Real Talk!

Yesterday, I wrote about subliminal manipulation and in particular, the oratory practices of Barack Obama, one of the United States Presidential candidates. In the essence of fair play, I would like to make some other observations.

The official Hillary Clinton website explains, “Hillary was raised in a middle-class family in the middle of America.” She went on to college in the 60s and studied political science. Her journey is inarguably that of a woman of formidable character.

Once describing her self as, “a mind conservative and a heart liberal.” She is later quoted, on the matter of early romance with her husband, as writing, "I chose to follow my heart instead of my head."

The official Whitehouse biography quotes Hillary from 1992 as saying, “"Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service."

All things considered, I believe the lady has handled herself with grace and dignity. I’ve heard it said that Hillary has guts. She is intelligent and well spoken, although there are times in which I wish she’d talk more directly, in a manner that would engage the listener who is less interested in intellectual banter.

Critics sell t-shirts with the slogan, “I’m afraid of Hillary”. Others, like Glenn Beck, have said a lot of mean stuff about her. Glenn griped about her voice, claiming that regardless of what she says, he hears only shrill directives to take the garbage out… or something very much like that.

There are some murmurs that suggest Hillary might be a feminazi.

Look, I’m not for or against anybody. I can’t vote in this process. I’m simply an observer.

& I am just saying it can't be easy being a Clinton.

I think Hillary is one cool woman. I give her thumbs up for the way she continues to serve and embrace a public who love to make jokes, serve up gossip, conspiracy theories and scandals to cast upon the Clinton household.

Believe me, there are stories about all of the candidates… But here are some of the many Clinton based tales...I found these on the internet- some are possibly true.

ABC’s (Alleged Billary Clinton SCANDALS):

ABE LINCOLN: DNC donors were allowed to spend the night in the Lincoln bedroom for a contribution of $150,000. The donations prize for the $50,000 range was a coffee visit. Clinton donations came from a convicted illegal arms dealer, Chinese government agents, and many other drug smugglers. Yup, lots of “donor” scandals.

BARRY SEAL: a murdered cocaine smuggler with alleged links to the Clintons.

CATTLE: a scandal involving Hillary's investment of approximately $1,000 in cattle futures that had a conspicuous return of $100,000- the odds of this kind of luck are said to be one in 250 million.

CHINA: Some insiders believe that Bill Clinton has given military technology to Communist China. Clinton-contributor, Johnny Chung, openly admitted to knowingly taking funds from the communist Chinese government in 1996. Speaking of china, Bill and Hillary Clinton are said to have left the Whitehouse with their pockets full of silverware and expensive furniture, among other things.

CIA: In the 50’s, Bill Clinton worked as a CIA informer. Without visible means of support, he traveled around Europe and the Soviet Union, staying at the ritziest hotel in Moscow.

DAN LASATER: A mobster friend of Bill Clinton’s mother, she met while at the track. At that time, he was breeding racehorses in Kentucky and Florida and had a box at the track next to hers. Mrs. Clinton introduced Lasater to Roger Clinton.

A later DEA report claimed that a famous Arkansas figure and backer of Clinton "smuggles cocaine from Colombia, South America, inside race horses to Hot Springs."

Later Mobster Dan Lasater buys a ski resort in New Mexico for $20 million and uses Clinton's name (with permission) to promote it.

Dan Lasater got a $30 million bond deal for state police radios even as the governor's stepbrother Roger was making a bargain with the US attorney to testify against him in a drug case.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: Hillary Clinton allegedly hired a "psychic" and attempted to "talk" with Eleanor Roosevelt.

FAMILY: The Clintons are alleged to have fired seven white house travel office employees in order to hire cousins and friends.

GAY: Supposedly, Hillary used the presidential retreat at Camp David for playtime with her gay friends during the Clinton administration. It is alleged that her roommate in college was a lesbian. Hillary wears sensible shoes and “pant suits”. Hillary has "balls".

GENNIFER FLOWERS: In 1992, Gennifer claimed to have had a 12 year affair with Bill Clinton.

GOTTI: The New York Daily News quoted John Gotti as saying that Clinton got away with things a Mafia boss would never have gotten away with.

HELICOPTERS: A Clinton aide used the presidential helicopter to make personal trips.

HILLARY: Upon meeting him, Hillary told Sir Edmund that her mother had named her in his honour. Hillary was born in 1947 and yet, Sir Edmund made his most famous climb in 1953. Hillary Rodham Clinton's father (Hugh Rodham) owned a drapery store and his wife, Hillary's mother (Dorothy), was a homemaker.

