Op-ed:

Falling from Political Grace...Falling into the Arms of the Enemy
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net

Two all-important stories in the news right now...one an ongoing national disgrace...the other a possible harbinger of World War III.

Story one shows that even a Clinton can fall from Democratic political grace as the party faithful are now rightfully calling into question presidential hopeful Hillary 'What Does It Matter' Clinton’s honesty and trustworthiness, and many polls are showing the same trend as her favorability rating drops to an almost all-time low. From her once being a shoe-in to get the Democratic nomination, Hillary is now viewed favorably...according to a Langer Research Associates poll...by just 45% of Americans, a decrease of 7% points since just this past July, with 53% saying they did NOT have a favorable view of the once and forever infamous Secretary of State, and that's an 8% percentage point increase in the same time frame. And much to Hillary's chagrin, these numbers are close to her spring 2008 all-time low when she was viewed favorably by just 44% of Americans.

And to add insult to injury, the polls show avowed socialist Bernie Sanders...a man attracting more first-time caucus goers than Hillary...now closing the polling gap in Iowa where Hillary leads him by a margin of 37% to 30% among likely Democratic caucus goers, and that's according to a highly respected Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll. And Vice President 'Uncle Joe Bite-Me' Biden, who has NOT even announced a definitive run for the presidency yet, comes in at 14%. And all this translates into Hillary losing a full third of her Iowa supporters since May of this year. NOT good for the Clinton campaign folks...NOT good at all.

So what has led to Hillary's political fall from grace...in a word 'emails.' With almost 200 emails containing redacted classified information having been released to date, and with another 305 being 'flagged' for further review by the five intelligence agencies in charge of clearing Hillary's emails for public release, now comes this newest batch of emails...7,000 pages worth...released just this past Monday by the Department of State...a release that gives us a chance to see just how ugly this situation really is.

Ugly to the tune of about 125 emails in the latest batch being deemed classified. And while said 125 also appear in redacted form, they still clearly show Hillary discussing both what should be classified internal government operations as well as discussing government personnel on her private home server. And this is in addition to the previously released emails that pertained to the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi... emails that even mentioned Ambassador Christopher Stevens by name...as well as including thousands of pages of emails covering other personal and what should have been and most likely was classified professional issues.

And when you add in that two inspectors general have already said that Hillary's in-box most certainly did contain material that was classified when it was sent and received, and that by the very act of redaction...something we've seen time and again with this anything but most transparent administration in history...the email scandal is even uglier than we first suspected. Remember, when classified emails are redacted...blacked out to be assured they remain unseen...to be second guessed...one thing you just know is that they are anything but mundane as Hillary claims, for the truth is that the mundane need NOT ever be redacted...period.

Hillary's claimed mundane emails are all intact save for a few private phone numbers and addresses but, for example, full and complete redaction becomes the order of the day in first, an email draft of Hillary's testimony on the New START treaty before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and second, in the entire text of an email composed of talking points needed for a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Now that one I can see why Hillary needed hidden for she, like Obama, is NO friend of Israel... remember who her closest confidant is...none other than Muslim Brotherhood shill Huma Abedin...need I say more.

And of course Hillary is denying any wrong doing as she makes light of the trouble she and her campaign is now in. Continuing to claim that NO emails on her account were marked as classified at the time she received them, Hillary is trying to make us believe...as she tries to convince herself...with words to the affect that she's “being pulled into an inter-agency fight that reflects a predisposition for secrecy among some in the intelligence community.”

To that all I can say is “LIAR” for Hillary has changed her email story more times than a 'certain' supposedly Republican candidate has changed his party affiliation. So to try and take the focus of this presidential campaign-ender, Hillary changed her statements regarding the 'sensitivity' of the emails more times than you can say Benghazi. Remember back when this scandal first broke and Hillary was forced to admit that she did indeed use a private server, but was quick to add that none of her correspondence dealt with national security secrets saying, “There is no classified material.” Well now she oh so conveniently says that the emails were NOT classified at the time she sent and received them as they did NOT “bare any classification markings”...her words NOT mine.

