INTO THE FRAY: Condell on Clinton

By MARTIN SHERMAN

By presenting the divide between Trump & the post-Obama surrogate, Clinton, as an “America vs Europe” one, Pat Condell understates the true nature of the dichotomy

It is unusual for American voters to get a real choice in a presidential election but this is a genuine fork in the road for America—and the world. It’s one direction or another from here.

Pat Condell, America’s Moment Of Truth, October 25, 2016

The upcoming US presidential election has been a topic I have tried to refrain from writing about. Indeed, I wished to avoid expressing any opinion of the depressing debacle of the US elections, consoling myself with the thought that, in comparison, Israeli politics look like a dignified exercise of the democratic process.

Condell on Clinton

Arguably, there has never been an election in which American voters have been asked to choose between two candidates , who—for very different reasons—are  clearly so hopelessly unqualified  and undeserving of their nation’s highest office.

Appalled at the choice with which the world’s most powerful democracy has presented its electorate, I was loathe to take a position for, or against, either of these deeply flawed candidates—neither of whom I, as a non-US citizen, can vote for anyway.

What changed my mind, and convinced me to take up the challenge of writing something I felt I could take a clear stance on, without compromising my journalistic integrity, was a withering anti-Clinton video put out by another non-US citizen – the ever-incisive British political satirist, Pat Condell.

Actually, this was not one of Condell’s best videos.  Moreover, I did not agree with everything he said in it. However, it did crystallize for me that what was really at stake on November 8, was something that went far beyond a choice between two rather unappealing (to gravely understate the case) individuals.

It is, in effect, a choice between two incompatibly divergent socio-political paradigms, with historic and probably irrevocable significance—for both the US and the global community.

Two divergent socio-political paradigms 

Condell characterized the sharply contrasting alternatives confronting voters as follows: “In broad terms you could describe it a choice between the American way and European way…” 

Although I understand why he chose to frame the issue in this manner, I am not sure that I entirely agree. Indeed, I believe that the choice is even starker than he suggests. In essence, it is a choice between a chance to preserve a society based on traditional Western values and Judeo-Christian foundations to which they are tethered; or irreversibly abandoning that prospect.

I realize of course that some might find it a little “over-the-top” to attribute such epic dimensions to a clash between two such eminently unimposing and decidedly “unepic” protagonists, but—perhaps perversely—that is precisely how the matter stands.

For these elections are less about the candidates themselves, and more—much more—about the realities they herald…and those they don’t.

Please, don’t misunderstand me. I am not suggesting for a minute that Clinton or Trump is genuinely committed to the policies they espouse.  It doesn’t matter that neither of them really embody the views that they profess to ascribe to, or even really believe in them.

For whatever their real personal political proclivities may (or may not) be,

  • the adversarial socio-political milieu that envelops their perceived political “identity”;
  • the rivalrous political allegiances they have formed to sustain their political careers,
  • the opposing political machinery which drives their political activities; and
  • the political constituencies on which they draw for political support;

will, after the elections  almost deterministically, sweep them each along their divergent paradigmatic paths.

Extending “Obama-ism

Condell elaborated on his “American vs European” dichotomy: “For the past eight years President Obama has tried to make America more European because he is a European social democrat at heart…

He added acerbically: “He belongs over here in Europe with the rest of the open borders “nothing to do with Islam” crowd making life more dangerous for ordinary people for virtuous reasons. It’s what he tried to do in America with his so European reluctance to even name, let alone confront, Islamic terrorism.”

Regarding Clinton, he warned: “And his chosen successor, Hilary Clinton, if elected intends to up the ante on that score when she brings in all those third world Muslim migrants who are waiting in the wings…”

The perception of Clinton as an extension of the Obama incumbency is crucial for grasping the stakes in the coming election. In many ways, his 2008 victory was a point of inflexion in American history.

With the opportunity to undo it lost in 2012, its detrimental impact began to solidify.  A Clinton victory will all but make that impact indelibly irremovable. After all, Clinton has not only by and large endorsed all of Obama’s past policies—regardless of their calamitous consequences—she was in fact a co-author of a considerable portion of them.

A deeper dichotomy

But as I mentioned previously, by presenting the divide between Trump and a post-Obama surrogate, Clinton, as an “America vs Europe” one, Condell understates the true nature of the dichotomy.  Indeed, it is a dichotomy that goes far beyond a difference of perspectives within prevailing Western civilization.  It is a dichotomy between what have been traditionally deemed “Western values” and values which are “non-Western”.  Indeed, the less charitable might say, “anti-Western”.

Accordingly, as I wrote just prior to the 2012 presidential elections, this latter set of values display “the same strains of resentment and envy, suspicion of others’ achievement, the belief that the success of some was necessarily the product of exploitation pervades much of the anti-colonial, anti-American – and yes, anti-Zionist – philosophy of many members of the Non-Aligned Movement.”

