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Subscribe to RSSAs first reported by the New York Times, former president Bill Clinton will have a prominent role for the 2012 Democratic National Convention, speaking in primetime on Wednesday, Sept. 5, NBC’s Carrie Dann reports. The decision means that Vice President Biden will instead speak before the president on the final Thursday evening of the convention. The popular former president is expected to argue for Obama's economic policies in his speech. "There's no one better to cut through on economic issues and lay out the choice in the election because he understands the consequences of the policy differences" from his own presidency, an aide said.
Sources say the decision to bump Biden to the final night of the convention was made jointly by the VP and the president. "He’ll build toward the President’s speech by giving unique insights and perspective of the President’s governing character and the challenges/decisions over the last four years in a way that only he can," says the aide of Biden's role.
The AP: “The move gives the Obama campaign an opportunity to take advantage of the former president's immense popularity and remind voters that a Democrat was in the White House the last time the American economy was thriving.”
And there’s this implicit comparison to the GOP: “Obama personally asked Clinton to speak at the convention and place Obama's name in nomination, and Clinton enthusiastically accepted, officials said. Clinton speaks regularly to Obama and to campaign officials about strategy. Clinton's prominent role at the convention will also allow Democrats to embrace party unity in a way that is impossible for Republican rival Mitt Romney. George W. Bush, the last Republican to hold the White House, remains politically toxic in some circles. While Bush has endorsed Romney, he is not involved in his campaign and has said he does not plan to attend the GOP convention.”
USA Today: “The prominent role for Clinton reflects the latest truce between the two presidents, who first clashed during the 2008 Democratic primaries when Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton. More recently, the Obama team has been frustrated by Clinton comments complimenting Romney's business career and endorsing a different strategy on tax cuts.”
“In an appearance before the American Federation of Teachers conference in Detroit on Sunday, Vice President Joe Biden told attendees to look at Republicans' spending plans to see how much Republicans value education,” the Detroit Free Press writes.
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I like how the headline of the article states that President Obama said, "Bubba is gonna take Center stage..." Truly great journalistic craftsmanship of a president speaking of another president.
Bubba... really? Give respect where respect is due to a president. Don't sound like a group of TEA Drinking numbskulls with cute little headlines. When you go to college and graduate with degrees in whatever field you accomplished, and have a worldwide audience, sounding like a child by calling the president a name is not only unprofessional but also negligent. Grow up a bit shall we...
Clinton represents policy success and American prosperity.
Oh, the good old days of the 90s ... of cigar smokin'
Writers for MSNBC went to college? I'm shocked at this turn of events.
"Bubba... really? Give respect where respect is due to a president.."
The moonbat rubes in here use the names "Willard" and "Mittens' endlessly, and do little but name calling.
The term 'Bubba' is not all negative; the elitist snotty eastern liberal establishment likes to pretend it has a real Southern "man of the people" .
In fact, David Axelrod who seems to write most of the material on msnbc, no doubt approves of the use of "Bubba".
The jobs report on Friday will tell. After 65K and 80K the last two months, can we hope for the 115K that is predicted for July? Hardly enough. Even with 400K that would only be enough to absorb half of the illegal immigrants put into the jobs mix by executive order. There are 23 Million unemployed and disenfranchised, and the new 1.6 Million college graduates still waiting for a job. Bubba, or whomever, cannot fix this but the president could at least try but is too busy campaigning for a year to bother.
Clinton got his nickname Bubba from a race horse long time ago. Clinton obviously has liked this nickname...after all, Clinton IS an animal, a political animal.
Thanx, Mr. Clinton! Yes, YOU ARE POPULAR, but so is our illustrious President Obama popular to the 99% American People! We are so fed up with the corrupt Republican corporate MONARCHY that has MADE SLAVES OF US and STOLE our American way of life and gave it to their ONE-PERCENTERS! UNCONTROLLED CAPITALISM can't work for a Democratic government! It can only work for the ONE-PERCENTERS! Now, it's not even working for them BECAUSE of their CAPITALISTIC GREED which brought on our ECONOMIC COLLAPSE & the GLOBAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE and ULTIMATELY will bring on our 2nd Depression!! We have had ALL we can bear of their BLATANT CORRUPTION!
It's time for BIG CHANGE! And, that time is NOW!! Not later, but RIGHT NOW!! BELIEVE IT!!
