[WND] The Democratic Party may have found its next Barack Obama.
His name is Dr. Abdul el-Sayed, he’s a 32-year-old medical doctor and he recently launched his campaign for governor of Michigan, the election for which is in November 2018. If he wins he would be America’s first Muslim governor.
He speaks articulately, without an accent, inserts humor into his speeches at seemingly just the right moments, and he has the full backing of America’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood-linked network of Islamic organizations.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, El-Sayed said Michigan voters are having "buyer’s remorse," and that President Trump’s decisions "are at odds with deeply held American values, and distractions from real issues."
Sayed served as the executive director of the Detroit Health Department and Health Officer for the City of Detroit, appointed by Mayor Mike Duggan. At 30 years old, he was at the time of his appointment in 2015 the youngest health director in a major U.S. city.
According to El-Sayed, his decision to run for governor was influenced by concerns over state leadership following the lead-tainted water crisis in Flint, as well as policies being implemented in Washington, D.C., under President Trump.
Dick Manasseri, spokesman for Secure Michigan, a group that educates Michiganders about the threat of Shariah law, predicts that Sayed will at least win the Democratic nomination for governor.
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"It is the exact same thing as Barack Obama in Chicago in the early 2000s," said Manasseri. "He’s young, attractive, he does not give out a lot of information, he speaks in platitudes about celebrating inclusiveness and diversity."
Sayed is known as a warrior for environmental justice. He talks about "standing up to corporate polluters," and how, in his family, he was taught that having "love and compassion" for the vulnerable are "more important than where you’re from."
"How could any good progressive Democrat vote against that in good conscience?" asks Manasseri.
Sayed is highly educated, a Rhodes scholar who attended Oxford University in 2009 and became a practicing epidemiologist.
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....Hmmm. Might could happen. Huge Muslim voting bloc in SE Michigan, and the Dems are desperate to bring MI back into the fold after the embarrassment of losing them in 2016. They'll work hard to make this happen IF he gets the support of the Party leadership - for all the kumbayah about diversity and opportunity, the Dems there don't seem to be able to tear themselves away from white people for Governor. There's also an under-appreciated but true fact that the rest of the state that isn't Dearborn/Detroit/Ann Arbor/Flint loathes those people and the fact that they pretty much dictate to the surprisingly rural everybody else. Stay tuned...
Mike
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for all the kumbayah about diversity and opportunity, the Dems there don't seem to be able to tear themselves away from white people for Governor.
White Dems are just as tribal as every other Democratic ethnic group. In time, as they are squeezed out of the Democratic party, we'll see them migrate towards the GOP. Unfortunately, they'll bring their socialistic views with them.
[WSJ] The water appears to be receding at key Beltway bureaucracies.
The Senate still hasn’t voted on ObamaCare reform, U.S. workers are still waiting for tax cuts to drive economic growth and President of the United States Donald Trump is trading insults with the co-hosts of an MSNBC talk show. Yet Mr. Trump appears to be making progress in what might have seemed the most difficult task given to him by voters in 2016: reducing the power of Washington’s permanent bureaucracy.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wasn’t exactly dying to move to Washington to run a federal department, but he seems to have warmed to the task. Max Bergmann, a former Obama Administration official now at the leftist Center for American Progress, writes in Politico that the "deconstruction of the State Department is well underway." Discounting for the usual Beltway hyperbole, this probably isn’t as good as it sounds.
All kidding aside, the State Department is one federal agency that was actually contemplated by America’s founders. Conducting foreign policy is an important and necessary task for our central government. But like so much of the Beltway bureaucracy State has been overfunded and undermanaged for years. Now, despite what you may have read about untouchable bureaucrats unaccountable to the public they are supposed to serve, Mr. Tillerson has found ways to clean house, at least according to Mr. Bergmann:
As I walked through the halls once stalked by diplomatic giants like Dean Acheson and James Baker, the deconstruction was literally visible. Furniture from now-closed offices crowded the hallways. Dropping in on one of my old offices, I expected to see a former colleague--a career senior foreign service officer--but was stunned to find out she had been abruptly forced into retirement and had departed the previous week. This office, once bustling, had just one person present, keeping on the lights.