 As a result, I cautioned: “[Obama’s] interpretation of the international role the US should play, the nature of the country’s interests, and the manner in which they should be pursued; his perception of friend and foe and the attitudes that should be adopted towards them, all seem to entail dramatic and disconcerting departure from that of most of his predecessors” adding that: “In this regard, he is the first US president who is explicitly … unmoored, both cognitively and emotionally, from the bollards of America’s founding Judeo-Christian heritage….”

Deeper dichotomy (cont.)

In a piece entitled “Will the West withstand the Obama presidency?” published just after the ill-conceived Iran nuclear deal, I warned: “For anyone who understands that the US Constitution is not a Sharia-compliant document … it should be alarmingly apparent that the Obama-incumbency is a dramatic and disturbing point of inflection in the history of America and its ‘Western’ allies”, clarifying that: “By ‘Western’ I mean countries whose political practices and societal norms are rooted in Judeo-Christian foundations in a cultural rather than in any religious sense.

 

Indeed, almost 18 months earlier I asserted: “In many ways, the election of Obama in 2008 was a watershed… not so much because for the first time a man of color was elected to the US’s highest office…[but] because for the first time, the person elected was someone whose political credo coalesced in an environment where many of its formative influences (both personalities and ideologies)… differed sharply (arguably antithetically) … from those that historically made America, America.”

As Obama’s perceived successor, Clinton will be bound to preserve and promote—whether of her own volition or not—these political perspectives, simply because of the political milieu in which she will be compelled to operate, the political interests she will be compelled to serve and the political allegiances she will be compelled to maintain.

Deceptive first appearances

Of course, at first glance, one could make a plausible claim that Clinton is eminently qualified to serve as president—certainly far more so than the current incumbent was prior to his election. After all, she was First Lady for eight years (1993-2001), served as a US senator (2001-9) and as Secretary of State (2009-13).

This makes an impressive résumé indeed—until one begins to delve into the details.

Putting aside for the moment all the earlier scandals that have plagued her and her spouse, in the last eight years, either as Secretary of State, as contender of the Democratic Party nomination and as a candidate for the US presidency, she has either been actively involved in formulating policy for the Obama administration, or endorsing its policies.  She certainly has not distanced herself publically in any way from them—and hence must be inextricably tied—either directly or by association—to the succession of failures and fiascos of his administration—both domestically and abroad.

On the home front, this includes soaring levels of debt, plunging levels of workforce participation, yawning budget deficits and a failing health care reform, Obama’s  signature domestic policy initiative, which earlier this month none other than Bill Clinton dismissed as  “the craziest thing in the world”.

On the international front, things are, if anything, far worse, with debacle being followed by yet more debacles, and US influence and stature plummeting across the globe.

Failures and Fiascos

Thus, whether in Egypt or Libya, in Syria or in failed endeavors to “reset” relations with Russia, US policy and reputation are in tatters worldwide: The appalling Iran deal, allowing the tyrants of Tehran to acquire mountains of cash to finance global terror and weaponized nuclear capability, in exchange for a promised deferral , the estrangement from Saudi Arabia, the heightening tensions with the Kremlin.

These are all disasters that Clinton is tainted with—whether they occurred “on her watch” as Secretary of State, or as Obama’s designated replacement.
But gross policy failures are not the only disqualifying stain on Clinton’s candidacy.

 Arguably, even more damaging is the perception of corruption/corrosion of the organs of governance that are associated with her.  This was perhaps best highlighted by the embarrassing House hearing with FBI director James Comey,  when  he inexplicably recommended   Clinton not be indicted, while actually citing a litany of reasons why she should be!  Indeed, the absurdity of the situation prompted Congressmen Trey Gowdy (R-SC) to exclaim disapprovingly:  “…my real fear is…this double track justice system that is… perceived in this country…if you are a private in the Army and email yourself classified information you will be kicked out. But if you are Hillary Clinton, and you seek a promotion to Commander in Chief, you will not be….

 Clintonesque corruption

 In an acerbic analysis of the Clinton candidacy, Indian-born commentator Atul Singh writes: “Hillary Clinton is a deeply damaged candidate with far too many skeletons in her cupboard.” And skeletons galore there are: The Email scandal, the Benghazi tragedy, and “pay-to-play” allegations surrounding massive donations to the Clinton Foundation  from Mid-East tyrannies ,whose societies reflect the very antithesis of the values Clinton professes to stand for.

