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Fifth Column
Run, Lizzie, Run!
As if we need another Harvard Law School product...
[BostonHerald] She's reportedly waiting until 2014 before she starts thinking about 2016, but Hillary Clinton, according to one national poll, is your frontrunner for the White House -- by a wide margin.

And Elizabeth Warren is your fastest rising star.

The former secretary of state and first lady dominated last week's new Quinnipiac University survey, which showed her gobbling up 61 percent of support and beating any Republican challenger -- be it New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul or Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz -- by anywhere from 13 to 23 points.

But no one in the past five months has made a bigger jump as a potential presidential contender than Warren, according to pollsters. At 7 percent, she ranked third among Democrats, behind Clinton, of course -- way behind -- and Vice President Joe Biden, who sat at 11 percent.
We are truly fucked...
Horse race handicapping, when most of the candidates haven't yet stepped up to the gate. One does hope the Democratic bench will be deeper than this lot.
Posted by: Raj || 10/07/2013 00:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whaddabout the Wookie?
Posted by: Bobby || 10/07/2013 6:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Bowling for Midgets
Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064 || 10/07/2013 6:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Hillary will not be the nominee.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/07/2013 10:20 Comments || Top||

#4  I see Lizzie has locked up the 1/32 Cherokee vote.
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 10/07/2013 14:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Warren is going on name recognition not reputation recognition. That sort of thing won't survive the primaries.

Hillary is as well but there are a lot that would willingly ignore her reputaiton (or blame Barrack for Bengazhi when the time comes).
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/07/2013 14:39 Comments || Top||

#6  The Wookie is not a black Hillary. It's not like she's spent the last 5 years deeply involved, building a network, and buffing up her credentials. She's in it strictly for the money, fame, and perks. I'd wager she has an even stronger aversion to work and responsibilities than her spouse.
Posted by: RandomJD || 10/07/2013 19:18 Comments || Top||

#7  The Wookie will expect it to be 'given' to her as her rights as a 'woman of color'. She is an affirmative action baby. She hasn't 'earned' anything in her life.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/07/2013 23:23 Comments || Top||


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A New Building for the U.N.
As the United Nations wrapped up its 68th General Assembly last week, a major piece of news nearly slipped under the radar: Designs for the UN Consolidation Tower, a 36-story building that will flank the headquarters like an eager little brother, housing almost 3000 employees. But besides offering much-needed emergency overflow space, this new building could end up making the UN more secure as a whole.
Where does the UN get it cash-ola for graft and corruption, again? The U.S.?
It'll certainly made career kleptocrats more secure...
Designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, who will collaborate with local firm FXFowle on the project, the building is still in very early design development -- a vague grey tower that looks to mimic the basic proportions of the original UN. Sited directly south of the original complex (and connected to it through an underground tunnel), the building will sit on land currently occupied by the Robert Moses Playground. It's scheduled for completion in 2018 -- a tight time frame, for a tower in Manhattan that will house some of the more security-sensitive spaces in the city.
Has the NSA arranged for bugging every room?
Posted by: Bobby || 10/07/2013 08:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I was hoping the U.N. would re-locate to somewhere outside the U.S.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2013 11:35 Comments || Top||

#2  There's a couple of new islands off Pakistan that would work...
Posted by: Pappy || 10/07/2013 12:33 Comments || Top||

#3  I am sure Obama is making a pitch for Chicago.
Posted by: airandee || 10/07/2013 13:09 Comments || Top||

#4  We had the opportunity to convince the UN to move when they were trying to get additional buildings but we didn't have the nerve.

We should offer Brazil, India and Japan our full support in getting them seats on the Security Council if they'd pony up land or cash to relocate the UN. They can pony up the offer and then we let the other Security Council Members be the bad cop for fear their vote will be dilluted.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/07/2013 14:36 Comments || Top||

#5  I like that. Offer it up to open bidding -- the country that provides the most land and cash gets a permanent seat on the UNSC. Suckers...
Posted by: Steve White || 10/07/2013 14:42 Comments || Top||

#6  I was going to suggest the center of the largest work-camp in the Workers Paradise of North Korea.

But then again I think the prisoners there have enough problems without having the U.N. Food-for-Nookie program implemented.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/07/2013 15:57 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2013-10-07
  SEAL Strike on Shaboob Big Turban Fails in Somalia
Sun 2013-10-06
  Abu Anas al-Libi snatched
Sat 2013-10-05
  Boko Haram: 186 killed, 15 arrested as Military raids insurgents' camp in Yobe
Fri 2013-10-04
  Belgium Extradites Nisar Trabelsi to U.S.
Thu 2013-10-03
  Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination
Wed 2013-10-02
  Iraq Executes 23 People in Two Days
Tue 2013-10-01
  Drone strike in North Waziristan kills two, injures one
Mon 2013-09-30
  US drone kills three in Pakistan
Sun 2013-09-29
  Boko murders up to 50 students in their sleep
Sat 2013-09-28
  Sudan Arrests 600 over 'Vandalism'
Fri 2013-09-27
  Peshawar Bus Bombing Kills 17 Govt Employees
Thu 2013-09-26
  Syria rebels reject opposition coalition, call for Islamic leadership
Wed 2013-09-25
  AQIM replaces dead emirs
Tue 2013-09-24
  Nairobi attack: Kenya's President Kenyatta says siege over
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