinton Global Initiative Foundation"....even Boobomba was there hugging Billy like they were old pals.....all in the wake of the bombshell news that:

<><> the tax-exempt Clinton Global Initiative Foundation uses shady financing;

<><> the tax-exempt Clinton Global Initiative had employed an active Muzzie terrorist named Gehad el-Haddad (The stupid Clintons did not know Gehad was Farsi for "jihad")

Gehad also knows how the Muslim Brotherhood launders money to finance terrorism, using "tax-exempt foundations."

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THE CLINTON FOUNDATIONS / MUSLIM TERRORISM CONNECTION --- The recent story that a Muslim terrorist was working at the Clinton Foundation AND conducting terrorist activities at the same time, explains why the Clintons just remade themselves into the hallowed "Clinton Family Foundation."

The Clintons doing their "Holy Family" act.

NOTE The Clintons' shady foundation financing is unveiled in a recent NYT expose of Clinton corruption, greed, entitlement, nepotism, cronyism.

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DHS and the State Dept recently published new exemptions in the Federal Register to welcome more terrorists seeking "asylum" in the US.......by screwing around a ban in the Immigration and Nationality Act that currently excludes refugees and asylum seekers who had provided limited material support, no matter how minor, to terrorists.

“These exemptions cover five kinds of limited material support that have adversely and unfairly affected refugees and asylum seekers with no tangible connection to terrorism: material support that was insignificant in amount or provided incidentally in the course of everyday social, commercial, family or humanitarian interactions, or under significant pressure,” a DHS official explained.

Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Hillary's successor, John Kerry, signed the Obama exemptions.

NOTE: Claiming "asylum" triggers endless monthly SS checks.

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Muslim money-laundering modalities finance global jihad--- freedomoutpost.com

(EXCERPT)---the American Freedom Law Center, has been engaged in a long and drawn out lawsuit againstHamas front group, CAIR. Hamas-CAIR has been running a global criminal money laundering operation out of Washington, DC.

The money laundering scheme was discovered in the course of legal discovery in unrelated federal litigation arising out of allegations by five of CAIR's former clients that CAIR defrauded them by failing to provide the legal services they had been promised.

THE MODUS OPERANDI To avoid reporting these millions of dollars from the dubious Islamist sources and to avoid registering as an agent for a foreign sovereign as required by federal law, CAIR created a separate company called CAIR-Foundation, Inc---an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) charitable organization.

CAIR itself quit filing any federal tax returns from 2008-2010 and allowed the IRS to withdraw its status as a 501(c)(4), converting itself to a regular for-profit corporation. CAIR also stopped all of its operations and became simply a holding company, transferring, at least on the books, all of its employees and equipment to CAIR Foundation. --snip--

SOURCE http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/09/muslim-brotherhood-hamas-front-group-cair-money-laundering-us-capital/#ixzz2jOgy8k7H

25 posted on 04/27/2014 1:48:24 PM PDT by Liz
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To: All
Ever wonder how Hillary always gets those wonderful poll numbers----where she's always at the top of the presidential pack? Now we know.

News reports say the State Department announced it has "no idea" what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors..... a special “management alert” warned “significant financial risk and a lack of internal control at State has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over the last six years....under Hillary's watch.

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ACTION NOW The FBI should interrogate State Dept insiders for evidence of multiple schemes to falsify documents to further insider schemes. The FBI should investigate any and all official documents submitted by contractors---and signed off by Hillary.

Crimes might include---conspiracy, collusion, falsifying offical documents (a felony), money laundering, tax evasion, extorting taxpayers, theft of govt monies, misuse of public office and government positions.

SAMPLE LETTER TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
Taxpayers are urged to notify the FBI now.
FBI TIPS PAGE https://tips.fbi.gov

SUBJECT: Collusion, conspiracy, and bribery
IN RE: financial irregularities
REFERENCE: govt fraud, falsified documents, wire transfers, accounting fraud, etc.

NARRATIVE Taxpayers demand to know the scope and dimension of multiple conspiracies by Clintons, State Dept contractors, and other government insiders to collude in sub rosa deals to personally profit and/or to facilitate redistribution schemes.

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NOW IT CAN BE TOLD--- THE DEMOCRAT GAME PLAN---HOW TO GET AND KEEP PUBLIC OFFICE: alleged crimes might include:

<><> wire fraud,

<><> money laundering,

<><> corruption,

<><> bribery,

<><> alleged murder-for-hire plots targeting whistle-blowers,

<><>international quid pro quos, exchanging valuable US ntl security info for campaign contributions to Clinton...or for donations to their tax-exempt foundations.

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Time to mobilize the Bank Secrecy Act----to follow the paper trail of govt grant disbursements facilitated by the State Dept, and determine how govt monies changed hands.

