Hillary Clinton recently called for raising taxes on the “middle class” while campaigning in Omaha, Nebraska. She was joined on stage by left-wing Democrat billionaire Warren Buffett, and they both received applause from those in attendance.
“Because while Warren is standing up for a fairer tax code, Trump wants to cut taxes for the super-rich,” said Clinton. “Well, we’re not going there, my friends. I’m telling you, right now — we’re going to write fairer rules for the middle class and we are going to raise taxes on the middle class!” And unaccountably, the audience cheered and applauded!
I don’t know which is stranger, Hillary’s words or her audience’s approval!
You can watch for yourself at https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=33&v=7ua13_gYQn0
In another speaking engagement, it was reported that as Hillary was speaking someone in the audience held up a banner about not killing animals. Hillary stopped speaking. Apparently it was as if she was stunned; or confused. One of her Secret Service agents was observed coming alongside of her saying, “Keep talking.” And she did. She began to talk about how former President George Bush and his friends like to kill animals. What?
Now, much earlier I had read one of those tell-all stories from someone who had apparently been on Hillary’s staff, was let go, and was “telling all” as one who had been close to her. What she was telling was about Hillary’s inability to focus and stay on target. How she had to be constantly reminded what to do, where to be, what to say. The implication was a lack of short-term memory. At the time I filed that away as election-year fluff. Now I wonder.
If you go to Google and search “Hillary Clinton Seizures”, you find 583,000 results. Many of those are YouTube videos of her apparently suffering on-camera seizures, and yet beyond what you see, no credible evidence has been addressed or released. InfoWars.com and others discuss Hillary Clinton as a sociopath who may have brain damage, but again, no real evidence one way or the other.
Here’s the thing. At this point in the election year, no one is going to state with any competency that the lady is ill or in any state that would remove her from running for President. Just not going to happen, even were it true.
We all are probably familiar with stories about the old boxing champion or other aging sports figure who has lost their edge, maybe even suffered brain damage, but who won’t quit. And they are surrounded by a coterie of close supporters who continue to urge that person on. After all, this is their golden goose. Without this person they have no money, no job, no future. Doesn’t matter that the longer this person goes without competent treatment the less grow their chances for a good quality of life, or even survival.
If this were true of Hillary Clinton, could those who have closed ranks around her ensure this nation the leadership it deserves, that it needs? They would surely answer in the affirmative, behind closed doors. Others would coach, coax, act for, and keep up appearances for as long as possible; unless the money and rewards ran out. But no chance of that, by all accounts.
Still, brain damage or not, disaster looms and the question presents itself, will Hillary be able to cope? While Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea will do everything in their power to “protect” their cash cow, their golden goose, it doesn’t take even a good detective to see that the Clinton Empire is beginning to fray, crack, and rot around the edges.
Now new evidence is being investigated about the claimed suicide of close Democratic supporter Vince Foster. Two others who authorities say were about to testify against the Clintons have also died this year. News commentators are abandoning their practice of “protecting” the Clintons as “American royalty” and ugly facts about the Clinton Foundation are finding their way into print and TV news, such as how the Foundation benefits the Clintons alone as a “slush fund” but no one else, for example.
The descriptive phrase “house of cards” comes to mind, and again the question, can Hillary cope?
And at the center of it is a now-delightful, now-furiously angry, now-silly grinning elderly lady who has had a good run in politics and now wants her brass ring on the merry-go-round. And it is to the benefit of many that she gets it, so they are hiding and sliding and helping her. Possibly. How will we know? Camouflage and misdirection are the hallmarks of an election year. And the bottom line comes down to the question of how that helps the nation. Should a pity-support vote put her into the White House and we simply hope for the best? Can we trust those around her to carry on if it all turns out badly?
Still and all, we who have grown up as Americans still retain enough of the remaining true American character to ask the question that is even more bottom line to that. And that question is how does any of it really help this human being we know as Hillary Rodham Clinton? What about what is best for this possibly “crazy old lady”? What about what is best for her?
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