Posted on Aug 23, 2016
Powell talks Clinton emails: 'Her people are trying to pin it on me'
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Well, someone may be lying here . . . I tend to believe Colin Powell on this specific point . . .
Powell talks Clinton emails: 'Her people are trying to pin it on me'
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Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump
Election 2016
Office of the President (POTUS)
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These are the tactics of the serially unaccountable. She lies without attending to it. Thomas Jefferson had a great quote in a letter written to his nephew (Peter Carr) regarding lying (this is an excerpt from a longer letter dated August 19, 1785):
"Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty, by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. This increases the difficulties tenfold, and those who pursue these methods, get themselves so involved at length that they can turn no way but their infamy becomes more exposed. It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual, he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all it’s good dispositions."
I think that paragraph sums up Hillary Clinton about as well as any other I can think of. Her infamy has been exposed for any willing to look at it. Unfortunately many are too distracted by the media slight of hand on her dissimulation.
COL Jean (John) F. B.
"Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty, by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. This increases the difficulties tenfold, and those who pursue these methods, get themselves so involved at length that they can turn no way but their infamy becomes more exposed. It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual, he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all it’s good dispositions."
I think that paragraph sums up Hillary Clinton about as well as any other I can think of. Her infamy has been exposed for any willing to look at it. Unfortunately many are too distracted by the media slight of hand on her dissimulation.
COL Jean (John) F. B.
This may not mean anything but if it does....
A retired guy at my Mom's retirement community said that the Washington Post has 20 reporters looking up info to discredit Donald Trump and only one to keep an eye on Hillary. Maybe they should be split 50/50 so we can have some look up/help get to the bottom of the about the truth behind the "She Said/He Said" of the Secretaries of State.
A retired guy at my Mom's retirement community said that the Washington Post has 20 reporters looking up info to discredit Donald Trump and only one to keep an eye on Hillary. Maybe they should be split 50/50 so we can have some look up/help get to the bottom of the about the truth behind the "She Said/He Said" of the Secretaries of State.
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Jefferson's Letter to Peter Carr 9/19/1785
DEAR PETER, -- I received, by Mr. Mazzei, your letter of April the 20th. I am much mortified to hear that you have lost so much time; and that when you arrived in Williamsburg, you were not at all advanced from what you were when you left Monticello. Time now begins to be precious to you. Every day you lose, will retard a day your entrance on that public stage whereon you may begin to be useful to yourself. However, the way to repair the loss...
“Rules For Making Oneself a Disagreeable Companion”
Pennsylvania Gazette, November 15, 1750
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Rules, by the observation of which, a Man of Wit and Learning may nevertheless make himself a disagreeable companion.
Your Business is to shine; therefore you must by all means prevent the shining of others, for their brightness may make yours the less distinguish’d. To this end,
1. If possible engross the whole discourse; and when other matter fails, talk much of your-self, your education, your knowledge, your circumstances, your success in business, your victories in disputes, your own wise sayings and observations on particular occasions, &c. &c. &c.
2. If when you are out of breath, one of the company should seize the opportunity of saying something; watch his words, and, if possible, find somewhat either in his sentiment or expression, immediately to contradict and raise a dispute upon. Rather than fail, criticize even his grammar.
3. If another should be saying an indisputable good thing; either give no attention to it; or interrupt him; or draw away the attention of others; or, if he gets it said, and you perceive the company pleas’d with it, own it to be a good thing, and withal remark that it had been said by Bacon, Locke, Bayle or some other eminent writer; thus you deprive him the reputation he might have gain’d by it, and gain some yourself, as you hereby show your great reading and memory.
4. When modest men have been thus treated by you a few times, they will chuse everafter to be silent in your company; then you may shine on without fear of a rival; rallying them at the same time for their dullness, which will be to you a new fund of wit.
Thus you will be sure to please yourself. The polite man aims at pleasing others, but you shall go beyond him even in that. A man can be present only in one company, but may at the same time be absent in twenty. He can please only where he is, you where-ever you are not.