It’s the kind of gaffe that would have had angry voters calling for Donald Trump’s or Ted Cruz’s head.
So will they hold former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accountable, too?
Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have come under fire over a so-called comedy skit that included racist language and stereotyping.
Clinton, just days before the crucial New York primary, was a surprise guest during the mayor’s performance at the annual Inner Circle show in Manhattan on Saturday night, a black-tie charity gala that is the city’s answer to the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, took the stage to applause and, in a scripted scene, teased de Blasio, a fellow Democrat who managed her 2000 Senate campaign, for taking so long to endorse her presidential bid.
“Sorry Hillary,” de Blasio replied, “I was running on ‘CP time.'”
That’s a reference to a racial stereotype, “colored people time.” Leslie Odom Jr., a black actor who plays Aaron Burr in the Broadway smash “Hamilton” was also on the stage and pretended to be offended.
“I don’t like jokes like that, Bill,” Odom said.
But then Clinton interjected: “‘Cautious politician time,'” she said. “I’ve been there.”
Many in the room where it happened, which was filled with New York politicians, power brokers and reporters, laughed at the joke. But it soon made its way around social media and drew some scornful media coverage.
The New York Daily News blared “Skit for Brains” on its Tuesday front page. Salon called the skit “cringe worthy.” And New York magazine made reference to the mayor’s African-American spouse asking, “Does your wife, Chirlane, know about this joke?”
De Blasio, whose two multiracial children identify as black, downplayed the controversy.
“It was clearly a staged event,” he told CNN on Monday.” ”I think people are missing the point here.” Mayoral aides added that the skit was not meant to offend and pointed out that it was far from the only risque joke during a night in which reporters put on a show to roast politicians and then the mayor returns the favor.
A spokesman for Clinton echoed the point, saying the campaign “agreed with the mayor.”
At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest deflected questions about the propriety of the joke, saying he hadn’t seen it and therefore was “very reluctant to wade into this very far.”
The flap comes at a poor time for Clinton, who has enjoyed deep support from black voters during the previous primaries and is banking on their support again in New York’s April 19 primary to ward off a challenge from Bernie Sanders. A loss for Clinton in her home state could upend the Democratic race, though she would still have a significant delegate lead.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
This is tame in comparison to the Democrats’ control of the KKK after the Civil War.
Which was flipped by Nixon’s Southern Strategy in ’68 when the republicans became the party of the KKK and the Mafia.
GEORGE YOU ARE AN IDIOT.The Mafia ,ridiculous -What is your source?The “HUFFPO”Sen R.Byrd (D)of WV and Sen Albert Gore(D) of Tenn were both high officials in the KKK and filibustered the “1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT” do some research before making your sophomoric allegations.
Thanks Omni for stating the truth.
My uncle was in the KKK, and the whole family were Democrats.
Did you learn that in college, you don’t know what your talking about, you know nothing of the Democrats, what have they done for you besides give you free, nothing, and they never will. They want only to bring America down, and shove the NWO in your face, and you wont’ like them at all. Wake up and stop being stupid for a while huh.
It was Lyndon Johnson who started ”borrowing” from Social Security, Jimmy Carter who said everyone that came to America would receive Social Security at 65 even if they had never worked a day in this Country and Al Gore who casts the Final Vote to Tax Social Security. Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton are members of CFR. All a part of the NWO. HW Bush and Bill Clinton have made speeches in their support of NWO.
African Americans owe everything to the Republican Party! Every law that empowered blacks was the result of the Republican Party pushing them through Congress and Democrats fought them every step of the way!
Robert Byrd was a KKK and loved by Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy.
Actually the Republicans didn’t get their conservative base until the mid to late 1960’s. The most right wing and advocates for a strong military were Democrats. Democrats like Chicago’s Mayor Daley in late 1960’s were considered
enemies of leftists.
And now the Republicans are turning away from their conservative base as evidenced by how they’ve been kissing Obuma’s ass for the past few years and bowing to his every whim.
absolutely,that is what liberal democrats do,new york will never be the same as long as people keep voteing for losers like di blasio !!!!!!
