The week in Pictures -- Brexit of Champions Edition

From the guys at Powerline Blog:

And one that should be added

Clinton Was Never Intended to Be the Democrat Nominee

From The American Thinker Blog:

Here is my reasoning: realizing that the evidence against her could rise to the level of treason, Secretary Clinton has struck a bargain with the Obama White House that in return for bowing out at or near the convention, she will receive a full pardon in order to ensure that she will never see the inside of a prison cell.

She takes the slings and arrows, exhausting the opposition research budgets of Republican campaigns, leaving V.P. Biden and Sen. Warren largely immune from scrutiny during these long months of primaries and caucuses.

By the time she begs off the nomination, citing medical issues, the Republicans will have barely three months to investigate and counter the actual nominees, Biden and Warren.

Those among the electorate who are itching to make history with a female president will believe themselves to be doing precisely that by voting for a Biden/Warren ticket, albeit with a four-year "on-the-job training" period.

Elizabeth Warren is easily as "progressive" as Clinton (likely having more in common with Bernie Sanders) but doesn't carry the ethical corruption baggage that engulfs the wife of Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend.

Joe Biden doesn't carry the intellectual heft necessary to attain the presidency as a stand-alone candidate, but teamed with a soon to be historical figure in Warren, his star shines far more brightly.

Clinton avoids prison and walks away with hundreds of millions in campaign donations. Obama gets a third term via Biden, and Democrats everywhere get to gush about their tolerance and forward thinking by electing the first female vice president/president in waiting.

This is about as Machiavellian as you can get and highly plausible.

Claim: Obama Ready to Endorse Biden -- With Conditions

Via Instapundit:

“The talk in Democratic Party circles is that Barack Obama has told Joe Biden that he is prepared to endorse him for president if, in return, Biden promises to let Obama have a final say in the choice of his vice presidential running mate.”

Hmm.

Deval Patrick? WTF!!!

Warren, Lizzy Warren? makes so much more sense ....... Come on down!

Will Joe Biden Have To Answer For His Long Record of Terrible Decisions?

From The Federalist: IN a word, NO!

So let’s for a moment imagine that Biden is a principled politician and wouldn’t say absolutely anything just to become president — this would be the third time he’d be running for the position. And let’s, for a moment, concede that Biden, after his flirtation with Elizabeth Warren and hiring of new staff, is the sort of candidate that can knock off the front-runner. But then let’s suspend our disbelief and pretend the media will hold the new candidate responsible for his previous positions and votes at least as strictly as they hold Marco Rubio accountable for his wife’s parking tickets.

If they did, they would find that Joe Biden has had, in some sense, more consequential conservative votes on record than any candidate running for president from either party. Or a better way to put it: his greatest legacy is a lack of coherent philosophy and a ton of politically convenient grandstanding.

Expecting the Drive-By Media, let alone the Democrat Party, to hold Biden to ANY standard is a bridge too far. The one and only time, in the last 30 years, he's been held accountable for anything he's said was in 1988 Presidential Campaign and the plagiarism of Neil Kinnock's speech.

Why Obama is torpedoing Hillary Clinton

From Monica Crowley at The Washington Times:

There is only one person who controls Hillary Clinton's fate, and it isn't Hillary Clinton.
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She and her team have, of course, reverted to form, blaming everyone but themselves: a "right-wing conspiracy," The New York Times, overzealous investigators. What they are missing, however, is the one figure who wants her taken out politically, and who has the power to do it.
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If Mr. Obama does not want an investigation to go forward, it does not go forward. Witness the scandals involving the Internal Revenue Service, Benghazi, Veterans Administration and Operation Fast and Furious gunrunning. In each case, Mr. Obama claimed he learned about the scandal "from the news." (That's interesting coming from a guy who claims he only rarely watches or reads said "news.")

He then expressed his "outrage" and vowed to "get to the bottom" of each scandal. (Of course, it's tough to "get to the bottom" of something when you are the bottom of it.)

In those cases, he protesteth too much. His faux outrage was a "tell" that he had no intention of investigating. In Mrs. Clinton's case, he's been quiet. Too quiet. That's a "tell" that he wants this investigation pursued, likely to the point of charging her.

He has others talking, however. Each week, there are damaging new leaks about her personal email and server: that despite her denials, she did, in fact, have top-secret and other highly classified materials on the server, that the FBI is conducting a criminal probe and the bureau is "optimistic" it can retrieve the wiped data, that she may have had a second server, that her top aides — Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan — are now also in investigators' sights.

Mr. Obama is a clever dark knight: he's not just going after the queen. He's going after her court, too.

I agree with this analysis so far, but......

This brings us to the certain presidential candidacy of Vice President Joe Biden, the one person who can effectively give Mr. Obama that third term. Indications are that he is seriously contemplating it, making initial plans, reaching out to potential donors, and benefiting from the Obamaites whipping up Biden buzz. The White House is even floating the idea of one-term for Mr. Biden, to reassure voters that they wouldn't be making a long-term commitment (even though, as an extension of Obama's presidency, it would be.)
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Once Mr. Biden joins the race, he will enjoy the full backing of Mr. Obama. With Mrs. Clinton gone, however, Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden will have to make it up to Democratic women and the radical left, which is currently flirting with socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders.

There is only one person who kills both birds with one stone: Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

The Democratic ticket will be Joe Biden-Elizabeth Warren. That's what Mr. Obama wants. And what Mr. Obama wants, Mr. Obama gets.