Taxpayers demand to know the scope and dimension of government insiders ability to collude in sub rosa deals and who might be personally profiting.

<><> L/E needs to examine the Clintons' multiple bank accounts.

<><> Joint bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer govt funds from one account to another, and/or wo=ire-transferred offshore;

<><> To cover their tracks, fake govt invoices might be created to show that govt money deposited into accounts was being used for legitimate govt purposes.

<><> Financial schemes scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from financial sources that actually covered the transfer of govt funds for insiders' personal use and/or for redistribution schemes.

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NOTE WELL Under the Bank Secrecy Act, banks are required to establish, implement and maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity indicative of money laundering and other financial crimes. “The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted to protect the public from harm by identifying and detecting money laundering from criminal enterprises, terrorism, tax evasion or other unlawful activities,” the special agent in charge for Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, explained.

Shady banking transactions could be prosecuted under the (1) Bank Secrecy ACT, (2) RICO, and, (3) the Hobbs Act.

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<><> L/E should get ahold of: (1) copies of Clintons' checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) correspondence including snail mail, e-mail, mobile devices, cell phones, (8) contracts, (9) loan agreements, (10) other account books or official records.

L/E should also explore (a) monies Clintonspaid to brokers, sub-brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.

<><> L/E should scrutinize Clintonsbank accounts for suspicious activites: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.

<><> Bank records might also show diversions to secret LLC accounts, to money launder and to operate personal ventures---or to finance campaign activities (and/or other redistribution schemes to hand-picked voting blocs).

Tax fraud may also be a factor; facilitated by withdrawals, gift cards purchases, credit card purchases and intra-bank transfers from Clintons' accounts into personal accounts, campaign accounts, or into redistribution schemes.

<><> A huge tipoff is whether bank withdrawals support and luxurious lifestyle including payments for real estate, investment and stock holdings, jewelry, luxury vehicles, resort travel....... and gifts from luxury outlets for wives and mistresses (and campaign activities, or other redistribution schemes).

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Taxpayers demand the Bank Secrecy Act be used to prosecute govt fraud, pronto.

SAMPLE LETTER TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
Taxpayers are urged to notify the FBI now.
FBI TIPS PAGE https://tips.fbi.gov

SUBJECT: Collusion, conspiracy, and bribery
IN RE: financial irregularities
REFERENCE: govt fraud, falsified documents, wire transfers, accounting fraud, etc.

NARRATIVE Taxpayers demand to know the scope and dimension of multiple conspiracies by the Clintons, State Dept contractors, and other government insiders, to collude in sub rosa deals to personally profit and/or to facilitate redistribution schemes.

OF INTEREST TO LAW ENFORCEMENT The FBI should interrogate individuals for evidence of multiple schemes to falsify documents to further insider schemes. The FBI should investigate any and all official documents submitted by contractors---and signed off by Hillary.

Crimes might include---conspiracy, collusion, falsifying offical documents (a felony), money laundering, tax evasion, extorting taxpayers, theft of govt monies, misuse of public office and government positions.

Examine the Clintons' tax returns with a fine-tooth comb.....especially entries for "interest income."

26 posted on 04/27/2014 1:49:39 PM PDT by Liz
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To: SeekAndFind; flaglady47; mickie; pax_et_bonum; Maine Mariner; seekthetruth
I predicted right on this board over a year ago that Hillary would NOT run.

I would add to this, that if she were to run, she would NOT win against a strong male Republican candidate....doesn't matter who it is as long as it's not a Mr. Peepers type.

My preference at this time is Senator Ted Cruz.

Ole!

Leni

27 posted on 04/27/2014 1:50:36 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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Connect the dots---Harry Reid, his grand-daughter, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Clinton's tax-exempt foundation.

Harry's grand-daughter, Ryan Elisabeth Reid, runs the Sprat Theater Company, a small theater in Brooklyn---now under scrutiny. According to Sprat’s Theatre Company Web site, it received a grant from the tax-exempt Clinton Global Initiative Foundation---which has no history of grant-giving.

NOTE The Clintons' shady tax-exempt foundation financing is unveiled in a recent NYT expose of corruption, greed, entitlement, nepotism, and cronyism. The tax-exempt Clintons' Foundation even employed their very own Muslim terrorist to carry out presidential orders.

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HARRY REID IS LIVID THAT HIS GRAND-DAUGHTER HAS BEEN OUTED AS A RECIPIENT OF LAUNDERED CAMPAIGN CASH---Reid lashed out at reporters, saying, “My granddaughter has been the target of harassing phone calls, strangers tracking her down, knocking on her door and negative, unwanted attention on the Internet.” “This has gone too far and it needs to stop now,” Reid said. “I deeply regret any role I had in creating this situation but now, as a grandparent, I say enough is enough.”