The former Obama appointee is apparently so unnerved by the Trump-Tillerson era at State that he lets slip the fact that the career staff didn’t think much of the previous management either, and that the conservative critique of the department is at least partly true:
When Rex Tillerson was announced as secretary of state, there was a general feeling of excitement and relief in the department. After eight years of high-profile, jet-setting secretaries, the building was genuinely looking forward to having someone experienced in corporate management. Like all large, sprawling organizations, the State Department’s structure is in perpetual need of an organizational rethink. That was what was hoped for, but that is not what is happening. Tillerson is not reorganizing, he’s downsizing.
Do taxpayers dare to dream? As odd as this sounds for regular observers of the federal leviathan, the new boss seems to be imposing the kind of tough measures often seen at struggling companies, but almost never witnessed at government departments that have lost their way:
While the lack of senior political appointees has gotten a lot of attention, less attention has been paid to the hollowing out of the career workforce, who actually run the department day to day. Tillerson has canceled the incoming class of foreign service officers. This as if the Navy told all of its incoming Naval Academy officers they weren’t needed. Senior officers have been unceremoniously pushed out. Many saw the writing on the wall and just retired, and many others are now awaiting buyout offers. He has dismissed State’s equivalent of an officer reserve--retired FSOs, who are often called upon to fill State’s many short-term staffing gaps, have been sent home despite no one to replace them. Office managers are now told three people must depart before they can make one hire.
Perhaps the Tillerson method could work at other agencies too. Mr. Bergmann for his part seems to be disappointed that the un-elected career staff has not been able to impose its will on the duly-elected political leadership:
At the root of the problem is the inherent distrust of the State Department and career officers. I can sympathize with this--I, too, was once a naive political appointee, like many of the Trump people. During the 2000s, when I was in my 20s, I couldn’t imagine anyone working for George W. Bush. I often interpreted every action from the Bush administration in the most nefarious way possible. Almost immediately after entering government, I realized how foolish I had been.
For most of Foggy Bottom, the politics of Washington might as well have been the politics of Timbuktu--a distant concern, with little relevance to most people’s work.
Here’s to making the will of voters more than just a distant concern-- and highly relevant to the work of federal agencies.
Meanwhile over at the Environmental Protection Agency, new boss Scott Pruitt is not just draining the bureaucratic swamp in Washington, he’s taking away the agency’s power to oversee swamps nationwide. The Journal reported on Tuesday:
President Donald Trump’s administration is moving ahead with plans to dismantle another piece of the Obama administration’s environmental legacy, the rule that sought to protect clean drinking water by expanding Washington’s power to regulate major rivers and lakes as well as smaller streams and wetlands.
And now the Journal reports:
President Donald Trump declared a new age of "energy dominance" by the U.S. on Thursday as he outlined plans to roll back Obama era restrictions and regulations meant to protect the environment.
In a speech at the Energy Department, the president promised to expand the country’s nuclear-energy sector and open up more federal lands and offshore sites to oil and natural-gas drilling.
Mr. Trump also celebrated his decision earlier this month to withdraw the U.S. from the 195-country Paris climate accord and the Environmental Protection Agency’s rescindment this week of the Obama administration’s clean-water rules that farmers and business groups found onerous.
"We don’t want to let other countries take away our sovereignty and tell us what to do and how to do it," Mr. Trump said.
Mr. Trump also issued a special permit authorizing the construction of a new pipeline between the U.S. and Mexico that would carry fuels across the border in Texas, the State Department said.
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I am surprised that this news leaked out. The stone walling media is appearing to lose its grip on news that they wish to control. Media staff reductions, lost revenue are all good signs of their failures. The Democratic party is the media. Catering to all the fringe groups and creating new ones is a finical disaster. The salad only protects its own. The welfare people have no money to contribute. The prestigious Universities will not have their donations as in the past. Yes, the swamp is draining. They will continue to maintain their shrill attacks in film, theater, and various media but with Trumps invitations to the conservative press media is a death blow. People want to hear good news. People want a strong country with good leadership. The public is starved for good news. So watch as each month the slowly dying gasps of a dying ultra left agenda.