This makes a lot of sense. However, a few problem. Uncle Joe is well, just dumb, who shoots off the hip too much and can't control his mouth.

The other issue is Elizabeth "Fauxcohontas" Warren. From being a fake indian to a 1% who became wealth defending big corperations from the masses. Her candidacy would never survive the opposition reseach.

Pardon Hillary Now

From the Washington Free Beacon via H/T Instapundit:

Clinton maintains she followed the rules. But she’s been proven wrong before. Who knows what the FBI and intelligence community might find—or how it might affect her campaign.

What Clinton needs most of all is a way out, a means of escape. Before she can recover politically, the legal uncertainty must end. And the only way to end it is a presidential pardon. Clinton’s future isn’t only tied to President Obama’s job approval and economic performance. It’s also tied to his compassion. Obama alone can resuscitate Hillary’s campaign. . . .

The most famous preemptive pardon in American history was of Richard Nixon. President Ford absolved his predecessor of all crimes he “has committed or may have committed or taken part in” between inauguration day 1969 and resignation day 1974. Obama could do better than Ford by absolving Clinton of all crimes she “has committed or may have committed or taken part in” between, say, January 20, 2009 and January 20, 2025. That would give her some wiggle room. And why not pardon Huma, too. She’s suffered enough. . . .

Not only would a pardon have legal consequences. It would have political ones. It would be a tacit endorsement of Clinton, a message to Biden not to run. Scrutiny of Clinton would fade. A few news outlets might continue to dig around—we at the Washington Free Beacon will never, ever stop—but most reporters, who’d rather not be writing about this scandal anyway, would turn elsewhere.

Obama would look magnanimous. The country would be spared years of Clinton drama it doesn’t want. A pardon would be a final display of Obama’s moral superiority to the woman he defeated long ago—exactly the sort of self-righteous gesture that most appeals to him.

Continetti is being mischievously playful, of course. Obama could, indeed, pardon Clinton prophylactically and given the mainstream media’s bias, any crimes she has committed would be immediately relegated to their “yesterday’s news” pile and forgotten. But we all know Obama viscerally hates Hillary about as much, or more than, a conservative, Southern white male, so no one will be holding their breath waiting for this to happen. It would be fun–just for kicks and giggles–for someone in the press to to inquire about the possibility.

This is a piece that I thought was written for the Onion. As for the Dear Leader's hatred of Hillary, I don't know. I think Elizabeth "Fauxcohontas" Warren is closer to the Dear Leader than Hillary. The Dear Leader's issue is that Hillary is being sold as the3rd term of Bill, not the Dear Leader. That is the source of his problems with Hillary. It has to be about him, all the time.

Powerline Blog -- The Week in Pictures - Brick in the Wall Edition

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Top American Indian Scholar Outed As Fake Indian

From the Daily Caller:

Just a few weeks after Rachel Dolezal transfixed the nation with her bogus claims to black heritage, yet another professor stands accused of falsely claiming a different racial identity to advance her career.

Andrea Smith, a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California at Riverside, has started to draw attention in the wake of the Dolezal incident from those who say she has for years falsely claimed to have Cherokee blood. The case is arguably much more significant, though, because while Dolezal was a relatively undistinguished academic at Eastern Washington University, Smith is recognized as a significant scholar in her field. She routinely appears as a featured scholar at major events and has written books that were well-received by her colleagues (though others may question the broader worth of works like Conquest: Sexual Violence And American Indian Genocide).

Her career has largely been defined by her supposed American Indian identity. Besides her academic work, she also helped create the organization INCITE!, which describes itself as a collection of “radical feminists of color.” She’s also been active in the Indian group Women of All Red Nations (WARN).

So lets see.......
1.) Female Scholar in non academically rigorous field ..... Check!

2.) Radical Feminist ..... Check!

3.) University of California not bothered by fake credential ..... Check!

Therefore, must be a liberal.

The case of Rachel Dolezal - strange but not surprising

From Paul Mirengoff at Powerline Blog:

President Obama should weigh in. He is, after all, our explainer-in-chief when it comes to race. I’d also like to hear from Eric Holder. Or is he part of the “nation of cowards” when it comes to discussing race?
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Anyone who has observed what certain parents and their kids will claim to enhance their prospects for admission to the college of their choice won’t be surprised by Dolezal’s false claims about her race. Anyone who observed the rise of “wiggers” in the 1990s, when it is said that 70 to 75 percent of purchases of rap music were by whites, won’t be surprised that Dolezal strongly identified with blacks.

Take the opportunity to combine advantage with chic, throw in a disturbed, guilt-ridden personality, and you can understand Dolezal’s case.

This mental illness must be the same one that afflicts Emma "Mattress Girl" Sulkowicz.

The NAACP appears to be standing behind Dolezal. It’s not shocking, and not to be despised, that the organization will accept a white chapter president. What’s disappointing is that it will accept a liar. (Editor's Emphasis) I guess race hustling has become an acceptable form of lying.

Well, Harvard hasn't fire Elizabeth "Fauxcohontas" Warren yet, and the people of Massachusetts did elect her and Obama to office. So being aliar is not a big deal to liberals, IF you're a liberal.

Iowahawk --Tweet of the Day

From Instapundit:


Iowahawk captions the photo of Elizabeth Warren riding a parked motorcycle...

Elizabeth Warren says "Vrooom vrooom!"

Still no proof that anybody in Elizabeth Warren's family has ever ridden an Indian http://t.co/bLy0SKLf
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 19, 2012

The ultimate poser.