By Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall
April 3, 2016
NewsWithViews.com
When I was 11 years old – that would
be 1948 – it was an election year. In those days, caucuses were held in private
residences.
I lived on South Sherman Street in
Denver and a house across the street was the polling place for the Democrat
caucus. I was curious and asked my Mother what a “polling place” for the
District number shown on the sign outside of the house meant. I asked if she and
my Father would be attending. I was one of those kids who constantly asked
questions.
I didn’t know Democrats from
Republicans in those days. I must admit, I don’t see much difference between
the two parties today, either. They are both run by the same globalists who
manipulate power back and forth for their own benefit and to the detriment of
the people of America. In my view, both political parties are totally corrupt.
Back to 1948: My Mother informed me
that I had to be in the house by dark and that I could not go outside that
night... we usually played hide and go seek, Simon Says, or kick the can after
dinner. “None of that tonight,” she told me. When I asked why, she informed me
that there would be numerous strangers coming and going from my neighbor’s
house that evening and Democrats were people whose moral standards were
“different from ours.” When I asked what that meant she explained that
Democrats were the kind of people who might abuse little girls.
We didn’t say the word sex in the
good old days and so Mom’s explanation was lacking in details, but she said
enough to give me the idea that I might be stolen by someone who was part of a
political party different from that of my parents and they might be inclined to
do things that would ruin a child’s life.
My Mother was raised on a small farm
that bordered the city limits of Indianapolis, IN. There were many times during
her childhood when there was insufficient food for her and her five brothers
and sisters. She was born in 1909 and was a child when the Great Depression
began. They grew much of their own food. She told my brother, sister and I
about cooking turnips in a large pot over the fireplace. One night someone
shouted that the water in which the turnips were being cooked was gone and they
would burn. Her brother, Paul, jumped up and spit in the pot to keep the
turnips from burning... they didn’t have indoor water, and had to get it from a
pump outside the kitchen door which took a couple of minutes.
How Mom ended up a Republican, I’ll
never know. She came from a poverty-based background which today would
automatically make her a Democrat... or a socialist or a communist.
I remember when, during WWII, FDR
went to meet with Stalin and Winston Churchill at Yalta, Mom said “That old
bastard gave America away at Yalta!” I didn’t know Yalta from Malta and so
didn’t pay much attention but she was so vehement when she made the statement,
it stayed with me. When I became politically aware, I found she was right. Mom
had to quit school after the 8th grade which, from personal observation, is
about the same as an undergraduate degree from colleges and universities these
days. I do not believe most teachers or professors could pass the test she had
to take to graduate 8th grade.
Over the years, there have been many
things to remember about both political parties. Interestingly, the thing that
stands out most in my mind is the $200,000 in valued property that was stolen
from the White House in 2000 by Bill and Hillary Clinton when they moved out
and George W. Bush moved in. They were forced to return the stolen goods and
unless I’m mistaken had to pay for some of the damages their White House
staffers did.
I remember how those who worked for
them destroyed the computer room, stole laptops, etc. In my mind, that somehow
was a far worse offense – stealing from the people of the country who paid
their salary and gave them respect neither was due – than all of the other
things attributed to the Clintons.
It totally puzzles me that anyone
would vote for someone who has stolen from them... or, who attempted to steal
from them and would have had they not been caught in the act. To vote to put
them in a position where they can steal you blind is, in my outdated view,
unthinkable.
Mother’s assessment of Democrat
moral values, it seems, was as accurate in the 1940s as it is in 2016. Here’s a
reminder of the days we all enjoyed when the Clintons last called the White
House home:
•
President Clinton gave Hillary authority to handle health care reform. The
program she created was so messed up that even a Democrat-controlled Congress
wouldn’t vote for it.
•
President Clinton gave Hillary authority to select a female attorney general
and she submitted the names of Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood. Both were forced to
withdraw their names because of their backgrounds. Hillary next recommended
what Bill Clinton later called his “biggest mistake:” Janet Reno. Those who
remember the Koresh killings in Waco, TX and Vicki Weaver/FBI sniper at Ruby
Ridge, ID will quickly see the kind of people Mrs. Clinton tends to respect and
appoint to office.
•
President Clinton then requested Hillary to recommend the new head of the Civil
Rights Commission. She put forth the name of Lani Guanier – whose radical views
forced a withdrawal of her name.
•
President Clinton asked Hillary for more recommendations. She provided these
names: Web Hubbel (of Whitewater fame) for the Justice Department, Vince Foster
for White House staff, and William Kennedy for Treasury. As you probably know,
Hubbel went to prison, Foster committed suicide (then drove himself to Ft.
Marcy Park to hide his body), and Kennedy was forced to resign.