Vote 100% STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC and let's rid our selves of their corruption ONCE & FOREVER!!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
I will be voting for the American over the illegal Kenyan mystery man.
tony smith, you go ahead and vote for more wars, obviously you dont have to fight them. you go ahead and vote for death pannels and may your life be spared. you go ahead and vote for the american who lies and cheats. the american who buys companies and sends them over seas. the american who doesnt give a damn whether you live or die. the american who believes the wealthy shouldnt pay taxes for they are the job creators. by the way where are the jobs?
you go ahead, but dont use a pethetic excuse about a persons heritage to decide your vote, for that makes you sound like a racist fool!
Tony Smith a sublime combination of ignorance and idiocy.
It is a proven fact that anyone that doesn't believe President Obama was born in the United States is a proven idiot.
Tony
Ancestory.com just revealed the President's roots in America go back to the 1600's. One of his ancestors is said to be the first slave in Virginia, who married a white woman and whose decendents intermarried with whites so often, that family line became white. What an amazing story. No doubt, he's more of an American than you are.
Amy,
You are an amazingly mindless Obama zealot.
Speaking of amazing, the family ancestry of Obama's Caucasian mother from Kansas is... not so amazing, or at least not so unusual.
Most American families that have roots back a few hundred years will have African American blood , Native American blood as well.
I am 1/32 Native American, isnt that amazing? I should have scammed the affirmative action system like Lizzie Warren did...
BUBBA........the ultimate distraction. At least some parts may be worth watching now.
Bubba is not a distraction but a reminder of how to run a country corectly through compromise with the House. This House doesn't know the word compromise and wastes a lot of time and money proving it daily. We need another four years of Obama/Biden but more important we need 218 democrats and independents in the house and to keep the senate. Then things will be done. Want to undo the forward momentum? Hire the outsourcer in chief Romney and start packing your office to ship to China.
Bill Clinton is the PERFECT example of a leader. To have the personal distractions he had while in office and was still able to work with the GOP is something we may not see for at least 4 more years if we reelect Obama. When Bubba is gone and voters must look and listen to what Obama says........things will be back to normal. Obama and Jeff Immelt are the Kings of outsourcing.......GE and our Government especially with "Green" grants to overseas firms......news flash.....Obama's Bain story has been cdeclared a lie....no one believes it anymore.
Care to give a source for this lie 1Hiram? I didn't think so.
http://factcheck.org/2012/07/romneys-bain-years-new-evidence-same-conclusion/
enjoy!!!
This is going to be a "Big F*****g Deal!" ©LOL
Bubba. Really? Is that how we refer to a former president of the United States? Idiots!
The pejorative "Bubba" when used to refer to then President Clinton was used as an insult I believe first by Rush Limbaugh. Congratulations! You have sunk to a new level. Since when is it acceptable to call President Clinton "Bubba"? I was personally insulted that you would refer to one of the most loved and successful presidents by such a slanderous name. Shame on you. Would that the sitting President wasn't stuck with cleanup duty after Geo. Bush's occupancy. Which calls to mind...I wonder what cutesy nickname you have for President Obama?
"Vice President Joe Biden told attendees to look at Republicans' spending plans to see how much Republicans value education"
"Spending" is what Obama and Biden can do, no question. "Getting results", however, is something Obama and Biden do not so.
Reform of our failed education system is not Biden's goal; bribing his masters, the teachers unions, is what he cares about.
Bob you tea people Koch republicans don't value anything but the rich. The sad thing is you don't realize you're not one of them.
Clinto is a better liar that Obama!
Saturday, June 12, 2010
"I am a Muslim," Obama Tells Egyptian Foreign Minister Gheit
Islamic Coup on the White House
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, in which President Obama told him that he was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father, the stepson of Muslim stepfather, that his half brothers in Kenya are Muslims, and that he was sympathetic towards the Muslim agenda.
This is according to Israel Today here. Here is the passage from the May 2010 issue of "Israel Today." It is on page 3 in an article titled "Obama, a 'Strategic Catastrophe,'" by Aviel Schneider:
This is akin to an SS officer getting elected president during WW II. Every country in the free world must be cognizant of such a catastrophic sea change in the leadership of the free world (as witnessed by events over the past year). This changes everything. He took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, and yet he has gone around the world promoting Islam, the sharia (Islamic law).
