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Hillary Clinton Doesn't Deserve Americans' Admiration
Townhall.com ^ | January 4, 2013 | Diana West

Posted on 01/04/2013 9:57:47 AM PST by Kaslin

Americans, Gallup tells us, admire Hillary Clinton more than any other woman in the world -- again. This latest accolade marks the 17th time Gallup has found Clinton to be the Most Admired Woman (MAW?) since she became first lady nearly 20 years ago. Only Eleanor Roosevelt (13 MAWs) comes close. Only Mother Teresa (1995 and 1996) and Laura Bush (2001) have interrupted Clinton's winning streak, and even then, Clinton came in second.

And therein lies America's cosmic flaw. A country that could time and again embrace Hillary Clinton as its MAW has lost its mind or its memory or both.

Does the phrase "congenital liar" tinkle any bells? I know such non-admirable sentiments are thought to be in the worst of taste, if not also banishable offenses. Still, as conjured by the late New York Times columnist William Safire in 1996, the phrase described the then-first lady for her shameless prevarications. These included what sure looked like bribery ("cattle futures"), defrauding taxpayers ("Whitewater"), obstructing justice -- or, rather, "finding" her Rose Law Firm billing records (under subpoena for two years) just days after the statute of limitations ran out -- among other corrupt behaviors that must have slightly suppressed Hillary-admiration that same year. The phrase remains apt.

"I remember landing under sniper fire," Clinton declared on the presidential campaign trail in 2008, describing a 1996 trip to Bosnia. "There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down (chuckles) to get into the vehicles to get to our base." It was a vivid but debunkable whopper, as CBS footage of the event proved. In reality, Clinton, accompanied by daughter Chelsea, made her ceremonial way into Bosnia through a warm throng marked by smiling faces and a kiss from a local girl -- not bullets. Admirable?

On a more nationally significant level, Clinton recently supported President Obama's Big Lie that a movie trailer of "Innocence of Muslims" on YouTube "resulted" (her word) in the September attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya -- a concerted falsehood for which neither Clinton nor Obama nor former CIA Director David Petraeus has yet answered. Even several days after intelligence agencies determined that a planned assault, not a video-driven protest, had taken place, Clinton went so far as to promise a grieving Charles Woods, father of slain former SEAL Tyrone Woods, that "we" were going to have the video maker "arrested and prosecuted."

Why was Clinton still perpetuating the false narrative that the exercise of free speech under the First Amendment, not Islamic jihad, had resulted in the attack? Was that admirable? Clinton has lately let it be known that she will voluntarily testify about Benghazi following her hospitalization for a blood clot, but I seriously doubt whether mere House members will risk asking this crucial question of the Most Admired Woman in America, especially now that she has risen from her sickbed. If they don't, they're not admirable, either.

Meanwhile, the video maker, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, was indeed arrested and swiftly prosecuted, and is now serving one year in jail for "parole violations." His incarceration, however, is better understood as punishment for violating the Islamic ban on free speech about Islam. To be sure, one year is nothing compared to the death penalty an Egyptian court recently slapped on Nakoula and other Americans associated with the movie in absentia -- and without a peep of protest from the Obama administration, including Clinton.

The fact is, Hillary Clinton has worked assiduously with the Islamic bloc nations, known as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), to promote Islamically correct speech codes through the so-called Istanbul Process. The goal of this process -- and the goal of transnational Islam -- is to implement Shariah speech codes via U.N. Human Rights Council Resolution 16/18, which seeks to criminalize "defamation" -- free speech -- about Islam. In leading this drive against free speech, Hillary Clinton is actually leading a drive against the First Amendment.

Most Americans don't know about the Istanbul Process, let alone how Islamic speech codes are unconstitutional, but it is this policy against free speech that may stand as Clinton's enduring legacy as secretary of state. It is of a piece with having presided over, first, the shredding of U.S. alliances with Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and then supporting jihadist factions and organizations, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, now implementing Islamic law across the Middle East. This, of course, is President Obama's policy, but Hillary Clinton has been an active team player.

Another aspect of this same foreign policy Clinton has spearheaded is the launch of the Global Counterterrorism Forum. The forum's roster of 29 nations plus the European Union is stunning for its exclusion of Israel, a leading counterterrorism force as much as it is a leading terrorism victim. But not so, according to Islamic definitions. Knowingly or not, as a leader of this forum, one-third of whose members come from the Islamic bloc, Clinton has accepted the Arab League and OIC definitions of terrorism, which both deny the existence of Israeli victims (sometimes U.S. soldiers) and legitimize the terrorism of Hamas, a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hezbollah.

