BALTIMORE, Maryland March 29, 2016 - Hillary Clinton and her former henchmen (henchpeople?) at the USA State Department are about to have sit down chats with the 147-Agent Task Force about to seek criminal indictments against her. He alleged lead in the Democratic race for President is on a down-bound train. Her opponent, a dithering old Marxist who has no foreign policy ideas at all despite a long membership in the Congress of These United States. Yet he is bearing down on Hillary almost solely because of Hillary's violations of USA Espionage Laws, a penchant of public fabrications and an untrustworthy reputation that would make Richard Nixon blush with pride. Is anybody surprised?
You shouldn't be. For years, the far left teachers' unions have controlled education in USA Public Schools. Many of these teachers of shockingly limited intelligence have extolled socialism and openly despised democracy and capitalism, even though even a moron realizes that both are about the best man can do to escape despotism. Am I wrong? I don't think so.
Today, if you are a democrat you can almost count on blathering positive news coverage so long as you give lip service to stupid far left ideas that have never worked anywhere on Earth. Barack Hussein Obama has been elected twice to the office of President. He is pro-Islamic Terrorist, pro-Islamic Anti-Feminism, pro-Islamic anti-Semitism, anti-capitalistic and anti-American. If you are surprised about the Democratic race and the polls that show that either candidate will beat the Republican Front-Runner, Donald Trump, you don't know the half of it. You really don't. And why would you if you regularly read the mainstream American media or watch your news on CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC or NBC? If you watch Fox, you'd have about a half of a clue as the what is going on. If you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin, even if you disagree with every word they say, you would at least know what was going on. Really, you would. Even if, like I say, you hate their every word.
I confess I have grown to agree with most of what they say. This, even though I am a writer and a trial lawyer and a Democrat.
Bernie Sanders has this approach to reality that calls for the government to give everybody everything. He plans to pay for it by taxing the rich. First, it will be a hop, skip and jump to a time when there will no longer be any rich folk. Second, if we take all of the rich's money, it won't begin to pay for the stuff Bernie wants to give people. This means he will also have to tax the living hell out of the middle class. Soon enough there will not be a middle class. They are doing very poorly under Obama, or haven't you noticed?
Hillary Clinton is a thief and one of the most corrupt people ever to run for President, as a person, she is a total narcissist. She is pompous. She is also achingly shallow, to the point of being mindless in her conception of the world society. She never does anything, ever, unless it will benefit her, personally. Her husband, whom she detests personally - imagine someone as totally narcissist as her being married to a rube like him - is a lot like her in his approach to life. They both are in it for what they can get out of it. If you support them and don't see that, shame on you. But if you support them and are smart enough to see the truth about those two, what kind of person are you? Hillary was fired from the Democratically controlled Watergate Commission because she couldn't control her penchant for telling lies. Hillary voted for the Iraq War. Hillary and Bill are the subject of the late, great Christopher Hitchen's book "No One Left to Lie To."
Before you vote for Hillary again, you owe it to yourself to read that book. Would you know any of this by reading the New York Times? If you read the New York Times every day, or watch NBC every day, you think Hillary is an honest feminist running to be the first female president of These United States. Quick! What part of that previous sentence is not true? You don't know, do you?