The alleged exchange between Obama and Gheit would almost certainly have happened in early January 2010, when Gheit was in Washington, D.C. regarding "Mideast peace talks."
On Thursday, January 7, 2010, the Associated Press reported that "Clinton and Mitchell [were] scheduled to meet" with Gheit on Friday, January 8, 2010: ABC news here.
On Friday, January 8, 2010, Hillary Clinton and Gheit spoke with each other. The U.S. Department of State has provided video before the meeting: Department of State here.
On Saturday, January 9, 2010, NPR spoke with Gheit about his visit: NPR.org (much thanks to Grant for the links).
This is devastating news, and yet no media is covering it. A stealth jihad on the White House. Remember, during his campaign, I and others were excoriated for using Obama's middle name. We were accused of implying he was a crypto-Muslim. We could not discuss his background, his Islamic schooling, his ties to Islam. However, I have meticulously documented his Muslim background in my soon-to-be-released book: The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America (buy it now).
It became all too clear after his election how proud he was of his Muslim name, background and family. He made this plain when he gave his very first interview to Muslim media and boasted of these things. But bear in mind, it was verboten to speak of such things during the presidential campaign. That was the level of deceit and obfuscation and taqiya.
Obama is a boldfaced liar. Why? Why lie if you have nothing to hide?
Of course, if Obama believes himself a Muslim, it was taqiya -- deception or lies to advance Islam. Which he performed brilliantly during his election: he lied with brazen contempt. And clearly his Islamic Jew-hatred is made painfully clear in his stunning rebuke of Israel.
Is it any wonder that his counter terror adviser speaks arabic, calls Jerusalem al quds and calls jihad a "legitimate tenet of Islam"?
Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and
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Sudan offered
up the terrorist and data on his network. The then-president and his advisors
didn't respond.
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By MANSOOR IJAZ
President Clinton and his national security team ignored
several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates,
including one as late as last year.
I know because I negotiated more than
one of the opportunities.
From 1996 to 1998, I opened unofficial channels
between Sudan and the Clinton administration. I met with officials in both
countries, including Clinton, U.S. National Security Advisor Samuel R. "Sandy"
Berger and Sudan's president and intelligence chief. President Omar Hassan Ahmed
Bashir, who wanted terrorism sanctions against Sudan lifted, offered the arrest
and extradition of Bin Laden and detailed intelligence data about the global
networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the
Palestinian Hamas.
Among those in the networks were the two hijackers who
piloted commercial airliners into the World Trade Center.
The silence of
the Clinton administration in responding to these offers was
deafening.
As an American Muslim and a political supporter of Clinton, I
feel now, as I argued with Clinton and Berger then, that their counter-terrorism
policies fueled the rise of Bin Laden from an ordinary man to a Hydra-like
monster.
Realizing the growing problem with Bin Laden, Bashir sent key
intelligence officials to the U.S. in February 1996.
The Sudanese offered
to arrest Bin Laden and extradite him to Saudi Arabia or, barring that, to
"baby-sit" him--monitoring all his activities and associates.
But Saudi
officials didn't want their home-grown terrorist back where he might plot to
overthrow them.
In May 1996, the Sudanese capitulated to U.S. pressure
and asked Bin Laden to leave, despite their feeling that he could be monitored
better in Sudan than elsewhere.
Bin Laden left for Afghanistan, taking
with him Ayman Zawahiri, considered by the U.S. to be the chief planner of the
Sept. 11 attacks; Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, who traveled frequently to Germany to
obtain electronic equipment for Al Qaeda; Wadih El-Hage, Bin Laden's personal
secretary and roving emissary, now serving a life sentence in the U.S. for his
role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya; and Fazul Abdullah
Mohammed and Saif Adel, also accused of carrying out the embassy
attacks.
Some of these men are now among the FBI's 22 most-wanted
terrorists.
The two men who allegedly piloted the planes into the twin
towers, Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, prayed in the same Hamburg mosque as
did Salim and Mamoun Darkazanli, a Syrian trader who managed Salim's bank
accounts and whose assets are frozen.
Important data on each had been
compiled by the Sudanese.
But U.S. authorities repeatedly turned the data
away, first in February 1996; then again that August, when at my suggestion
Sudan's religious ideologue, Hassan Turabi, wrote directly to Clinton; then
again in April 1997, when I persuaded Bashir to invite the FBI to come to Sudan
and view the data; and finally in February 1998, when Sudan's intelligence
chief, Gutbi al-Mahdi, wrote directly to the FBI.
