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The Clintons  At the End of All Things

NRO ^ | 1 Nov 2016 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on by Rummyfan

Epic greed, power, and pride: Wheres the bottom? With Bill and Hillary, theres no telling.

What was the Clinton telos? The end point, the aim of all their lying, cheating, criminality, dishonor, and degradation?

Given the latest Weiner scandals coming on top of the latest WikiLeaks scandals, we wonder, what did the Clintons really wish to end up as  and why? Are they Goethes Faust or tortured souls crushed by the weight of their money bags in Dantes Fourth Circle of Hell?

For a few criminals, remorse comes with old age; but for the Clintons, near-70 was to be the capstone, the last chance to trump all their prior shenanigans. They were artists of amorality, and the election of 2016 was to be their magnum opus.

Collate the FBI reopened investigation, WikiLeaks Podesta trove, revelations about the Clinton Foundation, the e-mailserver scandal, the DNC disclosures, and the various off-the-cuff campaign remarks of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and one then ponders what was the point of the Clinton shakedowns, the loss of reputation, the crude lawbreaking, as they neared their seventh decade. To paraphrase Barack Obama, in his progressive sermonizing on making enough money, did the two ever think they had enough money, enough honors, enough power already?



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Apparently there is no limit to their greed, their lust for power, their venality, and their shear narcissism in that they demand to be loved, admired, adored, and recognized and lionized for their brilliance and rightness.



To: Rummyfan

They are profoundly corrupt, and we knew that all along, but now we can prove it! Only a totalitarian freak would use the IRS to enforce Obamacare. They will destroy the middle class in short order. Remind everyone to vote, we’ve got to stop Kim Jong Hill!



To: Rummyfan

You’re right - there is no limit to all of that. There is no remorse, no stopping their criminalities, only more of the same. If she who cannot be named ever gets into the White House, we KNOW these crimes will continue only on a mega scale. We must pray and work and vote against such a fate....as we all here know.



To: Rummyfan

The Clintons suffer from greed, as defined by Aristotle: endless acquisition solely for the benefit of self. With their insatiable appetites, they resented the limits that multimillionaire status put on them, boundaries they could bypass only by accumulating ever greater riches. The billion-dollar foundation squared the circle of progressive politicians profiting from the public purse by offering a veneer of doing good while offering free luxury travel commensurate with the style of the global rich, by offering sinecures for their loyal but otherwise unemployable cronies, and by spinning off lobbying and speaking fees (the original font of their $100-million-plus personal fortune and the likely reason for Secretary of State Hillary Clintons decision to put all her communications, mercantile included, on a private server safe from government scrutiny). Acquiring money to the extent that money would become superfluous was certainly a Clinton telos  and the subtext of the entire Podesta trove and the disclosures about the Clinton Foundation.



To: Rummyfan

The Hillary/Bill fortune  generated by pay-for-play influence peddling on the proposition that Bill would return to the White House under Hillarys aegis and reward friends while punishing enemies  hit a reported $150 million some time ago, a fortune built not on farming, mining, insurance, finance, high-tech, or manufacturing, but on skimming off money. The Clintons are simply grifters whose insider access to government gave them the power to make rich people richer. VDH writes very well. One wonders that if Hitlery seizes power next January if such words will allowed in the public square.



To: Rummyfan

The Clintons make the fictional Underwoods on “House of Cards” look like a couple of Sunday School teachers.



by 6 posted onby Flick Lives (Voting Trump. It is not just a vote, it is a chance to burn down the rotten Uniparty.)

To: Rummyfan

To paraphrase Barack Obama, in his progressive sermonizing on making enough money, did the two ever think they had enough money, enough honors, enough power already? I cannot forget that Chelsea once said that she tried to care about money, but can't. She could only have that attitude if her parents taught her that she deserves everything just because she exists. It is hard for me to imagine how anyone can be so out of touch with ordinary people. And these out of touch people want to dictate how we live? They should just stay in their ivory towers, out of sight and out of mind.



by 7 posted onby exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)

To: Rummyfan

It’s a great column - they will never have enough. Of anything. Meanwhile, their souls rotted a long time ago.

What NASTY people!



To: Rummyfan

When Hillary loses, they should both be put on suicide watch. Their friends, if they ever really had any, will turn their back on them and the only thing they can look forward to is to die in jail. They will never put themselves in a position to be handcuffed and incarcerated.



by 9 posted onby MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)

To: exDemMom

I cannot forget that Chelsea once said that she tried to care about money, but can't. As with everything the Clintons 'say', it has to be parsed. What Chelsea meant was that with the tons of money that her family has, she has never had to even 'think' or 'care' about how much anything she did or wanted cost. For instance, the 'apartment' she and her 'husband'(btw, where is he ?) own. She never even had to 'think' or 'worry' about how much it cost.



by 10 posted onby UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)

To: Rummyfan

The Clintons are popular because the people amongst whom they’re popular know perfectly well that they’re for sale.



To: UCANSEE2

What Chelsea meant was that with the tons of money that her family has, she has never had to even 'think' or 'care' about how much anything she did or wanted cost. And she learned this attitude from her parents. Whatever claims Hillary makes about "caring", the fact is that they have no empathy or understanding of ordinary people. The bad economic policies she supports don't affect her. It would be a great lesson for Chelsea to send her out to look for a job where family connections won't get her in the door, where she actually has to compete with people for whom money *does* matter. And then, once she finds a job based on her qualifications, to have her live on her salary--about $50,000 per year for a new graduate with a BA. She might then develop that concern for money that normal people have. But without that experience, she will remain clueless.



by 12 posted onby exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)

To: Rummyfan

Feel very sorry for the Clintons and their ablers....”What is it if you gain the whole world and lose your soul.”



To: SoFloFreeper

Doubtful. The FCC will regulate political speech on the internet. We already have given naming authority to global tyrants and have “net neutrality.” Say Good-Bye to FR and all other conservative web sites. We better resurrect old mimeograph machines and start stockpiling reams of paper. You will need a license to buy paper in the near future.



To: ProtectOurFreedom

by 15 posted onby DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)

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