Exactly. That’s why New York has the highest cost of living and is the highest taxed state in the country. Liberal Democrats have 90 percent of New Yorkers BRAINWASHED into thinking that they only care about the poor and Middle Class which, by the way, doesn’t exist anymore. That may have been true of the Roosevent Democrats, the Kennedy Democrats and the Johnson Democrats but today’s Clinton Democrats and Obuma Democrats dont’ give a rat’s ass about the poor and Middle Class. They hold $10,000 a plate fundraisers. Who do they think attends these fundraisers? Wealthy celebrities, that’s who. The average American struggling to make ends meet can’t afford to shell out $10,000 for some tiny spoonful of food. Democrats have outraised Republicans in the last four elections by more than 3-1. So, the next time you hear Hillary say “I’m fighting for you” just know that she’s so full of shit that it comes out of her nose instead of boogers and snot when she blows her nose.
i wonder how many black people really know that the demo-rats voted to keep slavery and then started the KKK to kidnap and kill blacks and the the NRA started by republicans armed blacks to protect themselves but they just keep voting for the democrats the have been using them for 50 years ????????
Go Anthony says ! Right on . The Clintons will dance at a church /play saxophone whatever it takes to play folks that falls for that malarkey ! They keep stashing their millions off shore and smiling .
I hope it bites her right in her big fat communist political ass!
You mean in her LESBIAN A$$.
You mean in her LESBIAN fat A$$.
Wow! Hillie actually called an unborn baby a “person”, then saying it “had no rights”, and now ignorantly insults Blacks with this reference! What will she think of next?….selling secrets to her Arab contributors?….getting American Embassy staff murdered?….just what else ? And if she were to be elected to the White House, her options would be limitless! She could make all kinds of BLUNDERS.
THESE WERE NO BLUNDERS!!! SHE MEANT EVERY WORD….sometimes a true self comes out when you try to make a joke….HER HIL FANS ARE BEING USED!!!!
A Hillary Clinton presidency would just be another four years of Obuma. If that’s what her idiot supporters want then they might as well just lift the two term limit on the presidency and let Obuma run for a third term.
NEVER fails to amuse me that the BLACKS still just don”t GIT IT….Their worse Enemies are the PROGRESSIVE LIBTaRDS who OWN the Plantations they are Forced to live in…. WAKE UP Afro Americans, you are being Played for FOOLS by the MORONS you Vote FOR!!!
Di Blasio and his fellow Bostonian ,Police Commissioner Bratton, have erased 25 years of progress that Guilliani, Bloomberg and Ray Kelly gave NYC.
I hope democraps abandone her like a bad piece of meat or a overripe banana. Classless, and tasteless. hilary is NOT WH material. Someone was right, if Trump had done that the outrage would be off the charts. But then liberal have no conscience or shame. And Bill Di is a prime example.
CP! Who knew? Since they insist on being called African Americans, they should have used “AA.” But, then, I’m sure the people at Alcholoics Anonymous would have been offended. Some people are just looking for reasons to be offended. Probably because they are full of condemnation and can’t wait to pour it out whenever possible. I’m a republican, but hey, let the democrats crack their jokes. In November, let’s hope the joke’s on them!
bottom line was it worth all this. if a repub was to say what stinko in new York said the aclu would be lined up to sue for damages. I hope they all rot in hell.
They well.
I hope and pray that happens. I’m a registered DEMOCRAP in name only. I’m voting for SANDERS. Them I’m voting for the TRUMPMISTER. We need a man like him to kick some LESBIAN A$$. One of his promises is to have her indicted.
I can’t believe OReilly, what a NAY sayer. He doesn’t believe that TRUMP is going to do all those things. What promises did that SOB MOSLEM HUSSAIN OBAMA keep, except screw this country?
She is going to be even worse than that KENYAN. Vote for TRUMP, he will shred her PANTSUIT just wait and see. I hear that she has to change her PANTSUIT every time someone mentions TRUMP to her.
Bwahahahaha!
just more of the same ol liberal bullshit. it is amazing because if even if McCain the biggest rino going made that joke they would have tarred and feathered him out of town. But once again the biggest racists bigots and get away with it. Surprised they didn’t claim they were only doing the jobs Americans don’t want to do.