Singh makes the withering observation: “She has been in power far too long and, as someone wise once said, power corrupts… Earlier this year, she ironically delivered a speech on income inequality in a $12,495 Giorgio Armani jacket. It evoked Marie Antoinette’s apocryphal comment about the starving sans culottes: “If they have no bread, let them eat cake.” Actually, the irony is worse because the Clintons claim to represent les sans culottes while gorging on foie gras…”

 Of course none of this should be construed as a portrayal of Donald Trump as a paragon of virtue. Quite the opposite. Singh again: “While Trump might be a lying braggart and an obnoxious bully, Clinton [is] a wolf in sheep’s clothing and would persist with a status quo that is untenable.”

Indeed, much opprobrium can he heaped on Trump.  He is vulgar, petty, easily distracted and I am far less convinced than Condell, who extolls Trump’s sincerity and commitment, as to the depth of his conviction in his own political pronouncements.

But what would you rather have—Trump’s glaring character defects, or Hilary’s declared intention to flood the country with un-vetted and unregulated immigrants from the Mid-East and South America?

Trump: Cut from the same cloth as “Brexit”

In many ways, Trump is the creation of Obama and Clinton – a reaction of millions of Americans to the unwanted metamorphosis of their nation. Indeed, he is cut from the same cloth as Brexit. He is a response—undeniably an inelegant one—to what is perceived as an attempt to decouple America from its roots and its heritage.

However, as such, it is a response that is relatively benign. If it is rebuffed—brace yourselves for far more drastic ones in the future. For as Condell points out, Trump is a “necessary antidote to the poison of political correctness … destroying Western society’s immune system”.  If this antidote fails to be administered, its successors are guaranteed to be far more virulent.

Martin Sherman (www.martinsherman.org) is the founder and executive director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. (www.strategic-israel.org)

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  1. https://youtu.be/rp5UrI3z1j0

    Alex Jones is right. The moment that Trump is elected BANG pardon for Hillary from Obama.

    This is the most serious time since 1776

    If Clinton gets in then she will move extremely fast

    1. Close down Breitbart
    2. Close down Infowars
    3. Resurrect all of the CNN type Media
    4. Close down much of the Internet
    5. Attack the Constitution especially right to carry arms
    6. Whip up anti-Russia hysteria
    7. Line up with Islam totally
    8. Push Muslim Brotherhood in the world

    REMEMBER Hillary Clinton will start nuclear war with Russia to protect her Empire

    Correspondingly if Trump wins in order to defend his victory and himself he also cannot rest but must advance to arrest the Clintons and place Obama under preventative arrest (he must not flee the country to some Islamist hell hole)… Trump must advance rapidly to preserve basic democratic rights by using the state machine to suppress these enemies – givn this new information I now think Trump will be forced to advance to suppress these traitors to America very quickly indeed.

    The whole Clinton menagerie as represented by Wikileaks and more graphically by the James O’Keefe Veritas videos show a distinct move to American Fascism (which was predicted by Leon Trotsky before his assassination in 1940 by a Stalinist Assasin…people then scoffed at the idea!)…American Fascism was also delayed by American victory in the War and the ensuing rebuilding based on new but temporary foundations. But Trotsky was broadly right. America is NOT excluded from Fascism. Confusion is being spread by Stalinists and Pseudo Left anti-Marxists, and people like the so-called NeoCons…the threat of Fascism comes from Clinton (see again the O’Keefe videos) and the opposition to Fascism comes from Trump, Infowars and Breitbart, brave elements in Congress, Gingrich etcetera.

    Critical times indeed. I read Comey as being in close communion with Obama, Clinton and the rich Media such as CNN. They are desperate for Clinton to close it out by means of the Soros controlled voting machines. Then fast action on the road to a Fascist state or at least dictatorial state (they do not yet have a mass movement of enraged petty bourgeois on the ground) as I outline above.

    People cannot really begin to understand these issues without a knowledge of what really happened in 1917 when Lenin and Trotsky PREVENTED a coup and had NO ALTERNATIVE but to act. Also all of that history that Trotsky wrote so much about and about which there is total ignorance – I would suggest the Spanish situation from 1933 onwards as being vital. Without that you may have an understanding, that is true, but you will not have a deep and workable understanding of what is happening in the last days of this election around the Comey move.

    Comey proved to be a slave to Obama and Clinton in the Congress sessions. I do not think this has changed. Comey works still with them and the aim is to get Clinton across the line…then everybody in politics better look out. The working class in this situation is hemmed in by a frightful trade union bureaucracy which ties the workers to Clinton, at least ideologically, and by pseudo-Marxists who are paid agents of the ruling class (This happened before and often)

    The key immediate issue is the voting machines of Soros. I support the efforts of Roger Stone in having the machinery in place to combat that. Key man in all of this, to defend democratic rights, is Trump and there really in this situation is NO OTHER!

    The take on this situation by the Martin Sherman article which oozes with complacency is alarming in the extreme.

