Among the many telling kernels of truth dappling the spoor of the Hillary Clinton campaign\u2019s internal e-mails released by WikiLeaks this past week, this one immediately leaped out:\u201cPolitics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be. But if everybody\u2019s watching . . . then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position.\u201d<\/p>\n The sausage maker was Mrs. Clinton, giving one of her $225,000 speeches that she\u2019s so long sought to conceal from the public, in this instance to the National Multi-Housing Council in April 2013. It came at a time when the just-retired secretary of state was coyly gearing up for a White House run, little tin cup at the ready, raking in nearly a million dollars that month alone.<\/p>\n \u2018Her public career has been based on showing one face to her gullible supporters and another, more ruthless one to allies and adversaries behind closed doors.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n When her ode to pragmatic two-facedness was called out by Donald Trump at last week\u2019s debate, she lamely blamed it on Abe Lincoln<\/a>, as portrayed in Steven Spielberg\u2019s 2012 film. Never mind that a high-priced collection plate and the passage of the 13th Amendment have little in common. It\u2019s all in a day\u2019s work for a woman who claims to be for the Little Guy but spends most of her time frolicking with the political and financial elites.<\/p>\n Then again, Hillary has long believed that \u201cthe personal is political,\u201d especially when political power can benefit her personally. Indeed, as the emails show, her public career has been based on showing one face to her gullible supporters and another, more ruthless one to allies and adversaries behind closed doors.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s review the evidence. Thirteen years after she and Bill left the White House in 2001 \u201cdead broke,\u201d Hillary regaled the well-fed bankers and financial managers at Goldman Sachs and BlackRock, Inc., with tales of her humble lifestyle before she and Bubba learned how to spin the dross of \u201cpublic service\u201d into the finest gold access and protection money can buy: \u201cI do think there is a growing sense of anxiety and even anger in the country over the feeling that the game is rigged. And I never had that feeling when I was growing up. I mean, were there really rich people, of course . . . but we had a solid middle class upbringing. And now, obviously, I\u2019m kind of far removed because the life I\u2019ve lived and the economic, you know, fortunes that my husband and I now enjoy, but I haven\u2019t forgotten it.\u201d<\/p>\n Forget that those \u201cfortunes\u201d came from the very rigging she was supposedly decrying; as secretary of state, Hillary had to deal with lots of unsavory characters \u2014 but sometimes their natures were made sweeter by their touching thoughtfulness toward the Clintons.<\/p>\n Qatar, like most Muslim countries, treats women as second-class citizens, but champion-of-women Hillary never lets a little thing like that stop her from doing business. (See: \u201cOn favors.\u201d) And a far greater threat than murderous Muslims adhering to a fanatical 7th-century religious ideology lurks right here at home \u2014 those pesky Roman Catholics and their silly 2,000-year-old faith. (See: \u201cOn Catholics.\u201d)<\/p>\n The bigotry shown by her campaign aides is a hint of what\u2019s to come under a Hillary administration: continuing pressure on Catholics to adapt to contemporary \u201cprogressive\u201d social-justice norms. Not that she\u2019s likely to put it so bluntly, especially during the campaign. That might alienate potential Catholic voters.<\/p>\n Ah, but universal brotherhood \u2014 that\u2019s the real Clinton goal, right? Privately, you might have to stroke a few brows from time to time. (See: \u201cNeedy Latinos.\u201d) But far beyond the Rio Grande, there\u2019s a potentially much wider electorate to appeal to when the time is right to admit it.<\/p>\n \u201cMy dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.\u201d<\/p>\n Ignore the feel-good boilerplate about green energy in the quote above, delivered in a $225,000 speech to the Brazilian Banco Itau in New York City in May 2013. E-mails from mid-2015 show her trying to defend her previous support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership but ultimately rejecting it publicly for populist political reasons \u2014 for now.<\/p>\n In short, don\u2019t expect any mea culpas when the time is right for a 180-degree spin. For a Clinton is never wrong, merely evolving.<\/p>\n The distinction between the public and private Hillary is masked partly via her cozy relationships with reporters -\u2014 whether her aides are planting stories with sympathetic journalists, sneaking a peek at debate questions in advance or just keeping their ear to the ground: \u201cI just wanted to make sure John Podesta had a heads up that his name will be in a story concerning the White House\u2019s ethics policy, which could run on Monday,\u201d wrote Washington Post White House bureau chief Juliet Eilperin in a March 21, 2015, e-mail to an Obama staffer.<\/p>\n In the public eye since 1992, the Clintons have long memories, rewarding their friends and punishing their enemies, swatting away annoying flies like Bill de Blasio \u2014 \u201cShould we care about this?\u201d wondered Podesta privately in response to policy suggestions from the mayor \u2014 whose aid they don\u2019t need. Like the Bourbon monarchy, they\u2019ve learned nothing and forgotten nothing.<\/p>\n Unsuccessfully floating the idea in late 2014 of changing the date of Illinois\u2019 2016 primary, current campaign manager Robby Mook wrote to Podesta, \u201cThis is not an Obama ask, but a Hillary ask. And the Clintons won\u2019t forget what their friends have done for them.\u201d Nor, it goes without saying, what their enemies have done to them. And certainly not what they\u2019re going to do to us, should they win next month. But that\u2019s private \u2014 for now.<\/p>\n In November 2014, Clinton\u2019s campaign manager Robby Mook e-mailed Clinton campaign chair John Podesta about the urgency of pushing a bill to move the Illinois primary out of March, to stop momentum for a moderate Republican candidate.<\/p>\n Illinois was offered \u201ca bonus of 10 percent extra delegates if they move to April and 20 percent if they move to May\u201d but didn\u2019t change the date as it had already done so in 2008.<\/p>\n \u201cOur preference would be for them to move all the way to May, but if they at least move to April 12 or April 19 they will have the day to themselves and presumably garner a lot of coverage,\u201d wrote Mook. \u201cThey will also be influencing a big northeast primary day on April 26.