9/11 : Lest We Forget Who We Americans Are

9/11. • • • On this day 17 years ago, almost 3,000 people were killed in the largest terrorist attack on American soil. It started at 8:46 a.m. when hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 11 crashed the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, killing everyone on board and hundreds inside the building. Just 17 minutes later, hijackers crash United Airlines Flight 175 into the World Trade Center’s South Tower, killing all on board and more inside the trade center. Thousands more died when both towers crashed down less than an hour after being attacked. The 9/11 attacks weren’t limited to New York. Flight 77 crashed into the western façade of the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m., killing 50 people on board and 125 inside the Washington, DC, home of the Department of Defense. A fourth plane crashed in a Shanksville, Pennsylvania, field, killing all on board as passengers and crew attempted to wrest control from the hijackers. Among the 9/11 fatalities were 343 firefighters, 72 law enforcement officers and 55 military personnel. America will Never Forget. September 11 is officially called “Patriot Day,” a national day of service and remembrance that commemorates the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001. On every anniversary, the names of the victims who died in the Trade Centers are read aloud and services are also held at the Pentagon and near Shanksville, the site of the fourth plane crash. Here is what the two American leaders responsible for rallying and directing America in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks said. New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani : “The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the principles of political, economic and religious freedom, the rule of law and respect for human life. We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.” President Geroge W Bush : “Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children.” • • • LEST WE FORGET : AMERICA IS STILL UNDER ATTACK BY THE 'REFUSERS.' There is no need to remind Americans about 9/11. It is a day seared into our hearts and souls forever. But, we should remind ourselves that attacks on America continue and take many forms -- refusing to honor the Flag, refusing to honor the borders, refusing to accept the political processes set out in the Constitution, refusing to speak truthfully about political opponents, refusing to admit that Benghazi was a deliberate abandonment of Americans on the ground. America is being battered by all these refusals -- refusals to be American, in reality. Now, the titular head of the Refusers is back and he is determined to undo all that America has accomplished to eradicate his catastrophically poisonous anti-American agenda. • The Refuser leader is Barack Obama. He chose September 7 to end his silence and begin his attack on America again. And, it didn't take long for Vice President Pence to lambast Obama's return to the campaign trail with his Septmeber 7 speech at the University of Illinois. In an interview with "Fox News Sunday." VP Pence told host Chris Wallace that the former President's rhetoric was a "very disappointing" attempt to paper over a legacy pockmarked by major tax increases and a massive hike in the national debt : "It was very disappointing to see President Obama break with the tradition of former Presidents, and become so political, and roll out the same tired arguments that he and liberals have made over the last eight years. We inherited an economy that was growing a little bit more than 1%. In the last quarter, our economy is growing at 4.2%. Four million new jobs, unemployment at a 50-year low. And to have President Obama come out and tout his policies that resulted in less than 2% growth -- which saw tax increases, Obamacare regulation, and a doubling of the national debt -- I think was -- it was very disappointing." • • • SAME OLD OBAMA, SAME OLD LIES. American Thinker's J. Marsolo said on Saturday : "Barack Obama gave a speech in Illinois bitterly attacking President Trump and talking about his favorite subjects : himself and slavery. Obama is angry. He called on his followers to get out and vote in November to defeat Trump. He is angry that the voters rejected him in 2016 by electing Trump instead of Hillary. He knows that this was a rejection of his policies, and more importantly, it was a rejection of Obama personally. Obama cannot accept this. He and Joe Biden campaigned for Hillary daily, and Obama even said he would take it as a personal insult if black voters didn't vote for Hillary. Black voters and Hispanic voters ignored Obama's orders. Trump got more black and Hispanic voters than Romney in 2012." • Like all Progressive Democrats, Barack Obama cannot stand President Trump's success -- a booming economy and stock market, and unemployment way down. But, as his September 7 speech showed, Obama doesn't care that America is doing well. His speech was a renewal of his efforts to divide us. As President, Obama used identity politics to divide America. He badly bruised the relationship between black and white Americans. He turned inner cities