HUANG: John Huang, a Clinton crony and former Commerce department official with top level FBI clearance - even for several months after his dismissal - pled guilty to funneling Lippo group and Chinese donations- foreign campaign contributions are illegal.

INDONESIA: Two Indonesian billionaires (Mochtar Riady and Liem Sioe Liong) went to Arkansas to engineer the takeover of the First National Bank of Mena in a town of 5,000 with few major assets beyond a Contra supply base, drug running and money-laundering operations. Riady's teen-age son was later taken on as an intern by Stephens Inc, for which he claimed that he was "sponsored" by Bill Clinton.

JONI MITCHELL: song writer whose song “Chelsea Morning” inspired the Clintons to name their daughter Chelsea. At the age of 22, Chelsea was once spotted staggering outside of a nightclub in London.

JUANITA BROADDRIC: A volunteer in Clinton's gubernatorial campaign, claims she was attacked by Clinton and her lip almost bitten off while he was raping her in the late seventies

KATHLEEN: Democrat Kathleen Willey has directly accused President Clinton of fondling her in the White House.

LARRY PATTERSON: An Arkansas State Trooper claimed Governor Clinton had oral sex with a woman in a car parked outside Chelsea Clinton's elementary school. Two Arkansas state troopers swore under oath that they have seen Clinton "under the influence" of drugs when he was governor.

MONICA LEWINSKY: nuff said.

MUSHROOMS: A White House chef, hired by Hillary, prepared a menu of wild mushrooms and organic flour arranged in pyramids for some visiting east Texas good ol' boys, during the Bush administration. Mrs. Bush, it is claimed, said she would have preferred grits.

NANNYGATE: Clinton links to business relations with illegal immigrants.

NINE HUNDRED FILES: the discovery of over 900 Republican FBI files in the White House that were apparently mistakenly ordered.

ON BEHALF OF HILLARY: Vince Foster asked Jerry Parks to collect detailed data on Bill Clinton's sexual escapades, including pictures and dates.

Jerry Parks was running American Contract Services, the business that supplied bodyguards for Clinton during his presidential campaign. Bill Clinton owed several thousand dollars to the Parks.

Parks’ wife claims that her husband had been meeting Vince Foster at a K-Mart parking lot to deliver large sums of money.

Parks was found dead in his car in Little Rock- 2 months after Foster’s suicide.

PBS: recieved donor lists to solicit directly from the Clinton-Gore 1996 campaign, a violation of federal law.

PAULA JONES: sued Bill Clinton after alleging he exposed himself to her in an Arkansas hotel room

PHONE CALLS: Al Gore made over 75 phone calls to solicit contributions from a location on federal property- an act that is illegal in America.

In the 90s, Hillary Clinton made a $44,000 profit on a $2,000 investment in a cellular phone franchise deal

QUESTIONABLE PARDONS: True to his word, Clinton issued 140 pardons as well as several commutations on his last day of office. He has been seriously criticized for these and other pardons as well as other acts of executive clemency for convitions to do with drugs, mail fraud, conspiracy, false statements, extortion, wire fraud, stolen vehicles and other illegal activities.

Edgar and Vonna Jo Gregory, owners of the carnival company United Shows International, were friends of Hillary’s younger brother who lobbyed for them, over their 1982 conviction of bank fraud.

In another case, convicted drug dealer, Tommy McIntosh, received a pardon. McIntosh’s father had once worked for Bill Clinton who had agreed to pay him $25,000, to help him market his recipe for sweet potato pie and to pardon his son.

Federal prosecutor Mary Jo White was appointed to investigate the numerous pardons. She was later replaced by James Comey. Comey found no grounds to indict Clinton.

ROGER CLINTON: Bill’s Brother, Roger Clinton, developed a four-gram a day cocaine habit.

Roger’s friend, Sharlene Wilson, testified that she witnessed Bill Clinton consuming cocaine and attending toga parties. Supposedly, in the 80s, Bill Clinton ended up in the hospital for a drug overdose.

RICHARD KELLY: Clinton's stepfather is known to be a gun-brandishing alcoholic who lost his Buick franchise through mismanagement and his own pilfering. He physically abused his family, including the young Bill

SALLY PERDUE: a former Miss Arkansas and talk show host who claimed she had an affair with then Governor Bill Clinton. She told the London Sunday Telegraph that he once came over to her house with a bag full of cocaine.

THESIS: After becoming involved in politics, Wellesley graduate Hillary Rodham orders her senior thesis sealed from public view.