•
Then we had “Travelgate.” Hillary wanted her friend, Harry Thomason, to provide
travel tickets, circumventing the White House Travel Office. The Travel Office
refused to comply and it cost them their jobs when Hillary made false charges
against them to the FBI and got them fired. A guy named Billy Dale was charged
with mixing personal and White House funds and it took a jury less than two
hours to find him innocent.
•
Hillary recommended her friend Craig Livingstone to be Director of White House
security. Remember the 900 missing FBI files – the files that provided
classified information on enemies of the Clintons? The material also dealt with
widespread use of drugs by White House staff... at which point, both Hillary
and Bill denied even knowing Livingstone. As a result, the FBI closed its White
House Liaison Office (which had served seven Presidents). It was during this
time frame Republican elected officials stopped representing the interests of
the people who elected them and began doing the bidding of the Democrat Party.
Do you see a possible connection to those stolen FBI files... stolen by a
Clinton appointee recommended by Hillary?
•
When the allegations of Bill’s sexual appetite came to the fore, Hillary was
put in charge of the “Bimbo Eruption” team. In case you’ve forgotten, Hillary
recommended non-settlement in the Paula Jones lawsuit – which, after the Ken
Starr investigation, was quietly settled (costing American taxpayers millions
of dollars). Anyone who thinks it is pro-feminist to be an enabler for a male
abuser of women (even if the abuser is your husband) has a different definition
of pro-feminism than most thinking women. Women who support this woman for
President are not feminists. They are traitors to women and to women’s causes.
•
Hillary refused to release the Whitewater documents. As a result, Ken Starr was
appointed Special Prosecutor. It cost taxpayers $80 million to find out about
Bill Clinton’s sperm on Monica Lewinski’s blue dress. Bill was caught lying
about his affairs which he later admitted to... but lost his license to
practice law (thank you, Lord) for lying under oath to a grand jury.
•
Hillary avoided being indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice by using
the words “I do not recall,” or “I have no recollection” and “I don’t know” 56
times during her interrogation.
•
And then we have Benghazi, destroying Department of State emails and using a
personal server which threatened and still threatens our national security and
the lives of intelligence agents (plus the possible trading of government
favors for contributions to the Clinton Foundation).
How can the Democrats make their
candidate for the Presidency someone who doesn’t appear to be the brightest
candle on the cake (she flunked her Bar exam at least once or twice and passed
it only after Bill was in office in Arkansas), whose associates haven’t heard
of a law they didn’t want to break, who has a record of dishonesty, has bad
judgment, and, according to the Secret Service, has an absolutely foul mouth?
None of the above includes the list
of dead bodies which are linked to the Clintons or the drugs and laundered CIA
drug money at Mena Airport while Bill Clinton was Governor of Arkansas.
Still, being forced to return an
estimated $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork that was listed
as “stolen” defines Hillary Clinton’s character to me... or, more accurately
stated, defines her complete lack of character and moral values. It’s not that
the other things don’t disgust me... they disgust me beyond belief.
Then there is her record as
Secretary of State. What record, you may ask? And there, as Mr. Shakespeare
might say, “is the rub.” Even those who support her cannot think of anything
she actually accomplished.
Only one Democrat, Hillary Clinton,
did all of those things listed above, but all Democrats appear to accept them.
See how insightful my Mother was in 1948? Clinton, a woman who supports women's
causes she says, supports late-term abortion and crunching unborn baby parts
while in the womb so a healthy liver or pancreas can be harvested from a
helpless unborn body so it can be sold; she’s the one who did the lying about
the email server and Benghazi but is supported by a majority of Democrats and
will win that party’s nomination to be the President of the United States (if
the FBI doesn't get her first). That should tell you something about your
Democrat friends and businesses you support.
And we wonder why the world has no
respect for our country?
There is no cure for stupid.
© 2016 Marilyn M. Barnewall - All
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Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall began
her career in 1956 as a journalist with the Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne. During
her 20 years (plus) as a banker and bank consultant, she wrote extensively for
The American Banker, Bank Marketing Magazine, Trust Marketing Magazine, was
U.S. Consulting Editor for Private Banker International (London/Dublin), and
other major banking industry publications. She has written seven non-fiction books
about banking and taught private banking at Colorado University for the
American Bankers Association. She has authored seven banking books, one dog
book, and two works of fiction (about banking, of course). She has served on
numerous Boards in her community.
Barnewall is the former editor of
The National Peace Officer Magazine and as a journalist has written guest
editorials for the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and Newsweek, among others.
On the Internet, she has written for NewsWithViews.com, World Net Daily,
Christian Business Daily, Business Reform, and others. She has been quoted in
Time, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and other national and international
publications. She can be found in Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American
Women, Who's Who in Finance and Business, and Who's Who in the World.
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