Campaign Mess-Making

BALTIMORE, Maryland August 4, 2016 - Let's get this straight.  A plane-load of currencies from here and there (Switzerland, the European Union, France, etc.) - but not the USA - is sent by Obama to Iran at the exact same time that four hostages are released.  Congress was never informed about the transaction.  In fact, several times when relevant questions were posed by this Congressperson or that Congressperson, the regime gave misleading responses to avoid having to reveal the negotiations that led up to this sordid event.  Obama and his functionaries stridently insist that the money was not ransom for the released hostages. They point to the fact that they announced in January of this year that the dispute over a long-past due payment to Iran had been settled for $117 Million.  But the January announcement contained nothing about a plane load of unmarked currency from nations around the world except These United States.  In Tehran, headlines in the state-controlled media say, unequivocally, that the plane load of cash is, indeed, ransom.  One of the hostages released told a reporter that he and his fellow hostages were waiting for a not inconsiderable amount of time to leave Iran and that everything was ready to go but still they sat and waited.  He asked an Iranian official why they weren't leaving.  The official told the hostage that they could not be released until the Iranians got their money from the United States.  

Who is correct? What does the evidence suggest?  Many Americans believe that Obama has engaged in money laundering.  Not too many believe that the money wasn't ransom.  If it looks like ransom and smells like ransom...

Recently, Obama's 'Open-the-Doors' Federal Prison Policy was amended to include a boat load of new inmates, or, I guess we should say, former inmates.  With six months or so still remaining in his 8 year 'folderol', Obama has already commuted the sentences of some 514 federal inmates. 

By comparison, the last nine presidents combined have not commuted that many.  And I don't need to remind how vicious federal prisoners tend to be, having been convicted of such crimes as gangland-style murder, bank robbery, terrorism, etc.  Now, a whole bunch of them are wandering our neighborhoods.  Wonderful. And all of the credit for the early releases goes to Obama.  Hillary wants to be just like Obama.

A weekend talk show host in Baltimore said, in all seriousness, that he believes Trump intends to drop out of the race.  He said that the things he has done to date defy all logic, that Hillary is ripe for the picking, and anyone who was half serious could defeat her.  I don't see that, but this radio host, on a big station, said he was at least half serious.  Others have said the same thing.  I think most of this arises out of the way the Mainstream Media covers Trump.  While the polls taken right after the Democratic Convention showed Hillary way ahead, those taken a few days later showed the candidates neck and neck, both nationally and in battleground states.

The Far Left Media, of course, has been totally consumed by this Kahn chap, the Goldstar Father who is, in his real life, a Muslim Activist who has campaigned for the institution of Sharia Law in these United States. He is also a dyed-in-the-wool Hillary functionary from way back.  That is the main reason the Media loves him. Serious issues have been ignored, including Hillary's responses to questions posed to her by Fox's Chris Wallace.  I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in the conversations that took place before she would agree to go on the Fox News program, and her timing could not have been more fortuitous.  At a moment when Trump was down, she made a move, that for her, took apparent courage.  When Wallce asked her a question about Benghazi, however, she said that FBI Chief Comey said her responses to questions were honest.  But he did not say that.  He said just the opposite.  But the media ignored that in favor of the Kahn non-story and Trump's alleged inability to ignore him in a presidential way, or something like that.  The viewing public, however, did see Hillary and the recent polls reflected it.  Once a liar, at least in Hillary's case, always a liar.

A radio commentator wondered aloud whether any show host would interview a shrink about people who lie all of the time, and don't seem to be able to help it.  That might happen on Fox, but not NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN etc.