How could this be? What influences have led Clinton to formulate or follow such policies? We don't know, although it is hard not to wonder about the input of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, a young woman with well-established familial and personal ties to Muslim Brotherhood figures and front groups (including a "charity" linked to al-Qaida and a group banned in Israel for ties to Hamas). Indeed, what may be most astounding and mysterious about Clinton's whole public tenure is how Abedin ever received the security clearance necessary to work so closely with the secretary of state.

Even broaching such a simple if burning national security question, as Rep. Michele Bachmann and others discovered last summer, is also a banishable offense. After all, Hillary Clinton is our MAW!

That's life. But it isn't admirable.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: 2016election; benghazi; bho44; election2016; foreignaffairs; freespeech; hillaryclinton; libya; lies; secretaryofstate; soshillary; unfit; women
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To: exit82; doug from upland

I remember doug from upland-— fighting the good fight and exposing the absolutely amoral monsters these people are.
The profile researched well and documented, could (and maybe did) provide a psychological roadmap for FBI profilers.
My belief, as stated earlier, is that the are both moscow trained/aligned marxist hoods who have lined their pocket while their puppet/agent, obamaomau continues the indonesian and marxist connection. It ALL points to the russians and the chinese... all of it, including the dotcom bubble and resultant real estate bubble. Really.
Marxism pays if the bankers are on your side— can you say Stephens, cocaine and Webb Hubbell?

Deo Vindice, Doug.


41 posted on 01/04/2013 7:33:05 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: exit82; doug from upland

I remember doug from upland-— fighting the good fight and exposing the absolutely amoral monsters these people are.
The profile researched well and documented, could (and maybe did) provide a psychological roadmap for FBI profilers.
My belief, as stated earlier, is that the are both moscow trained/aligned marxist hoods who have lined their pocket while their puppet/agent, obamaomau continues the indonesian and marxist connection. It ALL points to the russians and the chinese... all of it, including the dotcom bubble and resultant real estate bubble. Really.
Marxism pays if the bankers are on your side— can you say Stephens, cocaine and Webb Hubbell?

Deo Vindice, Doug.


42 posted on 01/04/2013 7:39:55 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby

Thanks, John. If only Americans knew about the drugs and Mena. Here is the Clinton history in song - (sorry that the MIDI music sucks so bad)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ho_pDH2fU


43 posted on 01/04/2013 7:48:01 PM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: doug from upland

Apologies to you for my being a screeching witch.

And congratulations on your legendary status on FR.


44 posted on 01/05/2013 6:44:01 AM PST by LadyBuck (I've read so much about the evils of drinking & smoking that I've given up reading.)
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To: geologist

[[God clearly tells us what to do. Do we do it? We only have our self to set right and actually do what God tells us to do as a nation. It seems we are either stupid, unbelieving, or willfully evil]]

I don’t swee that happenign in Anmerica- I see America mroe andm ore abandoning God and turnign to government and I see the left in government panderign to that mentality that government is the savior, not God.

I don’t know if only a remnant of beleivers will be enough to reverse God’s judgement on this nation or not- Remember, Lot had to plead with God to spare the city if a handful of beleivers could be found, which tells me that if Lot hadn’t called on God to do so, God was goign to destroy the city (but of Course God knew there wasn’t even one in the city that believed anymore-)

We’re more in a situation that Israel foudn herself in tiem and time again- God woudl bless, everythign woudl be fien for awhile, then peopel woudl disbeleive and God woudl remove His blessings- I thin kthat is what is happneing here in America even htough we do still have a remnant that still beleive- I think the massive unbeleif is more the determinign factor in God’s removal of His blessings though-

I don’t think we should give up hope and praying, but I do think perhaps it’s tiem to face the harsh reality that the prayers of the faithful are not being answered because the actiosn of the wicked are just too wicked and need to be punished by God- God’s peopel here in Americva seem to not be willing to seek His face anymore- and therefore God must bring judgement-


45 posted on 01/05/2013 8:58:03 AM PST by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: Joe Boucher

it was probably osem of these secret service men that were ‘mysteriously killed’ when they indicated they might spill the beans- infact I think one of them at least was a SS servent- I’ll see if I can find the link to the site shwoign all the mysteriosu deaths aroudn the bubba’s


46 posted on 01/05/2013 9:17:46 AM PST by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: Joe Boucher

The following are just a few of hte ‘mysterious’ deaths- but again IO msut stsate that I do NOT know if any of this is actualyl true or not, or if even a small percentage is or not, but if these cases can be corroborated- or if even only a coupel can, then we are dealing with some truly evil peopel i nthe clintooney’s

[[Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. Was pregnant at the time of her death.