Gutbi had shown me some
of Sudan's data during a three-hour meeting in Khartoum in October 1996. When I
returned to Washington, I told Berger and his specialist for East Africa, Susan
Rice, about the data available. They said they'd get back to me. They never did.
Neither did they respond when Bashir made the offer directly. I believe they
never had any intention to engage Muslim countries--ally or not. Radical Islam,
for the administration, was a convenient national security threat.
And
that was not the end of it. In July 2000--three months before the deadly attack
on the destroyer Cole in Yemen--I brought the White House another plausible
offer to deal with Bin Laden, by then known to be involved in the embassy
bombings. A senior counter-terrorism official from one of the United States'
closest Arab allies--an ally whose name I am not free to divulge--approached me
with the proposal after telling me he was fed up with the antics and arrogance
of U.S. counter-terrorism officials.
The offer, which would have brought
Bin Laden to the Arab country as the first step of an extradition process that
would eventually deliver him to the U.S., required only that Clinton make a
state visit there to personally request Bin Laden's extradition. But senior
Clinton officials sabotaged the offer, letting it get caught up in internal
politics within the ruling family--Clintonian diplomacy at its
best.
Clinton's failure to grasp the opportunity to unravel increasingly
organized extremists, coupled with Berger's assessments of their potential to
directly threaten the U.S., represents one of the most serious foreign policy
failures in American history.
*
Mansoor Ijaz, a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations
The first wave of the economic tsunami that swamped the economy led to the Election of “The One, Barrack Hussein Obama”. This was set into motion with the infamous President Carter and the Housing Resolution Act of 1977. This Act in the name of social justice forced Banks and Mortgage Companies to give home loans without regard to the applicant’s employment status, income, sanity or credit history. The ability to repay a loan should never be a factor for the financially impotent who in turn support the Democrats. President Bill Clinton put this sub-prime loan scheme on steroids. The recession of 2008 was largely due to the prior scheme of the Democrats. “A Government sponsored home loan for everyone is a vote for me”. As all ideas from the Democrats, this venture was doomed to “crash and burn”. Bubba vetoed drilling in An war, made our best coal reserves in the west a national park and gave N Korea two nuclear power plants. Clinton had 3 opportunities to capture Osama, but was occupied with a Lewinsky. Yemen had Osama in their possession and asked Bubba to take him, which he refused. This act of negligence sealed the fate of those killed on 9/11. George W. would never stoop so low as to blame his predecessor for all his problems as President. He inherited also a recession brought on by the collapse of the Dot Com Bubble.
Most of Bill Clinton’s shortcomings as president took several years to mature and blossom. George Bush’s predecessor as President left festering problems that came to fruition during his time as President. These included the “No War on Terror”, vetoing the drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and making the best coal reserves into a national park. Who knew we should actually fight the radical Muslim Terrorist? Why explore and develop our massive untapped natural resources? After all, oil could always be imported from the unstable Middle East. The benefits of abandoning your resources led to higher energy costs, unstable supply, high unemployment, budget deficits and providing financial support for Muslim Terrorists. We could always buy oil from Middle Eastern Countries who bankroll terrorist. This led to a massive transfer of our wealth to other countries. Many of these countries were hostile to the United States, but still would take our money. The billions of dollars leaving the country made a horrendous sucking sound. Progressives must at all cost appease the rabid Environmentalist and place our natural resources off-limits!
George Bush did raise concerns about the “Social Justice Home Loan Scheme.” According to a Boston Globe article by Jeff Jacoby, September 28, 2008: “Affirmative-action policies trumped sound business practices”. A manual issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston advised mortgage lenders to disregard financial common sense. “Lack of credit history should not be seen as a negative factor “, the Fed’s guidelines instructed. Lenders were directed to accept welfare payments and unemployment benefits as “valid income sources” to qualify for a mortgage. Failure to comply could mean a lawsuit”. Mr. Jacoby wrote further that: “Barney Frank insisted that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in good shape. Five years ago (2003), for example, when the Bush administration proposed much tighter regulation of the two companies, Frank was adamant that “these two entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not facing any kind of financial crisis”. When the White House warned of “systemic risk for our financial system” unless the mortgage giants were curbed, Frank complained that the administration was more concerned about financial safety than about housing.