Sublime

“The tragic irony of Lyndon Johnson is that the lowering of the presidency, not the Great Society of which he dreamed, is his most obvious legacy.”

Shortly before Clinton left office, Arafat called Clinton to thank him and told the president that he was a great man. President Clinton replied, “Mr. Chairman, I am not a great man. I am a failure, and you have made me one.”

In spite of his declared sympathies for the downtrodden, Obama became the first president in twenty years to refuse to receive the Dalai Lama for fear of alienating China.

The result will be not what the president thinks he is going to do but what he will be compelled by reality to do and by those who will elect him.

Obama also said Trump’s suggestion of a “rigged election” was unheard-of. “I have never seen in my lifetime or in modern political history any presidential candidate trying to discredit the elections and the election process before votes have even taken place,” said Obama in the October 2016 news conference. “It’s unprecedented.” (Except that Hilla

For Obama, though, the briefings were less a means of garnering support than of muting opposition.

When it comes to the funding for American Bridge, once again George Soros is in the mix as its largest donor, giving $1 million in 2012, another $1 million in the 2014 election cycle, and $1 million in the 2016 campaign. That’s on top of at least $10.5 million Soros gave to pro-Hillary Priorities USA Action.