Democrats 2016

[Michael Scally MD]

Ickes Returns to Democratic Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Panel
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/...democratic-committees-rules-and-bylaws-panel/

 

[kawilt]

Re: Hillary Rodham Clinton [HRC2016]

I was interested in what that bitch was up to, but can't get this link.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Re: Hillary Rodham Clinton [HRC2016]

Financier George Soros backs Hillary Clinton for U.S. president
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/24/us-usa-clinton-soros-idUSBRE99N0UW20131024

(Reuters) - Billionaire financier George Soros, a major Democratic donor, is backing an effort to persuade former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016, a spokesman said on Thursday.

Soros, 83, has pledged $25,000 to political action committee Ready For Hillary, the largest and best-funded independent group backing a potential Clinton candidacy. The wife of former President Bill Clinton would be widely viewed as the favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination if she decides to run.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Re: Hillary Rodham Clinton [HRC2016]

Happy Birthday [POTUS45]
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton[/ame]

 

[kawilt]

Re: Hillary Rodham Clinton [HRC2016]

bite my tongue....count to ten......................

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Re: Hillary Rodham Clinton [HRC2016]

bite my tongue....count to ten......................

...count to 45.

 

[kawilt]

Re: Hillary Rodham Clinton [HRC2016]

Gosh ...this brings back all kinds of memories. Hillary and Bill, George Soros, Mena Arkansas, Homestead air force base, Dan Lasater, Arkansas Finance and Redevelopment Authority, etc. etc. etc.
Happy Birthday Hillary..........

 

[CensoredBoardsSuck]

Re: Hillary Rodham Clinton [HRC2016]

...count to 45.

You mean Ted Cruz? (running and ducking)[)]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPqEg3Xh7xg]Belief - YouTube[/ame]

 

[TheGuy85]

O'Malley is wrong about arrests and violent crime - Baltimore Sun

 

[Michael Scally MD]

An inside look at the White House with speechwriter Jon Favreau
http://theweek.com/article/index/255520/an-inside-look-at-the-white-house-with-speechwriter-jon-favreau

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Planet Hillary
The gravitational pull of a possible 2016 campaign is bringing all the old Clinton characters into her orbit. Can she make the stars align, or will chaos prevail?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/magazine/hillary-clinton.html

 

[Michael Scally MD]

The Hillary Papers
Archive of 'closest friend' paints portrait of ruthless First Lady
The Hillary Papers | Washington Free Beacon

On May 12, 1992, Stan Greenberg and Celinda Lake, top pollsters for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, issued a confidential memo. The memo’s subject was “Research on Hillary Clinton.”

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Hillary Clinton’s New Money Man
DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg used to be close with the Clintons — until he threw them over for Barack Obama in 2007. Now he wants to send Hillary to the White House in 2016.
Hillary Clinton's New Money Man

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Why Hillary Clinton Won't Pay for Disparaging Her Husband's Accusers
Yes, she behaved badly. But under the circumstances, how many people would've managed better? And how is it relevant to the job she may seek?
Why Hillary Clinton Won't Pay for Disparaging Her Husband's Accusers - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic

 

[Michael Scally MD]

The Next Clinton Economic Boom
http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/comeback-kids-hillary-clinton-the-us-economy/30862.article (Comeback Kids? Hillary Clinton + the U.S. Economy | Fast forward | OZY)

Hillary Clinton should thank Barack Obama for beating her in 2008. Every day.

Not only does the former first lady and U.S. Secretary of State appear as well-positioned as any candidate to capture the presidency in 2016, but her arrival in the Oval Office could well coincide with headwinds that the U.S. economy has not seen since, well, the last time a Clinton occupied the White House.

Are we getting ahead of ourselves? Absolutely. A lot can happen in three years, but there’s one scenario for 2017 that should be staring all would-be prognosticators in the face: The very real possibility of another Clinton economic boom like the U.S. experienced in the 1990s.

Here are five key economic and political trends that should leave Camp Clinton giddy — and the GOP scared out of its mind — when it comes to the next presidential election.

 

[nuncaquite]

The Next Clinton Economic Boom
http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/comeback-kids-hillary-clinton-the-us-economy/30862.article (Comeback Kids? Hillary Clinton + the U.S. Economy | Fast forward | OZY)

She would without a doubt be better than the current occupant. But what has she done? Ever? That was successful? Read this from the article that you posted.
QUOTE___Billed as the party’s “inevitable” candidate for president in 2008, Clinton’s aura of invincibility, and her campaign, ultimately went down in a blaze of infighting, cost overruns and mismanagement. This time around, Clinton enjoys most of the same advantages she carried in 2007: a large potential donor base, influence over Democratic Party fund-raising and get-out-the-vote operations and a strong early fund-raising push and campaign infrastructure despite the fact that she has not even declared her candidacy (the super PAC Ready for Hillary raised nearly $4 million in 2013). Plus, with Secretary of State added to her CV, she’s an even more daunting candida____END QUOTE

She cant even run a campaign with any efficiency... WTF?

 

[nuncaquite]

The person to watch out for will be a governor, from a red state that is succeeding economically.
Red states are pulling out of the obama economy. Blue states are in a death spiral. Blue policies just dont work. Look at the economies and crime rates of blue states...........OMG This is utopia?

