Four Pinocchios

I Don’t Need A Citizenship Lesson From The Democrats

Chaos wants to devour this election.  It is already devoid of any sense of decency.

In an emotionally raw speech Pat Smith, the mother of American Foreign Service official Sean Smith killed in Benghazi, maintained Hillary Clinton lied to her and argued that Donald Trump would improve national security at the Republican convention.

A week later, Khizr Khan and his wife took to the stage at the Democratic National Convention to deliver an impassioned rebuke of Donald Trump that was universally celebrated by the media.

Why were the families of the soldiers of the Ft. Hood massacre not asked to speak at the DNC?  Why not ask the parents of the fallen who died defending the Benghazi consulate to speak?  Because the Democrats are unadulterated hypocrites and liars of the first order.  Their nominee is unworthy of belief.

Palestinian flags were prominently displayed by activists at the Democratic National Convention amid an apparent lack of American flags, according to numerous media and social media postings. In addition, activists were seen holding up signs reading, “I support Palestinian human rights.”  There was a sit-in under the Mississippi state flag outside the Wells Fargo Arena demanding it’s removal because it depicts the Confederate standard.  Also outside the convention hall, demonstrators proudly waved the Soviet Union flag.

Capt. Humayun Khan was one of just 14 Muslim-Americans (the number was compiled by the House Homeland Security Committee) among the 6,885 US troops who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Khan’s anguish is very real and their story very powerful and it has become a cudgel to be wielded against Trump until Election Day.

Khan admonished, “Donald Trump, you are asking Americans to trust you with their future. Let me ask you:  Have you even read the United States Constitution? I will gladly lend you my copy.  In this document, look for the words "liberty" and "equal protection of law."

By telling Trump to "look for the words 'liberty' and 'equal protection of law'" in the Constitution, Khan was suggesting that the ban on Muslims entering the United States would violate the 14th Amendment. This is the relevant portion of that amendment:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Byron York, noted in The Washington Examiner, “The text makes clear that its protections apply to ‘all persons born or naturalized’ in the US; persons ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’; and persons ‘within its jurisdiction.’  None refers to foreign persons in foreign countries. Pakistanis in Pakistan, to take one example, regardless of religion, do not have US constitutional rights. As far as ‘liberty’, the other word mentioned by Khan, is concerned, the Constitution says the government may not deprive someone of liberty without due process of law, which of course means the government may deprive someone of liberty with due process of law.”

I hardly think Mr. Khan has stature to give any American a lesson in citizenship.

Khan’s son died in 2004 in a war that Hillary Clinton voted for when she was the senator from New York.  It was her vote to invade Iraq that sent Capt. Khan to his death. And…her failure to acknowledge a terrorist attack on the Benghazi consulate or to even send help during the more than 9-hour siege caused four Americans to be murdered.

Being A Woman Isn’t Hillary’s Only Qualification

Hillary: Manifestly Guilty

Once upon a time you could look forward to journalists and the media excoriating a scandal-ridden politician instead of toiling furiously to cover up their scandals.  Despite being manifestly guilty of multiple felonies, the poodles in the press and her intellectually bankrupt and fawning idol worshipers deny the existence of her serial corruption.   They deny, deny, deny.  They just don’t care.  For them it’s all good.

While speaking in Chicago at the International Women’s Luncheon, Clinton acknowledged her bleak polling numbers on honesty and trustworthiness.

“A lot of people tell pollsters they don’t trust me.  Now, I don’t like hearing that.  And I’ve thought a lot about what’s behind it.  And you know, you hear 25 years’ worth of wild accusations, anyone would start to wonder.  And it certainly is true—I’ve made mistakes.  I don’t know anyone who hasn’t.  So I understand people have questions.”

“It is possible to change people’s minds by marshaling facts and making arguments to rebut negative attacks, but that doesn’t work for everyone.  You can’t just talk someone into trusting you.  You’ve got to earn it.”

"So, yes, I could say that the reason I sometimes sound careful with my words is not that I’m hiding something, it’s just that I’m careful with my words," Clinton said. "I believe what you actually say matters. I think that’s true in life and it’s especially true if you’re president."

Clinton continued, "So, I do think before I speak, and could say that political opponents and conspiracy theorists have accused me of every crime in the book over the years."

"None of it’s true, never has been," she said. "But accusations like that never really disappear once they’re out there. And a lot of what people read about me in certain corners of the internet and a lot of what Donald Trump says about me is just that same nonsense.  But—I know trust has to be earned.”

.@HillaryClinton says "a lot of people tell pollsters they don't trust me": "I have work to do on this front" https://t.co/GRrYkhxyD5

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 27, 2016

@ABCPolitics @HillaryClinton "I need to deliver my lies with much more authenticity."

— Dan Kostka (@danielkostka) June 27, 2016

And The Oscar Goes To…

The 88th Academy Awards ceremony will be this Sunday, February 28, 2016.  All the voting has been completed and the results have been hermetically sealed and kept in a No. 2 mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall’s back porch since noon today.  No one but me the great seer, soothsayer and sage “Curmudgeon The Resplendent” knows the contents.  Using my borderline psychic powers I alone have divined the answer to who will be presented with the Oscar for Best Actress In A Leading Role For Pathological Liar.

Actually, I’m not all that resplendent.  Everybody in America knows the wretched fossil who held up a presidential debate because she took so long to bite off a log and took to barking like a dog at a political stump speech has a history of deflections, deceptions and untruths lies.  Even her staunchest supporters are wetting their beds over her “credibility deficit” due, in large part, to the interview with Scott Pelley during which he asked, “You talk about leveling with the American people.  Have you always told the truth?  Her answer was, “I’ve always tried to.  Always. Always.”

When Pelley pointed out that she had given herself “wiggle room” in her response she bristled saying, “Well, no, I’ve always tried…”

Pelley pressed her, “I mean, Jimmy Carter said, ‘I will never lie to you.'”  Visibly shaken by the hardline insinuation, Clinton said, “Well, but, you know, you’re asking me to say ‘Have I ever?’  I don’t believe I ever have.  I don’t believe I ever have.  I don’t believe I ever will.  I’m gonna do the best I can to level with the American people.”

Last Friday before the Democrat Caucuses in Nevada, Stephen Colbert pointed out the sheer stupidity of her answer.  He brought a small boy on stage with him to demonstrate how one should lie when faced with a searing accusation.

Hillary requires no tutelage on the subject of lying.  She is a Professor Emerita, JD, Ph.D.  See for yourself in the video embedded below.