Listening to the reports of obscene speaking fees earned by Bill and Hillary Clinton\u2026 Bill commanding fees of from $500,000-750,000 a speech and Hillary demanding $200,000-300,000, along with private jets and presidential suites\u2026 I turned to my wife and said, jokingly, \u201cWhat do you suppose Chelsea gets for a thirty or forty minute speech?\u201d<\/p>\n
In her lifetime, Chelsea Clinton has had a front row seat to more corruption and more sexual excess than an aging mob-connected porn star, so it might be interesting to hear what she has to say\u2026 if she could be totally candid.\u00a0 And while we enjoyed a brief chuckle over the silly notion that a young woman of her age and inexperience would have anything interesting to say, I couldn\u2019t help but wonder what it would be like to hear her drone on and on for thirty or forty minutes about her recent domestic battles with colic and diaper rash while suffering through a $500 plate of cold string beans, soggy au gratin<\/em> potatoes, and \u201crubber chicken.\u201d<\/p>\n But then it occurred to me that she is only slightly less experienced than her mother\u2019s former boss, Barack Obama, and he\u2019s sitting in the Oval Office making big decisions on my behalf.\u00a0 So if people would be dumb enough to vote for her mother or for Barack Obama as president of the United States, and if there are those who would actually pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to hear one of the elder Clintons speak, well, who knows\u2026?<\/p>\n Chelsea Clinton was born on February 27, 1980, early in her father\u2019s first term as governor of Arkansas and almost five years after her mother was fired from the staff of the House committee that impeached Richard Nixon.\u00a0 She was fired when the chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee described her as \u201can unethical, dishonest lawyer,\u201d who \u201cconspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee, and the rules of confidentiality.\u201d<\/p>\n During her undergraduate years at Wellesley College, near Boston, Hillary became an admirer and a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of the evil mastermind of the Democratic Party playbook, Saul Alinsky.\u00a0 In fact, Alinsky\u2019s book, Rules for Radicals<\/em>, was not only the subject matter of Hillary\u2019s senior thesis at Wellesley, it has been the \u201cbible\u201d that has informed Barack Obama\u2019s ideological evolution since his college years at Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard, and perhaps before.\u00a0 To understand Alinsky\u2019s utter disdain for American culture and the U.S. Constitution we need look no further than his ideological offspring, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, both of whom view the\u00a0 U.S. Constitution as a document that means whatever they would like it to mean on any given day.<\/p>\n Chelsea was born just two years before her mother turned a modest $1,000 investment in cattle futures into a $100,000 profit in just one year\u2026 taking her trading advice from a lawyer for the largest corporation in Arkansas while her husband served as the state\u2019s attorney general.\u00a0 Then, in 1993, when Chelsea was twelve, her parents uprooted their criminal franchise in Arkansas and moved it from the governor\u2019s mansion in Little Rock to the White House in Washington.<\/p>\n In November 1998, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) announced that he would not seek reelection to his senate seat in 2000.\u00a0 It was Hillary\u2019s signal that, after six years as first lady of the United States, and after washing her husband\u2019s \u201cdirty laundry\u201d for nearly twenty-five years, it might be fun to represent the State of New York in the U.S. Senate.\u00a0 However, as a lifelong resident of Chicago, Little Rock, and Washington, DC, her New York credentials were slightly \u201cunderwhelming.\u201d\u00a0 To solve that problem the Clintons purchased a 5,200 sq. ft. colonial mansion in Chappaqua, New York, for $1.33 million and Hillary embarked on an extensive \u201clistening tour\u201d to learn what was on the minds of people in upstate New York.<\/p>\n After winning the Democratic nomination, Hillary knew that white liberals and blacks would be with her, but she was less than popular in the Jewish community and totally unknown in New York\u2019s large Puerto Rican community, so she concentrated on solidifying her support within those constituencies.<\/p>\n In the years between 1975 and 1985, a Puerto Rican terror group, the FALN, exploded some 120 bombs in public places, mostly in New York and Chicago.\u00a0 In those bombings, six people were killed and dozens more, including police officers, were permanently maimed.\u00a0 Sixteen FALN members were convicted and sentenced to prison terms ranging from 35 to 105 years.<\/p>\n But with Hillary combating charges of being one of the most shameless carpetbaggers of all time, the Clintons knew they\u2019d have to \u201cpull out all the stops\u201d to win the New York senate seat.\u00a0 Accordingly, on August 11, 1999, Bill Clinton commuted the sentences of all sixteen members of the FALN<\/a>.\u00a0 However, the commutations were not universally popular.\u00a0 They were strongly opposed by the U.S. Attorney<\/a>, the FBI<\/a>, the Federal Bureau of Prisons<\/a>, the Fraternal Order of Police<\/a>, the families of FALN victims, and members of Congress (a resolution opposing the commutations passed the Senate by a vote of 95-2 and the House of Representatives by a vote of 311-41).