    His article misses completely the urgency of the situation in this election and any fair reading of his article shows this.

    Does his article represent an equal paralysis in the whole Israel set-up? Probably!

  2. Stefan Molyneux before this recent FBI action writes:

    QUOTE…If the email is authentic, it means a presidential candidate accepted $25 million from the very people funding the worst terrorist threat to not only the United States but to the world.END QUOTE

    Endingthefed adds in http://endingthefed.com/alert-wikileaks-reveals-who-has-been-funding-isis-and-it-leads-straight-to-hillary.html

    BEGIN QUOTE…The Clinton Foundation has been tied into numerous scandals already, and any one of them should have been enough to disqualify Hillary Clinton from running for president.
    The fact that she regularly donates to her own charity for tax deductions is bad enough, but the Clinton Foundation itself actually puts less than five percent of its overall donations into play for the charities it supposedly benefits.
    We have also seen the numerous pay-to-play schemes running through the foundation that further disqualify Hillary Clinton and prove she may be the most corrupt politician not to just seek the office of the president but to hold ANY office.
    Leaked documents have proven over half of her private meetings while serving as secretary of state were with big money donors to the Clinton Foundation. What is most damning, though, is that many of these people simply had no right getting that kind of access.
    I am not sure what it will take for the American people to realize Hillary Clinton is a true criminal mastermind, but they better wake up soon or our country is doomed.
    If she somehow finds her way back into the oval office, our very way of life will be in jeopardy. Our debt will climb, our taxes will increase, unemployment will skyrocket, and our very safety on our own soil will be threatened on a daily basis.
    Wake up America, before it is too late! END QUOTE

    The new turn by Comey and the FBI is shrouded in mystery…It concerns again the use of the Clinton crowd in using PRIVATE EMAIL SERVICES such as believe it or not gmail. I myself use gmail and assume it is as open to spying as open can be. So it all comes from that. That itself when you begin to understand the American system is immediate reason for the disbanding of the whole Clinton organization from top to bottom, and as an immediate step a High Court intervention to kick Hillary Clinton off the campaign.

    My own views on this latest FBI action against Clinton is very complicated. It is certain that Comey the head of the FBI is himself very open to being removed in disgrace and he is perhaps responding to immense pressure most of all from his own agents in the field.

    It may be a holding operation and Comey is hoping that there is a sympathy vote for Clinton and Clinton is immediately spinning for that. It is therefore certain that if Trump gets in Comey is in prison. It is as serious as that. So Comey is trying to soften that situation.

    The connection is: Hillary Clinton…her female lover who is also high up in the Muslim Brotherhood…the husband of that female lover of Clinton who is a complete sexual pervert and thus is most open to all kinds of blackmail.

    So always the lines lead back to Hillary Clinton. This was especially the case and well exposed by the videos made by the James O’Keefe Veritas videos. When you view these (so far) 4 videos it is clear that Clinton is not engaging in political debate but in character assassination.

    Yet take the whole of the Trump speeches, meetings, tweets, you see a man who is totally centred on politics. He is supposed to be a novice in politics. In fact he is a genius and Clinton is the dunce.

    The latter situation of Clinton being the dunce has been shown in Syria. Clinton threatens Putin who will treat her always with hatred. The position of Trump was to proceed with caution. Trump pushed to the fore the necessary alliance with Russia (sadly Iran is involved too) to destroy ISIS. Clinton the very opposite since she was instrumental with Obama in creating ISIS.

    And all of this being hidden by the Media, the whole huge apparatus, with only one person Sean Hannity of Fox holding out.

    There are many stupid people in every country, call them low information people. It is possible for Clinton to win this election with the aid of the Soros electronic voting machines – which can easily be programmed to switch votes, with the makers refusing to release the software.

    Also if she wins like this Clinton can remain in power because most people with their wild optimism continually underestimate the power of the state. Give Clinton the control of the state and it is an entirely different matter. In this the situation will be somewhat like that of Germany in 1933 when Hitler and the Nazis had been and in the early months of that year were totally underestimated.

    If Trump wins I am sure he will start firmly but cautiously. His first step is to stop illegal immigration at all levels. His second job which he will start immediately is American investment abroad which must be transferred into America. These two measures will sustain his base for many months. I feel certain he will take on the Arab Antisemitism by transferring the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem but in that regard he may balance that by reaching agreements with the Saudis and Egypt against the Obama Iran Nuclear Deal. On these matters although proceeding with caution he will act decisively. Trump has been underestimated. On Syria he has shown to be a master tactician.

    With Clinton there will be no time for discussion and there will be unending chaos. With Trump there may be some order and inside of that order the discussion as to the issues, much discussion, can take place. I hope to raise more and more the issue of species extinction. A recent Facebook post of mine on Species Extinction got O N E “like”. Just imagine!

