The political genius who contrived Hillary Clinton\u2019s response to the revelations of Clinton Foundation and State Department corruption that there may be smoke but there\u2019s no fire should be, and likely will be considering who he\/she works for, taken out to a park somewhere and suicided with several shots to the back of the head (just kidding of course, but\u2026). If there is any folk wisdom that goes back further in the history of mankind than the common sense knowledge that indeed, \u201cWhere there\u2019s smoke, there\u2019s fire,\u201d I don\u2019t know what it is. I\u2019d wager it most likely precedes Homo Sapiens\u2019 adoption of fire to his own uses, first for warming, then for cooking, as in situations where rising smoke on the horizon meant grass or forest fire to be avoided, or even exploited for tasty roasted animal carcasses. <\/p>\n
Not only is this bit of common sense universal, with some version being a part of virtually every culture in the world, it is a truth that is instilled into virtually every child\u2019s learning from an early age. This is a truth so widespread it is known even in the animal world although it may be sensed there more by smell than sight, although humans as well also frequently are alerted to the presence of fire by a first whiff of smoke rather than a billowing cloud. Show me someone who doesn\u2019t know the meaning of, \u201cWhere there\u2019s smoke, there\u2019s fire\u201d and I\u2019ll show you someone with a severe mental or educational deficiency. Let smoke appear on any skyline and it\u2019s likely the children who will demonstrate the first excitement as to the possibility of an impending inferno.<\/p>\n
So how in the world did the Clinton campaign seize on such a lame defense as there may be smoke but there\u2019s no fire when we all know that the very admission of the presence of smoke is a de facto admission that there must be fire somewhere? Every time Clinton and her defenders raise that argument they remind us of the common sense wisdom we have been taught all our lives that, \u201cOh yeah, where there\u2019s smoke, there is indeed fire,\u201d which just reinforces the suspicion that Clinton is trying to blow this particular smoke up our rear ends.<\/p>\n
Crossposted at American Thinker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"