Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CNN's Wolf Blitzer she does not want to serve a second term as secretary of state or run for president of the United States.
Blitzer sat down with the former 2008 presidential candidate in Cairo.
Full transcript:
Q- If the president is reelected, do you want to serve a second term as secretary of state?
No
Q- Would you like to serve as secretary of defense?
No
Q- Would you like to be vice president of the United States?
No
Q- Would you like to be president of the United States?
No
Q- Why not?
Because I have the best job I could ever have. This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath. There are both the tragedies and disasters that we have seen from Haiti to Japan and there are the extraordinary opportunities and challenges that we see right here in Egypt and in the rest of the region. So I want to be part of helping to represent the United States at this critical moment in time, to do everything I can in support of the president and our government and the people of our country to stand for our values and our ideals, to stand up for our security, which has to remain first and foremost in my mind and to advance America's interests. And there isn't anything that I can imagine doing after this that would be as demanding, as challenging or rewarding.
Q- President of the United States?
You know, I had a wonderful experience running and I am very proud of the support I had and very grateful for the opportunity, but I'm going to be, you know, moving on.
1. Obama's toast in the next election so there is no chance of her being SecState for a second term.
2. The Democrats, thanks to the excesses of Pelosi and Reid and the leadership vacuum of Obama, are toast in the next election. This will be a huge wipe out for Democratic lawmakers in 2012.
Thanks Barack for nothing, and please come out from under your desk and FREAKING DO SOMETHING!!!! like maybe support a no fly zone in Libya or take a public position on the Nuke problems in Japan.
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FREAKING DO SOMETHING!!!!
Considering the fact that whatever he does is likely to be wrong I think it's just as well that he stays under his desk...or in Rio.
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Obama may be a terrible President but at least he has done something no other Democrat or Republican could do. He has destroyed Hillary's career ambitions. This alone could bring his grade up to a D minus.
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I like that observation Lord Garth - Here, here!
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It isn't over until it's over. Even if the GOP wins big in 2012, the economic disaster will likely linger until 2016, by which time the unemployed will be blaming the GOP & be ready for yet another change they can believe in. Unless a whole lot of change for the better happens in the meantime, on many different levels in the US besides the economic one.
The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making "illegal streaming" of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers.
In a 20-page white paper (PDF), the Obama administration called on the U.S. Congress to fix "deficiencies that could hinder enforcement" of intellectual property laws.
The report was prepared by Victoria Espinel, the first Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator who received Senate confirmation in December 2009, and represents a broad tightening of many forms of intellectual property law including ones that deal with counterfeit pharmaceuticals and overseas royalties for copyright holders. (See CNET's report last month previewing today's white paper.)
Some of the highlights:
The White House is concerned that "illegal streaming of content" may not be covered by criminal law, saying "questions have arisen about whether streaming constitutes the distribution of copyrighted works." To resolve that ambiguity, it wants a new law to "clarify that infringement by streaming, or by means of other similar new technology, is a felony in appropriate circumstances."
Under federal law, wiretaps may only be conducted in investigations of serious crimes, a list that was expanded by the 2001 Patriot Act to include offenses such as material support of terrorism and use of weapons of mass destruction. The administration is proposing to add copyright and trademark infringement, arguing that move "would assist U.S. law enforcement agencies to effectively investigate those offenses."
Under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it's generally illegal to distribute hardware or software--such as the DVD-decoding software Handbrake available from a server in France--that can "circumvent" copy protection technology. The administration is proposing that if Homeland Security seizes circumvention devices, it be permitted to "inform rightholders," "provide samples of such devices," and assist "them in bringing civil actions."
The term "fair use" does not appear anywhere in the report. But it does mention Web sites like The Pirate Bay, which is hosted in Sweden, when warning that "foreign-based and foreign-controlled Web sites and Web services raise particular concerns for U.S. enforcement efforts." (See previous coverage of a congressional hearing on overseas sites.)
The usual copyright hawks, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, applauded the paper, which grew out of a so-called joint strategic plan that Vice President Biden and Espinel announced in June 2010.
Rob Calia, a senior director at the Chamber's Global Intellectual Property Center, said we "strongly support the white paper's call for Congress to clarify that criminal copyright infringement through unauthorized streaming, is a felony. We know both the House and Senate are looking at this issue and encourage them to work closely with the administration and other stakeholders to combat this growing threat."
In October 2008, President Bush signed into law the so-called Pro IP ACT, which created Espinel's position and increased penalties for infringement, after expressing its opposition to an earlier version.
Unless legislative proposals--like one nearly a decade ago implanting strict copy controls in digital devices--go too far, digital copyright tends not to be a particularly partisan topic. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, near-universally disliked by programmers and engineers for its anti-circumvention section, was approved unanimously in the U.S. Senate.
At the same time, Democratic politicians tend to be a bit more enthusiastic about the topic. Biden was a close Senate ally of copyright holders, and President Obama picked top copyright industry lawyers for Justice Department posts. Last year, Biden warned that "piracy is theft."
No less than 78 percent of political contributions from Hollywood went to Democrats in 2008, which is broadly consistent with the trend for the last two decades, according to OpenSecrets.org. I guess the dhimocrats are desperate to do anything to get their base and funding back. The only issue with this, is while you may get more money from Hollyweird, you will seriously piss off the younger voters that are in teh One's pocket and really piss off the people that already don't like the expanding government and its regulations. I would call this a draw-lose-lose proposal.
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...and lets go back to the 30 year limitation on copyright. If it's over thirty years, it's public domain. If they can't make a profit in those thirty years, they're in the wrong business.
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Let's see what the big, big issues are this week:
1) Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown.
2) Libyan civil war.
3) Continued U.S. economic slide.