against the police who were trying to keep them from being shot and killed -- his own Chicago is the best example. Obama did ZERO about Chicago's deadly reign of street terror except blame Republicans for it. Almost funny, since Democrats have ruled Chicago as a fiefdom for more than a hundred years. As Marsolo said : "Obama went so far as to claim that the economy is doing well because of his policies. He cannot accept that Trump turned around the weak Obama economy. If he really believes this, he is delusional. Obama said he does not need the Trump tax cuts. Nobody is forcing Obama to take the tax cuts. He can write a check to the IRS for any amount he wishes as a gift in addition to the tax he owes. Who believes he will do this? [NOTE : Did Obama give any of his presidential salary to the Treasury?? Not one penny!] • Obama hauled out the same class warfare talking points. Obama said Trump is "cozying up" to Putin. But, it was Obama and Hillary who approved the sale of 20% of US uranium reserves to Putin's Russia. "Cozying up"? You bet Obama and Hillary were. To the tune of $145 million in "gifts" to the Clinton Foundation. Did Obazma get his cut?? • The Obama "Legacy" is being unraveled. Because it was anti-American, favoring Soros-type Globalism and America-at-the-back-of-the-line apologies. Obama cannot accept that Trump is dismantling his legacy. Trump canceled the Iran sellout deal, where Obama gave Iran $150 BILLION, plus billions in cash that he lied about, while Trump is applying sanctions against Iran and its anti-America anti-Israel terrorist ayatollahs. Trump rejected the Paris Climate Accord that left America handcuffed to strict regulations while China was exempt and free to pollute at will. Trump ended the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which the New York Times called "Obama's Signature Trade Deal." President Trump is, instead, forcing China to come to terms with its trade and currency cheating and intellectual property theft, while making separate trade deals with the rest of Asia. • Barack Obama knows that Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice and that Kavanaugh was brilliant in the hearings, making ProgDem Senators who idolize Obama look foolish. That alone will guarantee the end of any overreaching and unconstitutional Obama executive action ploys for decades to come. • And, need we say it -- unlike President Obama, President Trump does not apologize for America or her power. Trump is proud of America and tries to use its power and wealth to promote peace and end terrorism. • So, as Marsolo says : "The bottom line is that Obama is angry. He did all he could to defeat Trump and elect Hillary. His corrupt FBI / DOJ whitewashed the Hillary email scandal and used the unverified, Hillary-paid-for Steele Dossier to obtain FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign, which led to the Mueller investigation. But Obama's efforts failed to elect Hillary. And now, a grand jury is investigating Andrew McCabe, the second in command at the Obama FBI. Obama knows that this investigation will lead to Comey, his AG Lynch, Hillary, and ultimately himself." They will all be investigated. Obama failed to defeat Trump. He is angry and desperate and will campaign to elect enough ProgDems in the November election so they can impeach Trump and save him and his cronies from the spotlight of the judicial process. But, we know that Obama's campaigning will have the same success as his campaign to elect Hillary. ZERO. • • • BLACK AMERICANS -- FREE AT LAST -- FROM DEMOCRATS. Silvio Canto wrote on Sunday in American Thinker : "President Obama's back, but he picked a bad day to re-emerge. On one side of the screen, there was President Obama talking about the recovery that started on his watch. On the other half, the news-reader was telling us about economic numbers not seen in a long time....So why is Obama back? My guess is that this is all about getting black Americans out to vote. We have seen some interesting numbers and polls about support for President Trump : Rasmussen has 36%, and the NAACP has it at 21%. Pick 21% or 36%. They are both huge problems for a Democratic Party accustomed to getting 90% of the black vote. The truth is that we would be in President Romney's second term if he had received 20% of the total black vote. There is more. I believe that the Democratic Party is bankrupt when it comes to talking to black Americans. Democrats have nothing to say except playing the race card and blaming everything on the GOP. Can President Obama get the black vote to switch or even turn out? I don't think so. My guess is that most black Americans are beyond the "first black" President stuff and looking at their decaying neighborhoods run by Democrats and at their lousy public schools that the Obamas did not send their daughters to." • • • PROGDEMS BURNT OUT AND DEVOID OF IDEAS. Fox News's Kayleigh McEnany said it on Saturday : "Former President Obama gave the nation some insights into the Democratic Party’s midterm election strategy Friday with a political speech demonizing Americans who elected Donald Trump as President and doubling down on the failed liberal ideology that devastated our economy. In a moment reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s outrageous characterization of Trump voters as 'deplorable' and 'irredeemable,' President Obama said : 'I have to say this...Over the past few decades, the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party.' Labeling the 63 million Trump voters as 'deplorable' and 'irredeemable' didn’t work out for Hillary Clinton when she ran a failed presidential campaign against Trump in 2016. Labeling the same voters as divisive, resentful and paranoid will not work for Democrats in the November midterm elections." • McEnany got it right : "Democrats continually demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding and active demonization of Trump voters. They are clearly wrong but don’t realize they’re wrong. I traveled the country in search of the Trump voter for my book, “The New American Revolution: The Making of a Populist Movement.” Here is what I found : a mother who lost her only son to an illegal immigrant; a wife whose husband died while languishing on a waitlist for health-care from the Department of Veterans Affairs; a mom whose entire family perished in a terrorist attack; factory workers whose jobs went overseas; and so many other great Americans who wanted change – a change from the Obama presidency. These are some of the millions of Americans who made Donald Trump our President in an election that the liberal media, pollsters, and political elite never saw coming. They never saw it coming because they never took the time to talk to voters and understand their one simple request : 'change.' ” • Kayleigh McEnany is an astute political analyst who countered the CNN roasting of her candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, often alone in her defense of Trump while sitting on a CNN panel whose goal was to elect Hillary. Listen to her analysis for the 2018 midterms : "In every single one of the twenty-seven states where CNN conducted exit and entrance polls during the Republican primaries, more than 80% of the Republican electorate felt angry or dissatisfied with the federal government. In total, just shy of 90% of Republican voters overall expressed a negative view of the federal government. In the states where CNN asked the same question of Democrats, an average 61% of Democratic voters had a negative view of the federal government! Interestingly, the highest level of Democratic frustration was in the state of Michigan, where 69% of voters reported frustration with the federal government. Michigan, of course, voted for Trump after 30 years of going blue. Election night exit polling once again confirmed voters’ appetite for change. Fox News 2016 exit polling found that a staggering 62% of voters thought the country was 'seriously on the wrong track.' In short, the story of the 2016 election was a bipartisan call for change from the failed Obama status quo. So why, then, are Democrats bringing President Obama to the campaign trail?" • McEnany answers the question as we Deplorable would : "The Obama presidency delivered the slowest economic recovery since World War II. Economic growth languished at 2% each year; wage growth stalled; and the middle class shrank considerably. Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that 71% of Americans believed the economy was rigged against them. In just two years, President Trump completely reversed course. Now, 85% of blue collar workers say their lives are 'heading in the right direction,' and 62% of voters overall say the economy is 'good' or 'excellent.' The Trump economy has delivered 4.2% annualized economic growth in the second quarter; 3.6 million new jobs; and wages growing at the fastest pace in a decade." • Now, President Obama, desperate for votes and willing to say anything to get them, is desperately trying to take credit for President Trump’s successes, saying 'remember when this recovery started,' while, as McEnany reminds us : "conveniently failing to note the Obama recovery was the worst since World War II, costing Americans approximately $17,000 in wage growth. Make no mistake. The windfall of good economic news is precisely because of the Trump presidency reversing Obama’s legacy of high taxes, onerous regulation and job-killing trade deals. It’s why 'Economists Credit Trump as Tailwind for US Growth, Hiring and Stocks,' according to a Wall Street Journal survey." • As Kayleigh McEnany so astutely states : "Returning to the status quo political class that oversaw a failing economy is not the answer for Democrats. Sending Obama out on the campaign trail forces every single red state Democrat to defend the failures of the Obama presidency. Obama’s presence poses quite a challenge for Democrats like North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp and Montana Senator Jon Tester, who pose as Trump allies while saying Obama will not be welcome to their states. Obama’s disastrous liberal agenda was rejected in 2016, and it must be rejected in 2018. While Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats ignored the forgotten men and women of this country, President Trump spoke to them. Now, he is acting for them." • • • TRUMP vs OBAMA -- BRING IT ON. Barack Obama drew a crowd of 750 in