Jerry Parks - Head of Clinton’s gubernatorial security team in Little Rock. Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock. Park’s son said his father was building a dossier on Clinton. He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house.

James Bunch - Died from a gunshot suicide. It was reported that he had a “Black Book” of people containing names of influential people who visited prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas.

James Wilson - Was found dead in May 1993 from an apparent hanging suicide. He was reported to have ties to Whitewater.

Kathy Ferguson - Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson died in
May 1994

was found dead in her living roon with a gunshot to her head. It was ruled a suicide even though there were several packed suitcases, as if she was going somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a codefendant along with Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones lawsuit. Kathy Ferguson was a possible corroborating witness for Paula Jones]]

and for them ost bizarre ‘mysterious death report’

[[James Milan - Found decapitated. Coroner ruled death due to natural causes. Jordan Kettleson - Was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup truck in June 1990.]]

http://www.shmoo.com/mail/cypherpunks/feb99/msg00219.html


47 posted on 01/05/2013 9:26:23 AM PST by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: LadyBuck

Accepted. Believe me, I have always loathed the Clintons every bit as much as you.

When I met Peter in 2005, the first thing I told him is that I thought he was a real jerk for doing fundraisers for Hillary. He apologized and knew he really screwed up in his misguided attempt to help the company. With or without the fundraisers he did in 2000, Hillary had the race won. She crushed Lazio.

You had mentioned Flowers. Here is something you might not know, but about which I have written here. I am friends with the filmmaker of THE CLINTON CHRONICLES. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1155249/posts

Had the story of Gary Johnson been widely exposed and actually been reported by mainstream media (yeah, I know it is wishful thinking), the evil couple would have been sent packing back to Arkansas.


48 posted on 01/05/2013 9:39:13 AM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: Kaslin

HILLARY’S CORKSCREW LANDING IN BOSNIA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MVIqMY1B-Q


49 posted on 01/05/2013 9:42:30 AM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: Joe Boucher

if you go to snopes . com you will see thjem vigorously trying to defend the clintooney’s in this list, and tryign vigorously to discredit the list as beign nothign more than a made up ‘conspiracy list’ yet the snopes site doesn’t do one credible thing to discredit ANY of the claims made- and they simply gloss over details hoping you will be pursuaded that the clintooneys couldn’t possibly have gotten away with any of it- however all they really do is show they are librally biased and that petty attemopts at humiliatign thsoe who made thel ist aren’t beneath them-

Whiel there isn’t any hard proof of course- it sure is wierd how so many peopel died under mysteriosu circumstances who were inviolved with the clinooneys- How many peopel do you know who have had so many friends die under such brutal and mysterious conditions? The FACT is that there is an definately an unusually high number of wierd deaths that have surrounded the ‘royal couple’ for years- then umber is abnormally high- Sniopes can drone on all it likes, but they are obvious clintooney fans who didn’t liek hte fact that this unusually high number of mysterious deaths was linked to them-

Apparently the folsk at snopes are guillible enough to simply take the government at it’s word and claim that anyone who questions the ‘official reports of death’ are nothing more than conspiracy theorists- apparently snopes doesn’t realize that when powerful families are involved, that ANYTHING CAN AND WILL be covered up, and htat when thsoe cover-ups are thretened with exposure, thsoe inviovled will ‘mysteriously die’- which is exactly what seems to have happened here-

going htrough each point made by the snoeps site- they have groslly neglected certyain facts, and failed almost every time to prove that what they assert is infact true- they demand ‘facts’ from thsoe who made thel ists, but snopes exempt themselves from havign to provide facts when they make their coutneraerguments- Fori nstance, they talk abotu one car accident that ‘noone saw’ of a person connected to the bubba, but then intimate that it’s a false report, but the FACT is that NOONE SAW the accident so they can’t really claim it was just an accident themselves- but they sure do make that claim without ANY evidence to refute the original claim- on and on it goes with hte sniope’s claims- no evidence to back their claism up- they simpyl just take the government’s and coroner’s word for it apaprently not beleivign that ANYONE can be bought off

