@Blickers,
There are reasons for Trump's misguided notions about NATO other than collaboration with Putin. Is every isolationist in America a Russian collaborator?
@Finn dAbuzz,
If you're a presidential candidate and you're talking about withdrawing from NATO, you might as well be. But add in Trump's business interests in Russia, his praise of Putin, his campaign manager being Putin's bagman, and it looks like a pretty strong case.
The primary reason to imprison Hillary Clinton for her selling favors for cash isn't graft or corruption for corruption's sake: it is because of the underlying reasons people are buying those favors.
What Clinton and her husband have been doing is properly defined as treason. Billionaires inside and outside our country have been sold positions of power and the ability to make decisions that affect the US, but those effects aren't based on our interests.
Thankful for Julian Assange and other whistleblowers.
http://m.democracynow.org/stories/16518
@Blickers,
The guy's a jerk and would more than likely make a terrible president, but you're gilding the lily of your contempt for him with this argument.
So, he's a jerk and would be a terrible president, but just not that bad. LOL
@snood,
You got it. Tough to wrap your brain around?
@Finn dAbuzz,
Like the Black Belt that he is, Putin has applied his brand of political jiu-jitsu to the nativist, racist faction of America and turned their hatred of Barack Obama into pro-Russian sentiment. All without them realizing it, or caring. He has quite a few aging veterans hating America.
@Blickers,
You're really smothering that poor lily.
@Finn dAbuzz,
Just calling it for what it is. Read the right wing websites or comments on YouTube videos aimed at the section of America that frequently labels themselves "Patriots", yet spouts out and posts sentiments that would make Putin's or Stalin's heart proud.
@Finn dAbuzz,
Finn dAbuzz wrote:
You got it. Tough to wrap your brain around?
Honestly? It
is a little hard to swallow, but not because anything you post is too complex.
No Finn, your posts are real simple - I just try to think like a throwback to a whiter, more exclusive and clueless time and voila - clear as a bell.
What's always incredible and difficult to absorb about your little worldview is it's ever empty, cocksure arrogance. That's truly breathtaking.
@snood,
A little projection going on here I think
The sticking point with indicting Clinton for treason is that every goddamn asshole in our government is in her web at some level. The whole town is dirty.
Only Sanders has given us a chance to clean house. Of course, with everything that Wikileaks is releasing on Clinton plus her health crisis plus growing hatred of her, I don't think it's illogical to suspect she will not be elected.
I think she'll be forced out of the race.
I have a feeling the Clintons are going to get theirs one way or another.
http://m.townhall.com/columnists/frmarcelguarnizo/2016/07/07/hillary-clinton-paves-the-way-for-easy-treason-against-america-n2189489
@Lash,
Wait for it... I'm thinking on October 15th or thereabouts I think Hillary and all her idiot supporters are in for a big surprise.
@giujohn,
Changing to the Gregorian calendar is not an annual event. If you wake up on the 15th and think it's the 5th, it's just something that's happening to you.
The LA Times/USC poll-which has consistently leaned more pro-Trump than the other polls by several points-now shows Trump up by 2 points.
Though more favorable to Trump than other polls, up to now it showed Hillary in the lead since the convention. It could be a harbinger not that the race is currently tied, but that Hillary's lead is lessening.
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Huma Abedin worked at a radical Muslim journal for a dozen years
By Paul Sperry August 21, 2016 | 6:30am
Huma Abedin, longtime aide (and rumored lover) to former US Secretary of State and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, Photo: Getty Images
Hillary Clinton’s top campaign aide, and the woman who might be the future White House chief of staff to the first female US president, for a decade edited a radical Muslim publication that opposed women’s rights and blamed the US for 9/11.
One of Clinton’s biggest accomplishments listed on her campaign Web site is her support for the UN women’s conference in Bejing in 1995, when she famously declared, “Women’s rights are human rights.” Her speech has emerged as a focal point of her campaign, featured prominently in last month’s Morgan Freeman-narrated convention video introducing her as the Democratic nominee.
However, soon after that “historic and transformational” 1995 event, as Clinton recently described it, her top aide Huma Abedin published articles in a Saudi journal taking Clinton’s feminist platform apart, piece by piece. At the time, Abedin was assistant editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs working under her mother, who remains editor-in-chief. She was also working in the White House as an intern for then-First Lady Clinton.
Headlined “Women’s Rights are Islamic Rights,” a 1996 article argues that single moms, working moms and gay couples with children should not be recognized as families. It also states that more revealing dress ushered in by women’s liberation “directly translates into unwanted results of sexual promiscuity and irresponsibility and indirectly promote violence against women.” In other words, sexually liberated women are just asking to be raped
“A conjugal family established through a marriage contract between a man and a woman, and extended through procreation is the only definition of family a Muslim can accept,” the author, a Saudi official with the Muslim World League, asserted, while warning of “the dangers of alternative lifestyles.” (Abedin’s journal was founded and funded by the former head of the Muslim World League.)
