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And you thought Hillary had bought off all her potential rivals. Apparently there is one man who
Thursday night, Hillary Clinton was the keynote speaker at the Women in the World Summit. The annual event, created by editrix Tina Brown, brings “women leaders, activists and political change-makers from around the world to share their stories, and offer solutions to building a better life for women and girls.”
Today was a very bad day for Hillary Clinton. This time it wasn’t about logos or burritos, but rather uranium, foreign affairs, and serious corruption. The New York Times published an exposé on ties between the Clintons and a sketchy deal that left Vladimir Putin in control of a significant portion of America’s uranium; uranium it can now sell to Iran and other bad actors in the world.
From the British newspaper, the Daily Mail. The reporter may overstate the political influence of these undergrads — goodness knows nobody ever accused us of affecting presidential politics when I attended the place 35 years go, although, come to think of it, I did have chats with Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan’s campaign manager — but of course that’s not the point.
Timothy Carney of the Washington Examiner recently
When John F. Kennedy was elected president he surprised both Democrats and Republicans with a bold tax-cutting plan to solve the problem of a moribund economy. He had campaigned on “getting the country moving again,” and had set a 5 percent economic-growth target, but he never specified how he was going to do it. Then he opened everyone’s eyes with a plan to lower marginal tax rates across-the-board.
In a normal world, the very thought of the person who sat idly by while four Americans were besieged and murdered at one of our embassies now wanting to be our “champion” would cause every heart in the country to go into immediate arrest. Unhappily, the world is no longer normal, leaving a small and regrettable percentage of the American electorate who will now invite the Inspector Clouseau of American politics to minister to their whims and desires. But, to be sure, they won’t be the same people who learned from experience the pitfalls of placing their hopes and trust in Hillary Clinton.
I am not ready yet to say that Hillary is toast. But when the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, whose ideology (if you can call it that) hews as much toward Clintonian centrism as that of any prominent member of the liberal punditocracy,