Where the hell is Black lives Mater? Why aren’t they saying anything?
Where is Al $harpA$$ or that stupid Rev. Jackson?
And it was all meant in fun, “people are missing the point, not meant to offend”. How easy it is for the Dems to duck and move on. Where is the balanced press that would be demanding resignation or chastisement from others. Political correctness is being used a a club against white Repubs. We’ll see how far this goes
The Political Correctness remark reminds me of a joke my former neighbor just sent me regarding a remark that is attributed to former President Harry Truman in defining ‘Political Correctness’. His definition was which end of the piece of shit to pick up while not complaining about the smell.
I thought that was the best definition I’ve heard so far!!!!
Talk about insensitivity and irony – de Blaiso’s wife is BLACK nothing is above a vote and getting elected for her.
SLUG that she is.
Holy hell would have broke out if any Republican would have been involved in a racist joke. Libtards always give a free pass to their own. This isn’t the first time that a Clinton has been involved in racist conduct.
The entire Clinton family have proven to the world that they are Super-Predators operating in the name of the American people. This family of Super-Predators should be brought to heel for tainting the American brand. The rapist, ex-President, Bill “Shit-House” Clinton & Hillary Rotten Clinton along with Webster Hubbell’s daughter, Chelsea, should be tried in a court of law for swindling the American people., the proof is in the Audit of the Clinton Foundation. The Children Fund. These predatory Clintons are a fecal stain on the Continental American Flag, the flag without the gold border. Long Live The Continental American Constitution and the Law-of-the-land.
AMEN!!!!!
“Putin 2016”
That’s a funny one!
The liberals have been the ones who have used political correctness to unseat Republicans. If a Republican would have done this the Democrats would be out in force to declare how offended they are. Calls from the Democrats and the media for those involved in the “joke” to resign would grow until the targets step down. Would jokes about gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendereds be tolerated?
There shouldn’t be a double standard. What is acceptable for members of one party should be acceptable for the other.
I would suggest black voters should consider whether this “joke” reflects the views of those participating in the skit. Do they consider blacks to be slow or lazy? It would never have come to my mind that blacks are slower or lazier than whites. By the way, there were lots of racists in the old South that had black mistresses. They may have treated blacks as second class citizens but they had no problem plugging in to one.
OMG such drama with that . “Hillary the shape shifter” in the news again. If she wins, we will become like Europe. Just got back from the open border continent. Never again….
Not that the Democrats don’t deserve such retribution, but that such a comment should even elicit notice, much less offense, is a very sad commentary on present-day America, and it is a stark reminder of the loss of America’s cherished freedom of speech.
Well, i hope that the noise about this event will infuriate voters in NY to side with Bernie.
i, too, think this a tempest in a teapot and a trampling of the right to free speech(especially comedy), but “with the measure that ye mete, it will be measured unto you again, and more besides.” As has been well-noted above, had a Republican said “I’m on CP time,” especially if delivered with a fake “black accent,” the uproar would have been deafening.
i’m glad that the NY Post took this up as an issue, and made it front-page news. H “I Liar” should be held responsible, and may she count the cost in lost delegates. This ancient liar, suborner-of-perjury, witness intimidator, financially-scamming, negligent-homocidal creep-factory monster should not get closer to the WH than as a janitor cleaning toilets there…while under armed guard!
That should have read “NY Daily News,” instead of the Post. But what did i write THIS time that my comment should merit “awaiting moderation”?
I’ve never heard the C.P. time joke before. It would have shot passed me had this article not explained. It won’t hurt Hillary, as she gets away with murder. She has the President to scared to be indicted.
New York is NOT Old Lady Clinton’s home state. Illinois is her home state. All she did was buy a house in New York in 2000 and talk Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan into retiring so she could run for senate form New York. She has never even lived in that house.
Yet more evidence of the scurrilous and contemptible behavior of an unrepentant reprobate. She has and will continue to do and say anything at all to obtain more and more power to control the lives of “others.” It is a fond hope of mine that she will don the orange jumpsuit and jump to the orders of her jailers right quick…while her fellow inmates exult over her helplessness, shame, and degradation. “Oh, how the mighty have fallen” should be her epitaph.