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    October 29, 2016 at 9:54 am

    bernard ross Said:

    Second one – a different post.

    I’m afraid the robocop is racist, Xenophobic ,Islamophobic and Sexist.
    Probably a Trudeauphile as well.

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    bernard ross Said:

    Aw shucks. Robocop got me.

  5. bernard ross Said:

    ‘Corrupt and predatory’ feds stunned as all defendants in Oregon standoff found not guilty
    http://www.worldtribune.com/corrupt-and-predatory-feds-stunned-as-all-defendants-in-oregon-standoff-found-not-guilty/

    Doesn’t bring back the dead, LaVoy Finicum who was murdered by the Feds nor does it release the ranchers who are wrongfully imprisoned.

    Obama’s Government of Wolves at work taking the land form the people, destroying private ownership and families, and they will , they will try again.

  6. stevenl Said:

    The future US congress has found its perfect match: Hillary.
    Both will in unison prove their Ineptitude, Incompetence and Incompetence.
    Barak is responsible for 1/2 million dead Syrian! If I was an Arab I would be scare sh..t of Hillary. That is why probably they are all already making down-payments to get more Muslims killed. What color will Hillary transparent line be??? I wonder!

    “I wouldn’t worry about it” – No country for old men

    America will not survive a Clinton Presidency She opens the gates of H3ll and 1.5 to 2 years later we are in the American Apocalypse. Best case scenario a third world H3ll-hole, worst case – ashes.

  7. The future US congress has found its perfect match: Hillary.
    Both will in unison prove their Ineptitude, Incompetence and Incompetence.
    Barak is responsible for 1/2 million dead Syrian, after having received the Nobel prize. What will Hillary get?! If I was an Arab I would be scare sh..t of Hillary. That is why probably they are all already making down-payments to get more Muslims killed. What color will Hillary transparent line be??? I wonder! A rainbow? More chances to win a Nobel prize or the Guinness record for most Muslims killed!

  8. @ yamit82:

    in the last, oh, 36, 48 hours, there has been an undercurrent of kind of speculative discussion among some national security people that something might surface in the next few days about e-mails, and I think the expectation in this chatter — and I took it as just chatter but informed chatter, to some extent — was that it would relate to another round of WikiLeaks e-mails, which our Justice Department people seem to be saying is not the case, but there has been some noise in the national security community the last day or two of this kind of possibility of some kind of revelation.

    from the same Bernstein article above
    something coming down apparently, but maybe they want to distract from it… or make sure they are not doing something illegal in not following through…
    no one wants kaine and if she is deposed after election he will be pres.

  9. @ bernard ross:

    James Kallstrom says letter to congress makes no sense. They have already found tons of classified emails even some with highest classification so why the letter to congress now what difference if they find more such classified info now in relation to Clinton? He thinks something big is coming down soon and the letter was Comey’s way of getting out in front of what will be disclosed soon. I tend to agree letter to congress at this time makes little sense in of by itself.

    Does anyone want Kain to be president? 🙂

  10. yamit82 Said:

    Trump is a Patriot an unabashed one. He is promoting a policy of economic nationalism and rule of Law…..He is a billionaire with a strong affinity to blue collar Americans a breath of fresh air for me….. If he accomplishes 10% of what he says he will do it will be more than any of the others.

    I agree with all of this

  11. @ yamit82:

    Bernstein: FBI Would Not Reopen Case Unless New Evidence Was “A Real Bombshell”
    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/10/28/bernstein_fbi_would_not_reopen_case_unless_new_evidence_was_a_real_bombshell.html

    Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department, Cheryl Mills, may have received classified national security information through one of two or three personal, unsecured email accounts she regularly used to communicate with Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

    The evidence is in the latest cache of emails released by Judicial Watch, as well in Clinton-related emails attached as exhibits to the deposition Judicial Watch took with Mills in a lawsuit regarding Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state.

    Approximately 10 percent of Abedin’s emails released through Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act requests were addressed to one of Mills’ various personal email addresses.

    Several were found to contain such highly sensitive material that the State Department redacted 100 percent of the content pages, marking many pages with a bold stamp reading “PAGE DENIED.”

    more than 160 emails in the latest Judicial Watch release, some 110 emails – two-thirds of the total – were forwarded by Abedin to two personal addresses she controlled.

    The Washington Times reported in August 2015 that the State Department had admitted to a federal judge that Abedin and Mills used personal email accounts to conduct government business in addition to Clinton’s private clintonemail.com to transact State Department business.

    http://www.wnd.com/2016/09/hillarys-chief-of-staff-used-personal-email-for-state-business/#OXcfbQLcEAdsJyJi.99

    I wonder what the 2 personal email addresses were that huma controlled to which she forwarded classified emails????
    Just the incompetence of Hillary SOS should disqualify her from being promoted from SOS to Pres…. nic even all her crimes.

