Luke Lea writes: Clinton’s vulnerabilities in the fall:
Her embrace of Merkel
Her embrace of Al Sharpton
Her vote on Iraq
Her advocacy of Eqyptian intervention
Her advocacy of Libya intervention
The Bengazi thing (thought personally I think this is a distraction).
Her advocacy of Syrian intervention
Her Ukrainian intervention
Her position on illegal immigration: no wall needed, no such thing as an illegal immigrant basically
Her history in favor of Nafta, Gatt, WTO, etc..
Her careless attitude towards US national security. as evidenced by her private email server, which she justified as a matter of “convenience.”
Her and Bill’s foundation accepting large donations from Saudis and other dubious Islamic sources in Middle East.
Dependence on the donor class, including Goldman Sachs, the poster boy for Wall St. misbehavior
Her once saying, “Fuck them!” in reference to Bill’s blue-collar constituency during his first term as President
Her enabling of Bill’s past sexual assault history, including credible accusations of rape; and her defense of a rapist back in Arkansas
Her failure with healthcare reform during Bill’s first term, a complete Rube-Goldberg disaster
Her full backing of the Obama administration, including bad relationship with Israel while she was Secretary of State
Her infatuation with Saul Alinsky back in her college days (including her honors thesis).
Her complete lack of any major achievements on her own, riding her husband’s coattails into national prominence, in contrast to a real female leader like Margaret Thatcher.
Can readers add to this list of vulnerabilities that Trump might exploit in the fall?
You have to feel sorry for, as well as worried about, for poor Israel, finding herself in the middle of an Islamic world seething in violence and hatred and basically at war with the West. The long-term survival of the state seems no longer quite the sure thing, or even the desirable thing, it did in the latter decades of the 20th century. Giving all Israeli Jews dual American citizenship would reduce American Jewish anxieties, which means a paranoia driven neo-conservative foreign policy might lose some of its steam. America would become world Jewry’s final refuge, their New Jerusalem, in case all else fails. But to prepare the ground American Jews need to be less hostile to the interests of working-class Americans, especially on the issues of trade and immigration.
