The question for someone considering whether or not to support Clinton in 2016 is, will a Clinton 2016 campaign pass the Mark Penn Test? The Mark Penn Test, which I just invented, determines whether or not a person should be trusted with the presidency, based solely on one criterion: Whether or not they pay Mark [...]
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Call Him Secretary Kerry
SECRETARY KERRY is now on the job. The warm welcome (see video below) was deserved and made my heart sing.
Hillary Clinton’s Office, The Website
HILLARYCLINTON.COM now directs people to “Click here to reach the office of Hillary Clinton.” The second run to become the first female president in U.S. history… awaits. At least many of us hope so. It’s not a coronation, as is charged. As I’ve written before, many a Democratic man I have voted for had fewer [...]
So Long, Hillary [Text of Formal Resignation]
AT LEAST for now… The Secretary of State Washington February 1, 2013 The President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C., 20500 Dear Mr. President: I hereby resign as the 67th Secretary of State, effective upon the appointment of my successor. It has been an honor to serve in your administration and to [...]
Secretary Clinton on What Lies Ahead in Foreign Policy [Full Remarks]
A FOREIGN policy speech given by Secretary Clinton at Foreign Policy’s “transformational trends” forum, also included a Q&A with Secretary Clinton. The speech comes as anticipation grows for President Obama to soon nominate her successor, perhaps even next week, with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice in the eye of the storm and considered the leading candidate [...]
Leaving State, the Hillary Effect *Updated*
*Update* United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice will meet with senators on Capitol Hill Tuesday to answer questions about the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya. [...] Rice will be accompanied by acting CIA Director Mike Morell while Graham and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., will also attend Rice’s meeting with McCain, which was requested by Rice’s [...]
Chris Wallace to Axelrod: Did Obama “Make Calculated Decision to Run Out the Clock” on Benghazi Questions?
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | 2012 Presidential Election | Entertainment & Celebrity News TODAY ON Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace took the baton from Sean Hannity and the rest of the FNC partisans, who concocted a CIA narrative that’s been proved false, a story which ABC [...]
Graphic of the Day: Obama Versus Romney on National Security
WHAT’S THE difference between President Obama and Mitt Romney on national security and foreign policy? McClatchy does the comparison.
Obama on Benghazi: “Election has Nothing to Do with Four Brave Americans Getting Killed”
THE NBC affiliate 9News in Denver interviewed President Obama on Benghazi. It must be galling that the cozy ride along Brian Williams received is, by contrast, getting no attention at all. Denver’s Kyle Clark pressed Obama as much as an anchor can on air without getting adversarial. However, Obama’s response was quite different with Clark [...]
Jon Stewart on Romney, Obama, Mourdock, and The Donald
SOMETIMES IT takes a comedian to put political skirmishes into perspective. For my money, the best comedic writing and video editing is Stewart and his team on the foreign policy debate. It reveals Romney’s strategy, that since you can’t beat the sitting commander in chief you might as well join him. The Daily Show with [...]
Debates Over, Republican Noise Tries to Drown Out Reality [Videos]
THE RACE is tied. Ohio still looking like the Democratic firewall, thanks to Mitt Romney, a state he has to win, but Obama needs, too. The notion that Sen. Harry Reid would let Nevada slip to Romney is laughable, when you think of scenarios to 270. So now that the debates are over, perhaps people [...]
Mitt’s Middle East Muddle
DETAILS. DETAILS. “Syria is Iran’s route to the sea.” – Mitt Romney Mitt Romney, evidently, never heard of the Persia Gulf. This is what happens when you let a conservative off the mat. Those of you who remember this moment four years ago, when Obama won the 2008 election, we all said is this the [...]
Obama’s “Horses and Bayonets” Top Trending Topic from Debate
THE PHRASE now joins “Big Bird” and “binders of women.” The “horses and bayonets” line soon became the debate’s viral catchphrase, following “big bird,” “marlarkey” and “binders full of women” as the pull-out refrain that set the internet afire. The term followed the now-familiar routine of trending on Twitter (hashtag #horsesandbayonets), followed by a debate-inspired [...]
Winning the Debate, Losing the Media War
LET THE SPIN begin. What I warned was going to happen yesterday is in full bloom, because try as Obama might last night, Mitt Romney’s debate strategy assured he could slither away from being pegged as un-presidential by the president, because you only get one chance to make a first impression and that came in [...]
Top Story — In Stunning Reversal Romney Flips on Afghanistan: “Bring Our Troops Out by the End of 2014″ [Video]
“You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military’s changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines. And [...]
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