Term Limits for congress….. and go Trump
How very tragic that the vast majority of our black voting citizens remained uneducated and uninformed and they continued to be used and abused by our ‘white” socialistic amoral democrats, by being “their masters” on the plantation of government welfare and entitlements and offering them inferior education and no jobs. Let’s continue to promote real freedom by getting them off of the welfare and entitlement plantation of our national democrat party.
Though this is my original comment, go ahead and use it and give me just a thought that you got it from this dude in Upper Michigan.
THERE ARE THREE GOOD THINGS ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA:
1. He cannot run for a third term even though he joked about how he would win such an election if he could run/ Really? Some have said that he may get a third term if he imposes martial law.
2. Hillary is worse than he is.
3. It is rumored that if Hillary wins, yeowch, she will not appoint him to the Supreme Court as some have hinted at doing.
Go ahead, y’all, quote me or as many up here in the Michigan woods, say, “quote me, eh?
She’s a real piece of crap I hope she gets burned from all this…
Euthanize the bitch and put her out of OUR misery.
IT IS TIME WE GET BEHIND TRUMP AND HIS MSA-.MAIN STREAM AMERICAN PARTY. Don’t believe any poll. My Poles confirm that Hitlery will get two terms. Stashu and Wanda say that she will get 10-20 for espionage and 20-50 for murder.
One year ago the rino rats saw El TRUMPO ON THE HORIZON. They said we must crush his chances so we will make a rule. If he wins the peoples vote we will give those votes to Jeb Bush. Then Bush washed out, They said let’s use Rubio to take out Trump but Rubio washed out. Then they said lets back Cruz to take out Trump and once the bigger threat is gone we will take out Cruz on a legal technicality. Then we will shove our favorite Rinorat down the peoples throat. The demo commos are with us. The communist media is with us and even the Conjobservatives are with us. Trump is completely isolated and we can get away with anything. The only group that is more treaherous than us is the Klinton Klan. They have the all inclusive party but the all inclusives are not allowed to run. The Klinton Klan will think for the suckers.
THE SUCKERS WILL DO AS WE TELL THEM. THEN ALONG CAME TRUMP. SOON IT WILL BE HIGH NOON.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/spiritofamericapartybook/2016/04/13/trump-can-start-a-second-party
WHO IS GOING TO KEEP YOU FREE?
ABUTOM-
“I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and courts. These are false hopes, believe me; these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no Constitution, no law, no court can save it.”
— Judge Learned Hand, Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit 1872-1961
i understand what you mean by “start a second party,” but are you aware that a plethora of parties ALREADY exist? Here’s just a few i can recall off the top of my head:
Green
Libertarian
Constitution
American
Socialist
Communist
LaRouche
We don’t hear from any of them in CCMSM for the following reason:
“One of our best-kept secrets is the degree to which a handful of huge corporations control the flow of information in the United States. Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read. And the situation is likely to become much worse as a result of radical deregulation efforts by the Bush administration and some horrendous court decisions. Television is the means by which most Americans get their “news.” Without exception, every major network is owned by a huge conglomerate that has enormous conflicts of interest. … The bottom line is that fewer and fewer huge conglomerates are controlling virtually everything that the ordinary American sees, hears and reads. This is an issue that Congress can no longer ignore.”