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Besides the "jewelry company" financed by her grandfather, Ryan Elisabeth Reid runs the Sprat Theater Company, a small theater in Brooklyn, which is also coming under scrutiny. According to Sprat’s Theatre Company Web site, it has received grants/contributions from:

<><> the Clinton Global Initiative (w/ no history of grant-giving),
<><> two major Las Vegas foundations:
Caesar’s Foundation, and the NV Energy Foundation.

NOTE NV Energy Foundation---is a non-profit division of NV Energy (a public utility). The NV Energy utility is a subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company which took over in 2013.

NEED TO KNOW Did Harry Reid use US government power, US govt agencies, his Senate office, and/or tax resources to enrich any of the above-named energy-related entities?

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email: enforcement @SEC.gov

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The SEC and IRS should examine every document filed by (a) The tax-exempt Clinton Global Initiative, (b) the tax- exempt Caesar's Foundation and (c) The tax-exempt Nevada Energy Foundation, (d) Reid granddaughter's theatre group.

Every official tax-exempt document needs to be scrutinized in conjunction w/ possible connections to govt fraud, corruption, money laundering and tax evasion. Perjury and forgery, need to be considered.

Falsifying Official Public Documents involves altering, changing, or modifying a document for the purpose of deception.......can also involve forgery and/or passing copies of false documents. Falsifying documents is usually done in connection with broader criminal aims, such as extortion, government fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, financing terrorism........

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L/E should to get ahold of Rory and Harry Reid's: (1) check copies, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) correspondence including e-mail, contracts, loan agreements, and, (8) any other books or records.

L/E should also explore (a) monies Reid paid to brokers, sub-brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.

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BTW, here's Harry w/ his grand-daughter....the one who got $31,000 in laundered campaign funds for her "jewelry company" and agrant from the Clinton Foundation.

Reid and granddaughter Ryan Elisabeth Reid.

28 posted on 04/27/2014 1:50:47 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Sooth2222

Besides, when the Republican party runs yet another Democrat, how can Democrats lose?


29 posted on 04/27/2014 1:52:59 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: FreeReign
I think she's beatable. She's short, won't look you in the eye, has a wet noodle hand shake and shrieks when she's nervous. She has no interpersonal skills. And I won't say how I come to know this.

Plus, she's bad in bed, even in a threesome with Huma.

And I won't say how I come to know this.

30 posted on 04/27/2014 1:54:04 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Psalm 144

George Will thinks it is beneath his dignity to consider that two prior federal elections were manhandled and ‘stolen’ by way of rigged inner city election fraud.


31 posted on 04/27/2014 1:54:57 PM PDT by x_plus_one (Islam Delenda Est)
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To: SeekAndFind

The electorate aren’t formidable voters.


32 posted on 04/27/2014 1:55:38 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

Neither was Bill.


33 posted on 04/27/2014 1:58:58 PM PDT by RichInOC (An erect Bill Clinton has no conscience.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The Democrats will take great pleasure in selecting the candidate that is most hated by the Republicans.

I see that as Hillary.

She's already running, and the MSM is running right alongside her. They torpedoed her for Barack Huessein in 2008, and in 2016 they'll be advocates instead of journalists (again).

In my opinion, she will run, and win, on one issue — W-O-M-E-N.

34 posted on 04/27/2014 2:00:19 PM PDT by detch
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To: FreeReign

Now you’ve got me interested. So if you’re not ready to tell us how you have come to know what it’s like to meet Hillary, please let us know when you ARE ready inform. Were you employed by the Clintons or maybe delivering something? Oh, that’s right, you can’t say right now.


35 posted on 04/27/2014 2:05:48 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: detch

I agree, sadly.


36 posted on 04/27/2014 2:09:44 PM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: SeekAndFind

What a Land Shark George WIll is..

knock knock.... Candygram..............
knock knock.... Pizza Delivery.........
knock knock.... POLICE.................
knock knock.... Plumber................
knock knock.... Obama money............
knock knock.... Free telephone.........
knock knock.... hope and change........


37 posted on 04/27/2014 2:16:00 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: SeekAndFind

Never underestimate the corruption of a democrat or the stupidity of the American voter. It is lethal combination...


38 posted on 04/27/2014 2:19:36 PM PDT by awelliott (What one generation tolerates, the next embraces....)
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To: alloysteel
Elizabeth Warren could be the candidate if the party insiders think Hillary is vulnerable. She would be a two-fer: first woman President and first Native American President.

Few Americans know we have already had a Native American Vice President: Charles Curtis (1929-1933), Republican from Kansas.

39 posted on 04/27/2014 2:56:26 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

RE: first woman President and first Native American President.

Has Elizabeth Warren proven this to our satisfaction?


40 posted on 04/27/2014 3:07:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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