Most everyone by now knows of the new book that is out by a retired member of the Secret Service titled...Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate, by Gary J. Byrne. One of the key issues Byrne deals with in the book is Hillary Clinton's violent temper and therefore fitness to become the President of the United States.
While I was doing a little research today on another topic, I came across an anecdote that supports the concerns of Gary Byrne about Hillary Clinton. It came from a 2015 article from the Huffington Post titled Scenes From A Marriage, The Worst Relationship Between a U. S. President And An Israeli Prime Minister-As Autopsied By The People Closest To Them and was written by Amir Tibon & Tal Shalev. The anecdote revolved around a meeting that you may remember between Netanyahu and Joe Biden where an Israeli municipal announcement was made just previous to the meeting about the "construction of 1,600 new housing units....beyond the 1967 borders." Barack Obama was furious and assigned Hillary Clinton to make the phone call to Benjamin Netanyahu expressing the administration's anger and demands. The call was made and a short description of it was given in the article but some comments made by observers of the conversation precipitated this preface to the following post which is very recent. Those comments obviously also caught the attention of the Huffington Post for they placed them in bold print in the middle of the piece. Here it how it appears in the article:
ONE ISRAELI OFFICIAL
DESCRIBED HILLARY
CLINTON'S CALL TO
NETANYAHU AS "VIOLENT."
ANOTHER CALLED IT "ONE OF
THE MOST SHOCKING
MOMENTS OF MY CAREER."
We Are Hillary Clinton
I've seen various pictures of Hillary Clinton over the last few days where she is standing in front of a crowd with her arms raised. The title of the article accompanying the photo from the lead headline on Drudge as I write has something to do with the word 'Goddess' and the photo itself was enhanced with colorful graphics for effect. The faces in the crowd behind her were hard to make out but one women's face was discernible and I became fixated on it because of the woman's adoring smile.
All politics aside, for this post has nothing to do with politics, given Hillary's 25 years in the public eye of our nation, given the documentation on one failure or scandal after another, and given the barrage of testimony describing a ruthless, self-serving, greedy and corrupt individual, how can she possibly even be in contention for the nomination for president let alone have adoring supporters?
Hillary Clinton is not the issue for she doesn't own the patent on corruption. The issue of concern is the American public. We know what greed can do but it's not greed that drives a Hillary supporter. It also has nothing at all to do with America or any ideology. The rest of us read or hear her words, follow her antics and observe a political life with no content at all. Her speeches are empty phrases, her smiles are waxen and her laugh is staged and mechanical. She is a past president of the world's liars club and probably current world record holder for most consecutive years without a sincere comment on anything. She is as real as the laughing lady at a carnival. Yet American citizens in large numbers seem to worship the moving statue. They actually commune in spirit with the idol.
So how does something like this come about? Are we tranquilized or bewitched? Could it possibly just be intellectual laziness? Surely it's not that we have been deceived for a deceiver has to have a gambit and Hillary has no content to even mull over, and no plan to follow. She merely offers herself.
Psalm 115 is the ninth Psalm in Book Five of the Psalms. Are you aware that the Psalms are divided into five 'books?' The fifth book has been described as one of consummation....or the completion of the kingdom of God. This particular Psalm begins with a question...."Why should the nations say, Where is their God?" The Psalmist is observing a world that doubts God's marvelous works in creation and His power in defense of the Israelites. The Psalm continues in describing the nations:
Their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.
They have mouths, but cannot speak,
eyes, but cannot see.
They have ears, but cannot hear,
noses but cannot smell.
They have hands,
but cannot feel,
feet, but cannot walk.....
Those who make them are just like them,
as are all who trust in them."
Here is part of the answer to the question I posed as to how someone like Hillary Clinton can have come about. We, as a people, created her. She cannot express truth or sympathy or genuine concern....and neither can we. We are a robotic people creating robots. We are artificial intelligence creating artificial intelligence. We are Hillary Clinton. The Psalmist follows these verses with a command to all who seek His glory.....trust in the LORD.....trust in the LORD.....trust in the LORD!
Highly recommended.....The Flow of the Psalms...Discovering Their Structure and Theology.....O. Palmer Robertson