extreme Left ProgDem California on Saturday, while President Trump gets 12,000 or more people to each of his rallies across America. • At the University of Illinois, Obama accused the Republican Party of embracing “wild conspiracy theories like those surrounding Benghazi, or my birth certificate.” YEH -- we can talk about that if you want to, Barack, but do you really want to debate the criminal negligence of Hillary and yourself while Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed while you wtihheld vital intervention??? And, Obama mentioned President Trump's voting rights actions that make it harder for minorities and the poor to vote, and Trump's slashing Obamacare, and his "handed out" tax cuts. YEH -- we can talk about that, too. But, as the wise man said, be careful what you wish for. • As for the 2018 Democrat 'platform' -- Obama's viewpoint is laughable. He said : “Democrats aren’t just running on good old ideas like a higher minimum wage, they’re running on good new ideas like Medicare for all, giving workers seats on corporate boards, reversing the most egregious corporate tax cuts to make sure college students graduate.” Even the left-leaning TheHill says : "Obviously, Obama, whose domestic policy achievement is Obamacare, did not support Medicare for all during his presidency (though he did support it as a Senator.) But his comments Friday could be seen as a recognition that Medicare for all is likely the future of the Democratic Party. Senator Bernie Sanders's Medicare for all bill in the Senate has 16 co-sponsors -- many of whom are expected to run for President in 2020." YEH -- we can talk about Medicare for all -- with its estimated pricetag of $32 TRILLION over 10 years. Sanders wants to pay for it with a 2.2% tax increase on individuals and a 6.3% tax increase on business. And, Obama completely missed it on employment, saying : "For those with unique skills or access to technology and capital, a global market has meant unprecedented wealth. For those not so lucky, for the factory worker, for the office worker, or even middle managers, those same forces may have wiped out your job, or at least put you in no position to ask for a raise. As wages slowed and inequality accelerated, those at the top of the economic pyramid have been able to influence government to skew things even more in their direction : cutting taxes on the wealthiest Americans, unwinding regulations and weakening worker protections, shrinking the safety net. So you have come of age during a time of growing inequality, of fracturing of economic opportunity." The truth about what Obama did as President to create jobs for Americans is this -- he failed to consider the economy important during his two terms, and qs for industrial private-sector jobs, according to Obama "those jobs aren't coming back." He neglected the economy so thoroughly during his eight long years in office that the only logical conclusion one can deduce from it was that he didn't want a good economy. His economic plan focused on welfare for "poverty alleviation," as if the socialist-marxist failed policy of redistributing money actually creates wealth. He focused on centrally planned "green jobs" and subsidized unsustainable green energy schemes. He favored bailouts of failing industries such as the auto industry yet also imposed impossible-to-fulfill green mandates on fuel efficiency on these same automakers. He was rebuked by a federal judge for his illegal ban on drilling (he promised to buy oil from Brazil instead), and only late and desperately did Obama claim credit for the fracking revolution, which came despite, not because of, his administration. Industries where people work with their hands -- farms, fisheries, timber, or mines -- were decimated. He undercut the American workforce by allowing millions of unchecked, unvetted illegal immigrants into the country to drive down wages and bring in opiates, which had a devastating impact on the heartland. As for jobs, "the jobs Obama created were government bureaucrat jobs, siccing the regulators onto the producers and padding up the welfare bureaucrats to extend handouts to the non-producers. On his watch, the Washington, DC, suburbs grew fat and wealthy, while the rest of the country, grotesquely taxed and regulated, as well as demonized as 'the rich,' fell into shambles." • The biggest lie told on September 7 by Barack Obama was this -- "tax cuts all go to the rich, and he claims there is no connection among the Trump tax cuts, the falling black, Hispanic, youth, and female employment rates. And that 4.2% GDP boom, coming up in the second year of President Trump's administration? He says that's his. It's such garbage," said American Thinker, adding : "Note also that he still believes the same tired leftist canard that if you cut taxes, you will run deficits because taxpayer behavior never responds to incentives. Investor's Business Daily, which is the expert on these matters, notes that tax receipts went up 9% for the government as the US economy boomed. That's bad news for Obama's beliefs, but hasn't stopped his lies. Here's the hard reality : Obama could have had Trump's economy if he had signed on to tax cuts. One wonders if it eats