{"quotes":[{"text":"You can’t separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.","author":"Bamigboye Olurotimi","tags":["deceit","deception","desperation","donald-trump","fake-promises","hillary-clinton","lies","life","politicians","politics","trouble","violence"],"id":6832,"author_id":"Bamigboye+Olurotimi"},{"text":"Nine had heard whisperings that the secretive Bilderberg Group was effectively the World Government, undermining democracy by influencing everything from nations' political leaders to the venue for the next war. He recalled persistent rumors and confirmed media reports that the Bilderberg Group had such luminaries as Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Bush Sr. And George W. Bush. Other Bilderberg members sprung forth from Nine’s memory bank. They included the founders and CEOs of various multinational corporations like Facebook, BP, Google, Shell and Amazon, as well as almost every major financial institution on the planet.","author":"James Morcan","tags":["amazon","amazon-com","barack-obama","bilderberg","bill-clinton","clinton","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-theory","facebook","george-w-bush","google","hillary-clinton","microsoft","morcan","the-ninth-orphan","the-orphan-trilogy","thriller","tony-blair"],"id":59871,"author_id":"James+Morcan"},{"text":"The 2016 cyberattack was not just another case of simple Kompromat - meddling in the political affairs of a satellite nation or an individual dissenter. It was a direct attempt to hijack and derail the traditional processes and norms that held the United States together for more than 240 years. The attempt was even more brazen due to the apparent belief that Putin assumed that he and his oligarchy could charm, groom and select a candidate, then with the right amount of cybercrime and enough organized propaganda they could actually choose a president of the United States to do their bidding.","author":"Malcolm Nance","tags":["2016-presidential-race","cyber-warfare","donald-trump","hillary-clinton","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","russia"],"id":77648,"author_id":"Malcolm+Nance"},{"text":"Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!","author":"Oliver Gaspirtz","tags":["bad-choices","dark-ages","democracy","democrats","election","election-2016","elections","hillary","hillary-clinton","homophobia","immigration","misogyny","nativism","politics","populism","racism","republicans","trump","trump-popularity-explained","voting"],"id":94669,"author_id":"Oliver+Gaspirtz"},{"text":"One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact about the senator from New York is surely that she is a known quantity who has already been in the White House purely as the result of a relationship with a man, and not at all a quixotic outsider who represents the aspirations of an 'out' group, let alone a whole sex or gender.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["2008","21st-century","bill-clinton","feminism","first-lady-of-the-united-states","hillary-clinton","new-york","politics","united-states","united-states-elections-2008","white-house"],"id":97199,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary)—must put aside their hurt feelings about being painted as weak sisters. Obama should not fire the serially insubordinate general, they reasoned, because that would undermine the mission in Afghanistan, and if that happens, then Obama would be further weakened.So the commander in chief can be bad-mouthed as weak by the military but then he can't punish the military because that would make him weak? It's the same sort of pass-the-Advil vicious circle reasoning the military always uses.","author":"Maureen Dowd","tags":["2010","backstabbers","fuzzy-logic","hillary-clinton","hurt-feelings","military","stanley-mcchrystal","strength","united-states-presidents","vicious-circle","weakness"],"id":149933,"author_id":"Maureen+Dowd"},{"text":"Anybody who leads with hate, is not fit for leadership.","author":"Jeanette Coron","tags":["donald-trump","hate","hillary-clinton","leadership"],"id":178695,"author_id":"Jeanette+Coron"},{"text":"During the Senate debate on the intervention in Iraq, Sen. Clinton made considerable use of her background and 'experience' to argue that, yes, Saddam Hussein was indeed a threat. She did not argue so much from the position adopted by the Bush administration as she emphasized the stand taken, by both her husband and Al Gore, when they were in office, to the effect that another and final confrontation with the Baathist regime was more or less inevitable. Now, it does not especially matter whether you agree or agreed with her about this (as I, for once, do and did). What does matter is that she has since altered her position and attempted, with her husband’s help, to make people forget that she ever held it. And this, on a grave matter of national honor and security, merely to influence her short-term standing in the Iowa caucuses. Surely that on its own should be sufficient to disqualify her from consideration?","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["2008","al-gore","ba-ath-party","ba-athism","ba-athist-iraq","bill-clinton","george-w-bush","hillary-clinton","iowa","iowa-caucuses","iraq","iraq-war","lies","national-security","saddam-hussein","united-states","united-states-elections-2008","united-states-senate"],"id":240183,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut. Of course, against all these considerations you might prefer the newly fashionable and more media-weighty notion that if you don't show her enough appreciation, and after all she's done for us, she may cry.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["2008","clinton-health-care-plan-of-1993","crying","health-care","health-care-in-the-united-states","hillary-clinton","iraq-war","libel","national-security","police-state","politics","united-states","united-states-elections-2008"],"id":250482,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"There is no way that the new WikiLeaks leaks don't leave Hillary Clinton holding the smoking gun. The time for her departure may come next week or next month, but sooner or later, the weakened and humiliated secretary of state will have to pay.","author":"Jack Shafer","tags":["2010","hillary-clinton","spying","united-states","united-states-secretary-of-state","us-department-of-state","us-diplomatic-cables-leak","wikileaks"],"id":289231,"author_id":"Jack+Shafer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}