\u00a0 Nevertheless, Clinton proceeded with the commutations and the Puerto Rican community fell in line behind Hillary.<\/p>\n With the Puerto Rican vote in the bag, there was still work to be done in the New York Jewish community.\u00a0 Late in her campaign, on August 8, 2000, Hillary visited the small Rockland County village of New Square, New York, a community of orthodox Hasidic Jews, where members of the local community had their tzitzits in a knot over the 1999 conviction of four Hasidic men charged with swindling the federal government out of some $40 million in education grants, small-business loans, and housing subsidies.<\/p>\n Although Hillary is said to have been warmly received by local residents, it is not known what was discussed during her stopover.\u00a0 However, what is known is that on Election Day, November 7, Hillary won New Square by a vote of 1,359 to10, and that, six weeks later, on December 22, 2000, Grand Rabbi David Twersky of the New Square congregation, participated in a closed door meeting with Bill Clinton in the White House Map Room.\u00a0 And although it is quite possible that the two men discussed nothing more than Clinton\u2019s preference in cigars, the meeting had a positive outcome for the Jews of New Square.\u00a0 On his last day in office, Bill Clinton reduced the prison sentences of the New Square Four from as much as 6\u00bd years to no more than 2\u00bd years.<\/p>\n From the outset, not everyone in the Rockland County Jewish community was optimistic that a pardon for the New Square Four could be arranged.\u00a0 What they failed to understand is that, when Bill and Hillary Clinton \u201cpull out all the stops\u201d to win an election, they don\u2019t worry much about legal or political repercussions.<\/p>\n And now comes 34-year-old Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky (Mrs. Marc Mezvinsky), the daughter of former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the daughter-in-law of former congressman Ed Mezvinsky (D-IA) who pled guilty in 2001 to thirty-one counts of obtaining nearly $10 million through bank fraud<\/a>, mail fraud<\/a>, and wire fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n When most of us sit down to dinner with our extended families we might be able to discuss the few traffic tickets we\u2019ve received over the years.\u00a0 But when Chelsea and her husband sit down to dinner with their parents they are sitting down with people who have first-hand experience with bank fraud, bribery, concealing evidence, conspiracy, contempt of court, evidence tampering, extortion, influence peddling, lying to federal investigators, mail fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, official secrets act violations, Pendleton Act violations, perjury, rape, sexual assault, subornation of perjury, theft of government property, vote fraud, wire fraud, witness tampering\u2026 and more.<\/p>\n After leaving her $600,000 per year job as a special correspondent for NBC News in August 2014, Chelsea was taken into the family business as vice-chairman of the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.\u00a0 However, according to a July 10, 2014 Associated Press<\/em> story by Ken Thomas, she is represented, along with her father and mother, by the Harry Walker Agency, in New York, which arranges speaking engagements for notable such as former vice president Dick Cheney, former senator Rick Santorum, and former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. \u00a0And while the Washington Speakers Bureau reports that speakers such as former senators Bill Bradley (D-NJ) and Christopher Dodd (D-CT), earn $25,000 to $40,000 per speech, the AP reports that Chelsea Clinton commands speaking fees as high as $75,000.<\/p>\n But it appears that all is not roses at the Clinton Foundation.\u00a0 It is reported that Foundation staff find Chelsea as difficult and unpleasant to work with as Arkansas State Patrolmen, the Secret Service, and White House staff did with her mother\u2026 resulting in an unusually high turnover of Foundation staff.<\/p>\n According to a May 19 report by James Dunn, of Mailonline, \u201cA lot of people left because she was there.\u00a0 A lot of people left because she didn\u2019t want them there.\u201d\u00a0 Dunn reports that among those \u201cdisplaced\u201d since she arrived are former CEO Bruce Lindsey (former White House chief of staff who lied so frequently and so convincingly that he was able to keep Bill Clinton out of jail); Chelsea\u2019s former spokesman, Matt McKenna; and Ginny Ehrlich, the founding CEO of the Clinton Health Matters Initiative.<\/p>\n First indications are that the apple does not fall far from the tree.\u00a0 But with a charming, affable philanderer for a father and a cold, calculating shrew for a mother, what are we to expect?\u00a0 If there is such a thing as \u201cgenetic disposition,\u201d the long term prospects for Chelsea Clinton are not good.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope that is not the case and that, for Marc Mezvinsky\u2019s sake, the Clinton women turn out to be polar opposites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Listening to the reports of obscene speaking fees earned by Bill and Hillary Clinton\u2026 Bill commanding fees of from $500,000-750,000 a speech and Hillary demanding $200,000-300,000, along with private jets and presidential suites\u2026 I turned to my wife and said, … Continue reading