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Homeland Security Deputy Jane Holl Lute to Resign, Defends Internet Civilian Role

April 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Jane Holl Lute, Department of Homeland Deputy Secretary, said she will resign shortly to pursue a role in international Internet affairs.

Lute said that she was leaving with the department on a strong footing in Internet matters, with its central role cemented by an executive order on cybersecurity issued by President Barack Obama in February.

The order directs the civilian Department of Homeland Security to steer improvements in protections for private industry, instead of giving the lead to the military’s National Security Agency.

The preeminence of Homeland Security in patrolling the Internet is a big change from when Lute arrived there.

“The national narrative on cyber has evolved,” she said. “It’s not a war zone, and we certainly cannot manage it as if were a war zone. We’re not going to manage it as if it were an intelligence program or one big law-enforcement operation.” Source

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Bill Clinton’s 2010 Words “Give Us Two More Years, If Doesn’t Work Vote Us Out” Could Haunt Obama

June 14, 2012 by 1 Comment

Prophetic words from former president Bill Clinton in 2010 — “‘Democrats are saying something like this: We found a big hole tht we did not dig.  We didn’t get it filled in 21 months, but at least we quit digging. Give us two more years. If it doesn’t work, then vote us out.” Clinton made the comments during a speech in Cleveland that Democrats deserved two more years to fix the economy. It ironic that he uttered those words on the same spot where President Obama will deliver his speech on the econmy today.

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Did President Obama Make Oral Sex Joke at Gay and Lesbian Beverly Hills Fundraiser?

June 7, 2012 by 2 Comments

Did President Obama make oral sex joke? He may have gone where few presidents would dare (well except Bill Clinton) — making an awkward joke that could be considered as a reference to lesbian oral sex — at a gay and lesbian fundraiser in Beverly Hills last night. Sorry, but I don’t see Obama being as crass as Bill Clinton or as dumb as George W. Bush.

Here’s the transcript from the White House:

I want to thank my wonderful friend who accepts a little bit of teasing about Michelle beating her in pushups — (laughter) — but I think she claims Michelle didn’t go all the way down. (Laughter.) That’s what I heard. I just want to set the record straight — Michelle outdoes me in pushups as well. (Laughter.) So she shouldn’t feel bad. She’s an extraordinary talent and she’s just a dear, dear friend — Ellen DeGeneres. Give Ellen a big round of applause.

I know Michelle Obama isn’t loving that one bit. Awkward……

Here’s the reaction on Twitter:

Watch the video of Obama allegedly making oral sex joke about Ellen DeGeneres and his wife:

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Obama Needs Bill Clinton as a Prime Surrogate But Pays Hefty Price, Can’t Control What He Says

June 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Obama Needs Bill Clinton as a Prime Surrogate But Pays Hefty Price, Can't Control What He Says (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It must be infuriating for President Obama to know he needs Bill Clinton’s help in his reelection bid,  ”even if it comes with a price” because he can’t control what former president says, just like his Cory Booker move last week praising Mitt Romney’s “sterling” business record.

Bloomberg reports:  ”Yet, the downside to enlisting Clinton was on display late last week. In a May 31 CNN interview, the former president undercut the narrative Obama’s campaign is building around the presumed Republican presidential nominee… The mixed messages came just ahead of today’s trio of Manhattan fundraisers where Obama and Clinton are set to showcase a newfound alliance that has evolved after years of mistrust and tension.”

Nothing Bill and Hillary Clinton do is by accident. Bill Clinton knew exactly what he was talking about when he said GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a “sterling” business record, even though he tried to walk it back, like Cory Booker, a few days later. That damage has already been done. I am also sure, Rev. Al Sharpton must be seething at Clinton’s so-called comment. I guess when it really comes down to it, Bill Clinton as a prime surrogate is a risk worth taking, deep-running resentments or not. He’s a smart politician who knows how to work a room, literally. Obama could learn a thing or two from Clinton.

Obama Needs Bill Clinton as a Prime Surrogate But Pays Hefty Price, Cant Control What He Says
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Anemic Economic Recovery Could Shape Presidential Campaign by Making Race All About Obama’s Handling of Economy

June 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment

The weak unemployment could end up being a milestone around the necks of President Obama and the Democratic Party and giving a win to Mitt Romney and the Republicans in November if things don’t turn around, fast. Jobless benefits are running out for the long-term unemployed, including Rhode Island, West Virginia and New York. Five million Americans remain out of work for six months or longer. This is a weak jobs recovery and it could work against the Democrats.

