[Washington Examiner] A prominent Democratic strategist said Friday the Obama administration should have been more proactive about curbing Russian influence in the election.
Mary Anne Marsh, once a senior adviser for former Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., told Fox News that she did not "believe the Obama team and President Obama did enough," even though there were clear signs of Russian intent to manipulate the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
The former Kerry adviser said she believes the Obama administration had a duty to go above the Senate's objection to issuing a bipartisan joint resolution addressing the Russia concerns.
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She figured that out, did she? Must be a frickin' genius! /sarc
In fairness, I think Baraq is fairly typical of senior management types I encountered in the IT business - totally ignorant when it comes to technology issues but too arrogant to listen to the lowly working class types who work with computers every day. Of course, it is also quite possible he was distracted by his vices, too damn lazy to study the issues or had sinister motives for letting the Chinese and Russians hack the hell out of our computer systems.
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Democratic strategist rips Obama for not doing enough to stop Russian election interference
Surprised? It was as planned and a part of the cover-up.
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JQC, it was not well planned because those a**brains can't thing that far ahead....BUT they always have a backup plan to make themselves "look" good in the coverup.
[Wash Times] Rush Limbaugh says special counsel Robert Mueller’s 400-page report would have been more accurate if he had openly lamented President Trump’s attempt to obstruct a silent "coup."
The man behind the "golden EIB microphone" said on Thursday’s show that hundreds of pages were not needed to explain the details of an investigation that concluded with zero criminal charges against the president.
Mr. Limbaugh told his audience that the lengthy report exist primarily to fuel biased media attacks against Mr. Trump.
"This wasn’t an investigation," he said. "It was an attempt at a coup. It was an attempt to throw Donald Trump out of office and nullify the election results of 2016. It was disguised as an investigation."
The longtime conservative talk-radio host noted that the report "recounts everything you’ve read in the New York Times and the Washington Post about collusion before concluding there wasn’t any! It’s made to order for people who want to continue running this operation to get rid of Trump. ... The report itself says there was no collusion."
Mr. Limbaugh said journalists will now opine on Mr. Trump’s motivations and whom he could have fired ‐ but didn’t.
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Obstruction and collusion were O.K. for Obama and the Dems. For the Pubs it is not. A Pub defending himself is collusion and obstruction. Reeks of hypocrisy. I thought star chambers and kangaroo courts were not the way of our country. Sounds more like The National Socialist German Workers' Party run-up to power prior to WWII. The only thing missing is the Beer Hall Putsch, (also known as the Munich Putsch) of 1923. It's not missing if one considers the DOJ and FBI coup-attempt against Trump. Only the beer is missing.
[Babylon Bee] VATICAN CITY‐Pope Francis has called for a time of mourning within the Catholic Church after the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris burned earlier this week.
The period of mourning is said to be a time of weeping for the extra carbon dioxide emissions let off into the air from the fires.
"It is so tragic to see this beautiful, 900-year-old building go up in smoke---smoke that will continue to change our climate, the most pressing spiritual issue for the church today," Francis said. "As I saw the flames leap upward toward the sky, all I could think of was the bleak future we are contributing toward as our kids only have a decade left on this planet."
"Hail Mary, full of grace. Please cool our planet," he then muttered in a heartfelt prayer.
Pope Francis has encouraged Catholics to purchase indulgences to help rebuild the building and buy carbon credits to offset the damage to the climate the fire caused.
"Whenever a carbon credit purchase rings, another soul from purgatory springs," he said.
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[The Federalist] After the genocide, many blamed the Western powers such as the United States, United Kingdom, and France for doing too little to stop the genocide. Yet ethnic conflicts are always so complex. Many times it is hard for outsiders to tell the villains from the innocents. And the West, including the United States, has a very mixed record of interventions in the past. Not all lead to success.
It seems that since the Rwandan genocide, the West has been trying to correct its wrongs with money. Not surprisingly, 40 percent of the Rwandan government’s budget depends on foreign aid, with the United States and United Kingdom the two biggest donors. Despite the troubling human rights reports about Rwanda, the money keeps coming. Kagame can often be seen easily mingling with Western politicians and business people, even getting former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair to advise him.
Michela Wrong, a journalist for The Spectator, wrote a piece on Rwanada with an alarming title, “Rwanda is sliding into a new tragedy. And this time we’re funding it.”
