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发帖数: 2498 | 8 9/16/2016 Democrats’ Deplorable Emails WSJ
http://www.wsj.com/articles/democratsdeplorableemails1473981664
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If the 2016 election is remembered for anything beyond its flawed candidates
,
it will be recalled as the year of the Democratic email dump. Or rather, the
year that the voting public got an unvarnished view of the disturbing—nay,
deplorable—inner workings of the highest echelons of the Democratic Party.
What makes the continuing flood of emails instructive is that nobody was
ever
meant to see these documents. Hillary Clinton set up a private server to
shield
her communications as secretary of state from the public. She gave top aide
Huma Abedin an account on that server. She never envisioned that an FBI
investigation and lawsuits would drag her conversations into the light.
The Democratic National Committee and Colin Powell (an honorary Democrat)
likewise believed their correspondence secure. But both were successfully
targeted by hackers, who released the latest round of enlightening emails
this
week. These emails provide what the public always complains it doesn’t have
unfiltered evidence of what top politicians do and think. And what a picture
they collectively paint of the party of the left. For years, Democrats have
steadfastly portrayed Republicans as elitist fat cats who buy elections, as
backroom bosses who rig the laws in their favor, as This copy is for your
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brass-knuckle lobbyists and operators who get special access. It turns out
that
this is the precise description of the Democratic Party. They know of what
they
speak. The latest hack of the DNC， courtesy of WikiLeaks via Guccifer 2.0—
shows that Mrs. Clinton wasn’t alone in steering favors to big donors.
Among
the documents leaked is one that lists the party’s largest fundraisers/
donors
as of 2008. Of the top 57 cash cows 18 ended up with ambassadorships. The
largest fundraiser listed, Matthew Barzun, who drummed up $3.5 million for
Mr.
Obama’s first campaign, was named ambassador to Sweden and then ambassador
to
the United Kingdom. The secondlargest, Julius Genachowski, was named the
head
of the Federal Communications Commission. The third largest, Frank Sanchez,
was
named undersecretary of commerce. Keep in mind what an earlier leak revealed
May 18, 2016, email from an outside lawyer to DNC staffers in which the
attorney suggests a call to “go over our process for handling donations
from
donors who have given us pay to play letters.” Add this to what the Clinton
and
Abedin emails have shown to be a massive pay-to-play operation at the
Clinton Foundation, in which megadonors like the crown prince of Bahrain got
special access to the secretary of state. And there are also all those
Clinton
speeches, for which they were paid millions. News comes this week that
despite
the Clintons’ promises to distance themselves from their
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foundation, they will first be holding what sounds like one last fire sale
on
future presidential access: a belated birthday bash for Bill Clinton, with a
glitzy party at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan. A donation of $250,000 gets
you
listed as “chair” of the party, while “co-chair” costs $100,000.
Foundation
officials are refusing to say who has donated, or how much. So which
political
party is all about money, influence and special access? The Republican Party
held a true, democratic primary. Seventeen candidates battled it out,
and the voters choose a nominee that much of the party establishment
disliked.
Leaked emails show that the Democratic Party hierarchy retreated to a
backroom
to anoint Hillary Clinton and then exercised its considerable power to
subvert
the primary process and kill off the Bernie Sanders campaign. In one email,
Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall suggested sliming Mr. Sanders on
religion: “Can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God.
He
had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an
atheist.
This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist
peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.” How’s
that for
deplorable? Perhaps most revealing are Mr. Powell’s emails, which show,
undisguised, how Clinton supporters think. Specifically, the emails
demonstrate
that this crowd recognizes the Clintons as a menace—and yet they are
willing to
excuse away anything. “I would rather not have to vote for her,” Mr.
Powell
wrote to a friend. “A 70-year person with a long track record, unbridled
ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still
[sleeping with] bimbos at home.” Unpack that. Mr. Powell is saying that
Hillary
is old; that she is a scandal factory; that she will cut any corner to win
and
do anything for a buck; that she won’t help the country; and that her
husband
remains a liability. And yet other emails suggest Mr. Powell nonetheless was
(is?) debating giving her a boost with a well-timed endorsement in the fall.
This is the modern Democratic Party. The more it has struggled to sell its
ideas to the public, the more it has turned to rigging the system to its
political benefit. Don’t take Republicans’ word for it. Just read the
emails. |