New York Times: “The weak employment report on Friday held the potential to reshape the presidential campaign, members of both parties said, lifting Mitt Romney’s efforts to make the race all about President Obama’s handling of the economy and making it harder for Democrats to break through in their efforts to define Mr. Romney on their terms.”

Washington Post: “Friday’s dismal jobs report and some unexpected words from Bill Clinton delivered a bracing reminder to President Obama and his advisers that the election remains primarily a referendum on his record and that their path to victory may lie less in trying to discredit Republican Mitt Romney and more in winning a battle of ideas with their Republican rival.”

I am sure Rev. Al Sharpton is ticked off at Bill Clinton for pulling a Cory Booker move in a roundabout way, by giving some credit to the Republican presidential candidate. Nothing the Clintons do is by accident and this was a wake-up call to Obama that you can’t possibly think you’ll coast to an easy victory in November.

We can’t lose sight of the fact that the anemic economic recovery could shape the campaign and take Obama off message to the benefit of Mitt Romney. The black community has been hit harder than any other race, with unemployment numbers for May coming in at 13.6%. I don’t understand why more blacks haven’t come out and voiced their concern or displeasure that the Obama administration has done nothing for this voting bloc or has even given us the time of day by campaigning in a black community. On the flip-side, Obama needs to remind the electorate that he inherited a mess and it will take more than four years to literally rise from the wreckage.

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Rush Limbaugh Slams Toni Morrison Medal of Freedom Award Over Clinton ‘First Black President’ Comment

May 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Rush Limbaugh Slams Toni Morrison Medal of Freedom Award Over Clinton 'First Black President' Comment (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Rush Limbaugh slams Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Toni Morrison, calling her a Socialist and mocking her comments that former president Bill Clinton was the first black president, Wednes on his syndicated radio show.  It’s actually a little funny that she made those comments years ago, only to accept such an award from the first black president. Here are Rush Limbaugh’s words:

Here’s what Toni Morrison said: “White skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.”

That woman who said that, who wrote that, got the Presidential Medal of Freedom yesterday.  And she’s not even right.  She said blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetimes.  Sorry, Obama came along and rendered her wrong.  Not going there, Snerdley.  You can say it all you want.  I’m not going there.  Snerdley wants me to zero in on the blacker than any actual black person, and he thinks the jury is still out on this.  No, no, no.  All I know is that all Bill Clinton had to do to qualify as the first black president is to display almost every trope of blackness.  Here is a civil rights leader and this is what being black is to her.  Single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy.  And you throw in from Arkansas.  And she wins the Presidential Medal of Freedom, along with Dolores Huerta. Source

The so-called love affair many blacks had with former president Bill Clinton ended during the 2008 presidential campaign when many perceived his “fairy-tale” remark about the Obama campaign as a denigration of then presidential-candidate Barack Obama. Toni Morrison’s comment that Bill Clinton was the face of the black experience in this country wasn’t completely wrong, particularly of those then and today who are growing up in a single-parent household and many born poor. There is nothing socialistic or racist about that.  Call Bill Clinton what ever you want, he knew what it was like to grow up poor. Lost on Rush Limbaugh is the fact that Toni Morrison has enriched many lives with her books and in her classes.

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Drudge Report Continues Attack on Newt Gingrich Over Bill Clinton Affair with Monica Lewinsky

January 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Drudge Report Continues Attack on Newt Gingrich Over Bill Clinton Affair with Monica Lewinsky

Matt Drudge and his lackeys continue attacks on Newt Gingrich, particularly his stance on former president Bill Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, though he was cheating with his jump-off-turned-wife Callista Gingrich. This attack also includes the latest revelation that the Gingrich campaign never offered witnesses to ABC News to refute claims his ex-wife, Marianne Gingrich, made that  he wanted an “open marriage.”

The Drudge Report also stepped up attacks on Newt Gingrich’s claims of a close working relationship with former president Ronald Reagan. It’s all very interesting to watch the infighting among conservatives over a presidential nominee to meet President Obama in November. I will agree with Ann Coulter, for perhaps the second time in recent years, a Newt Gingrich candidacy will mean a second term for President Obama. So, bring Newtie on!

