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Oliver Friedfeld, a senior at Georgetown University, was recently robbed at gunpoint. His reaction was not to condemn his attackers, but to chastise himself … see: Breitbart Article. He wrote of this incident:

"Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege, surrounded by million-dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education, to condemn these young men as ‘thugs?’ It’s precisely this kind of ‘otherization’ that fuels the problem … Not once did I consider our attackers to be ‘bad people.' I trust that they weren’t trying to hurt me. In fact, if they knew me, I bet they’d think I was okay. The fact that these two kids, who appeared younger than I, have even had to entertain these questions suggests their universes are light years away from mine … We should look at ourselves first. Simply amplifying police presence will not solve the issue … [We millenials must] right some of the wrongs of the past. Until we do so, we should get comfortable with sporadic muggings and break-ins. I can hardly blame them. The cards are all in our hands, and we’re not playing them."

This dude is a perfect personification of the current Obama administration’s foreign policy … an American avatar if you will.

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I sometimes wonder if any national name ever writes his/her own books.  Bill Ayers is generally thought to have written at least one of Barack Obama's pre-presidential pufferies. Now we learn that Hillary Clinton’s new book “Hard Choices” (is the title a homage to Bill’s many bimbos?) was written by Ted Widmer of Harvard and Brown Universities … see: Showbiz Story.  And that her previous pocketbook filler, “It Takes a Village” was written by Barbara Feinman of Georgetown University … for the paltry sum of $120,000.

In the old days such shenanigans were outed when we were treated to the “As Told to” revelation on the book jacket. Not anymore … our politicians have become such mechanized frauds that their ghoulish ghost writers generally remain apparitions.

Afterthought: There is probably also reason to question the "As Told by" process of this Hillary book. Would her posse of metrosexual spin doctors and Muslim Brotherhood wannabes (all paid for by the Clinton Foundation) collectively construct the content of this political propaganda? You bet your bippy ...