Dinesh D’Souza - Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party

Copyright 2016 by Dinesh DSouza

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CONTENTS

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

Thomas Jefferson

SECRETS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds timorous and slothful.

John Milton on the devil Belial, Paradise Lost

T o understand Hillary, we must solve the Hillary enigma. The Hillary enigma is why anyoneany American, any Democrat, even Billwould consider voting for her. Yes, I know she wants to be the first woman president. But women across the country, in high positions and in low, are doing things, accomplishing things. This woman has been in public life for decades, and yet she has accomplished nothing.

In a classic case of nepotism, Hillary was appointed to head the Task Force on National Health Care Reform during Clintons first term. The plan was so half-baked, and presented so poorly, that even Democrats shunned it, and the whole scheme collapsed and had to be withdrawn.

Hillary served as a U.S. senator from New York but did not propose a single important piece of legislation; her record is literally a blank slate. Liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas admits that she doesnt have a single memorable policy or legislative accomplishment to her name. Despite traveling millions of miles as secretary of state, Hillary negotiated no treaties, secured no agreements, prevented no conflictsin short, she accomplished nothing.

Lack of accomplishment is one thing; deceit is quite another. Everyone who has followed her career knows that Hillary is dishonest to the core, a congenital liar as columnist William Safire once put it. The writer Christopher Hitchens titled his book about the Clintons No One Left to Lie To. Even Hollywood mogul David Geffen, an avid progressive, said a few years ago of the Clintons, Everybody in politics lies but they do it with such ease, its troubling.

She said her mother named her after the famed climber Sir Edmund Hillary, until someone pointed out that Hillary was born in 1947 and her namesake only became famous in 1953. On the campaign trail in 2008, Hillary said she had attempted as a young woman to have applied to join the Marines but they wouldnt take her because she was a woman and wore glasses. In fact, Hillary at this stage of life detested the Marines and would never have wanted to join.

She also said a senior professor at Harvard Law School discouraged her from going there by saying, We dont need any more women. If this incident actually occurred one might expect Hillary to have identified the professor. Certainly it would be interesting to get his side of the story. But she never has, suggesting its another made-up episode.

As first lady, she claimed to know nothing about the Travelgate firings when the evidence showed she ordered them herself. Later, on the 2008 campaign trail, she repeatedly told a story about how she had been under sniper fire and ran for cover when her plane landed in Tuzla, Bosnia. Video footage, however, showed there was no sniper fire and in fact Hillary was greeted on the tarmac by a child who read her a poem. She blamed the Benghazi attacks on an Internet video when she knew that was a fable. This is a highly abbreviated list.

She is more than just a liar; she and her husband Bill are corrupt and known to be corrupt, going back to their Arkansas days. Just prior to leaving the White House, the Clintons pardoned a notorious fugitive who had fled the country to escape prosecution on racketeering and tax fraud. Pardons dont come freethe mans family and friends poured millions of dollars into the Clinton coffers in exchange.

This was too much even for Hamilton JordanJimmy Carters chief of staff. Jordan said the Clintons are not a couple but a business partnership. Every move they make is part of their grand scheme to claw their way to the very top. Jordan dubbed the Clintons the first grifters... a term used in the Great Depression to describe fast-talking con artists who roamed the countryside, always one step ahead of the law, moving on before they were held accountable for their schemes and half-truths.

The Wall Street Journal reports that during Hillarys tenure as secretary of state, some sixty companies that lobbied the State Department donated more than $26 million to the Clinton Foundation. At least 44 of those 60 companies also participated in philanthropic projects valued at $3.2 billion that were set up through a wing of the foundation called the Clinton Global Initiative.

In some cases, the Journal reports, donations came after Mrs. Clinton took action that helped a company. In other cases, the donation came first. In some instances, donations came before and after. In 2012, for example, Hillary lobbied the Algerian government to let GE build power plants in that country. A month later, GE gave between $500,000 and $1 million to the Foundation. The following September, GE got the contract.

This is how Hillary conducts government policy.

She is ruthless, she is grasping, she appears to have little empathy or concern for people. She is old, and mean, and even her laugh is a witchs cackle. There is almost nothing appealing about her. How, then, could she be the first choice of progressive Democrats and the apparent frontrunner for winning the presidency in November 2016?

The Hillary enigma is very different than the Obama enigma. The enigma of Obama was: Who is this guy? In 2008, Obama came out of nowhere. Very little was known about his past. What little was known was mostly camouflage. So there was an understandable appetite to learn about him. Moreover, Obama was intriguing; his story generated obvious interest.

As an immigrant, I was fascinated by Obamas background, his charisma, his objectives. I wrote two books, The Roots of Obamas Rage and Obamas America, trying to explain Obama and predict what he would do. I predicted he was an anti-colonialist, in his fathers image, and that he would seek to remake America by reducing its wealth and power. Many people, even many conservatives, were initially baffled by my interpretation of this strange man. Only noweight years laterdo most people see that I was largely correct.