— Bernie Sanders(1941-) US Senator VT, former US Congressman VT
Source: “Congress Can No Longer Ignore Corporate Control of the Media,” The Hill (12 June 2002)
Those “in the know” are quite aware that the Shadow government is very real, and is comprised mostly of agents for the ultra-wealthy, the banksters and corporate CEO’s(and the rest of the corporate officers). Politicians need dough; the wealthy need shills to do their bidding. The vast majority of “representatives” are bought and paid for toadies to Mammon; to find a man of unimpeachable character, like Ron Paul, is virtually impossible these days – but i think i have a lawful solution:
“It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights… Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power… Our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go… In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
–Thomas Jefferson
Source: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. ME 17:388
Those who wrote the docs did their level best to ensure that tyranny of almost every kind(save that wilfully sought) could be restrained by a Republic that had a Constitution which defined – but MORE importantly, LIMITED – the powers that officeholders could lawfully wield…and this is why all officeholders are REQUIRED to take a binding oath of fealty to the Constitution, so that the People have a tool to hold them accountable for High Crimes and misdemeanors, like exceeding the bounds of their lawful authority(u sur pa tion), which is another way of saying “felony perjury,” for lying under oath. Unfortunately, to the best info i can find, NO officeholder has EVER been so much as arrested for Oath-breaking, much less convicted – and this sad state of affairs needs to change. These stooges, shills, sycophants, lick-spittles, and toadies for the wealthy need to FEAR We, the People. They currently do not, but let as few as 3 high profile convictions in EACH of the major branches ensue, and i guarantee that the rest will sit up and take notice.
“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freeman of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle.”
— James Madison(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
Source: “A Memorial and Remonstrance”, 1785: Works 1:163
Unfortunately, it seems clear that the People never availed themselves of ANY opportunity to check the excesses of our forefather’s representatives by use of the Oath-breaker felony perjury method, and now we have what we have.
OPEN LETTER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
I was brought up by a strict Italian and was taught to never be prejudice. But this presidential race has turned to a new low
I am a staunch Donald Trump supporter. And here’s the reason why!
I want a businessman to run our country. Years ago another businessmen was going to run for President His name was Ross Perot and I will never forget what he said in a campaign speech. If you sign the NAFTA BILL you will hear a big whooshing sound. The commentator then asked what do you mean?
Ross Perot responded “that’s all the Jobs leaving America”. Corporations are leaving in droves for cheaper labor! America doesn’t make anything anymore!
The crooked Politicians (not all but most), Bankers, Corporations Pharmaceutical Companies just don’t care about America or its people.
I am a historian and an avid reader! As I see it the media is owned by the bankers. “THIS COUNTRY IS BROKE! DRUG USE IS RAMPANT! WELFARE IS PREDOMINAT! AND WE ARE DIVIDED”. (This is how they control us) and What ever happened to the Middle Class??!
LET’S COME TOGETHER WITH DONALD TRUMP AND
“MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN”
Remember these Quotes
“UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL”
“DIVIDE AND CONQUER”
These controllers are dividing us! In order to line their own Pockets!!
As the late John F Kennedy said “there is a shadow government inside of America,” and look what happened to him!
As for our banking system, people don’t even know who owns the Federal Reserve (hint) it’s not our Government. (p.s. the USA is Bankrupt)
“Let me Issue and control a Nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws” Amsel Bauer Mayer Rothschild 1838
Henry Ford said in 1922 “It is well enough that people of the Nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning”
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
It’s a stacked deck the only way to change this is to not let them succeed in their endeavor to split us up .Sometimes I feel as if we are back in the Colonial times and that we are again fighting for our freedom. Our Forefathers knew that freedom was not free and that it had to be fought for. Instead of fighting England we are fighting the crooked Bankers who control our Government.
Just to close out my reasoning, we the Sheeple are controlled by what we read or watch (Newspapers, Magazines, Internet, Movies, and News Stations. (Google Who Controls America and you will see it is a stacked deck)
We are constantly being dumbed down. I for one am an avid reader and photo journalistic researcher. For the best information to get your head out of the sand I’m proud to commend this one publication and numerous books below
American Free Press
America’s last Real Newspaper: Populist & Independent –Not Republican or Democrat
http://www.Americanfreepress.net
AS FOR HILLORY
I really can’t believe that Hillary can get as many woman voters as she is with a husband who is a misogynist who has mistreated and misused as many women as he has! And now she wants to make Bill an advisor!!
For a wakeup call Read the Clinton Trilogy’s by Victor Thorn (Hillary and Bill)
#1 The Sex Volume, (Talk about misusing and mistreating women)
#2 The Drug Volume (and you wonder why Drug Abuse is rampant in this country
#3 The Murder Volume (do not cross the Clinton’s or you could end up in a body bag)
#4 The Secret Life of Bill Clinton (the unreported stories) Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
#5 Eagles Are Gathering by Merlin Miller (how many have heard about the USS LIBERTY) Google this and you will be shocked and appalled!
