[Atlanta Black Star] Social media erupted Tuesday, June 6, after excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s 1996 book "It Takes a Village" revealed that she employed Black inmates while serving as First Lady of Arkansas, leaving die-hard HRC supporters incensed.
In the passages, tweeted by Black Lives Matter activist and Sen. Bernie Sanders supporter @JeanetteJing, Clinton recalled the African-American inmates who worked in the Arkansas governor’s mansion she shared with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, who led the Little Rock State from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992. For Hillary Clinton, the aspect of getting to know the inmates who worked around the house and in the yard was a bit "unusual" at first.
"When we moved in, I was told that using prison labor at the governor’s mansion was a longstanding tradition, which kept down costs," Clinton wrote. "I had defended several clients in criminal cases, but visiting them in jail or sitting next to them in court was not the same as encountering a convicted murderer in the kitchen every morning."
The former First Lady stuck to tradition, however, and eventually warmed up to the idea of having prison laborers in her home. In fact, Clinton wrote that she and her family became friends with "a few of them, African-American men in their 30s who had already served 12 to 18 years of their sentences."
"I saw and learned a lot as I got to know them better," she continued.
Despite these alleged friendships, Clinton stressed that, "We enforced rules strictly and sent back to prison any inmate who broke a rule."
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"When we moved in, I was told that using prison labor at the governor’s mansion was a longstanding tradition, which kept down costs,"
Cause Free Labor just costs too much. I believe others had the same attitude over a 150 years ago. Always seemed to rationalize their choice of economics.
[LI] The Special Counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller barely has gotten off the ground, and already there is a stench.
That stench was created by former FBI Director James Comey, who admitted in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee that he leaked, through a friend, memoranda purporting to document improper conversations between Donald Trump and Comey. Most important among those conversations was a February 14, 2017, one-on-one meeting in which Trump supposedly told Comey that Trump "hoped" that Comey would see fit to "let go" of the investigation into Michael Flynn.
As described in Comey’s prepared statement (emphasis added):
The President then returned to the topic of Mike Flynn, saying, "He is a good guy and has been through a lot." He repeated that Flynn hadn’t done anything wrong on his calls with the Russians, but had misled the Vice President. He then said, "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go." I replied only that "he is a good guy." (In fact, I had a positive experience dealing with Mike Flynn when he was a colleague as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency at the beginning of my term at FBI.) I did not say I would "let this go."
Comey’s version of that conversation was leaked to the NY Times, though the precise timing is disputed. Comey asserted in his testimony that the leak came only after Trump tweeted: "James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!"
Trump’s attorney claims the leak came days earlier, as NY Times reporting contained language strikingly to the leaked memo as conveyed by Comey’s law professor friend to the NY Times.
Regardless of the timing, Comey says that he leaked the memoranda in order to create a need for a Special Counsel.
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So Comey also admitted there was no there there--no collusion with Russia on the part of Trump. No one else has found anything on this fishing expedition. Then why the need for a Special Counsel unless he plans to look into the Hildabeest/John Podesta hijinks with Russia?
[Wash Times] A key Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday that former FBI director James Comey’s leak of his memos detailing his private meeting with the president was "inappropriate," but "releasing his memos [is] not damaging to national security."
"I’m still wondering why he prospectively wanted to get out his side of his opinion," Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma said Sunday, appearing on CBS’ "Face the Nation."
Mr. Comey testified last week that he leaked the memos through a friend to The New York Times after President Trump hinted he may have tapes of their private conversation. According to Mr. Comey, the president directed him to stop the investigation into his former national security advisor Michael Flynn and also requested his loyalty -- something Mr. Trump denies.
Mr. Lankford said he doubts that Mr. Trump has recordings of his private conversation with Mr. Comey, as the president has hinted the tapes exist.
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"I’m still wondering why he prospectively wanted to get out his side of his opinion," Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma said Sunday, appearing on CBS’ "Face the Nation."
Please consider the sleepless, vengeful, spiteful prick scenario. No need to get back to me Senator, just ponder it for a spell.
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“inappropriate,” but “releasing his memos [is] not damaging to national security.”
Well, it does prevent the work of the country to proceed in an orderly way...But maybe that is the goal of Dems and the Rinos. Don't want to make it appear that anything is getting done in Washington (sarc).
#4
No harm done? How about the obstruction of justice on the part of Obama's Deep-State DOJ? How about the waste of time caused to the intelligence community as well as the rest of us?
#5
Technically correct, lawyerly parsing of the situation: no 'damaging to national security'.
But what happens when the Praetorians become corrupt and lose their impartiality, Senator? What then?
[TheBlackSphere] In the last election, though Hillary Clinton lost, the real loser was Barack Obama.
Apparently, Obama takes the rejection personally. Thus, Obama’s travel schedule appears to undermine President Trump.
During his latest trip to Canada Obama spoke to 6,000 socialists in order to maintain some semblance of relevance.
Ironically, the crowd size was exponentially larger than crowds Obama commands stateside.
Ironically, the premise of Obama’s speech was to bring attention to the terrorism. However, Obama proved to be quintessential Obama, as he warned Canadians not to move "backward towards Nationalism, isolations, and xenophobia."
"The disruptions that are happening globally are going to continue to accelerate....that leads people to search for certainty and control, and they can call for isolationism or nationalism, or they can consider rolling back the rights of others, or simply they can try to retreat and suggest that we have no obligations beyond our borders, or beyond our communities, beyond our tribe. That what’s good for me and my immediate people is all that matters. Everybody else is on their own."
Obama’s solution to fighting global terror is to tell non-terrorists to simply accept terrorism.
No wonder why America didn’t want Obama.
Throughout his 8 years of failure and the rejection of his legacy throughout this past election, Obama learned nothing.
Citizens expect their government to protect them. And if America proves anything, we have none of the problems Obama outlined.
America is diverse and accepting. And we won’t be demonized to suit the narrative of the PC multiculturalists.
All Obama gave America is terrorists in our midst, literally training in all 50 states.
But the real issue was trade.
While Obama glad-hands over terror, the real issue in Canada is one of our trade deficit.
Shorty after his inauguration, President Trump announced that the United States will impose a 20 percent tariff on all softwood lumber imported from Canada. He made this move to level the playing field for American lumber companies.
"We love Canada, but they have been very good at taking advantage of the United States through NAFTA," Trump told a group of reporters. "We are putting a 20 percent tax on lumber coming into the United States from Canada."
Obama did nothing to correct America’s trade imbalance anywhere on the globe.
Yet, he told Canadians and the rest of the world that the Trump administration’s "American first" policies worries him. Obama cautioned about "intolerance and tribalism and organizing ourselves along ethnic lines."
Interesting choice of words, given that both the United States and Canada are about as heterogeneous as cultures as you can get.
In the end, Obama can do nothing to stop the Trump administration agenda. And I can’t wait for Trump’s policy moves to play out, so the world will be forced to see Obama for what he was and still is. A loser.
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While Hillary stank to high heaven with corruption, I suspect Obama lost the contest by allowing mentally challenged "folks" into the wrong bathroom.
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Gotta hurt to listen to the sycophants in the media and believe that you and your policies are loved only to see the next guy elected on a platform of undoing pretty much everything.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[LI] The Special Counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller barely has gotten off the ground, and already there is a stench.
[Wash Times] A key Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday that former FBI director James Comey’s leak of his memos detailing his private meeting with the president was "inappropriate," but "releasing his memos [is] not damaging to national security."
[TheBlackSphere] In the last election, though Hillary Clinton lost, the real loser was Barack Obama.
