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Bill Kristol: Mitt Romney’s Attack on Obama Over Handling of Chinese Dissident are “Foolish”

May 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Bill Kristol: Mitt Romney's Attack on Obama Over Handling of Chinese Dissident are "Foolish" (Reuters)

Mitt Romney attacked President Obama on Thursday over the administration’s handling of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, saying that was “a dark day for freedom and it’s a day of shame for the Obama administration.” We all know Mitt Romney was just talking out of his ass because Hillary Clinton was able to strike a deal with the Chinese government to allow the dissident to come to America on a fellowship at New York University. Bill Kristol during an appearance on Fox News, called Romney’s attack on Obama on the Chen case, “foolish:”

KRISTOL: I’m happy to be critical of the Obama administration as anyone is, but I think this is fast moving story. And if I were advising Governor Romney, I’d say you don’t need to get in the middle of this story. If this turns out badly, and it would be a terrible thing, it will turn out badly. People will know. … To inject yourself into the middle of this way with a fast moving target I think is foolish. [...]

There is no need to butt into a fast moving story when the secretary of state is in Beijing with delicate negotiations and say it’s a day of shame for the Obama administration. Hillary Clinton is waking up right now. Let’s see if she can pull this off in the next 12 hours or so. Source: Think Progress

This is a prime example of why Mitt Romney is like Seamus on the top of his station wagon or like a deer caught between two headlights — no clue on the gravity of the situation the American government faced with China on this dissident. President Obama and Hillary Clinton couldn’t just swoop in and remove this man and his family for China. There are laws to follow and it’s just not right, considering how indebted we are to the Chinese. Mitt Romney seems to think if he is elected our next president he can call the shots with China. Um, no, we owe them trillions. The lender is slave master over the borrower. You know, like he was at Bain Capital to all those people who lost their jobs under his watch.

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Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama Most Admired Woman, Man in 2011

December 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama named Most Admired Woman and Man in 2011.

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Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama Most Admired Woman and Man in 2011 (Gallup/USA Today Poll)

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama were once again named as the Most Admired Woman and Man once again by Americans.

Clinton has been the Most Admired Woman each of the last 10 years, and Obama has been the Most Admired Man four years in a row. Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin, and Condoleezza Rice round out the top five Most Admired women, while the top five Most Admired men also include George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Billy Graham, and Warren Buffett.

These results are based on a Dec. 15-18 USA Today/Gallup poll. In 1946, Gallup first asked Americans to name, without prompting, the person they most admire living in any part of the world. Since 1948, Gallup has asked Americans to name separately the Most Admired Man and Most Admired Woman, and has done so each year except in 1967 (when only Most Admired Man was asked) and 1976. Source

Hillary Clinton, though considered by some to be very polarizing, could win the presidential election in 2016, if she were to run again. Her stint as Secretary of State has been largely well received by many and her favorability numbers remain very high. How can Sarah Palin possibly rank higher than Condoleezza Rice? George W. Bush in second place? The rankings for the male list is laughable — “carnival barker” Donald Trump and “broken zipper” Newt Gingrich? Really?

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Democratic Pollsters Patrick Caddell & Douglas Schoen: Obama Should Abandon Run for 2nd Term

November 20, 2011 By 4 Comments

Democratic pollsters Patrick Caddell & Douglas Schoen say Obama should abandon run for 2nd term just as Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson did and should hand over the reins to Hillary Clinton.

One-time Democratic pollsters Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen wrote in Monday’s Wall Street Journal President Obama should abandon run for 2nd term and turn over the reins to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The two argued that Obama should do just as Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson did when they decided not to pursue additional runs though they could have. Um, did these two pollsters also call on former president George W. Bush not to seek reelection when he decided to seek a second term in office?

“He should abandon his candidacy for re-election in favor of a clear alternative, one capable not only of saving the Democratic Party, but more important, of governing effectively and in a way that preserves the most important of the president’s accomplishments. He should step aside for the one candidate who would become, by acclamation, the nominee of the Democratic Party: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.”

“One year ago in these pages, we warned that if President Obama continued down his overly partisan road, the nation would be ‘guaranteed two years of political gridlock at a time when we can ill afford it.’ The result has been exactly as we predicted: stalemate in Washington, fights over the debt ceiling, an inability to tackle the debt and deficit, and paralysis exacerbating market turmoil and economic decline.” Source: Wall Street Journal

Caddell worked as a pollster for President Jimmy Carter, and Schoen, worked as a pollster for President Bill Clinton, argue that Obama will “inevitably have to run a negative campaign in order to win reelection, the negative consequences of which will make it difficult for him to govern effectively.” Dang, I haven’t heard it said like that before, but I still have to ask if these two men took a similar position when Bush or even Bill Clinton sought reelection? Both men claim they wrote their screed as “patriots and Democrats” who are concerned for their country. Really? While I believe President Obama may have dropped the ball on a few issues, he took over the country when it was in a mess, thanks to the Bush administration. So, let’s not forget Congress has a far worse approval rating than he does. I know there were a lot of people who were quite upset not to see Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee and subsequent president. Well, you have the delegates to thank for that. Mrs. Clinton won the popular vote, but the delegates decided they didn’t want her to be the nominee. So, get over it already. Caddell and Schoen’s desire to see Obama step aside because to their love for this country is pure bullsh*t.

