Shrub and Obama have nothing in common. Shrub is a total waste of skin.
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But, but, but the Professor says she'll be our next president.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Good article. Everyone ought to read the whole thing.
January 13, 2016
The latest release of Hillary Clinton emails entails real risks for her, churning just beneath the surface of her successful primary campaign. True, Democratic voters have shown little interest, and the mainstream media only a bit more. Their focus, when they do look, is on the number of documents now considered classified, their foreign-policy revelations, and the political damage they might cause. These are vital issues, but Clinton faces a far bigger problem. She and her closest aides could be indicted criminally.
Secretary Clinton is exposed twice over. First, she used an unsecured, home-brew server to send and store reams of classified materials. Second, in her official capacity, she worked closely with major donors to the Clinton Foundation. Each poses legal risks, with potential ramifications for the Democratic frontrunner, her party, and the Obama administration.
To understand the gravity of these issues, it is important to recognize that this is not just an “email scandal.” It is an “email + server + foundation” scandal.” Secretary Clinton didn’t just send sensitive (and now-classified) emails over open lines, she stored them on private servers that didn’t meet the government’s cyber-security standards for sensitive documents. On its face, retaining classified materials in such vulnerable settings is a criminal violation. Senior intelligence officials have been charged for less – far less. Storing some 1,300 classified documents on a personal server, and doing it for years, poses a special problem because it shows the mishandling was not inadvertent. It was Clinton’s standard operating procedure.
The State Department has done everything it can to protect its former boss. When it finally received her documents, it flatly refused to comply with long-standing Freedom of Information Act requests by releasing them. It took several court orders for the agency to begin trickling out small batches with large sections blacked out. The redactions only underscore why the documents should never have been held on private, unsecured servers in the first place.
The latest document dump shows why the State Department is so skittish. One reveals the secretary of state telling a senior department official, Jake Sullivan, to strip all the security markings off one document and send it to her on an insecure connection. We don’t yet know if Sullivan actually complied, but, if he did, both he and Clinton face serious legal jeopardy.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...is_129293.htmlComment
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Lol, are you really that clueless?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Bush was a miserable failure in the oil business.Comment
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GEORGE W. BUSH
Work Experience
LAW ENFORCEMENT: I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.
MILITARY: I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.
COLLEGE: I graduated from Yale University. I earned a lot of "gentleman's C's," which means F's that are turned into C's for sons of prominent Americans.
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE: I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.
With the help of my father and our right-wing friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Kenneth Lay), I was elected Governor of Texas.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR:
I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.
I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
I set the record for the most executions by any Governor in American history.
With the help of my brother, the Governor of Florida, and my father's appointments to the Supreme court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.
I am the first president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.
I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.
I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market.
I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one year period. In my first year in office, after taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history, resulting in the disaster of 9-11.
I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a WMD. In my State Of The Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq, then blamed the lies on our British friends.
I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. president.
In my first year in office more than 2-million Americans lost their jobs, and that trend continues every month.
I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
I appointed more convicted criminals to my administration than any president in U.S. history.
I set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history, and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.
I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.
I have cut health care benefits for war veterans, and I support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families in war time.
Internationally, I have set the all-time record for the most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.
I have broken more international treaties than any president in U.S history.
I am proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.
I am the first president in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community.
I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States government.
I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.
I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law. I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. prisoners of war detainees, and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.
I am the first president in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors. (during the 2000 U.S. presidential election).
I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.
My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. history, causing hundreds of thousands of Americans to lose their retirement funds. My political party used the Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.
I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation, or prosecution. In the meantime, more time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history.
I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
I am first president in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.
I changed U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
RECORDS AND REFERENCES: All records of my tenure as Governor of Texas are now in my father's library, sealed, and unavailable for public view.
All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
Please consider my experience when voting in 2004. Send this to every voter you know.
PEACE
GEORGE W. BUSHComment
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1. George W. Bush graduated from Yale in 1968 when the war in Vietnam was at its most deadly and the military draft was in effect. Like many of his social class and age, he sought to enter the National Guard, which made Vietnam service unlikely, and fulfill his military obligation. Competition for slots was intense; there was a long waiting list. Bush took the Air Force officer and pilot qualification tests on Jan. 17, 1968, and scored the lowest allowed passing grade on the pilot aptitude portion.
2. He, nevertheless, was sworn in on May 27, 1968, for a six-year commitment. After a few weeks of basic training, Bush received an appointment as a second lieutenant – a rank usually reserved for those completing four years of ROTC or 18 months active duty service. Bush then went to flight school and trained on the F-102 interceptor fighter jet. Fighter pilots were in great demand in Vietnam at the time, but Bush wound up serving as a “weekend warrior” in Houston, where his father’s congressional district was centered.
A Houston Chronicle story published in 1994, quoted in Corn’s book, has Bush saying: “I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to Canada. So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes.”
3. Sometime after May 1971, young Lt. Bush stopped participating regularly in Guard activities. According to Texas Air National Guard records, he had fewer than the required flight duty days and was short of the minimum service owed the Guard. Records indicate that Bush never flew after May 1972, despite his expensive training and even though he still owed the National Guard two more years.