Anyways- her’s the nsopes list

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp


50 posted on 01/05/2013 9:45:40 AM PST by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: CottShop

for inastance the snopes site attempts to misdirect by saying ‘if they were bumping everyoen off, why arem onika and linda tripp still alive’ apparently thinkign that should put an end to the discussion however, the FACT is that because htese were suchj high profile cases there is infact no way thsoe two coudl have been bumped off because it woukld have DEFINATELY implicated bubba-

The sniopes site’s ‘explanations’ are very poorly htought out rebuttles- The only thing they got right really was the fact that ‘a couple of natural deaths had been thrown into the mix willy nilly’ That is true- they had- and most likely they were natural deaths and shouldn’t have been added to thel ist- however- it’s also TRUE that there is an artificially high number of deaths surrounding bubba- and it’s also true that MSM would never lift a finger to investigate ANY of them in an unbiased manner because they were facts abotu their beloved buddy

Snopes said ‘there were deaths by airplane- this is not unusual, as each year many small planes crash’ and this is true, however, again, the number of peopel closely associated with bubba who died in crashes is unsually high- and either bubba was them ost unlucky person in the world, and his friedns were them ost unlucky in the world, or perhaps maey, just possibly, soemthign else was goign on- I’ve nevr in my life had even one friend die in a plane crash- even a small plane crash- and iv’e certainly never had several die within just years of each other-

snopes then goes on to say ‘all the best lies make sure to mix a bit of truth in with htem’ which is EXACTLY what snopes did the whole way through the article- They gave you a bit of truth, but then left out key and valid points htroughout hteir ‘rebuttle’

Snopes prides itself on being a credible source of info, but in htis article at least, they let their liberal bias show throug loud and lcdear, and showed that perhaps they aren’t really intellectually capable of makign valid coutner arguments backed p by actaul facts- nearly everyoern on of their points has major problems with it- Another one “Clin was aqauinted with soem peopel who died. That’s all that can be made of this list”

Bzzzzt- nope! He was aquainted with a LOT of people who all died in a relatively short period of time around him, many of whom were personally and intimately associated with him in one fashion or another- and many of whom it appears were about to go public with info- Snopes FAILED to prove that htese folks were not abotu to go public- they just waved their hands and ridiculed thsoe who broguht the issue up-


51 posted on 01/05/2013 10:04:35 AM PST by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: CottShop
To my mind it is a matter of the deception of Satan and his minions. We find in church going people it is not taken seriously. It is rather a token belief that is ignored by things people desire to do. The enemy tells us it is really okay, Don't worry, be happy

The Word of God is undermined to our face on TV every day, The abortions, same sex marriages,and moral decay, perversions, the love of money, fame, power is what many are seeking. And we sit quietly by in political correctness. We have no excuse. What is wrong is wrong.

Our church has young couples coming in wanting to be married, already living together. Our previous Pastor would not marry them until they separated, were counseled , etc. Currently we have a new Pastor, not sure about his view. He has not given a sermon on it.

First Baptist Church. When I was baptized in 1969, a pledge to not drink strong spirits, dance or play cards was part of the pledge card to love God and the LORD Jesus Christ. Things have changed ... Satan is deceptive. People actually believe his lies, and we know where that takes us. MO

Praise the LORD!

52 posted on 01/05/2013 11:19:43 AM PST by geologist (" If you love me, keep my commandments" John 14:15)
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To: CottShop

With Nixon it was G. Gordon who was responsible for offing his enemies.
Wonder who it is with the Klintoons.


