{"id":181934,"date":"2016-02-06T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/06\/this-is-not-an-endorsement-to-tout\/"},"modified":"2016-02-06T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T02:52:00","slug":"this-is-not-an-endorsement-to-tout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/06\/this-is-not-an-endorsement-to-tout\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Not an Endorsement to Tout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/puVLFQL.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/puVLFQL.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>In the Democratic Debates, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a41872\/hillary-clinton-henry-kissinger-endorsement\/\">Hillary Clinton touted Henry Kissinger&#8217;s support of your stint of Secretary of State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who is proud of being endorsed by that amoral war criminal is not, &#8220;A mindful human being,&#8221; to borrow Ron Reagan Jr.&#8217;s description of Dick Cheney:<sup>*<\/sup>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">I mean, Jesus H. Christ in a Chilean dungeon.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><i>&#8220;I was very flattered when Henry Kissinger said I ran the State Department better than anybody had run it in a long time.&#8221;<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Dear  Ms. HRC:&nbsp;There is being tone-deaf, and then there is not being able to  tell the difference between the New York Philharmonic and an abbatoir.  What putative progressive\u2014hell, what putative human being\u2014would brag on  being endorsed by the most pus-blooded vampire in American public life?  Here with an opposing opinion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-14584095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are 40,000 dead Chileans<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-pacific-14952883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">100,000 dead East Timorese<\/a>, and countless dead Laotians, Vietnamese and dead Cambodians.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">And she&#8217;s the one with the foreign policy chops.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Good god.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, the fact that Kissinger is still living in freedom might lead one to doubt the goodness of God.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Hillary Clinton lauds his support, and is by all reports a good friend of his, means that her much lauded foreign policy chops are highly overrated, but we already knew that.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">RRJ said about Dick  Cheney, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s a mindful human being. That&#8217;s probably the  nicest way I can put it,&#8221; when describing Cheney&#8217;s behavior toward his  mom, Nancy Reagan at his Dad&#8217;s funeral.<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">The Link is <a href=\"http:\/\/rittenhouse.blogspot.com\/2004\/06\/ron-reagan-on-dick-cheney-not-mindful.html\">here<\/a>.   The Cliff Notes version is that Dick Cheney escorted her to Reagan&#8217;s  casket, and he stopped at the bottom of some stairs, and allowed an 80  year old woman with glaucoma to flounder her way up the stairs.  (Really  classy)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Democratic Debates, Hillary Clinton touted Henry Kissinger&#8217;s support of your stint of Secretary of State. Anyone who is proud of being endorsed by that amoral war criminal is not, &#8220;A mindful human being,&#8221; to borrow Ron Reagan Jr.&#8217;s description of Dick Cheney:* I mean, Jesus H. Christ in a Chilean dungeon. &#8220;I was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,969,1011,977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-history","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}