Another brick in the wall
What's a failed secretary of state speech or three worth?
For Hillary Clinton, $675,000, for three speeches she made for Goldman Sachs, a fact Democratic presidential campaign rival Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has pointed out.
"Was that," moderator Anderson Cooper asked her in a town hall discussion on CNN last week, "an error in judgment?"
"I made speeches to a lot of groups," the tone-deaf candidate answered. "I told them what I thought. I answered questions."
But, wondered Cooper, "did you have to be paid $675,000?"
"Well," Clinton sputtered, "I don't know. That's what they offered so you know, every secretary of state that I know has done that."
That wasn't exactly the truth because not every secretary of state has done that and because her fees are negotiated by her speaking agency, which listed the price for potential clients. Her fee, according to the website, regularly appeared to be just shy of $300,000.
But, after she'd offered the answer, she said in a weak afterthought that she didn't think she'd be running for president in the future.
If a question like that throws her, how can she lead the world's most powerful nation?
Radical gathering place
President Barack Obama didn't visit just any mosque last week. According to Western Journalism, he visited one under surveillance by the FBI since 2010 because of the radical activities of one of its Muslim members.
The president's first public visit to a mosque since he became president in 2009, where he once again lectured the country for the hate speech of a few who would demonize Muslims, came at the Islamic Society of Baltimore, where Antonio Martinez, also known as Muhammad Hussain, was caught discussing the idea of bombing an Army recruitment center with other members of the mosque in 2010.
Hussain, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2012, had said if the military continued to kill Muslim brothers and sisters (presumably in the Middle East), he and his group would need to expand their operation by killing U.S. Army personnel where they live.
Apparently, according to Investors Business Daily, the White House let the Council on American-Islamic Relations choose the site for the visit, even though the FBI had banned CAIR from outreach due to its ties to the Hamas terrorist group.
"The mosque graduated a terrorist who plotted to blow up a local Army recruiting station, hired an imam who condoned suicide bombings and blames American 'foreign policy' for terrorism," the newspaper said. "Obama has to be willfully blind not to see all these ties to terror. It's now abundantly clear the White House failed to properly vet the venue."
Clinton-Marx in 2016
It was all for fun, but it does provide a little insight to the Democrat electorate.
Conservative media critic Mark Dice recently hit the streets of San Diego to put to the test the brainpower of liberal voters. He told them Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton had picked Karl Marx, her "economic adviser," to be her running mate.
"Sure, I will support that," one woman said as she signed the petition while the interviewer told her Clinton chose Marx to "boost her candidacy credentials."
According to Infowars, Dice also told her the candidate needed to get a required amount of signatures from supporters to make her pick official.
The identity of Marx, a 19th-century revolutionary socialist who wanted to destroy capitalism and died in 1883, was lost on the liberal sheep.
Another Clinton supporter signed the petition after Dice told him Marx had been Obama's economic adviser for years.
"She gotta step up, I don't like to see what Trump been doing," the man said.
Feel the Bern
Jesse Watters, during a segment on "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News, wanted to find out about the support among young people for the presidential candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. He went to a place where he reliably would find both young voters and liberals, the University of Oregon.
He wasn't disappointed.
"Why do you like Bernie?" Watters asked one student.
"He's a great congressman," the student said.
"He's a senator," Watters replied.
Which of Sanders' policies did they support? Watters asked several students.
"That's so hard to, like, pinpoint," one said.
"I think my favorite of his would probably be his health care policy," another said.
"I really like his redistribution of wealth policy," a third said.
Finally, he asked students what the term "Democratic socialist," which Sanders call himself, means.
The concept of a Democratic socialist in the White House, one said, is "not as terrifying as everybody thinks it is."
"I like that," another said. "I think we actually need more of that."
Like, maybe they won't vote.