Let's see what the issues are according to Obama:
a) Schoolyard bullying
b) Copyright reform
c) Picks for the final four in the NCAA tournament
As Glenn Reynolds would say, the country is in the best of hands.
Posted by: Steve White ||
03/16/2011 12:37 Comments ||
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Democratic lawyers who make money on both sides..
Posted by: Water Modem ||
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IMHO. Copyright is 90% rent-seeking.
With less copyright profits, bands will make more money from gigs and corporations will make less money from selling overpriced digital representations of gigs.
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Pursuing 'piracy as theft' is a most convenient way to ignore the large theft in world history, currently being conducted by the too-big-to-fail financial pirates such as Goldman Sachs.
This is both a misallocation of resources and a way to cover up huge crimes.
Voters swept Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez out of office by a stunning margin Tuesday, capping a dramatic collapse for a politician who was given increased authority by voters four years ago to clean up much-maligned county government but was ushered out in the largest recall of a local politician in U.S. history.
The spectacular fall from power comes after two years of missteps, ranging from granting top staffers big pay hikes to construction of a publicly funded stadium for the Florida Marlins to implementation of a property-tax rate increase that outraged an electorate struggling through an ugly recession. He reacted to the recall in a fashion all too typical for a member of the political class.
Alvarez tried to fend off ouster by twice filing suit to block a recall vote. After the lawsuits went nowhere, he defended his record in speeches, radio and television appearances and paid advertisements, arguing that he made the tough calls to preserve vital services for residents.
But voters responded by handing the mayor a humiliating defeat: Nearly nine of every 10 voted to remove Alvarez from office. That's not a landslide, that's a horsewhipping--and they didn't even use a horse!
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He was a RHINO. (Tax and spend Republican). Come 2012 we best see a tsunami house cleaning of these types. 9.0 richter dangit!
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Had to raise taxes to pay for a new stadium for the Marlins? Maybe that's OK if you're a big time Marlins fan but, otherwise, not too cool. Kinda like corporate welfare. What gives these football owners the idea it's up to the tax payers to pay for their stadiums?
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Uh, Marlins are a baseball team, but it seems the mayor's efforts to defend his record were as useful as a football bat...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/16/2011 13:00 Comments ||
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Alvarez bought labor support by providing a raise to city workers (most of whom are unionized) in the midst of the recession and while the budget was being hosed by other stuff. Labor Union leadership then went nearly 100% to defeat the recall.
The Unions are big losers in this recall. A lot of their membership (many of whom didn't like the higher property tax bills) defected.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
03/16/2011 13:41 Comments ||
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Was he "escorted from the office by security", or are they going to let him destroy the evidence?
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I got to invoke the mythical football bat, you are in the clear. Football team owners are also syphilitic inbred corporate welfare junkies, so you comment certainly applies anyway...
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I couldn't find an "abdication of leadership" category, so I figured I'd put this here.
Aside from some, err, critically important leadership stuff, the Obama family will also take in the sights in Rio. A trip to Corcovado mountain, where the Christ the Redeemer statue stands (France gave us Lady Liberty, gave Brazil Jesus) is supposedly on the itinerary. What trip to Rio would be complete without it?
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Rio has two pretty good ones, the Gávea (par 68) and the Itanhanga (par 72) - both private clubs.
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This quack will make a short speech and then proceed to waste tax payer money on an extravagantly expensive weekend vacation. Believe me. This is extragavant. My fiance is from Brazil, and a round trip ticket is at times $1,200.00 to Brazil and on to Belem, Brazil. 24 hour flight time considering all connections.
And this joker is going for a day or two? Sounds like Michelle wants another "Spain" tax payer trip (that our grand kids will be paying for) but has Big Zero by her side to make it "official" looking.
Mayor Carlos Alvarez was removed from office in a special vote on Tuesday triggered by popular anger over a hike in property taxes. He was also criticized for raising salaries for some county employees as well as backing a deal to use nearly $350 million in public funds to build a new stadium to house the Florida Marlins baseball team in Miami's Little Havana district. Meanwhile, back in Denver, the City Council just voted to raise the pay of the next council 6.6%. All 13 council positions are up for voting on May 3rd, and 6 councilors are running UNOPPOSED.
Just 22% of Likely U.S. Voters say the country is heading in the right direction, the lowest level of confidence found since before President Obama's inauguration in January 2009.
According to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, March 13, 72% of voters now say the country is heading down the wrong track, also at its highest level since before the inauguration.
Confidence in the nation's current course hovered around the 30% mark for roughly a year until late October 2010 and then fell to a low of 23% in early to mid-December. But confidence began rising again at that time and hit a new high of 32% in late January.
Confidence that the country is moving in the right direction is at just 40% among Democrats, down from 59% the week before Election Day. Only 10% of Republicans and 17% of voters not affiliated with either major political party share that view. Annnnnd for a money quote:
Sixty-one percent (61%) of Political Class voters believe the United States is heading in the right direction. Eighty-three percent (83%) of Mainstream voters think the country is going down the wrong track. Any wonder that the elites seem out of touch and are doing their best to ignore the voters? Just keep it up kids. We still remember how to overthrow tyrants.
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Rasmussen defines the political class by how it answers questions, not if the answerer has a certain type of job. The questions for definition clearly cross correlate with the questions for 'wrong way vs right way'.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making "illegal streaming" of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers.
The spectacular fall from power comes after two years of missteps, ranging from granting top staffers big pay hikes to construction of a publicly funded stadium for the Florida Marlins to implementation of a property-tax rate increase that outraged an electorate struggling through an ugly recession.
Just 22% of Likely U.S. Voters say the country is heading in the right direction, the lowest level of confidence found since before President Obama's inauguration in January 2009.