  12. yamit82 Said:

    Comy could have sat on this for another 12 days and then released whatever but he did it now which is a bit strange.

    perhaps the suit for info on the meeting and questioning of Hillary made him realize that if Trump gets in he can be screwed and they will throw him to the wolves. I saw this morning that Republicans are jumping back on board with Trump after jumping ship. The biggest damage to trump came from the GOP… like this guy McMullins , an ex GOP cia agent running for pres in Utah…. I think Bush put him in to screw Utah from trump.

  13. yamit82 Said:

    he hoped Clinton was not so careless to allow Weiner thru Huma access to secret info

    LOL, they should have worried about Huma with the MB parents and her own prior radical islamic connections. Its hard for me to beleive with her background that she has not helped the MB… Stevens could have been murdered with info on his itinerary from her server which hillary and huma used.
    Also, Stevens was the highest official to link to Hillary the buyng of arms and shipping through Turkey to AQ and later IS. Get rid of him and one gets rid of the witness.

  14. @ bernard ross:

    Comy could have sat on this for another 12 days and then released whatever but he did it now which is a bit strange. Now there are leaks that it relates to emails of Weiner and or his wife Huma and no indication if Hitlery is involved….. Trump once said he hoped Clinton was not so careless to allow Weiner thru Huma access to secret info now he seems to have been correct even precinct again.

  15. In many ways, Trump is the creation of Obama and Clinton – a reaction of millions of Americans to the unwanted metamorphosis of their nation. Indeed, he is cut from the same cloth as Brexit. He is a response—undeniably an inelegant one—to what is perceived as an attempt to decouple America from its roots and its heritage.

    However, as such, it is a response that is relatively benign. If it is rebuffed—brace yourselves for far more drastic ones in the future. For as Condell points out, Trump is a “necessary antidote to the poison of political correctness … destroying Western society’s immune system”. If this antidote fails to be administered, its successors are guaranteed to be far more virulent

    Trump is a Patriot an unabashed one. He is promoting a policy of economic nationalism and rule of Law…..He is a billionaire with a strong affinity to blue collar Americans a breath of fresh air for me….. If he accomplishes 10% of what he says he will do it will be more than any of the others.

  16. More Islamist Money Flows to Hillary Clinton

    Presidential candidate Evan McMullin has vaulted to sixth place on the list, accepting $5,400 from Islamists in August and September. Among other current presidential candidates, Jill Stein has accepted $250; Donald Trump and Gary Johnson have not received any Islamist money.

    http://www.meforum.org/6341/more-islamist-money-flows-to-hillary-clinton?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=7d33ef3a86-10_20_16_PRESS_RELEASE_Hillary_Clinton_T10_20_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-7d33ef3a86-33660809

  17. @ Ted Belman:

    Right Sherman was for most of his career a Rabin and Peres acolyte and was part of and friendly with all of the skunks in our security institutions…. Bad Judgement still evident in his own character.

  18. Felix Quigley Said:

    Fine! But two questions:

    1. Is Ameria founded on quote “Judeo-Christian heritage”?

    2. What is quote “Judeo-Christian heritage”?

    There is no such thing as Judeo-Christian anything. America was founded on Christian principles, Greco/Roman concepts of law and order but nothing Jewish in Particular. 40 years ago in an attempt to further graft Christianity into Judaism fundamentalist Christians coined the phrase Judeo-Christian.

  19. I heard on Fox News that Jason Chavez (UT congressman) says the FBI reopening Email investigation as more emails were found.

    If true could this be the event that shakes up the race?

  20. I just clicked on the link to watch Pat Condell’s video. ‘Withering’ is not the word I would use to describe this most refreshing video. In fact I think it’s one of his best although I really love all of his videos so it’s tough for me to say which one is his best.
    I would like to thank Martin for including the link and helping to advertise this English genius who produces on going eye opening videos for the world to watch. After all if a picture is worth a thousand words, surely a video is worth a lot more. I urge you all to watch this brave man’s videos.

  21. I love reading Martin’s articles but I equally enjoy watching Pat’s non-PC infected videos.
    Let me try to sum up the election: Trump says stupid, nasty stuff while Hillary was directly responsible for the deaths of 4 American citizens and then she and her boss tried to blame it on a video.

  22. @ Ted Belman:
    This only goes to show how effective the Alinsky MO is when smart and knowledgeable individuals who know better are also brainwashed!!!
    This also prove that the “human brain construct” (sophistication) has plenty of deficiencies after all.
    That is also why 1.56 Bil. are Muslims and another 2.1 Bil. are Christians although the later number is going down but those are brainwashed secular’ s!!!
    It takes a “special” brain to know how to use it effectively! What a waste G-D!!!