“Pushing [mothers] out into the open labor market is a clear demonstration of a lack of respect of womanhood and motherhood,” it added.
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Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin arrive for a NATO Foreign Minister family photo in front of the Brandenburg Gate in 2011. Photo: Getty Images
In a separate January 1996 article, Abedin’s mother — who was the Muslim World League’s delegate to the UN conference — wrote that Clinton and other speakers were advancing a “very aggressive and radically feminist” agenda that was un-Islamic and wrong because it focused on empowering women.
“‘Empowerment’ of women does more harm than benefit the cause of women or their relations with men,” Saleha Mahmood Abedin maintained, while forcefully arguing in favor of Islamic laws that have been roundly criticized for oppressing women.
“By placing women in the ‘care and protection’ of men and by making women responsible for those under her charge,” she argued, “Islamic values generate a sense of compassion in human and family relations.”
“Among all systems of belief, Islam goes the farthest in restoring equality across gender,” she claimed. “Acknowledging the very central role women play in procreation, child-raising and homemaking, Islam places the economic responsibility of supporting the family primarily on the male members.”
She seemed to rationalize domestic abuse as a result of “the stress and frustrations that men encounter in their daily lives.” While denouncing such violence, she didn’t think it did much good to punish men for it.
‘Among all systems of belief, Islam goes the farthest in restoring equality across gender.’
- 1996 article authored by Saleha Mahmood Abedin, Huma's mother
She added in her 31-page treatise: “More men are victims of domestic violence than women . . . If we see the world through ‘men’s eyes’ we will find them suffering from many hardships and injustices.”
She opposed the UN conference widening the scope of the definition of the family to include “gay and lesbian ‘families.’ ”
Huma Abedin does not apologize for her mother’s views. “My mother was traveling around the world to these international women’s conferences talking about women’s empowerment, and it was normal,” she said in a recent profile in Vogue.
Huma continued to work for her mother’s journal through 2008. She is listed as “assistant editor” on the masthead of the 2002 issue in which her mother suggested the US was doomed to be attacked on 9/11 because of “sanctions” it leveled against Iraq and other “injustices” allegedly heaped on the Muslim world. Here is an excerpt:
“The spiral of violence having continued unabated worldwide, and widely seen to be allowed to continue, was building up intense anger and hostility within the pressure cooker that was kept on a vigorous flame while the lid was weighted down with various kinds of injustices and sanctions . . . It was a time bomb that had to explode and explode it did on September 11, changing in its wake the life and times of the very community and the people it aimed to serve.”
Huma Abedin is Clinton’s longest-serving and, by all accounts, most loyal aide. The devout, Saudi-raised Muslim started working for her in the White House, then followed her to the Senate and later the State Department. She’s now helping run Clinton’s presidential campaign as vice chair and may end up back in the White House.
The contradictions are hard to reconcile. The campaign is not talking, despite repeated requests for interviews.
Until now, these articles which Abedin helped edit and publish have remained under wraps. Perhaps Clinton was unaware she and her mother took such opposing views.
But that’s hard to believe. Her closest adviser served as an editor for that same Saudi propaganda organ for a dozen years. The same one that in 1999 published a book, edited by her mother, that justifies the barbaric practice of female genital mutilation under Islamic law, while claiming “man-made laws have in fact enslaved women.”
Hillary Clinton at the Dar al-Hekma college for women during a “town hall” meeting in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah in 2010. Abedin’s mother, Dr. Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is on Clinton’s right.Photo: Getty Images
And in 2010, Huma Abedin arranged for then-Secretary of State Clinton to speak alongside Abedin’s hijab-wearing mother at an all-girls college in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. According to a transcript of the speech, Clinton said Americans have to do a better job of getting past “the stereotypes and the mischaracterizations” of the oppressed Saudi woman. She also assured the audience of burqa-clad girls that not all American girls go “around in a bikini bathing suit.”
At no point in her long visit there, which included a question-and-answer session, did this so-called champion of women’s rights protest the human-rights violations Saudi women suffer under the Shariah laws that Abedin’s mother actively promotes. Nothing about the laws barring women from driving or traveling anywhere without male “guardians.”
If fighting for women’s rights is one of Clinton’s greatest achievements, why has she retained as her closest adviser a woman who gave voice to harsh Islamist critiques of her Beijing platform?
When someone references something, do you always make a lame joke to cover up the fact you just don't get it?
@Lash,
You've been predicting their demise all year. Hillary's going to prison, getting an orange jumpsuit, yadda yadda. Want to at least make it interesting? Say, a hundred bucks? I say there'll be no charges, no indictments - nothing but more of the same endless accusations from right wing goons and those addled by Hillary derangement. My only stipulation is that there has to be statute of limitation - she has to be charged before inauguration day. You willing to put your money where your oh-so-confident predictions are?
