Posts Tagged ‘Hillary Clinton’
August 9th, 2011 by John Feehery
Barack Obama just turned 50 years old. He is still a young man (by contemporary standards). He still plays basketball regularly, he likes to golf, he enjoys spending quality time with his daughters.
I have an idea for him. He should announce that he is taking a break at the end of next year from politics. Instead of running for re-election, Mr. Obama should tell the country that he is going into private business.
He has plenty of time to run again should he discover that he still has some work he wants to finish as President.
He can always run again. He can pull a Cleveland. Grover Cleveland was the only President to win in two non-consecutive terms, although he lost to Benjamin Harrison in between. Obama can take the high road and leave while the leaving is good.
The President needs some real world experience. Imagine how much better he would do with the experience of having to meet a payroll or worry about the P&L Statement. Imagine how much more sympathetic he would be if he actually understood how his health care law would make it harder to hire people. Imagine if he actually understood that by “spreading the wealth around,” the government actually makes it harder for the economy to grow. Read more...
Tags: Barack Obama, Benjamin Harrison, Congress, Conservatives, Democrats, Economy, election, George Bush, Government, Grover Cleveland, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, medicare, Obama, Politics, President Obama, Republicans, spending
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March 21st, 2011 by John Feehery
Responding to pressure from bird watchers and French President Nicholas Sarkozy, President Obama announced today his plans to impose a “fly zone” to help stop the slaughter of millions of birds by their long-time arch enemy, cats.
Pentagon experts are scratching their heads, trying to figure out exactly how this “fly-zone” (or a no-cat zone, as insiders are calling it) will be created.
The New York Times reported today, in an article titled Tweety Was Right: Cats Are a Bird’s No. 1 Enemy, that birds are getting wiped out by cats across the country, according to new study. “A new study in The Journal of Ornithology on the mortality of baby gray catbirds in the Washington suburbs found that cats were the No. 1 killer in the area, by a large margin. Nearly 80 percent of the birds were killed by predators, and cats were responsible for 47 percent of those deaths, according to the researchers, from the Smithsonian Institution and Towson University in Maryland. Death rates were particularly high in neighborhoods with large cat populations.”
In Paris, Sarkozy told reporters: “We must do sometheeng about zee leeetle birds. Les chats est tres mal. Zey must be stopped.” