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Home Front: Politix
Hillary Clinton Announces 2016 Presidential Bid
[NYTIMES] And everybody was just so surprised.
Posted by: Fred || 04/13/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: || 04/13/2015 2:37 Comments || Top||

#2  And you thought Obumbles was bad.

Now you'll have America's Worst Family back in business.

Bill "Nobody left to lie to" Clinton - did anybody see the cover of Christopher Hitchen's classic? Where Big Bill has a pursed, buttoned up, supercilious grin on his face as if he's looked around the room and indeed he cannot find a single person left to lie to.
Posted by: anon1 || 04/13/2015 3:59 Comments || Top||

#3  LOL Besoeker it has always been #2. It is #2 in Australia which is now the Panopticon prison spy state ruled by secret police.
Posted by: anon1 || 04/13/2015 4:01 Comments || Top||

#4  The political process is meaningless theater designed for the little people.

Implying some secret cabal. But, such a cabal, would show some concern about America's welfare---if only to preserve their power base.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/13/2015 4:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Not necessarily, g.

Confluence of purpose can look a lot like conspiracy at times.
Posted by: no mo uro || 04/13/2015 5:47 Comments || Top||

#6  121 fundraising people either fled the US or refused to testify at the Senate Committee into Campaign finance scandal under the last Clinton administration. "That's quite a lot," said Christopher Hitchens on the promo trail for his book on Bill "No-one left to lie to".

121 people refusing to say what they know about the political corruption of the electotral process.

Hitchens thought that scandal would prove to be linked to China's theft of nuclear intelligence.

he thought Clinton was more corrupt than Nixon.

Hillary apologised for him and blamed everyone else for his Monica Lewinski scandal in which he bombed the wrong target in Sudan because Monica was due to testify to the grand jury and he kept the joint chiefs of staff and the cia and fbi out of the decision making process so he could rush the missile strikes to fit in with his personal court diary!
Posted by: anon1 || 04/13/2015 6:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Announced on the day that season 5 of Game of Thrones premiered. Embarrassing typos in her announcement. Pointed people to a broken YouTube link.

Methinks her heart is not in it.
Posted by: Iblis || 04/13/2015 10:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Gag me with a spoon.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 04/13/2015 11:59 Comments || Top||

#9  But would such "Confluence of purpose" design a theater for the little people?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/13/2015 12:37 Comments || Top||

#10  Technically they still need voters to confer upon themselves an air of legitimacy, hence the theater to confuse us into voting for them. Never mind that dead people and illegal aliens dilute our votes while the theater distracts us.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 04/13/2015 13:11 Comments || Top||

#11  There's more of them than there are of us, B.
But they'll need us soon.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/13/2015 13:53 Comments || Top||

#12  Any chance she's running to get the cash and then will drop out for the sake of her party? Maybe be the booster rocket for Elisabeth Warren?

Otherwise I can't really see why she's running. She has to know the election is going to be Bengazhi and email scandel with a side of Bill flying to an island to hang with underage girls and for what? What she really needs now is someone to be elected who will not investigate and prosecute.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/13/2015 15:23 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Don't interfere with Tehran talks, Kerry tells Congress
[ARABNEWS] Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
will this week defend an emerging deal intended to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions, urging skeptical US politicians not to put up obstacles that could scupper the tough negotiations.

"I'll lay out the facts," Kerry told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday when asked about a different narrative emerging from Iranian leaders about the outlines of a deal agreed in Lausanne, Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
earlier this month.

"Everything I have laid out is a fact. And I'll stand by them."

The Lausanne framework marked a major breakthrough in a 12-year standoff between Iran and the West, which disputes Tehran's denial that it is seeking to acquire nuclear bomb.

Kerry, however, has come under fire from US politicians, including his former Republican Senate friend and adversary John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution...
who last week said America's top diplomat was "delusional."

"I think you're going to find out that they never agreed to the things that John Kerry claimed they had," McCain told a radio show on Thursday, adding that Kerry was now trying to "sell a bill of goods hoping that maybe the Iranians wouldn't say much about it."

But President Barack Obama
Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back...
on Saturday leapt to Kerry's defense.

Suggesting America's top diplomat was "somehow less trustworthy in the interpretation of what's in a political agreement than the supreme leader of Iran -- that's an indication of the degree to which partisanship has crossed all boundaries," Obama told news hounds in Panama.

Obama said he could understand that people might not trust Iran, which has not had diplomatic ties with the United States since the 1979 storming of the US embassy in Tehran.

Posted by: Fred || 04/13/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  The President - He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party

The Constitution of the United States of America

The Executive Branch be warned. Do not usurp the power of the other two branches especially regarding the potential danger of nuclear apocalypses. PERIOD.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 04/13/2015 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Fuck you lurch.

Your wanna be emperor can take his talks and shove them up his girly ass.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/13/2015 0:21 Comments || Top||

#3  I believe you'll find that location is already filled Darth. Putin rammed a Russian flagpole there a while back.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/13/2015 3:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't seem to recall your own interference in the conduct of a war in Bush II reign do you?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/13/2015 9:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Nor his interference in the Vietnam War so long ago. I believe he tried to get in on the Paris Peace Talks back then (or at least met with the North Vietnamese delegation) didn't he?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/13/2015 11:03 Comments || Top||

#6  Crazy Fool, you seem to not understand the difference between 'interference' and 'leadership.' One is done by Republicans and the Other by Democrats.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/13/2015 11:18 Comments || Top||



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