at him that he didn't. Like any Democrat, he thinks tax cuts are a 'scam' because he thinks allowing people to control their own money is a bad thing, and all of their moneys are his. Yet the economy is an 'it' -- it's not a partisan thing. It behaves exactly the same way whether a Republican cuts the taxes or a Democrat cuts the taxes. It simply goes up. Want an economy to improve, cut taxes. This isn't complicated. He failed. And President Trump's amazing success, that success that may well propel a red wave come November if voters want to keep things like this, has got to eat at him as he feebly insists that the economy is all his. This is wretched. What a nasty, bitter little man, trying to take credit for an economy he never understood. What we are seeing here is a big reason why Republican voters must go to the polls in November. Obama's sorry record and miserable self-justification is providing the reason." • At a Friday campaign fundraiser in Fargo, North Dakota, Trump told the audience he had been asked by a journalist if he watched Obama’s speech earlier in the day. “I’m sorry. I watched it but I fell asleep,” the President said. “I found he’s very good, very good for sleeping.” The President pointed to the newly released August jobs report numbers, which showed hourly wages increased 2.9%, while unemployment remained at a low of 3.9%, matching a number not seen since 2000. • The GDP grew at 1.6% during Obama’s final year in office in 2016. During Trump’s first year in office, the rate was 2.3%. The day after Trump’s election in 2016, the Dow Jones Industrial Average spiked over 250 points, closing at a record high of 18,589. Over the next year, it steadily increased and now sits just under 26,000. The 31% rise in the stock market during Trump’s first year represents the best performance since the 1930s, when the market was recovering from the 1929 crash. Earlier this summer, Trump’s top economic advisor, Larry Kudlow, credited the economy’s strength to four very un-Obama policies his boss Trump has implemented since taking office : “We’ve lowered tax rates, we’ve rolled back regulations, we’ve unleashed energy, we’re moving to fix the broken world trading system.” • November belongs to President Trump and his Republican candidates. Just Vote. • • • DEAR READERS, that brings us full circle to 9/11. In the aftermath of 9/11, America knew what it was fighting against and what it was fighting for. THe rise of Progressive officials -- elected and unelected -- in the federal government and the unleashing of the Deep State by Presdident Obama tried to demolish America's sense of itself. They failed. And America was fortunate -- as she often is -- to find in Donald Trump a President with the conviction, backbone and undaunted personal courage to take on the ProgDems, the Deep State, and America's foes around the world. That is no easy task, and Obama and his ProgDem cabal are trying hard to make it impossible for President Trump to succeed. But, America understands that the battle is engaged, not just to defeat a few Progressive socialist-marxist radicals. The battle is engaged to preserve and defend the Constitution and the American Republic. For without America, there is no freedom anywhere in the world. • Occasionally, I have recommended what I consider one of the best descriptions of what this battle is all about. It is an American Thinker article by Frank Johnson written on August 24, 2016, and titled "To Die for Chappaqua." Read it again and you will see that we Deplorables and our President are fighting for -- and what 9/11 was all about. • "A few days back, Drudge had a link to some pictures of the Clintons' estate in Chappaqua, New York to show the 10-foot-high wall they had built around it (ironic, since Democrats know that walls don't work). The pictures of the impressive estate opened up a question. Where did the money for it come from? We know that both Hillary and Bill have not been gainfully employed in the private sector. It is not an oil estate, or an automobile estate, or a software estate, or a finance estate. So what is it? A government estate! Government is what the Clintons had to sell, and they have sold it. This is a new phenomenon for America. We have heretofore been characterized by the probity of our government institutions. It is a subject of note when officials are caught selling their office, and they end up in prison for doing so. The Clintons have found a way around the law by having Hillary on the inside and Bill as bag man on the outside, hauling in the loot under the guise of fees for speeches. While the numbers are not hard, the press seems comfortable with the Clinton personal fortune being $200 million, so let's use that figure. If it is off, Hillary can give us the precise number. We are talking personal money here. No confusion with the foundation(s). These are Hillary's and Bill's personal funds. Hillary and Bill have made a personal fortune of $200 million since leaving the White House, or, to put it differently, during Hillary's tenure first as Senator and then as secretary of state. If the Clintons' customers are not buying oil, or automobiles, or software, what are they buying? Influence. Influence over