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Subscribe to RSSUSA Today: “Presidents current and future? Speculation about Hillary Rodham Clinton's political future is only going to intensify as she holds a joint interview with President Obama on CBS' 60 Minutes. The interview will be taped Friday, and broadcast on 60 Minutes Sunday at 7 p.m., ET.”
“Biden plans a roundtable discussion Friday in Richmond with experts who worked on gun safety following the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech,” AP writes.
Flashback: March 2, 2008: “There’s nothing to base that on… as far as I know.” – Candidate Hillary Clinton, responding to 60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft when asked if she believed President Obama was a Muslim.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch: “Biden will be joined at the 11 a.m. roundtable by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano; Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius; Deputy U.S. Attorney General Jim Cole; Sen. Timothy M. Kaine, D-Va.; and Rep. Robert C. ‘Bobby’ Scott, D-3rd. The roundtable discussion at the VCU Student Commons will include experts who have worked on gun-safety issues after the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting that left 32 students and faculty members dead in addition to the shooter.”
The Boston Globe: “More than four decades after he testified before the panel as a Vietnam War veteran-turned protestor, Senator John F. Kerry on Thursday returned to the witness chair before the Foreign Relations Committee for his nomination to be secretary of state. Kerry’s prepared statement opening the hearing focused on his view that foreign policy is increasingly geared toward global economics. He also touched on Iran - sure to be a hotbed of international diplomacy given its advancing nuclear program - saying, ‘our policy is containment, not prevention.’”
The Senate’s expected to vote Tuesday to confirm Kerry. If Kerry steps down from his Senate seat on Tuesday, the primary to replace him would have to take place between Sunday, May 12 and Monday, May 27. And the general would be between Sunday, June 23 and Monday, July 8. State law requires the general to take place 145 to 160 days after a vacancy is created. The primary is required to occur six weeks before that.
President Obama will be in Vegas next week.
Flashback: Feb. 2, 2010, Obama: "When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don't go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save for college."
“The Rhode Island House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed legislation to allow gays and lesbians to marry in the only New England state where they can't,” USA Today writes. “The House voted 51-19 after an often emotional debate that touched on civil rights, religion and the nature of marriage. The bill now moves to the Senate, where both supporters and opponents of gay marriage say it is difficult to predict the bill's fate.”
Providence Journal front-page headline: “In historic vote, House approves gay marriage.”
From the story: “The vote followed a debate that lasted roughly an hour and a half, with supporters and opponents giving often impassioned, emotional speeches explaining their positions. Until Tuesday, the issue -- introduced annually for the last 11 years -- had never made it beyond committee hearings. This year, the outcome in the House was never really in doubt.”
“A U.N. expert on Thursday launched a special investigation into drone warfare and targeted killings, which the United States relies on as a front-line weapon in its global war against al-Qaida,” the New York Daily News writes. “One of the three countries requesting the investigation was Pakistan, which officially opposes the use of U.S. drones on its territory as an infringement on its sovereignty but is believed to have tacitly approved some strikes in the past.”
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The media started speculating about Hillary's political future over four years ago. The GOP got scared of Hillary and her political future over four years ago. The republicans are so scared of soon to be President Hillary Clinton they've become stupid. Well "become" isn't the right word because republicans have always been stupid, their just more stupid if that is possible.
Do we have a good feel for who is going to be president in 2024 yet? It seems like this is more important than actually fixing the economy. I sure hope Barack gets out there pretty soon to start campaigning for Hillary's successor.
What I find so funny about all these posts it that the right is trying to support the lies of the Republicans and the left is trying to support the lies of the Democrats. Until everyone on these board and other boards are willing to be just as hard on their own party as they are on the other party nothing will ever change in Washington. Washington knows that if they keep the American population arguing against each other that they will be able to get away with any and everything.
We the people are allowing ourselves to be lied to by both sides. And we try and support those lies. No one wants to step up and call everyone in Washington a liar. Which they all are.
Until we all start holding everyone in Washington accountable nothing will change. Until we all start telling the side we support to come clean nothing will change. Until we all start telling the side we support to stop playing politics with our lives nothing will change.
Call me names, try and defend your position. The sad fact is all of you know you can lie to everyone else but you cannot lie to yourself. Look at what you are supporting. Look at the big picture. Then ask yourself how long will you allow the lies from both sides the ruin the lives of all Americans.
I too am guilty of what I just wrote. However as of yesterday, before I post anything on any of these boards the first thing I do is send an email to my U.S. Senators and Representative. I don't care if they are Republican or Democrat. I want them to know how I feels about all the B/S coming out of Washington. I also send emails to the President and Vice-President. I don't use some of those sites that send emails for you. I want all of them to know that I as individual can speak for myself. I want all of them to know what I as an individual want them to do. And I plan to send them all emails daily. I want them to know I will find to time in my life to let them know daily what I think.
I don't need AARP to speak for me which I am a member. I don't need the NRA to speak for me which I am a member. I don't need NCOA to speak for me which I am a member. I don't need Oathkeepers to speak for which I am a member. And I can continue. Each and every one of you on these boards need to do the same. If Washington starts getting emails daily from the American people things will change. Coming voting time if everyone stops believing that their vote don't count and go vote things will change. Let's get rid of the electoral college. Let's let the people votes mean something.
So to everyone posting unless you are doing the same, then your comments on these boards will result in nothing changing in Washington. Your name calling and rants will not change anything. It might make you feel good but it will not change a thing.
I want both side to stop showing us how well they can twist the words of the English language to hide the facts. Put the facts out and I mean all the facts not just what supports their agenda.
I want a standalone amendment to the Constitution that make it the law that Congress and the Presidents pay is voted on by the people. They should not be able to give themselves pay raises when neither side is getting anything done. The proposal that only side not get paid is B/S. Neither the House, Senate and President gets paid if there is not budget.
Last but not least, everyone needs to understand that according to the Constitution, which a lot of posters want use to support their positions, the House is task with coming up with a budget. They must be willing to compromise with the Senate and the President in order to get one put in place. And so must the Senate and the President be will to compromise. This our way or no way is not helping the American people. Compromise is not a bad thing.
Semper Fi
That headline will put starch in the republicans shorts.
How could they misquote the Boston Globe and Kerry so badly? "... containment, not prevention."!!!! WRONG
Here's the quote directly from the Globe, which is the same as what Kerry said to the Senate:
"Kerry’s prepared statement opening the hearing focused on his view that foreign policy is increasingly geared toward global economics. He also touched on Iran - sure to be a hotbed of international diplomacy given its advancing nuclear program - saying, “our policy is not containment. It is prevention.”" (bold added)
The media gives the public what they want. If not, the public goes to another sourse for their news. Nobody wants boreing stories about the economy and jobs. People want intrigue, speculation, scandal and that sort of stuff. Human nature, I guess. Supermarket tabloids make good money.
The GOP/Teabeggers are Cognitively Disabled, and are very "Intellectually Afraid" of the Secretary Of State. They are "Teabegger Zombie's." For the first time in their 'simple' lives. The Teabeggers had to think forthemselves, and they were crushed. The Teabeggers are rude, intolerant, disrespectful of others, and are just 'challenged.'