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Secy of State Hillary Clinton Backs Proposal Calling for Investigation of Moammar Gadhafi’s Death

October 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that she supports a proposal calling for an investigation into the death of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi as part of the country’s transition from a dictatorship to a democracy.

The bloody images of a wounded and later dead Gadhafi has been shown worldwide over and over. He was taunted and beaten by his captors. Some said he died in a crossfire and others said he was executed. He got what he deserved but it’s time for his burial. No use defying Islam law by keeping him on display.

Clinton says she backs a proposal calling for the United Nations to launch an investigation in the matter. She also backed an investigation by Libya’s Transitional National Council by saying a democratic Libya should begin with the rule of law and accountability, as well as unity and reconciliation. She says investigating Gadhafi’s death is part of the process.

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Hillary Clinton & Afghan President Hamid Karzai Share Laughs Over GOP Presidential Hopeful Herman Cain’s Nonexistent Foreign Policy Experience

October 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai found something to laugh about during their meeting in Kabul Thursday — Herman Cain.

According to the Associated Press, the two leaders began their meeting in the Afghanistan capital with a discussion about how the GOP presidential candidate recently responded to how he would handle “gotcha questions” from the media on foreign policy.

“When they ask me who’s the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan, I’m gonna say, ‘You know, I don’t know, do you know?’” Cain responded, raising eyebrows about his lack of foreign policy credentials.

Karzai told Clinton that Cain was talking about “all the ‘stans,” to which Clinton laughed and waved her hands, saying, “All the ‘stans places,” the wire said. “That wasn’t right, but anyway, that’s how politics are,” Karzai responded. Source

Still think Herman Cain would be great on the world stage? He’s getting on my last nerve. Just saying….

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Hillary Clinton & Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Call for Greater Female Role in Politics

September 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Brazilian President Dilma Roussef joined forces on Monday to demand a greater global political role for women. You will recall Hillary Clinton came very close to being the Democratic presidential nominee in the 2008 elections, by winning the popular vote, but the delegates opted for then-candidate Barack Obama instead. Rousseff said at a high-level event held at the United Nations ahead of the UN General Assembly, “despite notable progress, gender inequality persists. Women are still the ones who suffer the most from extreme poverty, illiteracy, poor healthcare systems, conflicts and sexual violence.” Well said and we would urge more women to become engaged in the political process and even take an active role by running for local office and up the line.

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Have Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd Given Up on Barack Obama’s Presidency?

September 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Have Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd thrown in the towel where President Obama is concerned? If they have, then he has lost two key supporters in the media. President Obama has been treated in an ugly manner by the Republicans and the Tea Party, but he cannot continue to come across as weak and spineless. Quite frankly, this isn’t the “change I can believe in” that I signed up for when I voted for him in 2008. I suspect the same thing that happened to Jimmy Carter with the Iran hostage situation and the economy spiraling out of control, as well as George H. W. Bush with the horrible economy, is also gradually engulfing the Obama presidency and it’s not all his fault. People on Main Street are just sick and tired of being sick and tired. Here’s an excerpt from Maureen Dowd’s recent article in the New York Times.

 ONE day during the 2008 campaign, as Barack Obama read the foreboding news of the mounting economic and military catastrophes that W. was bequeathing his successor, he dryly remarked to aides: “Maybe I should throw the game.”

On the razor’s edge of another recession; blocked at every turn by Republicans determined to slice him up at any cost; starting an unexpectedly daunting re-election bid; and puzzling over how to make a prime-time speech about infrastructure and payroll taxes soar, maybe President Obama is wishing that he had thrown the game.

The leader who was once a luminescent, inspirational force is now just a guy in a really bad spot. His Republican rivals for 2012 have gone to town on the Labor Day weekend news of zero job growth, using the same line of attack Hillary used in 2008: Enough with the big speeches! What about some action?

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You know you’re in trouble when Harry Reid says you should be more aggressive.If the languid Obama had not done his usual irritating fourth-quarter play, if he had presented a jobs plan a year ago and fought for it, he wouldn’t have needed to elevate the setting. How will he up the ante next time? A speech from the space station?Republicans who are worried about being political props have a point. The president is using the power of the incumbency and a sacred occasion for a political speech.

Obama is still suffering from the Speech Illusion, the idea that he can come down from the mountain, read from a Teleprompter, cast a magic spell with his words and climb back up the mountain, while we scurry around and do what he proclaimed.