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Wall Street Republicans' dark secret: Hillary Clinton 2016
Wall Street Republicans' dark secret: Hillary Clinton 2016 - Ben White and Maggie Haberman - POLITICO.com

NEW YORK — The biggest parlor game on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms these days is guessing whether former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will run for president and save the GOP’s old establishment base from its rising populist wing.

The second most popular game is guessing what happens if Jeb says no.

Two dozen interviews about the 2016 race with unaligned GOP donors, financial executives and their Washington lobbyists turned up a consistent — and unusual — consolation candidate if Bush demurs, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie doesn’t recover politically and no other establishment favorite gets nominated: Hillary Clinton.

 

[nuncaquite]

Caught in the cover up. I knew this was about to come out a few weeks ago when the attorney general and president started pulling the race card.

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/email-reveals-white-house-involvement-in-benghazi-talking-points_052014 (Email Reveals White House Involvement in Benghazi Talking Points | The Daily Sheeple)
Benghazi

The watchdog group Judicial Watch has announced that they have obtained 41 new Benghazi-related State Department documents, including a damning email related to the crafting of Susan Rice’s talking points about the attack.

From the Judicial Watch press release dated April 29:

Judicial Watch announced today that on April 18, 2014, it obtained 41 new Benghazi-related State Department documents. They include a newly declassified email showing then-White House Deputy Strategic Communications Adviser Ben Rhodes and other Obama administration public relations officials attempting to orchestrate a campaign to “reinforce” President Obama and to portray the Benghazi consulate terrorist attack as being “rooted in an Internet video, and not a failure of policy.” Other documents show that State Department officials initially described the incident as an “attack” and a possible kidnap attempt.

The subject line of the email from Rhodes reads: “RE: PREP Call with Susan: Saturday at 4:00 pm ET.” It was sent to a dozen members of the administration’s inner circle, including key members of the White House communications team such as Carney, according to Fox News:

In the email, Rhodes specifically draws attention to the anti-Islam Internet video, without distinguishing whether the Benghazi attack was different from protests elsewhere.

The email lists the following two goals, among others:

“To underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.”

“To reinforce the President and Administration’s strength and steadiness in dealing with difficult challenges.”

That email was sent a day prior to Rice’s scheduled appearances on Sunday morning talk shows to discuss the attack.

Remember when Rice appeared on news outlets (including ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News and CNN) and claimed the assaults occurred “spontaneously” in response to the “hateful video”?

Judicial Watch reminds us what Rice said during her appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation on Sunday, September 16:

But based on the best information we have to date, what our assessment is as of the present is in fact what began spontaneously in Benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired some hours earlier in Cairo where, of course, as you know, there was a violent protest outside of our embassy–sparked by this hateful video.

But the documents contradict the story Rice repeatedly told during her news appearances:

The documents also include a September 12, 2012, email from former Deputy Spokesman at U.S. Mission to the United Nations Payton Knopf to Susan Rice, noting that at a press briefing earlier that day, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland explicitly stated that the attack on the consulate had been well planned. The email sent by Knopf to Rice at 5:42 pm said:

Responding to a question about whether it was an organized terror attack, Toria said that she couldn’t speak to the identity of the perpetrators but that it was clearly a complex attack.

So (assuming she read that email), Rice knew the attack was not spontaneous.

Guy Benson of TownHall points out other issues that the newly released documents reveal:

Let’s unpack this new information. First, two political process points: (1) As we’ve recently seen with the IRS scandal, the Benghazi outrage continues to produce previously unseen evidence — destroying Democrats’ disgraceful “phony scandals” talking point. The White House began aggressively dismissing both stories last year. (2) Ed Morrissey reminds us that the White House claimed to have released “all” of its emails on Benghazi nearly a year ago. Gabe Malor asks the right question: Why are we just seeing these ones now?

Benson also questions another part of the email from Rhodes:

The memo also makes clear the White House was determined to deflect any criticism involving a “failure of [administration] policy.” What sort of failure? Take your pick. How about fueling a war in Libya with no apparent strategy to handle the resulting power vacuum? Or rejecting repeated requests for an enhanced security presence in a city from which much of the West had withdrawn, due to growing jihadi dominance? Or renewing a lease on our compound with a waiver for substandard security after it had faced several attempted attacks?

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said that the emails show the White House was most concerned with insulating Obama:

“Now we know the Obama White House’s chief concern about the Benghazi attack was making sure that President Obama looked good,” Fitton said in a statement. “And these documents undermine the Obama administration’s narrative that it thought the Benghazi attack had something to do with protests or an Internet video.

Given the explosive material in these documents, it is no surprise that we had to go to federal court to pry them loose from the Obama State Department.”

Naturally, White House spokesman Jay Carney tried to spin the story. On Wednesday, he told reporters that Rhodes’ e-mail had been misconstrued because it was referring to protests happening across the Muslim world at the time:

“The e-mail and the talking points were not about Benghazi. They were about the general situation in the Muslim world.”

Carney declined to answer directly when asked if the White House would correct the record regarding statements downplaying its role in the talking points. He did acknowledge what was evident from the Rhodes email — that “the White House had a role in that document, obviously,” reports Fox News.

Jon Karl of ABC News didn’t hold back during Carney’s press conference. The two verbally sparred for 8 minutes:

Judicial Watch began asking for the documents on October 18, 2012. On June 21, 2013, the organization filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit aga
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