Hillary, Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are, Hold a Press Conference and Answer All Those Difficult Questions

In an interview with Jennifer Granholm, the former Attorney General and Governor of Michigan, CNN Clinton reporter, now anchor, Brianna Keilar asked if Hillary Clinton will hold a press conference soon. Granholm considered it a non-issue and was unable to provide an answer. Keilar then said : “It’s not like she’s unreachable. […] This is more of a press issue than the public. There’s 300+ interviews, a fifth of them, according to NPR, aren’t even with journalists and most of these are, you know, quick little interviews between 3 to 8 minutes.” ~~~~~~ The turth is that the last time Hillary Clinotn gave a 'press conference' was on December 4, 2015, when she answered 7 -- that's right, 7 -- questions from the reporters who were covering her campaign in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Why is Our Girl Hillary avoiding the press?? Why do Hillary & Hacks defend her unavailability during her presidential campaign -- while Donald Trump is on TV giving almost daily interviews to journalists and holding regular press conferences?? What is Our Girl Hillary afraid of and what does she not want to have to answer for?? There are lots of possibilities. ~~~~~~ Maybe a journalist would ask Hillary about her cozy relationship with disgraced Democratic National Committee chairman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, a relationship so cozy that Wasserman-Schultz actually favored Hillary, allowing her staff to email each other about how to deep-six rival Bernie Sanders -- including the possibility of attacking him because he is Jewish -- during the primary season when the DNC was supposed to be a neutral facilitator for all Democrat candidates. ~~~~~~ Maybe a journalist would ask Hillary about her arguments with the same Democratic National Committee when the DNC refused to go along with Hillary's plan to separate Donald Trump from other Republicans like House Speaker Paul Ryan, to make Trump appear to be "much worse than regular Republicans." Wikileaks has released emails showing the May email exchange between then-DNC communications director Luis Miranda and then-DNC CEO Amy Dacey, sent out under the subject line "Problem with HFA," an acronym for the 'Hillary For America' campaign, according to The Hill. The exchange, released earlier in August, is getting new attention after Clinton this week delivered a speech claiming GOP nominee Donald Trump is courting the "alt-Right" side of the Republican Party. Both Miranda and Dacey resigned their posts in the aftermath of a WikiLeaks email release that resulted in the resignation of Chairman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. In his email, Miranda complained the Clinton camp wanted the DNC to : "basically praise Ryan. I pushed back that we cannot have our state parties hold up Paul Ryan as a good example of anything, and that we can't give down ballot Republicans such an easy out." Miranda emailed that it would be more damaging to force the GOP to "own Trump." Separating Trump from other Republicans, he wrote, would mean the DNC would have thrown out its whole strategy that the "GOP made Trump through years of divisive and ugly politics. Also, that would mean the DNC would need to say 'Republicans are reasonable and that the good ones will shun Trump. It just doesn't work from the Party side.'" It is interesting that the candidate that Democrats champion as a million times better than Donald Trump was so inept that the DNC, widely-recognized as truly inept, had to step in. Hillary & Hacks, touted as the most experienced choice Americans have on November 8, don't seem be very professional when it comes to campaign strategy. Too bad the DNC stopped the idea, because the GOP and Trump would have had a field day with it. ~~~~~~ Maybe a journalist would ask Hillary about an article by the New York Times that concluded that "liberal Democrats and Progressive activists are wary about the state of the 2016 presidential race, unhappy with Hillary Clinton’s big-tent courtship of Republican leaders they have long opposed and fearing the consequences of shaping the contest as a referendum on Donald J. Trump." The NYT said Hillary may use this tactic to win by a mandate-level margin : "But what, exactly, would the mandate be for?" Even Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor in Bill Clinton's administration, was quoted by the NYT : "If she’s going to get anything done as President, she is going to have to have a mandate....but temperament doesn’t give you a mandate to do anything.” The NYT said Clinton’s dogged pursuit of Republican votes has especially irritated Progressives, who grumble at her eager promotion of endorsements from veterans of the George W. Bush and Reagan administrations, including diplomats and intelligence officials under Bush. Benjamin T. Jealous, a former NAACP president who initially supported Sanders, told the NYT : “Secretary Clinton’s decision to aggressively court Mitt Romney’s base has her looking more and more like Mitt Romney every day. That’s not a good thing.” Many of Sanders’ backers believe that two of the principal issues he raised during his primary contest against Mrs. Clinton -- her foreign policy hawkishness and her Wall Street ties -- remain central to her political core. Helen Gym, a Philadelphia City Council member who supported Clinton in the primary, told the NYT that the dynamics between Clinton’s team and the party’s activist base reflected : “a fragile negotiation. The coalition has to hold together. Is a Clinton victory synonymous with a progressive victory? It depends. I don’t think I can give a full yes or no.” Hillary boasts she is “a progressive who likes to get things done.” The NYT said : "In both of her presidential primary runs, Mrs. Clinton accused her opponents -- first Barack Obama in 2008, then Mr. Sanders -- of promising more than they could credibly deliver. But when approached at her rallies, even zealous Clinton supporters are often hard-pressed to name a signature policy proposal of hers." Democrats tell us that Hillary has a policy statement for every possible issue -- on her website. And we know that Clinton has pledged to grant amnesty to all illegal immigrants and to reform gun safety laws so that local gun shops will in some way become legally responsible for the illegal use of guns they sell -- buzz words for destroying the Second Amendment right to bear arms. Hillary has also promised to continue Obama's unconstitutional executive action approach when she does not