On October 8, 1871 the Peshtigo fire broke out.  It was the worst fire in U.S. history.  At least 1,500 people were killed and some people estimate the real toll could be closer to 2,500.  Over 1,875 square miles were burned.  Yet most people have never heard of the Peshtigo fire.  The reason is that it happened on the same day as the Chicago fire.  The main stream media of the day was too interested in reporting on the Chicago fire to bother with what was happening in Northern Wisconsin.

Hillary Clinton is in serious trouble.  Her never-ending campaign just released her “Hillary the Great” book in anticipation of the 2016 election.  We can be positive that anything written about Benghazi was approved by a panel of experts.   The Benghazi chapter was leaked to her strongest supporters to put the best possible spin on the subject.  That means that this is the best “answer” available.  The theory is that while “some” of the people who attacked our compound “may” have been terrorists, “some” of them “may” have been influenced by the video.  That is patently absurd.  It doesn’t even pass the giggle test.  So why use it?

The obvious conclusion is that the truth is even worse.  Hillary Clinton’s presidential hopes are going down in flames.  Something must be done.  Wait!  What if the Clintonians can find a “bigger” story to distract attention from the Select Committee investigation of Benghazi?  Desperate times call for desperate measures.  Hillary met privately with Obama on Thursday.  On Friday he fired General Shinseki and then Jay Carney resigned.  The VA Scandal story went nuclear.

Then on Saturday he announced the swap of five Taliban Commanders for Sgt. Bergdahl.  This is the same deal Leon Panetta wouldn’t even consider.  Is this all a coincidence?  Is this just another example of Obama being naïve, incompetent and stupid?  Or is there something else going on?  Perhaps it is just me, but this is starting to look like the modern version of the “Peshtigo Principle.”

TDM