53 posted on 01/06/2013 2:57:40 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: geologist

[[The Word of God is undermined to our face on TV every day, The abortions, same sex marriages,and moral decay, perversions, the love of money, fame, power is what many are seeking. And we sit quietly by in political correctness. We have no excuse. What is wrong is wrong]]

All true- however, remember that Christ and the Descioples did not preach agaisnt governemnt and the ways of the world regardign the ungodly, they only preached to the masses about warnign them not to do what sinners do

I don’t know IF theuir sermons should be a blueprint for preachers today- perhaps it’s not religion’s place to becoem political or to speak out agaisnt the govenrment- but rather to simply warn congregants of the dangers of sin and how to lead holy lives-

[[Our church has young couples coming in wanting to be married, already living together]]

Hopefulyl your church refuses to wed them? Christians can and do fall for satan’s lies just liek any person can- but I think the problem with churche’s today is that they are NOT anywhere near strong enough in their messages abotu hte seriousness of sin- God HATES sin- and WILL punish sin- period- Yes, God still loves His own (Note- God does NOT love sinners- The original greek states cleaqrly that God loves HIS OWN- the verse does NOT say ‘God so ‘loved the world’- in the greek it say ‘For God so loved His own’- God as a holy God as a Holy and Just God can NOT love sin— and young peopel today need to understand this loud and clear- They do not take sin seriously these days and do not fear God anymore-

People these days go to church to be ‘uplifted’ and to feel good after the sermons- (and don’t get me wrong, encouragement is a much neecded thing in the church) but folks shoudl be coming out of the church doors with heads hung low from beign ashamed of how lax we’ve become regarding sin- (Yes, I AM a hell fire and brimstone born again child of God) but my hellfire and brimstone background aside- it used to be that preachers roamed the coutnrysides and were audible remidners thast we as a peopel are livign in sin and they were not ashamed to preach these messages or to look sinning Christians i nthe eye and tell them point blank they were livign outside hte will of God- they pulled no punches, and for them ost part most peopel both saved and unsaved woudl respect these folks (not everyoen woudl of course- but even sinners woudl at least acknowledge they were sinners and respect what was beign said because it was TRUTH- today the sermons are so soft and full of platitutudes that sin is no longer a serious concern, and hwen cHriostians hear abotu sin, their thought is ‘well yeah, there are lots of unsaved sinners, but I’m actually ‘pretty good’ so really the sermon isn’t about me- it’s abotu hte other guy’

Bah- young peopel scoff at the TRUTH today- and they scoff at anyoen tryign to brign htem the TRUTH- They’ve lsot fear of God and they’ve lost respect for both God and God’s messengers- it’s no wodner God is removign His blessings on this once great nation


54 posted on 01/06/2013 9:58:12 AM PST by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: Joe Boucher

I’m guessign secret service- or some super covert top secret organization-

And ya knowe- even IF the bubba’s didn’t have soem of htese peopel offed personally, they certainly knowingly drove a few of these peopel to suicide by threatening to reveal certain facts or whatever— They were midgets going up agaisnt the goliaths- they stood no chance of winnign the battles, and they msotl ikely knew it- and the bubba’s probably were already i nthe oprocess of ruining these people because they wouldn’t paly ball-

Again- I don’t know any of this for certain- however, I think all of us here woudl be hard pressed to think of anyone who has had as many peopel surroundign htem die as the bubba’s have had- it’s simpyl beyond beleivability that these were all coincidental deaths- IF anyone of us had as many peopel dropping like lfies aroudn us as they had, you can be certain the law woudl be on us liek flies on a gut wagon- but the simple fact that noone ever really even bothered to investigate also ‘sughgests’ that there may very well have been a whole lot of buying off (as well as threats and mostl ikely even blackmail) goign on-

Again- I stess that I can’t back anythign up- but it’s very odd that noone even bats an eyelash when someoen close to the bubbas ‘committs suicide’ by ‘cuttign off their own head’


55 posted on 01/06/2013 10:09:12 AM PST by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: CottShop

-— today the sermons are so soft and full of platitutudes that sin is no longer a serious concern, and hwen cHriostians hear abotu sin, their thought is ‘well yeah, there are lots of unsaved sinners, but I’m actually ‘pretty good’ so really the sermon isn’t about me- it’s abotu hte other guy’-—

Bump worthy.


56 posted on 01/06/2013 10:15:19 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: CottShop

Yes

True.

‘The heavens declare the glory of God’, as do babies, plants, Trees, water, seas, diversity of animals, air, the eye sees, the ear hears, the mind learns and remembers, the body heals, cuts, broken bones, etc. And much much more. Amazing and awesome.


57 posted on 01/07/2013 9:42:53 AM PST by geologist (" If you love me, keep my commandments" John 14:15)
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