4. On May 24, 1972, Bush asked to be transferred to an inactive reserve unit in Alabama, where he also would be working on a Republican senate candidate’s campaign. The request was denied. For months, Bush apparently put in no time at all in Guard service. In August 1972, Bush was grounded -- suspended from flying duties -- for failing to submit to an annual physical exam. (Why wouldn't he take this exam from a doctor?)
5. During his 2000 presidential campaign, Bush’s staff said he recalled doing duty in Alabama and then returning to Houston for still more duty. But the commander of the Montgomery, AL, unit where Bush said he served told the Boston Globe that he had no recollection of Bush – son of a congressman – ever reporting, nor are there records, as there should be, supporting Bush’s claim. Asked at a press conference in Alabama on June 23, 2000 what duties he had performed as a Guardsman in that state, Bush said he could not recall, “but I was there.”
6. In May, June and July, 1973, Bush suddenly started participating in Guard activities back in Houston again – pulling 36 days at Ellington Air Base in that short period. On Oct. 1, 1973, eight months short of his six-year service obligation and scheduled discharge, Bush apparently was discharged with honors from the Texas Air National Guard (eight months short of his six-year commitment). He then went to Harvard Business School.Comment
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Thanks Dan Rather. How's unemployment working out for you? Still fundraising for the Democrats?
BTW In case they haven't told you at the old age home. Bush is no longer president. Obama is, but only 1 year left.... thankfully. And as a result, those who want to see the country back on positive footing ought to be more concerned about who will be elected president in 2016 than a biased George Bush resume.Comment
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Obama’s Legacy: Trump and Bernie
http://www.wsj.com/articles/obamas-l...nie-1452729424
There is Barack Obama’s State of the Union and there is the state of the union anyone else can see.
The new year began with an underground nuclear-bomb test in North Korea, the worst first week for the Dow since 1897, and Iran forcing 10 U.S. sailors to their knees.
But the man delivering the State of the Union is “optimistic” because “unconditional love” will win.Comment
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exactly - I had to check my calendar to see what year it is.Comment
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I'm not the original poster but that stuff is pretty substantial. bush is no longer president but his BROTHER is running and will be on stage tonight. Also, too, the bush presidency set standards for foreign adventurism that the candidates tonight should have to respond to, pro or conOriginally posted by Unregistered View Post
We know that you guys are in a rush to forget the worst presidency in well over 50'years but only 8 y arms out from it we are still dealing with the consequences. Those of us with open eyes like to see the playing field.
btw nice work on the bush summary. Compare and contrast with Obama who wasn't born with that silver spoon in his mouth.
Bush could. It have survived law school either. Didn't have personal discipline needed to book it and master the material. He's just inferior and an example of how far the elites have slid ....Comment
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Going to have a LOT of popcorn ready tonight.
Looks like Ted may not be eligible. Trumpie ain't going to let that go.
Tee hee
Bwah hah
Btw.....see Bernie up in Iowa and NH. Shades of 2008?
Read today GOP elite afraid they will lose HOUSE with Cruz as nominee. May need to back trump and only lose White House and senate
"Civil war" now being used on the tv
Tee heeComment
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Mom letting you stay up late tonight Teehee boy?Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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They were in Iranian waters you bleeping moron. Tell me, if an Iranian naval vessel sailed near Nantucket, we wouldn't pick them up and detain them for a while?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Typical Conservative pablum. Because we are the greatest country in the world we can go wherever we want sovereignty be damned. Which by the way we just did in the South China sea with a US destroyer passing within Chinese claimed waters. *** are we doing over there and provoking an ally? Seriously? It must be nice to operate within the confines of a double standard 24/7.
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The account is that they " drifted" off course, and because of engine malfunction, could not avoid the encounter. They were just inside the 3 mile limit, in two small boats.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
What would out ships do? Most likely as a courtesy render assistance. Especially if there was a mechanical failure. How about a little respect for the country that is letting you get your hands on 100 billion dollars to you can continue to support terrorists ?
And them why photograph them, film them going through their effects to be broadcast as Propaganda? You think we would do that ? You think we would broadcast an " apology " from one of the soldiers ?
This is embarrassing. What good is the most powerful military in the world if we can't protect our on people. They lost track of them ? With all the sophisticated equipment ? Even though they were on a taxi type maneuver they still should not be left out there untracked. Perhaps the reason they were not that concerned with tracking them is they EXPECTED more from the Iranians. This was not an invasion. This was in broad daylight, 3 miles out. What damage did they think two small boats and 10 soldiers could do to one of their major bases 3 miles out ?
There is no double standard. There is an expected amount of consideration and cooperation when it involves the oceans. Conditions and mechanical difficulties present issues that don't have to be dealt with soldiers on their knees, at gunpoint.Comment
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Do you even pay attention to anything in politics???Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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But gee TeeHeeMan, you said Hillary was going to be our next president. Are you admitting that you might be wrong???Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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