UNCLE RAYMOND: Bill Clinton’s uncle Raymond is said to have manipulated to keep young Bill out of the Vietnam draft. Raymond has been linked to organized crime, illegal gambling, drug money laundering and other ventures. Raymond was thought to be a minion of an organized crime overlord.

VANITY: Apparently, Bill Clinton once held up the traffic at LA's international airport, for hours, while having his hair cut- aboard Air Force One.

VINCE FOSTER: Boyhood friend of Bill and law partner/friend of Hillary Clinton with whom many Little Rock insiders believed Hillary Clinton was having an affair.

Vince Foster committed suicide, he was found in Fort Marcy Park, a federal park in Virginia, with a gun in his hand and gunshot residue on that hand. Some conspiracy theorists claim he was killed in Hillary's apartment and moved to the park.

An autopsy determined that he was shot in the mouth and no other wounds were found on his body.

There have been 3 official investigations into his death.

Immediately after hearing of his death, witnesses have testified they saw Clinton aides clearing the supposedly sealed office

Years after they had disappeared from Vince Fosters office, subpoenaed Whitewater billing records were found on a table in the White House. It has been said that Hillary's fingerprints were on the papers.

VIRGINIA KELLY: Bill Clinton’s mother. Virginia is said to be a heavy gambler with mob ties, who hangs out at the racetrack.

WHITEWATER: alleged banking and real estate scandal of Clinton and his friends over some land in the Ozarks.

X-RATED: XXXX XXXXX, alleged prostitute and model for Penthouse magazine. She ran a powerful house of ill-repute in Fordyce with her siste. They are alleged to have blackmailed some of their more powerful clients. She is linked to Governor Bill Clinton.

She cooperated with police in an investigation of Arkansas cocaine trafficking, but was burned to death inside her home (the fire had no determined origin) and she was unable to testify.

Y: see the article by William Jefferson Clinton entitled “My Reasons for the Pardons” at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/18/opinion/18CLIN.html?ex=1204261200&en=a9e60c7910b4169f&ei=5070

The reader’s digest version is : “Overwhelmingly, the pardons went to people who had been convicted and served their time, so the impact of the pardon was principally to restore the person's civil rights. Many of these, including some of the more controversial, had vigorous bipartisan support.”

Zzz: At first, said to have been sleeping off the effects of marijuana, a coroner’s report concluded that two boys (Kevin Ives and Don Henry) had been killed and left on a railroad track to be run over by a train. It is believed that they had witnessed a drug drop by an airplane connected to the Mena drug smuggling routes. The Mena drug gang is said to have links to the Clintons. Several people set to testify about Mena drug smuggling have died in grizzly, unusual circumstances.

There you have it. A smattering of the slung.

Hmmmmmmmmmm...

It sure looks like every stage of her life has prepared Hillary for the presidency. Tested by rough politics and personal trials, you have to admit that Hillary has demonstrated immense strength, sturdy determination and great resolve.

The qualities of a commander-in-chief?

Forceful and consistent, it seems that you can count on Hillary to deliver a dignified response- even under the most humiliating circumstances.

ADDENDUM: June 10, 2009

This morning, I received a rather disgruntled email from a woman claiming to be the sister of the woman referred to in this blog: in the segment listed as "X-rated". Not the sister referred to in the segment.

I am not going to publish the entire contents of her comment as it contains personal contact information. In fact, she dares me to contact her, to learn the whole truth about the story.

The truth is, I don't want to know the details- I'm sure it's very sad... but I had been blogging about the nasty stuff that goes on during election campaigns and I hadn't meant to hurt anyone.

Out of respect, I have deleted all references to actual names in the segment "X-rated".

When I wrote this segment, I felt that it was self-explanatory that these were reguritated allegations... allegations made during an election campaign. I had written a series of blogs (some more tongue- in-cheek than others) about the sort of "sound bites" that were being distorted and the muck that was being tossed.

The blog entitled "Fair Play" (extremely tongue-in-cheek) was meant to about how well Mrs. Clinton handles the mud that gets slung in her direction. It was not meant to hurt anyone.

I feel it is important quote the following exerpt from my visitor's comments as I feel that they aptly convey the sentiment behind her message: "I happen to be XXXX XXXX sister and everything you have written is not true. It is a story fabricatied and duplicated by the right wingers trying to discredit Bill Clinton back in the 80's. They took every death in Arkansas and made up a story about it and linked Bill Clinton to the dead."

Point made and taken... although, I feel that we are playing on the same team and the visitor's viewpoint actually supports my suspicions.