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Murdoch's WSJ is Buzzfeed without cat videos and bikini girl pictures. I dropped my subscription last year. Still, if they are printing this, the tide is taking a break, if not actually receding...
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This makes my heart feel little like an alligator
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The career diplomats are disciplined via their own discipline board. During the Bush administration the board ordered a diplomat reinstated with back pay even though he was in prison(!) for embezzling money from his former employer. (i.e. the very same State Department.)
I personally would support zero funding the diplomatic corps until we get rid of all the thieves and traitors in the department.
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I personally would support zero funding the diplomatic corps until we get rid of all the thieves and traitors in the department.
The Department of State is simply an 'action arm' of another more sinister, Deep State organization. As Mrs. Besoeker constantly reminds me, 'if you don't get the roots, the Carpetweed will simply return.'
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Could Trump Really Be Draining the Swamp? One can only hope. Empty offices are a good sign. Foggy Bottom had become bloated, ineffectual and very partisan over many years of accumulating moss. What was it they had, 70K+ employees in HRC's hayday?
[The American Mirror] While most Americans are gathering with family and community this weekend to celebrate the most exceptional country in the history of the world, Mr. Hope and Change is halfway around the world talking doom and gloom -- and criticizing his successor.
Barack Obama visited Indonesia this weekend, and in a series of appearances, attacked love of country and the policies of Donald Trump.
The Guardian reports:
The former US president said some countries had adopted "an aggressive kind of nationalism" and "increased resentment of minority groups", in a speech in Indonesia on Saturday that could be seen as a commentary on the US as well as Indonesia.
"It’s been clear for a while that the world is at a crossroads. At an inflection point," Obama said, telling a Jakarta crowd stories of how much the capital had improved since he lived there as a child.
But he said that increased prosperity had been accompanied by new global problems, adding that as the world confronts issues ranging from inequality to terrorism, some countries ‐ both developed and less developed ‐ had adopted a more aggressive and isolationist stance.
"If we don’t stand up for tolerance and moderation and respect for others, if we begin to doubt ourselves and all that we have accomplished, then much of the progress that we have made will not continue," he said.
"What we will see is more and more people arguing against democracy, we will see more and more people who are looking to restrict freedom of the press, and we’ll see more intolerance, more tribal divisions, more ethnic divisions, and religious divisions and more violence," Obama asserted.
While former presidents rarely criticize their successors at home, Obama took the unusual step of going to a foreign country to do it.
They have no tribe, just the lust for power. However, they do depend upon the Americans stupids to provide their sons and daughters to die to maintain their power. They're about to find out who really is stupid. See - 4000 years of history aka human behavior.
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I view Affirmative Action as institutionalized, government mandated racism.
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...and I view Baraq as one of the most glaring examples of why Affirmative Action should be ended.
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I view it is the way to eliminate competence -
you did notice that affirmative action always benefits the least competent of the putative beneficiary group? What you are referring to is not a method, but rather a goal.
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First of all, the Champ does not know what patriotism is...he just hates it because he can't control it. Second, any patriotism we show is too much for the Manchurian Candidate..He can FOAD..give all the speeches he wants to the rest of the world and let us get on with MAGA.
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Barry O has demonstrated through his actions as president that a mortal can break through the barrier of the Peter Principle.
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The current Democratic Party Leadership has taken their party to full throttle Marxism. Any entity outside their realm will be attacked. This was seen physically and sonce Trump assumed power by every possible accusation. It is up to the American People to remove them.
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I personally would support zero funding the diplomatic corps until we get rid of all the thieves and traitors in the department.
[The American Mirror] While most Americans are gathering with family and community this weekend to celebrate the most exceptional country in the history of the world, Mr. Hope and Change is halfway around the world talking doom and gloom -- and criticizing his successor.