If you’re under 50 you really need to read this. If you’re over 50, you lived through it, so share it with those under 50. Amazing to me how much I had forgotten!
When Bill Clinton was president, he allowed Hillary to assume authority over a health care reform. Even after threats and intimidation, she couldn’t even get a vote in a democratic controlled congress. This fiasco cost the American taxpayers about $13 million in cost for studies, promotion, and other efforts.
Then President Clinton gave Hillary authority over selecting a female attorney general. Her first two selections were Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood – both were forced to withdraw their names from consideration. Next she chose Janet Reno – husband Bill described her selection as “my worst mistake.” Some may not remember that Reno made the decision to gas David Koresh and the Branch Davidian religious sect in Waco, Texas resulting in dozens of deaths of women and children.
Husband Bill allowed Hillary to make recommendations for the head of the Civil Rights Commission. Lani Guanier was her selection. When a little probing led to the discovery of Ms. Guanier’s radical views, her name had to be withdrawn from consideration.
Apparently a slow learner, husband Bill allowed Hillary to make some more recommendations. She chose former law partners Web Hubbel for the Justice Department, Vince Foster for the White House staff, and William Kennedy for the Treasury Department. Her selections went well: Hubbel went to prison, Foster (presumably) committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.
Many younger votes will have no knowledge of “Travelgate.” Hillary wanted to award unfettered travel contracts to Clinton friend Harry Thompson – and the White House Travel Office refused to comply. She managed to have them reported to the FBI and fired. This ruined their reputations, cost them their jobs, and caused a thirty-six month investigation. Only one employee, Billy Dale was charged with a crime, and that of the enormous crime of mixing personal and White House funds. A jury acquitted him of any crime in less than two hours.
Still not convinced of her ineptness, Hillary was allowed to recommend a close Clinton friend, Craig Livingstone, for the position of Director of White House security. When Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of about 900 FBI files of Clinton enemies (Filegate) and the widespread use of drugs by White House staff, suddenly Hillary and the president denied even knowing Livingstone, and of course, denied knowledge of drug use in the White House.
Following this debacle, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office after more than thirty years of service to seven presidents.
Next, when women started coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment and rape by Bill Clinton, Hillary was put in charge of the #$%$ eruption” and scandal defense. Some of her more notable decisions in the debacle were:
She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit. After the Starr investigation they settled with Ms. Jones.
She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor.
After $80 million dollars of taxpayer money was spent, Starr’s investigation led to Monica Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs.
Hillary’s devious game plan resulted in Bill losing his license to practice law for ‘lying under oath’ to a grand jury and then his subsequent impeachment by the House of Representatives.
Hillary avoided indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice during the Starr investigation by repeating, “I do not recall,” “I have no recollection,” and “I don’t know” a total of 56 times while under oath.
After leaving the White House, Hillary was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork that she had stolen.
What a swell party – ready for another four or eight year of this type of low-life mess?
Now we are exposed to the destruction of possibly incriminating emails while Hillary was Secretary of State and the “pay to play” schemes of the Clinton Foundation – we have no idea what shoe will fall next.
But to her loyal fans (supporters) – I guess in her own words “what difference does it make?”
Charley Reese’s final column for the Orlando Sentinel…
He has been a journalist for 49 years.
He retired and this was HIS LAST COLUMN.
This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral, neither anti-republican nor democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day. It’s a short but good read. Worth the time! Worth remembering!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.”
He died on May 21, 2013
R.I.P. and May GOD BLESS YOU CHARLIE REESE
“We could use better honest Journalist like You”
545 VS. 300,000,000 PEOPLE
-By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it’s because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan…
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people and they alone, are responsible.
They and they alone, have the power.
They and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees…
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
TIME IS RUNNING OUT
LET THEM NOT DIVIDE US
LET’S COME TOGETHER WITH DONALD TRUMP AND
“MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN”
Paul V. Papetti
IFPO
Freelance Photojournalist