  23. @ ms:

    What is for sure is that Martin, Felix and I all support Trump. I just disagreed with Martin’s unwarranted assessment of Trump’s character. Felix joined me in offering a more positive assessment of Trump’s character.

  24. Martin your closing paragraph was right on the mark!

    In many ways, Trump is the creation of Obama and Clinton – a reaction of millions of Americans to the unwanted metamorphosis of their nation. Indeed, he is cut from the same cloth as Brexit. He is a response—undeniably an inelegant one—to what is perceived as an attempt to decouple America from its roots and its heritage.

    However, as such, it is a response that is relatively benign. If it is rebuffed—brace yourselves for far more drastic ones in the future. For as Condell points out, Trump is a “necessary antidote to the poison of political correctness … destroying Western society’s immune system”. If this antidote fails to be administered, its successors are guaranteed to be far more virulent.

  25. @ Felix Quigley:
    You write:
    “Ted is right to question Martin Sherman’s position on this election.”

    Somehow I doubt that! Did you actually read what my position is?

    I feel Ted would strongly ENDORSE my position although he would probably disagree with my reasons therefor.

  26. David writes:

    “Pat Condell’s analysis of the election is embedded via a hyperlink in this analysis by Martin Sherman. The big question as I see it is that we are facing a choice between a world where the existence of any objective truth is denied in favor of “competing socially constructive narratives” (i.e., leftist Critical Theory, Post-Modernism B.S.) and the alternate belief that an objective reality does exist although in many cases, finding it may involve an arduous journey.”

    Yes an objective reality does exist. Trump has pursued this in this campaign. This is what this election campaign has been about from he very beginning.

    Clinton in he 3 debates was determined to block all discussion of “objective reality”

    Clinton fastened on the issue of the “Billy Bush Tape” issue which was a negligible issue which she aimed to use to exploit American Puritanism and the associated FemiNazism and PCism.

    This has been totally her campaign.

    Clinton has proved to be also very stupid, with no grasp of any issue happening in the world. Mrs Clinton is intellectually a nonentity as was Obama.

    In contrast Trump has been an intellectual giant. He has shown in his many speeches, hundreds, lasting an hour or more each, a subtle grasp of the realities of today’s world.

    I have watched many of the speeches of Trump from beginning to end. They are always interesting and entertaining. He is always able to break into his script with material which answers directly these who seek to destroy him personally BUT RETURN with little difficulty to the main run of his central arguments.

    Trump is really a genius. He has been trained by 50 years of enterprise to be so.

    It has been so disappointing to me to see Martin Sherman engage in what Jared Israel used to point at the “obligatory digs” against Slobodan Milosevic.

    In contrast to Trump…This woman has always been a nonentity and Trump is right “She has no idea what she is doing in Syria”.

    Syria has been a revelation. There Clinton has been a neocon hawk insulting opponents and threatening nuclear conflagration. Trump has been the cautious and realistic one.

    In that respect alone you can see how wrong people are when they say that Clinton just continues on from Obama. Nothing ever “continues on”…there can be a totally new phenomenon that threatens all of life on earth will this weak and crazed nonentity.

    Ted is right to question Martin Sherman’s position on this election.

  27. If Hillary gets the WH it would mean, majority of Americans are happy to vote for POTUS who is known to be unscrupulous at best and downright evil at worst. She will continue Obama’s work to destroy the USA. Without a strong USA the world will descend rapidly into wars and chaos. Media cannot be believed so we will no doubt have the “Wars and rumors of wars” that Jesus prophesied will occur before His return. Should the USA elect Clinton then the murder of innocent unborn children, Perversion of gender relationships and liberal atheism will thrive. Crime will increase, terrorism will increase and the evil within the USA will be unchecked as we all know Liberal policies are wishy washy on law and order, defend the perpetrators and of course, Capitol Hill corruption will be unabated and moves to create the NWO will intensify. This may bring the wrath of God upon the USA, massive super-storms, giant earthquakes, maybe even the eruption of Yellowstone or a nuclear attack that will disable America. Any of these will open the way for the tyrannical evil powers of the earth to do what they do best.. Make wars kill millions and try to conquer the world for their own selfish goals and of course, try to destroy Israel.

    Trump, if he is to be believed is not a really a bully, he is one who steps in to stop the bullying and is therefore a counter to the real bullies, the Democrats that bypass Congress, undermine the Constitution and believe that they are never wrong. They do what is right in their own eyes believing that they are superior to the electorate. They are the real fascist supremacists.

    It stands to reason that Trump would be better for the USA but it is quite possible that the majority of voters are so deceived, blind, foolish or willfully sinful that they prefer evil to what may be their last chance to turn the USA from its current course of death and destruction. Pray for the USA… Pray for Trump, he wants to try and change things for the better, he may well succeed.