Here are the links from the Drudge Report:

CNN: Gingrich admits his ABC claim was false during debate…

Gingrich tells UNIVISION: No perjury during my divorce depositions…

Marianne Gingrich lawyer: ‘He was never deposed’…

FLASHBACK 1998: Gingrich Orchestrated GOP Ads Recalling Clinton-Lewinsky Affair…

INSIDER:  Newt Gingrich Repeated Insulted Ronald Reagan

NEWT FLASHBACK 1983:  REAGAN RESPONSIBLE FOR NATIONAL DECAY.

NEWT 1986: The Reagan administration has failed, is failing…

NEWT 1988:  If Bush runs as continuation of Reaganism he will lose…

You see, Matt Drudge couldn’t give a sh*t about Bill Clinton, he is just pushing this mess because he can’t stand Newt Gingrich, for whatever reason. Well, I love watching the Republicans trip over one another. This only plays in the hands of Barack Hussein Obama.

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Is It Time to Bring Back Bill Clinton to Rail Against Egomaniac Newt Gingrich?

January 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Washington Post columnist David Maraniss seems to think the Democrats need to bring back Bill Clinton to rail against egomaniac Newt Gingrich. The Drudge Report is running with David Maraniss’ column, as well as an article saying ‘Conservatives should not be surprised by scandals that lie ahead’ and R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.’s column in the New York Sun, entitled William Jefferson Gingrich, saying Newt Gingrich is the conservative version of Bill Clinton. Yeah, I know both Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich are narcissists, but I would take Bill any day of the week. At least he has personality.

David Maraniss:  ”If Republicans, in their fervor to rid the White House of Barack Obama, are yet again experiencing The Temptation of Newt, then Democrats have only one illogically rational response in this modern American political hall of mirrors. They should bring back Bill Clinton.”

Of course, the law prohibits the Comeback Kid from coming back to serve a third term, and Obama might not go for it, but only old-school twits would let any of that get in the way. The Constitution and its amendments are so 18th, 19th and 20th century. The notion of persuading good ol’ Joe Biden to step aside in favor of Hillary as vice president is not sufficiently grandiose when it comes to going after Gingrich. As the former speaker his ownself might declare, Democrats frankly must unequivocally and eloquently undertake fundamental change so extraordinarily revolutionary that America will not be the same again.

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Gingrich and Clinton share a propensity to think they are the smartest person in the room. When they were in rooms together, in the mid-1990s, Clinton dominated. He knew Gingrich’s vocabulary, he understood how to outwonk him, and the result was that the president mesmerized and overwhelmed the otherwise-cocky House speaker. “I’ve got a problem, I get in those meetings and as a person I like the President,” Gingrich acknowledged during the era, when I was reporting on the “Republican revolution” with my colleague Michael Weisskopf. “I melt when I’m around him. After I get out, I need two hours to detoxify. My people are nervous about me going in there because of the way I deal with this.”

Very interesting. But to be honest, no matter what you think of Bill Clinton, the man knows how to rally crowds and get people energized. So, while Newt Gingrich is taking all the credit for balancing the budget, the fall of the Soviet Union and so on, Bill Clinton can be a formidable weapon to draw.

Here’s an excerpt from Emmett Tyrrell Jr.’s column:

Newt and Bill are 1960s generation narcissists, and they share the same problems: waywardness and deviancy. Newt, like Bill, has a proclivity for girl hopping. It is not as egregious as Bill’s, but then Newt is not as drop-dead beautiful. His public record is already besmeared with tawdry divorces, and there are private encounters with the fair sex that doubtless will come out.

If I have heard of some, you can be sure the Democrats have heard of more. Nancy Pelosi’s intimations are timely. Newt up against the Prophet Obama would be a painful thing to watch. He might be deft with one-liners but it would be futile. There are independent and other uncommitted voters to be cultivated in 2012 — all would be unmoved by Newt’s juggling of conservative shibboleths.

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Conservatives should not be surprised by the scandals that lie ahead, if they stick with him. Those of us, who raised the question of character in 1992, were confronted by an indignant Bill Clinton, treating the topic as a low blow. To listen to him, character was the “c” word of American politics. It was reprehensible to mention it. By now we know. Character matters. Paul, Santorum, and Romney have it. Newt has Clinton’s character.