the policies, the actions, of the United States. Foreign oligarchs have paid Hillary as Secretary of State to have the United States do things it would not otherwise do. That is the point of paying her as Secretary of State through her husband. And that is the point of paying her in anticipation of her becoming President and, later, upon the actuality of her being president. If the Clintons were able to sell Hillary's Senate seat and her office as secretary of state for $200 million, what is the presidency worth? One billion dollars sounds about right, at least as a start. We have to see how things go. What is Hillary selling? She is selling you, dear reader -- your family, your children, your countrymen, the country itself. Lincoln tried to capture what it means to be an American in his First Inaugural : 'The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.' Hillary sees the country in a different way. Rather than 'the mystic chords of memory' as the spirit of the country, Hillary sees the mystic chords of money -- for herself. One manifestation of this is the estate at Chappaqua, bought with money gathered from selling out the country. Enriching herself from high government office is her spiritual foundation. How will the hearings for the next secretary of state go? 'Mr./Ms. Nominee, Secretary Clinton cleared about $100 million (the other $100 million came at other times) during her tenure as Secretary of State. How much loot do you expect to get from your tenure? And from whom do you expect to get paid? Just so we know.' Treating the country as a private fief is third-worldism. It is why third-world countries never advance. Their wealth is drained off by their political leadership. If Hillaryism should become the custom of our government, the country as we know it will be destroyed. Selling out her office is not going to be seen as the privilege of Hillary alone. What about the secretary of defense? What about the attorney general? What about the rest of the cabinet? And what about under-secretaries, deputy secretaries, and so on down the line? What about, at the local level, the police and the fire departments? What about having to pay them personally to do their jobs? Want to see the future if government officials join Hillaryism? Brazil. They can't even keep the swimming pools clean. Nothing works. What about the military, which carries out our foreign policy? As we ponder the profaning of the nation and of the mission of the nation, one question we must consider is this: are our soldiers going to be willing to die for Chappaqua? To die for Chappaqua. That is the value proposition Hillary is offering the soldiers at the sharp end of the spear. To die so that she can own her Chappaqua estate. What about military leadership? Will they go the Chappaqua route? A theater commander or a ground commander has an enormous amount of responsibility. Shouldn't he be rewarded for the burdens he bears? Suppose the Army is making an assault up-country. There is Route A, which the general has chosen, using his best judgment, to get to the objective. But now he has a visitor. It turns out that Route A runs right through the operations of Mr. Oligarch. Route B is almost as good, and Mr. Oligarch has always wanted one of the potholders made by the general's wife. In fact, he is so enthralled by the potholder that $12 million is not too high a price to pay for it! The general thinks about it, Route B is likely to lead to, say, only 500 more casualties in a force of 40,000 -- say, 100 deaths and 400 woundings and maimings. Acceptable losses (except to the soldiers and their families experiencing them). The potholder is on the way! This isn't today, thank goodness. But it is the Hillary future for America. That estate in Chappaqua. What are our military leaders -- chopped liver? Don't they deserve estates? For soldiers, belief in the mission is critical. If it should become standard practice for the leadership in Washington to sell our policy for payoffs, then belief in the mission will collapse. A soldier commanded to take the hill will wonder whether that mission is for the nation or for Chappaqua. This is why third-world militaries are so weak. Should belief in the mission ever be lost, it will be virtually impossible to get it back. This danger -- wiping out the Republic -- is what Hillary's actions mean. It is why the future of the country is at stake in this election. Nobody in Washington seems upset by the Clintons' selling out the country to foreigners to create their personal fortune. Nobody of either party has spoken out about it. But let's not leave it only on them. What about us, the public? If we let ourselves be sold out, we are going to get more of it. It is going to become chronic, ubiquitous. The United States is a great nation. There is much here to sell. What is each piece, each policy worth? Markets are so complex these days that one cannot be precise. But each amount, each transaction ultimately turns out to be equal to thirty pieces of silver." • Substitute Obama or Biden or Kerry or Sanders or Warren or Kamala Harris or Cory Booker or any other Progressive Democrat. The analysis is the same. • 9/11. Lest We Forget Who We Americans Are.