Letters on Clinton and Benghazi, recalling Brownback, reclaiming elections

Clinton repeatedly lied about attack

Those willing to look past the political theater that both sides engaged in during the Benghazi hearings are able to conclude one absolute, indisputable truth – that Hillary Clinton (as well as President Obama, national security adviser Susan Rice, Vice President Joe Biden and others) knowingly and repeatedly lied to the American people.

Documents disclosed for the first time at the Benghazi hearings are absolute proof that Clinton knew these attacks were carried out by terrorists. The night of the attacks she e-mailed her daughter and stated that “two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an al-Qaida-like group.” The day after the attack, a transcript of a conversation Clinton had with the prime minister of Egypt disclosed that she said, “We know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack – not a protest.”

Yet she repeatedly told the American people that the attack was the result of unrest caused by an anti-Muslim film on the Internet. Even more despicable was that she lied directly to family members at the casket ceremony, with the bodies of the fallen Americans just a few steps away. At the hearing, Clinton never disputed that these documents were real – her only defense was she never said they weren’t attacks. How stupid does she think the American voters are?

A person of such weak moral fiber who is willing to do or say anything to win an election is completely unqualified to hold the office of the president of the United States.

Demand recall

Mercy Hospital in Independence has closed and more hospitals are at risk. Our only hope is for all hospital employees to knock on every door in Kansas, collecting hundreds of thousands of signatures demanding the recall of Gov. Sam Brownback because he absolutely refuses to expand Medicaid.

Reclaim elections

We live in strange times. We live in a time of political zealotry. We live in a time of megalomaniacal extremism. And we live in the shadow of big-money corruption of democracy.

We complain. We tune in. And then we drop out.

It doesn’t matter, we rationalize. The deck is stacked.

But there are more of us than there are of them. And on the big issues – support for quality education, Medicaid expansion, campaign finance reform – a supermajority of reasonable Kansans agree.

Can’t we kick the bums out of Kansas? Goodbye, American Legislative Exchange Council. Goodbye, Koch influence peddlers. And hello to the return of moderate Kansas values.

Help reclaim our elections by working to expose ALEC and the not-so-nifty 50 Kansas legislators who populate their secretive ranks. It’s the least we can do.

This story was originally published October 27, 2015 at 7:04 PM with the headline "Letters on Clinton and Benghazi, recalling Brownback, reclaiming elections."