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey don\u2019t really care about being helpful and feel forgotten and neglected by POTUS,\u201d Mook wrote. \u201cThe key point is that this is not an Obama ask, but a Hillary ask. And the Clintons won\u2019t forget what their friends have done for them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou just have to sort of figure out how to . . . balance the public and the private efforts that are necessary to be successful, politically, and that\u2019s not just a comment about today . . . I mean, politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be. But if everybody\u2019s watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 Hillary Clinton in a leaked speech to the National Multi-Housing Council in April 2013<\/em><\/p>\n \u201c[Qatar] would like to see WJC [William Jefferson Clinton] \u2018for five minutes\u2019 in NYC, to present $1 million check that Qatar promised for WJC\u2019s birthday in 2011.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 Ami Desai, director of foreign policy for the Clinton Foundation, wrote in a 2012 e-mail.<\/em><\/p>\n Early in 2015, when Mayor Bill de Blasio contacted the campaign about his Progressive Agenda plan \u201cto organize progressives nationally to take on income inequality,\u201d he wrote: \u201cI believe you will agree with much of this content. Please let me know if you want to discuss.\u201d<\/p>\n The e-mail response from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta was: \u201cShould we care about this?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not sweating it,\u201d replied Neera Tanden, the president and chief executive of the Center for American Progress, who explained to Podesta that: \u201cPolitically, we are not getting any pressure to join this from our end.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 Hillary in her remarks from a leaked speech to Banco Itau in May 2013<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cA few calls you might consider making,\u201d John Podesta wrote to Clinton in an e-mail with the subject line \u201cNeedy Latinos and 1 easy call.\u201d<\/p>\n Referring to a New Yorker article about News Corp Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch<\/a> (who owns The Post), which stated he is raising his kids Catholic, Clinton aide John Halpin wrote in an e-mail:<\/p>\n \u201cFriggin\u2019 Murdoch baptized his kids in Jordan where John the Baptist baptized Jesus.<\/p>\n \u201cMany of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC [Supreme Court] and think tanks to media and social groups.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an amazing bastardization of the faith. They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n Palmieri, director of communications for the Clinton campaign, responds:<\/p>\n \u201cI imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn\u2019t understand if they became Evangelicals.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI would love it if we could continue to build a more positive relationship with Russia,\u201d Clinton said during a speech to Goldman Sachs on June 4, 2013. In the same speech, Clinton said, \u201cObviously we would very much like to have a positive relationship with Russia and we would like to see Putin be less defensive toward a relationship with the United States, so that we could work together on some issues.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOne time, I was visiting with him in his dacha outside of Moscow, and he was going on and on, you know, just listing all of the problems that he thinks are caused by the United States,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cI said, \u2018You know, Mr. Prime Minister, we actually have some things in common. We both want to protect wildlife, and I know how committed you are to protecting the tiger.\u2019 I mean, all of a sudden, he sat up straight and his eyes got big and he goes, \u2018You care about the tiger?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am not taking a position on any policy, but I do think there is a growing sense of anxiety and even anger in the country over the feeling that the game is rigged. And I never had that feeling when I was growing up. Never. I mean, were there really rich people, of course there were. My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good public schools. We had accessible health care . . . And now, obviously, I\u2019m kind of far removed because the life I\u2019ve lived and the economic, you know, fortunes that my husband and I now enjoy, but I haven\u2019t forgotten it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 Hillary Clinton remarks in a leaked speech to Goldman-BlackRock in February 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n . . . on TV<\/strong><\/p>\n CNBC host John Harwood to Podesta in an e-mail about a Clinton interview on CNN:<\/p>\n \u201cShe looks so much more comfortable talking to Andrea [Mitchell] today than to Brianna [Keilar] a few weeks ago.\u201d<\/p>\n Podesta was thankful for the journalist\u2019s opinion, responding, \u201cI think she\u2019s over the hump.\u201d<\/p>\n Clinton\u2019s director of communications Jennifer Palmieri also \u201cappreciated\u201d Harwood\u2019s help when he emailed her the suggestion to look up a certain video dating back to the Nixon presidency that could be beneficial to their efforts.<\/p>\n . . . in print<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI just wanted to make sure John Podesta had a heads up that his name will be in a story concerning the White House\u2019s ethics policy, which could run on Monday,\u201d WaPo White House Bureau Chief Juliet Eilperin told then-Obama White House Assistant Press Secretary Frank Benenati in a March 21, 2015, e-mail.<\/p>\n The story appeared March 22, 2015, under the headline, \u201cObama promised to curb the influence of lobbyists. Has he succeeded?\u201d<\/p>\n![\"hillary2\"](\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/hillary2.jpg\")
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Clinton (then Secretary of State) at a press conference in Doha,
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The Clintons never forget<\/h3>\n
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\nPhoto: AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOn having two personas<\/h3>\n
On favors<\/h3>\n
On de Blasio<\/h3>\n
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The dream of open borders<\/h3>\n
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\nPhoto: AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nNeedy Latinos<\/h3>\n
On Catholics<\/h3>\n
On Putin<\/h3>\n
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Out of touch<\/h3>\n
Collusion with the media\u2026<\/h3>\n
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