get her way with Congress. Robert Reich told the NYT : “Her policy proposals are admirably detailed, but they cover so much ground that their whole is less than the sum of their parts. She really needs to focus on a few big ideas.” At a press conference, journalists might be able to ferret out exactly what Hillary Clinton stands for and what she would see as "big idea" issues if elected. ~~~~~~ Maybe a journalist would ask Hillary about what she sees as being so wrong with Trump's immigration position that is, after all, the position of more than 2/3 of American voters. This past weekend, Trump met with about two dozen Latino supporters in Nevada to discuss strategies for boosting Hispanic turnout in the swing state. The meeting was part of his effort to demonstrate that his economic policies would be better for small minority-owned businesses than Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's. Trump said on Friday : "People don't know how well we're doing with the Hispanics, the Latinos. We're doing really well." Trump has recently hammered home that minorities have been left behind by Democratic economic policies and called US sluggish GDP growth as "a catastrophe," saying that the United States has "some very, very serious problems and it's going to get worse with this group of people" in charge. Trump has not wavered on his desire to build an impenetrable wall along the border with Mexico, and Friday he reiterated : "My stance is very strong. It's going to remain very strong. There will be no amnesty. There's no legalization." Trump will give a policy speech on immigration in the near future. Clinton, meanwhile, kept up her verbal assault on Trump's campaign Friday, saying in an MSNBC interview that it is built on "prejudice and paranoia" and caters to a radical fringe of the Republican Party. This is Hillary's attempt to counter Trump's effort to win over moderate voters unsettled by some of his remarks and proposals. She also continues to target moderate voters -- especially Republicans -- by depicting Trump and his supporters as extremists, and casting the race as "not a normal choice between a Republican and a Democrat." Trump running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence told CNN on Sunday that there will be no path to citizenship for illegal immigrants unless they leave the country. Pence said Trump will announce details in two weeks about whether there'll be a deportation force. Pence told CNN : "His position and his principles have been absolutely consistent. We're going to secure the border. We're going to build a wall, have a physical barrier, enforce the laws of this country, end sanctuary cities, implement e-verify. And we will have a mechanism for dealing with people in this country -- you heard the word 'humanely'...but there will be no path to legalization and citizenship unless people leave the country. He has said that consistently. You're going to hear in more detail in the next two weeks that lays out all the policies." Pence said the issue of an estimated 4.5 million so-called anchor babies, whose legal citizenship Trump has opposed, "is a subject for the future. What Donald Trump was referring to is part of the issue that we need to deal with in this country," he said. "He is a man who speaks his mind. And he has put this issue front and center with the American people." Pence also pushed back at Hillary Clinton and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine's charges that former KKK leader David Duke's support of Trump proves he's helping a radical fringe take over the GOP. Pence said : "I think his [Kaine's] comments, Hillary Clinton's comments on Thursday night sound desperate to me. I mean, the fact that an individual, a contemptible individual like that supports my running mate is no more relevant than the fact that the father of a man who killed 49 people in Orlando, Florida, was cheering Hillary Clinton in one of her rallies. " So, a brave journalist -- given the chance if there were ever any Hillary press conferences -- might ask why Hillary attacks Trump's efforts to sort out the mess Obama and she have made of US immigration policy and law enforcement, why they have admitted 10,000 unvetted Syrian refugees whose ranks surely include jihadist terrorists, and why her failure to protect US diplomats in Benghazi should not be seen as a sign of her indifference to the violence of islamist terrorists, as well as putting the re-election of her pal Obama above the safety of the diplomats she was officially charged to protect. ~~~~~~ Dear readers, there are many more questions journalists could ask Hillary Clinton, if she would hold a press conference. But, she won't do that in any reasonable fashion, relying on press releases, surrogate commentary, snippets from her campaign speeches, and carefully controlled one-on-one interviews with longtime friends in the mainstream media to try to paper over her routine absence from contact with the media, even the mainstream media that adores her Progressive program to, as Barack Obama said, "remake America." Hillary Clinton hides from the press because she is afraid -- afraid of questions about her Benghazi lies, and her ties to George Soros, whose violent campaign to disrupt the 2106 election is partly carried out by using paid agitators under the Black Lives Matter banner. But, most of all, Hillary Clinton is afraid of the inevitable questions that would be asked about her emails, about the blunt characterization by FBI Director Comey of her "extremely reckless" with classified information, about her illegal ties to the Clinton Foundation while Secretary of State, about the criminal pay-for-play scheme cooked up by Bill and her to sell America to foreign interests who paid with contributions to the Foundation. Hillary Clinton has a lot to answer for. As Donald Trump said last Friday, "She shouldn't even be running for President....She should be in jail." Maybe that's why Bill announced last week that he will separate himself from the Clinton Foundation if Hillary is elected -- maybe this is the latest Clinton scam to try to stay ahead of the law and out of jail. And -- one last observation -- almost every US elected official wears a small American flag pin on their jacket -- even Barack Obama. Hillary always wears a jacket, but all I ever see are expensive necklaces and earrings. I have never seen an American flag pin on the left side of Hillary's jacket, above her heart, as a sign of love for America and its flag. Maybe no foreign interest has as yet offered her a flag pin studded with diamonds and rubies -- as payment for future favors.