  28. Quote from Martin Sherman:

    “But as I mentioned previously, by presenting the divide between Trump and a post-Obama surrogate, Clinton, as an “America vs Europe” one, Condell understates the true nature of the dichotomy. Indeed, it is a dichotomy that goes far beyond a difference of perspectives within prevailing Western civilization. It is a dichotomy between what have been traditionally deemed “Western values” and values which are “non-Western”. Indeed, the less charitable might say, “anti-Western”.

    Accordingly, as I wrote just prior to the 2012 presidential elections, this latter set of values display “the same strains of resentment and envy, suspicion of others’ achievement, the belief that the success of some was necessarily the product of exploitation pervades much of the anti-colonial, anti-American – and yes, anti-Zionist – philosophy of many members of the Non-Aligned Movement.”

    As a result, I cautioned: “[Obama’s] interpretation of the international role the US should play, the nature of the country’s interests, and the manner in which they should be pursued; his perception of friend and foe and the attitudes that should be adopted towards them, all seem to entail dramatic and disconcerting departure from that of most of his predecessors” adding that: “In this regard, he is the first US president who is explicitly … unmoored, both cognitively and emotionally, from the bollards of America’s founding Judeo-Christian heritage….”

    Fine! But two questions:

    1. Is Ameria founded on quote “Judeo-Christian heritage”?

    2. What is quote “Judeo-Christian heritage”?

  29. Oh. Pooh! Just vote for Trump. It’s all good. Though I have to take issue with the the author’s smear of Marie Antoinette. She wanted the people to eat cake! It’s not like they knew about diabetes, and such.

    “Ice Cream Fantasy”:

    Eddie Cantor – “Kid Millions” (1934) soundtrack
    https://youtu.be/CBNc072DZYc

  30. I believe Trump will honour his Contract with the American Voter.

    Sherman is too harsh on Trump’s character. It seems he has been taken in by the media’s spin. Yes, he is a bully and potentially a sexual predator. Too many people say he is a liar and untruthful. If he gets some facts wrong, he is only a liar if he knew they were wrong. I haven’t seen any evidence of this.

    It seems his unfavourable rating is close to Hillary’s. That can only be because he has been smeared by the MSM. Hillary is fraudulent and a liar. Trump isn’t remotely like her.

    Trump is literally and figuratively a builder. He is a perfectionist and a leader. His buildings stand as a monument to his ledarship and standards.

    I have full confidence that he will deliver.

  31. David Nussbaum Said:

    objective truth

    Just a comment:
    “Objective truth” is not of this world!
    Hillary learned 44 years ago the two most important lessons of her WHOLE LIFE! Be rich (she had no choice but to stick to Billy) and control the Press (The Press killed Nixon)! So far she has accomplished both!
    Bob Woodward, according to some (Rosen from FNC), has not told everything he knows about the WaterGate scandal. His role in particular!!!

  32. @ stevenl:A German I know told the German Press believes Trump will take the USA down the path of the NAZIs getting rid of democracy.

    Germans have not heard of Clinton Foundation Corruption I guess.

  33. I just come back from Europe and the whole sub-continent has been brainwashed by the CNN type of media in HATING D. T. not with passion but with HATE!
    The GOP leadership prefers a fully corrupted candidate to an unknown quantity!
    One of the major losers if Hillary wins, will be the Kurds.

  34. I boil this race down much simpler.

    Hillary has wanted to President for a long time and will lie, steal and cheat to do it. What here real policies will be can only be guessed because she always lies and is greatly influenced by the people who give her money like Soros. It will be left of course, big government of course, she is much more hawkish than Obama (probably closer to George Bush II).

    She is not pro Israel. She might be likely to arm the Ukrainians and others who fight the Russians and that is why they do not like her.

    Trump has no past political history so it is harder to know what he would when negotiating with congress. Would he really throw away NATO treaties ( I do not think so). Would he actually dump NAFTA if he does not get it changed to his satisfaction ( I have no clue).

    I believe he would support Israel. I think he would try and lower taxes and restrict regulations. I think he would try and secure the border and not let potential terrorists into the USA.

    Hillary is a know disaster to summarize. Trump is an unknown who is also very divisive and he might do some real good if gets a chance.

  35. Pat Condell’s analysis of the election is embedded via a hyperlink in this analysis by Martin Sherman. The big question as I see it is that we are facing a choice between a world where the existence of any objective truth is denied in favor of “competing socially constructive narratives” (i.e., leftist Critical Theory, Post-Modernism B.S.) and the alternate belief that an objective reality does exist although in many cases, finding it may involve an arduous journey. The ramifications emanating from these two approaches to existence are apparent when anyone objectively examines the outcomes of their implementation across world history.