Publius' Forum

See, here is why this Port-gate business is so confusing. Hillary comes on and lies about the whole thing to gin up the public for her campaign for president. Here is what she said a few days ago:

"I take a back seat to nobody when it comes to fighting terrorism and standing up for national homeland security. Our port security is too important to place in the hands of foreign governments. I will be working to introduce legislation that will prohibit the sale of ports to foreign governments."

And the lies are:

#1- Even if this sale goes through we are not directly placing the Port security in the hands of a foreign government

#2- We are not selling the ports. We STILL OWN them regardless of who operates the companies that manage them. We are selling the company that manages the port operations, not selling the ports outright.

The misdirections are:

#1- The company that operates the ports already are owned by a foreign nation; Britain

#2- Since we aren't actually selling the Ports, this supposed legislation she is proposing to prohibit the sale of them to foreign nations is a red-herring

She gives the appearance of doing something without doing anything at all.

We have a major round of misdirections and confusions over this port deal. The proof of that is that we have people from all different ideologies coming together in either support of or in opposition to this port deal with the United Arab Emirates. people who would not ordinarily agree on the color of the sky much less public policy.

Now, I am not sure how I feel about this deal, either, but the more people are yapping the more it is becoming obvious that most politicians are demagogues over this issue for their own benefit despite the reality of the situation.

I can tell you one thing, though. The Unions are against this idea and it is the Unions we can thank for the fact that no American company wants to run our ports in the first place. So, if the Unions are for it, I certainly must carefully evaluate if I should end up on the same side the Unions are!

Just a few words for you all to take into consideration on this thing, is all. This is, after all, an important and sensitive issue and we should not be making our decisions based on the kind of lies that come out of the mouths of Democrats.

-Warner Todd Huston