And just yesterday Brian Pagliano...the man who played and continues to play a critical role in this email scandal...and whom I and my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner and friend Craig Andresen said was the man who knows everything, set-up the server in question, and who was in collusion with Hillary right from the start...said he will 'take the fifth' when called to testify. The rat hole is getting stinkier and stinkier with each passing day and pretty soon the 'canaries' will surely start singing...to protect their own sorry butts that is.

Thankfully, Hillary has next month's hearing before Trey Gowdy and his committee to look forward to...sarcastically said of course...and know she has much explaining to do. But, like so many others, I look forward to watching Hillary squirm. And while she agreed to testify 'one time' and 'one time' only, I have a sneaky feeling that 'one time' to Hillary is NOT the same as it is to Trey Gowdy...meaning she best use the ladies room before she sits down because she ain't getting up for quite some time during her 'one time' on the stand...that I can guarantee.

As for the second story...one we need to keep a very diligent eye on...it is indeed a harbinger of World War III.

An Obama initiated harbinger that gives our traitor-in-chief a veto-proof coalition to protect his...YES his...Iranian nuclear deal...his sell-out... his capitulation...from being blocked by Congress even if Congress passes a 'resolution to disapprove' aimed at undercutting the deal. And with retiring Maryland Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski announcing on Wednesday her support for this very bad deal...even while admitting that "no deal is perfect, especially one negotiated with the Iranian regime'...Obama has secured the magic number '34'... the number needed as per the Constitution to sustain a veto. And as of now only two Democratic Senators...Chuck Schumer of New York and Bob Menendez of New Jersey...out of the six needed to override said Obama veto...have announced they will vote to oppose the deal...oppose it as they stand strong and cross party lines to oppose something they know in their heart is NOTHING but words on paper that Iran has NO intention of upholding.

And many Republicans are rightfully angry because first, they feel a deal of this magnitude should rightfully be afforded a final up-or-down vote; second, this nightmare of an agreement is actually a treaty and as per our Constitution a treaty must be ratified by two-thirds of the Senate with the House NOT participating...now meaning that instead of having to get two-thirds of the Senate to approve, Obama acquiescers John Boehner and Mitch McConnell made it so that two-thirds of the Senate and the House has to override a veto; and lastly, just one-third of lawmakers in either chamber of Congress are making a decision against both the majority of Congress and 'We the People's' overwhelming across the political spectrum opposition.

So this deal...an Obama legacy-defining very bad deal...is now assured to become reality unless a miracle of conscience occurs and four more Democratic Senators have the guts and courage to stand strong against this miserable excuse of a president...a president who with this deal will have successfully armed Israel’s enemy...an enemy who has vowed time and again to wipe the Jewish State off the map...armed them with nuclear weapons, the missiles for their delivery, and with billions of dollars in sanctions relief most definitely earmarked for terrorism NOT just against Israel but against America as well.

And with Mikulski's vote, we now sadly have 34 Democratic traitors to both America and Israel... and sorry to say but the truth is that anyone who voted for these jokers is just as guilty as they are. And with the reality of Obama's pushing through such an important piece of foreign policy legislation without support from the majority of Congress and with NO...I repeat NO...backing from Republicans in the Senate, you just know we as a nation are in serious trouble. And that NOT only looks bad but is bad.

"Thirty-four votes are obviously enough votes for the president's veto to be upheld...[but]...That is not satisfactory for us. We do want to try to go further. We'll continue to persuade." So said John 'Swiftboat' Kerry in speaking about Mikulski's sellout that brought the last needed vote to push this nightmare through.

And now having reached that magic 34 number, Obama and crew are free to greedily work to garner the 41 votes needed to block any disapproval measure’s passage in the Senate, thus sparing Obama the embarrassment and bad press of having to veto it at all. But Obama probably will secure those votes because those we elected to do 'We the People's' bidding have instead decided to do the bidding of a man...a president...hell-bent on bringing our beloved America to her knees... good little islamist that he is.

And that folks...having an enemy occupying the White House...is the saddest thing of all.