I asked Coleman if she thought the West has learned its lesson. She shook her head. In her opinion, Kagame is able to manipulate the international message about Rwanda. “People in the west need to learn the truth about Rwanda,” she says. “The West needs to learn the truth of whom they are dealing with before lending their support. ” Otherwise, all the West is doing is spending taxpayers’ money to prop up one ruthless authoritarian after another.
I asked her if she thought the genocide could happen again. She said yes. The ethnic tension still exists—it’s only being suppressed by a strongman.
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After the genocide, many blamed the Western powers such as the United States, United Kingdom, and France for doing too little to stop the genocide.
Talk about having it both ways - the burden apparently always falls on 'Western powers' whenever there's a major cock-up overseas, then the armchair QB's (like our own Herb McCoy, for instance) get to play the blame game with hindsight providing the 20/20 lens when a less than perfect result crops up.
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The Clintons and Bath House Barry never hesitate to use the savagery of others as an excuse for promoting their own politics. Rwanda, Kosovo, etc. They don't feel those people's pain at all, but they sure do find it useful. I'm going to add Boosh to that assessment as well...
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We're $20 some trillion in debt and yet we still give billions to prop up corrupt dictatorships all over the Third World. There's gotta be some graft in all that.
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Raj,
To be fair to Herb, he's a skeptic about American meddling in other countries for "good" or "bad" reasons.
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Wow, people talk about me when I'm not here? I'm so touched.
And they invent things I didn't say and then put them in my mouth, and then criticize me for the things I didn't say? Wow, just like a leftist. Good job there.
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[France24] The two finalists in Sunday’s presidential election in Ukraine share at least one common point: both have promised to end the ongoing war in the country's easternmost region. The conflict began in 2014, when pro-Moscow separatists took control of the Donbas area, resulting in the founding of two self-proclaimed republics.
Five years later, they both have their own armies and political institutions. Special correspondent Jonathan Walsh gained access to the Donetsk self-proclaimed republic where many younger residents appear to be resolute in their decision to turn their backs on Ukraine.
[American Thinker] Now that the Mueller Report is out, Democrats are in a quandary.
Unable to admit they were utterly wrong about sleazy Democratic operative Robbie Mook's original Trump-colluded-with-the-Russians-to-steal-the-election-from-Hillary-Clinton narrative, they're now scanning every nook and cranny of the Mueller report to find something useful to use to impeach the president. A very good analysis from the San Francisco Chronicle's John Wildermuth and Tal Kopan points to how problematic that is, given that the report had far fewer redactions to holler about than they'd hoped:
Democrats have spent weeks demanding access to the full, unredacted Mueller report, anticipating that Attorney General William Barr would heavily censor it. The focus on redactions served as a way of deflecting questions about impeachment.
But what Barr released was largely understandable and minimally redacted, with plenty of details Democrats could seize on to impugn Trump. Now the pressure is on Democrats to decide whether to consider impeachment, something that would please progressives but take attention away from practically anything else the party would like to focus on heading into the 2020 election cycle.
Few redactions means less to speculate about. Yet the Democrats can't stop themselves from focus on impeachment, and the Mueller Report means they have very little fuel for their bonfire. So they are left yelling about nothing and can't stop themselves.
It really is a bad situation for them, a tar baby, as the term goes, a problem situation that is only aggravated by additional involvement in it. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and House speaker Nancy Pelosi are taking their fire to Attorney General Bill Barr as their means of keeping the fires burning.
Meanwhile, the far-left crazytown vanguard among the Democrats (Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the toilet-mouthed Rashida Tlaib) are barreling right ahead with an impeachment resolution, something they got themselves elected on.
[DAWN] EXTREMIST forces of Evil receive considerable support from their apologists who take exception to criticism of religious extremism and claim this is not the only form of extremism. The point is valid though there can be no bar to examining faith-based intolerance alone. A brief inquiry will show that the various forms of extremism have common roots.
For want of a standard definition in the context of Pakistain’s environment, extremism may be defined as irreconcilable hostility to other people’s religion or sect, their culture and customs, rejection of the rights of minority communities and women, and determination to convert them through inducement or intimidation or eliminate them through physical violence, including terrorist acts.
Women constitute the largest single group of people in Pakistain that are victims of bully boys’ violence. A recently released report of a survey conducted by the United Nations
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Washington Examiner] A prominent Democratic strategist said Friday the Obama administration should have been more proactive about curbing Russian influence in the election.
While he served us well, the party no longer requires the services of comrade Obama. 
[Babylon Bee] VATICAN CITY‐Pope Francis has called for a time of mourning within the Catholic Church after the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris burned earlier this week.