The days of spinning illusions in a Greek temple in a football stadium are done. The One is dancing on the edge of one term.

The White House team is flailing — reacting, regrouping, retrenching. It’s repugnant.

After pushing and shoving and caving to get on TV, the president’s advisers immediately began warning that the long-yearned-for jobs speech wasn’t going to be that awe-inspiring. “The issue isn’t the size or the newness of the ideas,” one said. “It’s less the substance than how he says it, whether he seizes the moment.” The arc of justice is stuck at the top of a mountain. Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for. Source: NY Times

Ouch, that hurt. Frank Rich called Obama’s presidency as a “rhetorical and substantive failure.” Here’s what he had to say to Piers Morgan about the jobs speech flap:

 

President Obama’s speech on Thursday won’t offer any jobs legislation this year but will be a rallying call to his base to support him in his re-election bid. I am not completely sold that he will prevail, though I think he may, considering how weak the current GOP field is. If President Obama wins re-election, it certainly won’t be on his record, since he hasn’t really brought us the “hope” and “change” he promised, but will come about by the Democrats annihilating the Republicans and the candidates in the media. Where’s the community activist we saw on the campaign trail? That’s the fighter I want to see, not the president who doesn’t seem to fully grasp the awesome power he holds in his hands. President Obama, you are the Big Kahuna in Washington D.C., not John Boehner. Please act like you want to keep your job and stop caving to the Republicans at the drop of a hat.

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Hassan Nemazee, Fundraiser for President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Arrested for Trying to Defraud Citibank of $74 Million

August 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment

hassan Hassan Nemazee, Fundraiser for President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Arrested for Trying to Defraud Citibank of $74 Million Hassan Nemazee, the chairman and chief executive of Nemazee Capital Corp., and a fundraiser for both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has been arrested for trying to defraud Citigroup Inc.’s Citibank of $74 million. He allegedly submitted false documents showing that he held accounts in his name containing millions of dollars. The charge carries a maximum prison term of 30 years.

Nemazee also served as national finance chairman for the DSCC when it was headed by Sen. Chuck Schumer. According to the NY Daily News, he has reportedly maxed out in contributions to both Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, giving them a total of $4,800 each (two $2,400 checks to Schumer in April – one for the primary, one for the general – and two of the same amount to Gillibrand in June). He also gave Gillibrand $1,000 in 2005 and another $1,000 in 2006. He gave two $2,000 donations to Rep. Carolyn Maloney in 2005. There was also $151,700 to the DSCC between March 2006 and March 2009, according to the NY Daily News.

It’s amazing that Hillary Clinton’s name is mentioned because she was also linked to another criminal, Norman Hsu, who was one of her biggest donors.

Photo credit:  Hassan Nemazee, NY Times.

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Michelle Obama Wears Short Shorts on Visit to Grand Canyon, Was It Appropriate for a First Lady to Wear in Public?

August 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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Maybe I am a little old fashioned or too conservative in many of my views, but I was surprised to see First Lady Michelle Obama alight from Air Force One last weekend in short shorts. Is it me or was this pushing the envelope a little by the first lady? I can’t recall seeing Barbara Bush (that would be a scary sight), Hillary Clinton or Laura Bush wearing short shorts. Don’t get me wrong, Mrs. Obama has every right to break the mold and be herself.

You will recall that Mrs. Obama took a lot of flak for baring her arms in February, but I think it’s safe to say she is the first first lady to descend the steps of Air Force One in short shorts. There’s no doubt Mrs. Obama has gorgeous legs, but do you think it was appropriate for her to bare so much of her legs in public?

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Police Officers Ryan White and C.M. Route, Placed on Paid Administrative Leave for Running Background Check on President Obama

July 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment

First we had nosy contractors prying into the passport files of President Obama, John McCain and Hillary Clinton, now we have some cops in the news again, for all the wrong reasons. Police officers Ryan White and C.M. Route have been placed on  paid administrative leave after an investigation revealed they ran a background check on  President Barack Obama.  The men were identified by a representative for the DeKalb County CEO’s office.  I cannot recall every hearing that police officers did a background check on President George W. Bush. It is pathetic the lengths some people are going to smear POTUS, Barack Obama. Shameful.

According to WSB-TV, officials said the president’s name was typed into a computer inside a DeKalb County police car on July 20 and ran through the National Crime Information Center. Of course, these idiots just didn’t figure out that the Secret Service would realize what was going on. After all, this isn’t an Average Joe’s file they are snooping in, it’s the president of the United States.

A representative said both officers have been with the department less than five years.A representative said one of the officers denied involvement. An official investigation is being conducted by the DeKalb County Police Department’s Internal Affairs division. There was no reason for these men to run a background check on the president. They shouldn’t be placed on paid administrative leave. They should be fired for being just plain stupid.

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