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Newt Gingrich Ex-Wife Marianne Says He “Lacks Moral Character” to Serve as President

January 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Marianne Gingrich, ex-wife of GOP presidential hopeful and egomaniac Newt Gingrich, says he lacks the moral character to serve as president. Marianne Gingrich said “his campaign positions on the sanctity of marriage and the importance of family values do not square” with what she saw during their 18 years of marriage, ABC News reports. She told ABC News, he wanted an open relationship in which he had a wife and a jump-off (Callista Gingrich), but she said no. Mind you, this was the same time this egomaniac was calling for former president Bill Clinton’s impeachment after the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.

Hey, scandals involving women sunk Herman Cain’s campaign. It should do the same thing for Newt Gingrich, with his hypocritical and self-righteous self.

She said Newt moved for the divorce just months after she had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, with her then-husband present. ”He also was advised by the doctor when I was sitting there that I was not to be under stress. He knew,” she said. Source: ABC News

FROM ABC NEWS: CLICK HERE to see a preview of ABC News’ exclusive broadcast interview with Marianne Gingrich and then catch the full interview tonight on ABC News’ Nightline at 11:35 p.m. ET.

UPDATE #1: WASHINGTON POST prepares own Marianne Gingrich bombshell, based on separate interview… Developing…

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Newt Gingrich Called Segregationist by Muslim-American Group, Criticized by Former Presidents Clinton & Carter

January 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Newt Gingrich Called Segregationist by Muslim-American Group, Criticized by Former Presidents Clinton & Carter (Wikipedia)

They are coming out in full force against Newt Gingrich, on both sides, Democrats and Republicans. This infighting in the Republican Party and among the presidential candidates is only playing in Obama’s favor. First up the Democrats — former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter zinged Newt Gingrich and his pomposity:

Bill Clinton in an Esquire interview:  Dissed Newt Gingrich as a Romney clone because of issues the former speaker has flip-flopped on. Clinton says,  ”As a private citizen he was for certain important health-care reforms and believed in climate change and believed there had to be a strong reaction to it. And now he’s just like Romney. Neither one of them can say what they believe to be true and get nominated. Romney’s still trying to figure out what he did as governor of Massachusetts and still appeal to this driving vituperative energy.” Here’s more from Esquire’s interview with Clinton.

Jimmy Carter on CNN:  ”Newt Gingrich is probably as enlightened as I am about being gratified that we’re in the desegregation years in the South.” “When you emphasize, over and over, welfare, food stamps, and ‘Why don’t the black people get jobs,” and if I’m president, I’ll make sure they turn toward a work ethic, rather than an ethic of welfare and food stamps, that’s appealing to the wrong element in South Carolina.”

From the Republicans: Mitt Romney released a scathing ad and his campaign hosted a conference call during which former Rep. Susan Molinari and Jim Talent unleashed on the egomaniac. (We posted that video on an earlier post.)

“But the surest sign that the Romney campaign considers Gingrich the main threat here in South Carolina was a conference call just now in which top surrogates for the GOP frontrunner unloaded on the former House Speaker. It was quickly followed by web ad featuring Talent slamming Gingrich as an “Unreliable Leader” (also the title of the conference call).”

Now Newt Gingrich is crying foul. Um, what did you think Newt, you are the only one who can play dirty? During a campaign stop in South Carolina, he called the Romney campaign “dirty and dishonest.”

Even a Muslim-American group is calling Newt Gingrich a “segregationist.” Yep, a regular race-baiter.

Council of American Islamic Relations: Calls Newt Gingrich “one of the nation’s worst promoters of anti-Muslim bigotry” and suggested Republican presidential candidate is a “segregationist.”

“Newt Gingrich’s vision of America segregates our citizens by faith. His outdated political ideas look backward to a time when Catholics and Jews were vilified and their faiths called a threat,” said CAIR Legislative Director Corey Sayolor in a statement.

“The time for bias in American politics has passed and Newt Gingrich looks like a relic of an ugly era,” Sayolor said.

Newt Gingrich is now crying like a baby. At a campaign stop he called the Romney campaign “dirty and dishonest” as though somehow he’s running such a clean and positive campaign. Newt Gingrich is a self-destructive, self-righteous egomaniac.

Politico: “I fully expect the Romney campaign to be unendingly dirty and dishonest,” Newt Gingrich said. “They thought they could buy this. They’re discovering they can’t buy this.”"I think they have internal polls showing them losing,” he said. “I think they will do anything at any level.”

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