Trying to stay relevant during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Democratic presumptive nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ripped the GOP speaking to the National Association of Colored People’s annual convention in Cincinnati. “We all know about the other convention happening in Cleveland today,” Clinton told the largely black audience. “My opponent in this race may have a different view, but there’s nowhere I’d rather be than right here with all of you,” said Hillary. When Hillary speaks about GOP presumptive nominee real estate mogul Donald Trump, she calls him a racist, among other things. Hillary cleverly played the GOP’s first convention night as “Making America Safe Again,” pointing fingers at the largely white GOP crowd, decrying “a broken criminal justice system,” replete with too much white-police-on-black violence.
Hillary walks a fine line trying to placate Black Lives Matter, showing sensitivity to the recent spate of cop-killings by disgruntled African American snipers. Hillary ridiculed the GOP’s “law-and-order,” message, highlighting to the NAACP that violence is a two-way street. Hillary says she wants to “rebuild trust” between white police departments and traditionally black communities. Like President Barack Obama, Hillary buys the narrative that white-police-on-black officer-involved-shootings stems primarily from racism. Obama’s “racist” theory has fueled the spate of black sniping attacks against white policemen in Dallas, Texas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, causing the deaths of at least eight, possibly nine policemen. “Everyone is safer when there is respect for the law and when everyone is respected by the law,” said Hillary, continuing the anti-police narrative.
Pandering the NAACP, Hillary, like Obama, attributes white-police shooting of black people to racism, when, every responsible analysis includes the suspect, the circumstance and the police officer. Most officer-involved shootings do not involve racism at all, only unfortunate circumstances involving suspects and police officers. No candidate for president should be so reckless with a fraudulent narrative that police shootings involve racism. Obama’s talk about “racial disparities” or a “broken criminal justice system” gives the green light to unhinged, gun-toting militants to commit acts of mass murder. Hillary’s message about “every one respected by the law,” points fingers at the police, justifying recent acts of violence. Sitting on a dangerous fence, Hillary hopes to win black votes, while trying to appear reform-minded when it comes to the law enforcement community.
Hillary said she wants to see national standards on the use of force, something so unrealistic, so impractical, so dangerous for police routinely patrolling America’s cities and towns. Emergency circumstances force police into making split-second decisions when it comes to self-defense or saving others’ lives. National standards would tie the hands of police, much like the military complains about unrealistic rules of engagement. If Hillary’s talking about more police training on the use of deadly force, there’s nothing wrong with that or, for that matter, making sure police officers are fit-for-duty. Police officers suffering from stress or facing panic or high levels of anxiety should not operate handguns, until they’re proven competent. Hillary criticized Trump’s “law-and-order” message, but adds to the law enforcement problems on American streets by giving criminals an excuse for violence..
Commenting about every misstep at the RNC convention, Hillary hopes to blunt the momentum that watched the race tighten only in one day. Today’s NBC tracking poll has Hillary and Trump running neck-and-neck, 45% to 44%, well below the statistical margin of error. Hillary’s campaign narrative has been the Trump’s hopelessly behind in the polls, nationally and in key battleground states. After predicting Hillary had an 80% chance of winning in November, ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight forecaster Nate Silver, formerly with the New York Times, estimated Hillary’s odds of winning the White House at 80%. Those same odds have dropped to 63%, prompting Silver to say Hillary’s lead would be like Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in 2004, who lost to former President George W. Bush by 2.4%. Hillary’s campaign narrative describes her as virtually unbeatable.
Only the second day of the convention, Republicans haven’t begun to prosecute the case against Hillary. While some mention was made of Benghazi, speakers haven’t gone after Hillary for the Clinton Foundation’s close ties to foreign governments, receiving millions in contributions from unknown donors in oil-rich Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. Hillary’s foreign policy Syria rubber-stamping the Saudi proxy war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has caused the worst humanitarian crisis since WWII. With over 250,000 killed and 11 million displaced, the Saudi-funded Syrian proxy war has overloaded neighboring countries and Europe with Mideast refugees, helping push Britain out of the European Union June 23. Hillary boasts of vast foreign policy experience, largely turning Iraq, Libya and Egypt into terrorist havens, now threatening the U.S. and Europe.