In the Democratic race, Hillary supposedly has more delegates than does Bernie. Hillary, according to the highly biased Associated Press, has 1,712 delegates, including 469 so-called "Super-Delegates" who are unelected delegates appointed by party bigwigs. Bernie has 1,004 delegates, including a mere 29 Super-Delegates. If you eliminate the super delegates (and they are under assault by people sympathetic to Bernie), Hillary's lead over Bernie is dramatically smaller: 1243 to 975. Not only that, but Bernie is surging and has all of the momentum. A number of western primaries and caucuses were held this past week and Bernie not only won almost all of them, he won by mind-blowing margins. My late grandfather always said there was something in the water out west. Just so you know, 2,383 delegates are needed for official nomination. There are still 943 delegates available. A number of real nightmares lurk for the Democrats:
1. Hillary is indicted. She should be. There is no doubt about that. Even if you merely follow the mainstream media, you should have reached that conclusion with even a fair reading. If you follow Catherine Herridge at Fox News, who should win a Pulitzer for her coverage of the story, you know in your heart that she should be indicted. Do not assume that Hillary will withdrawal from the campaign if she is indicted. If she has already "won" the nomination, she will dig in and merely run a really vicious campaign. If she is indicted before the primary season ends, Bernie will surge. If the primary season ends with Hillary ahead but without enough elected delegates to secure the nomination, there will be infighting galore over the super-delegates. You must know in your heart that some of these have exacted promises of one sort or another from Hillary, promises which will lead to all manner of backroom shenanigans. A lot of pundits predict that an indictment at any stage will lead to Joltin' Joe Biden as a candidate. Just sayin' So in a race between the thief and the old nut, Biden rides to the rescue. And the GOP has problems? It is the country that has problems.
2. The FBI recommends indictments, but Obama or his functionary Attorney General, quash it. This leads to a series of the most damaging leaks by the FBI. It is more than possible that the public might learn more about Hillary's malfeasance if this is what happens. The FBI will want the really bad stuff out there if there is not an indictment to be had. If there is an indictment, it will have to keep the best evidence under wraps of a sort until the trial. If the GOP candidate has even one-half of a brain, they will jump on this information and ride it home.
3. There is more. On his best day, Biden is a public relations nightmare. And with him entering the race at the last, he will be mostly unprepared and prone to the most egregious kind of screw-ups. Take the screw-ups you know about and double them. Biden and Obama have been shielded from tough questions by the far left media cabal. But if Hillary, Biden or even Sanders get dropped in front of Trump or even Crews in some kind of debate, and start having to answer for Obamacare and some of Obama's pro-Islamic nonsense, well, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that it will get ugly real fast. Even if you hate Trump, a debate with him against HIllary will be worth the price of admission. How would you prepare Hillary? If she zings him, and it is certainly likely that she could, he gets madder and drops the gloves. What will she do? Leave? Run from trouble?
To conclude, the AP says that to get the Democratic nomination, a candidate needs 2,383 delegate votes at the party convention this summer. Right now, Hillary leads with 1,712 delegates, including 1,243 delegates earned in primaries and caucuses and 469 super delegates. Bernie has 1,004 delegates, including 975 delegates earned in primaries and caucuses and 29 super delegates. The AP says 2,049 delegates are still available. The folk in Wisconsin vote on April 5, followed by Wyoming - Democrats only - on April 9. A huge number of delegates are up for grabs on April 19 when New York State voters weigh in. On April 26 the whole election will hang in the balance when some five states go to the polls on the same day: Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. If the matter remains undecided - and there is every indication that it might - there are a number of huge elections in the final days of the primary season. California votes on June 7. Indiana votes on May 3. West Virginia votes on May 10. Oregon votes one week later on May 17. The Democratic vote in the nation's capital is on June 14.
One day soon I will bring you up to date on what is actually happening in the GOP race. Right now, if you are only reading the New York Times you probably think Donald Trump is the son of Adolph Hitler. I feel compelled to tell you that he is not. He is nothing like Hitler. Is Hillary? I have never said that she is the son of any person.
