Reports indicate that Obama’s rapid turn-around on Libyan intervention was due to the intense lobbying of Clinton, Rice and Powers (yes, the Samantha Powers who was chased out of some high position in the new Obama administration for being too liberal.) The following outline has been reported widely. This quote is edited and comes from [...]
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HILLARY CLINTON, Superstar
WHY would Obama hugging New Hampshire Progressives care now? Nevermind, that Hillary resurrected from certain death running third behind disgraced John Edwards only to WIN the New Hampshire Primary over Barack Obama, then battled on after her husband’s race-baiting comments and mistakes and the chessboard party rules favoring caucuses in non-Democratic states in the Plains [...]
No Umbrella, Please
Cross-posted from Blue News Tribune. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ratcheted up bellicose US rhetoric against Iran Wednesday, accusing the country of funding “terrorism” and interfering in the internal affairs of states throughout the Middle East. Her statements coincided with the release of a report by a Washington think tank with ties to the [...]
Clinton Promotes the Obama Doctrine
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a major foreign policy speech yesterday to the Council of Foreign Relations. The New York Times described the speech as muscular in tone and sweeping in scope. The speech served to highlight Mrs. Clinton’s return to a full public schedule after her elbow surgery and to reassert the United [...]
Kelly Ayotte’s Positives and Negatives
Hearing about Kelly Ayotte’s decision to leave the position of New Hampshire Attorney General to explore a run for United States Senate, I began thinking about her positives and negatives. Here I offer some: Positives:1. She is a personable candidate. She’s easy to talk with, and according to staff members I’ve talked with she’s been [...]
Hillary’s Elbow & Healthcare Reform
By robsprague on June 19, 2009 in
Tags: Blue Dogs, healthcare, Hillary Clinton, Moderate Democrats, reform
Hillary Clinton slipped & fell down this week and broke her elbow. But – don’t worry and thank God – she & her husband, Bill, have really good health insurance. They’re so lucky! But for those of us who care at all about healthcare reform – and who do not think 47,000,000 Americans not named [...]
Drip, Drip, Drip…
By Dean Barker on May 26, 2009 in
Tags: Hillary Clinton, marriage equality, same-sex benefits, state department
While we in New Hampshire are waiting at the altar, this bit of good news will make the time go by a bit more quickly: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will soon announce that the partners of gay U.S. diplomats are eligible for many benefits currently denied them and allowed to spouses of heterosexual [...]
Hillary Kicking Republican A**
By gradysdad on April 23, 2009 in
Tags: Barak Obama, Cheney, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, Hugo Chavez, torture
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is appearing before the House Foreign Policy Committee today to speak about the overall foreign policy goals of the Obama Administration. She is taking no prisoners in the answers she is giving to the right wing Republicans on the Committee. She is making them understand that she is part of [...]
Secretary of State Clinton takes charge
There’s a wonderful diary on KOS covering Secretary Clinton’s testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.An interchange with Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is particularly telling. In case you don’t want to visit KOS, this statement ought not to be missed. Pence (Mike Pence, R IN) referred SOS back to her earlier segment that she was amused [...]
It’s Easier To Preserve Something You’ve Seen
Today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called to place greater limits on tourism to Antarctica. Fortunately, we don’t need to talk about penguin owned knick knack shops probably having to close their doors. However, the intended goal of helping curb the environmental impacts of humanity upon Antarctica may be better served by focusing on more [...]