EXPANSION OF A COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY ROBERT
CORNWELL IN THE INDEPENDENT
"Will Russia’s
act of war against American democracy bring Donald Trump down?"
Will Robert Cornwell's inability to write a thoughtful
article bring him down as an Independent regular?
The answer to the second question apparently is no, because
Cornwell just keeps returning with laughable, lamentable stuff, and the editors
just keep running it.
Although I must say this latest cow plop sets a new record
for poor journalism and lack of insight.
There has been no Russian "act of war" unless you
are a believer in the delusional, semi-hysterical Hillary Clinton, a
personality so warped that she just cannot admit she lost.
Had there been anything resembling “an act of war,” we would
all be well aware of it, and not because of nutty claims and political muttering.
We would know it from factual revelations and a real response commensurate with
Obama’s piling of thousands of pieces of new military equipment in Eastern Europe
owing just to phantom Russian aggression.
No, when Hillary loses, there has to be someone "out
there" who caused her loss, because she knows she was ordained by God to
be President and required only the formality of a vote by the people to get the
promised title.
But Satan Interfered and he was taking the shape, devious
creature that he is, of Vladimir Putin.
Hillary knows this as certainly as she knows that the
Clinton Foundation is honest and well-run by Chelsea or that decades of rumors
of husband Bill being a sexual predator on a scale with the late Jimmy Savile
are just part of "the great right-wing conspiracy."
She knows all this with the same certainty she demonstrated
at Benghazi and the sure hand in Libyan affairs that saw tens of thousands of
women and their families die in Libya and Syria, those two being related since
the operation she was running served to destroy a decent government in Libya
while sending weapons and cutthroats to try destroying another decent
government in Syria.
Just as she knows to a certainty that she did not steal her
party's nomination from Bernie Sanders through all kinds of dirty tricks and
vote rigging, even though you "deplorables" out there may believe
otherwise owing to impartial academic analysis. After all, that analysis, too,
would be the work of Satan in some form or another.
Hillary cannot grasp that people rejected her, that great
numbers of people genuinely dislike her, that she was the worst candidate the
Democrats could have run, so there must be another explanation for her loss.
And Obama is singing the same tiresome song with her,
although doing so for different reasons. Despite his efforts for her in the
election, the Obamas and the Clintons pretty much hate each other. We have many
tidbits over the years firmly yielding that conclusion.
But Obama also hates Putin because Putin has made a hash of
several of Obama’s “legacy efforts,” as in Syria and in Ukraine, truly
embarrassing the inept Obama in all the world’s eyes. And, of course, any
notion that Putin and Trump, the man who will drive his heels into everything
Obama regards as an achievement, are in cahoots allows Obama the chance to
throw a little mud at both. It really doesn’t count how pathetic the
mud-throwing effort seems because here is a man whose entire eight years were
marked by pathetic efforts.
There is another, far more remote possibility, but this is
one which gives more credit to Obama perhaps than his other acts appear to
warrant. This is one which at least no known facts rule out, and that is that
Obama actually supported the DNC leaks – and I believe they were leaks, not
hacks - to secretly get back at the much-hated Clintons, helping to defeat
Hillary while seeming to support her and effectively ending their dynasty. It
would definitely provide some warm and comforting chuckles during Obama’s
retirement years.
Of course, if that were the case, he’d have to do everything
to put people off the scent, and this nonsense about Russia, publicly supporting
Hillary’s hallucinatory nonsense is perfect. It perhaps would be a small price
to pay for massive private satisfaction, and the biggest genuine achievement of
his time in office.
After all, the ugly Clintons remain the most powerful actors
in the national Democratic party, owing to their big-money connections, and any
move against them could be very costly.