Sports On The Short: Tonight in Madison Square Garden in New York City, the NIT will play its two Final Four Games. At 7 pm, Valparaiso (29-6) collides with BYU (in a wonderful match-up of two proficient teams that score, score, score. The Crusaders are well-balanced. Their success often turns on how long they can keep their agile center, Vashil Fernandez, out of foul trouble and in the game. Fernandez is an outstanding shot blocker who literally keeps other teams off the boards. If you watched Valpo's game against St. Mary's in the NIT Quarterfinals, you saw Vashil Fernandez literally intimidate an entire team. The Gaels are an offensive team for the ages, a team that runs on an offense that is a testimony to the excellence of its coach, Randy Bennett. (I suppose that Bennett really really loves his job there at St. Mary's, because there is no other reason for him not to have been hired away by another school.) Yet on that night in northern Indiana, the Gaels were "shooshed" out of the lane by Fernandez. They stopped even attempting to drive the lane. St. Mary's was ahead at the half because Fernandez picked up two early fouls and Crusader Coach Bryce Drew - another genius of a coach - decided to keep him on the bench through the remainder of the half rather than risk a third foul. Once Fernandez got back in the game, the Crusaders took over and the game ended up as a blow out. Final score: Valparaiso 60, St. Mary's 44. Valpo is lead by Alec Peters on offense. The Senior, who stands at 6', 9" and weighs some 228 pounds, averages 18.5 points per game and was the Horizon League MVP. Another reason for Valpo's habitual success is point guard Keith Carter, who scores over ten points per game, plays a very tough on-ball defense and runs the agile Crusader offense. BYU, 26-10, is an exciting offensive-minded team that seems oblivious to the crowds and the pressure of the situation, all of which is a tribute to their genius (there is that word again) of a coach, Dave Rose. Because it is a largely Mormon team, most of its players have served a two to three season "mission" in which a player picks up and moves to often far away locations and, once there, does missionary work for their church. The lads live a rather spartan life during these missions. The missions mean they are three years older than a similar player on another team. The star of the Cougar team is Senior Kyle Collinsworth, a 6'6" guard who averages 15.2 points per game, which is only third on the team. Collinsworth, who rebounds like a junk yard dog, just never quits. He reminds this writer of former Maryland All-American Greivis Vasquez. BYU is also led by Chase Fischer, who scores over 18 points per game, and Nick Emery, who scores over 16 points per game, on average. Twenty minutes or so after Valparaiso and BYU finish, the second semi-final game will begin. It will pit George Washington against San Diego State. These are two great match-ups, and considering all of the major conference schools that got bounced from this tournament, it again brings up the wisdom, or, more accurately, the lack of wisdom of the NCAA Selection Committee. How Valparaiso was kept out of the Big Show is a Big Wonder. And don't think some of us were fooled by the fact that St. Mary's - another team that deserved the NCAA - was kept out of the New York portion of the NIT because they had to play Valparaiso in order to get there. So let me see, the conventional "wisdom" was that Gonzaga had to beat St. Mary's in the WAC tournament title game to qualify for the NCAA. St. Mary's had beaten Gonzaga twice in the regular season. The Gaels' record at the end of the WAC Tournament was even more gaudy than that of Valpo. But only one WAC team made the NCAA. And what conference does BYU play in? You guessed it: the WAC.
It is hard for World Cup Soccer fans to get their arms around this, but the chances of the United States qualifying to play in the upcoming World Cup in Russia hinge on a game tonight against Guatemala in Columbus, Ohio. There are four teams in the group that the USA plays in. They are in the Fourth Round of Qualifying. The four teams are the USA, Guatemala, Trinidad & Tobago and St. Vincent-Grenadine. Each team plays a home-and-home against every other team with the first and second place teams moving on to Round 5. The USA lost at Guatemala a few days ago. Presently, the USA has a 1-1-1 record and 4 points. They are in third place. Trinidad leads with 7 points, followed by Guatemala with 6, the USA with 4 and St. Vincent with 0 points. There are three games remaining for each team: tonight and then beginning in September. Both of the teams ahead of the USA - Guatemala and Trinidad and Tobago - must come to the USA to play. The only road game remaining is at last place St. Vincent, a squad even the struggling Americans whacked hard earlier on. The final score was 6-1. As poorly as things have gone, a win tonight would vault the USA ahead of Guatemala and into second place. They could even be tied for first with Trinidad, but only if Trinidad loses to St. Vincent. The game is scheduled to be played in Guatemala, so don't hold your breath. In preparation for the game tonight, USA Coach Jürgen Klinsmann has activated former Maryland star Graham Zusi and Christian Pulisic, a 17-year-old up and coming star now playing in Germany.
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