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The Clintons — At the End of All Things
National Review ^ | November 1, 2016 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/01/2016 7:48:56 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

Epic greed, power, and pride : Where’s the bottom?

With Bill and Hillary, there’s no telling. What was the Clinton telos? The end point, the aim of all their lying, cheating, criminality, dishonor, and degradation? Given the latest Weiner scandals coming on top of the latest WikiLeaks scandals, we wonder, what did the Clintons really wish to end up as — and why?

Are they Goethe’s Faust or tortured souls crushed by the weight of their money bags in Dante’s Fourth Circle of Hell?

For a few criminals, remorse comes with old age; but for the Clintons, near-70 was to be the capstone, the last chance to trump all their prior shenanigans. They were artists of amorality, and the election of 2016 was to be their magnum opus.

The FBI reopened investigation, WikiLeaks Podesta trove, revelations about the Foundation, the e-mail–server scandal, DNC disclosures, and theoff-the-cuff campaign remarks of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and one then ponders what was the point of the Clinton shakedowns, the loss of reputation, the crude lawbreaking, as they neared their seventh decade.

To paraphrase Barack Obama, in his progressive sermonizing on making enough money, did the two ever think they had enough money, enough honors, enough power already?

The Hillary/Bill fortune — generated by pay-for-play influence peddling on the proposition that Bill would return to the White House under Hillary’s aegis and reward friends while punishing enemies — hit a reported $150 million some time ago, a fortune built not on farming, mining, insurance, finance, high-tech, or manufacturing, but on skimming off money.

Clintons are simply grifters whose insider access to government gave them the power to make rich people richer. Long gone was the Scrooge-like need to write off used underwear

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To: bigbob

*** “What’s the over and under on both of ‘em taking the dirt nap by the time the 2020 election rolls around?” ***

I had $50 on Bill not making it to the Election, (casualty of the need for sympathy)


21 posted on 11/01/2016 8:12:42 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: COUNTrecount

Wow. VDH ladles out some really strong medicine there.


22 posted on 11/01/2016 8:13:24 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: COUNTrecount

al Capone

That's what they said about me.

23 posted on 11/01/2016 8:14:07 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: COUNTrecount

I know this is NR. However, I believe VHD is legitimate and principled. I bookmarked this article because it so eloquently describes how I view the Clintons. Everyone should read this.


24 posted on 11/01/2016 8:15:23 AM PDT by Mudtiger
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To: No_More_Harkin

The Clintons have the DC pedophile ‘community’ backing them too...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3889994/Influence-peddling-acting-Putin-s-ally-hiding-classified-secrets-sexting-FIVE-separate-FBI-cases-probing-virtually-one-Clinton-s-inner-circle-families.html

There are, in fact, not one but five separate FBI investigations which involve members of Clinton’s inner circle or their closest relatives.

The five known investigations are into: Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin’s estranged husband sexting a 15-year-old; the handling of classified material by Clinton and her staff on her private email server; questions over whether the Clinton Foundation was used as a front for influence-peddling; whether the Virginia governor broke laws about foreign donations; and whether Hillary’s campaign chairman’s brother did the same.


25 posted on 11/01/2016 8:15:49 AM PDT by GOPJ (Comey's notifying Congress is a ringing endorsement of the power of the people.FreeperLiz)
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To: lafroste

VDH has incredible talent and knowledge. This is one of his best. Well worth reading.


26 posted on 11/01/2016 8:15:55 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: going hot

Bonnie and Clyde just popped into my head.


27 posted on 11/01/2016 8:19:33 AM PDT by knarf
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To: COUNTrecount

clintons = subhuman scumbags and pure evil.... no beginning and no end to their depravity....

i hope monica acomodates Danney and it turns out bill is daddy.... hahahahahahaha


28 posted on 11/01/2016 8:21:02 AM PDT by zzwhale (no way)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
" No way Hillary comes back and runs for pres again in 2020, is there? "

She'll be motoring around on a little Social Security scooter with saddlebags on it, if she's not in prison, and looking like... I don't even want to say it.

"Will any want payback, want their money back, take retribution in some other way??? "

One would think so, wouldn't one? And we are talking about people who operate outside the law here... people from various parts of the world who operate outside the law, or who are the law in their part of the world.

29 posted on 11/01/2016 8:29:38 AM PDT by OKSooner (She was practiced at the art of deception, I could tell by her bloodstained hands.)
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To: No_More_Harkin

Both are grifters, to be sure, but Hillary also strikes me as being more lustful for power than is Billy Jeff.


30 posted on 11/01/2016 8:30:39 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SE Mom

“National Review did not write this article. They published it.””Everyone would benefit from reading it. “

NR will get zero clicks from me


31 posted on 11/01/2016 8:33:00 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: COUNTrecount
That's quite an impressive compendium of crime. Looked at together it is simply stunning. The job of the media is to see to it that it is never looked at together and they're still at it.

Sexual predations, the demonization of women, graft, and unequal protection under the law are also of no consequence to the inbred, conflicted, and morally challenged media – who will always check in with the Clinton team, like errant dogs who scratch the backdoor of their master after a periodic runaway.

There will be a reckoning. This generation of two-bit nomenklatura and their pathetic little academic commissars are about to find their power challenged as the Clintons are finding now. They are likely to survive it but some of the smirking arrogance will have been slapped off their collective face for a while, and that's a good thing.

32 posted on 11/01/2016 8:34:09 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Dilbert San Diego
No way Hillary comes back and runs for pres again in 2020, is there?

No, but Michelle Obama will.

33 posted on 11/01/2016 8:34:17 AM PDT by bankwalker (Does a fish know that it's wet?)
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To: bigbob
I think Bill remains popular among Democrats just based on his personality and charisma as a politician.

During the Bill Clinton administration, friend and foe alike, remarked on his political acumen (the term "political animal" was often used to describe him). No one has, with a straight face, used the words "charm" or "charisma" to describe Hillary. She is ambition without humanity.
34 posted on 11/01/2016 8:36:15 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: COUNTrecount

Paper covers rock
Rock breaks scissors
Scissors cuts paper

Karma incinerates hubris


35 posted on 11/01/2016 8:37:39 AM PDT by clintonh8r
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To: Grampa Dave
Yes, but get a load of this from MarketWatch.com today

They (Demonicrats) all know they triggered the greatest (worst) recession since the GREAT DEPRESSION!!!

36 posted on 11/01/2016 8:38:29 AM PDT by SierraWasp (BLM = Black LIEs Matter!!!)
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To: COUNTrecount

Excellent op-ed by VDH


37 posted on 11/01/2016 8:45:19 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: SierraWasp

“The Clintons — At the End of All Things”.....

PRISON!


38 posted on 11/01/2016 8:45:27 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: COUNTrecount

They have no choice but to keep skating across the ice as it breaks up around their skates. They have to get the White House or go to jail. They have to appoint the head of FBI and Justice or go to jail. They have to have the White House or no one as any further reason to pay them a single dollar.


39 posted on 11/01/2016 8:50:00 AM PDT by marron
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To: No_More_Harkin

“Too bad one couple can’t accomplish the evil they’ve perpetrated without complacency and help from other sub-humans.”

And most especially, that includes ALL OF US VOTERS! We ALL helped to create the Clintons. RINOS played a key role and we elected them. It wasn’t just the RATs!


40 posted on 11/01/2016 8:50:09 AM PDT by vette6387
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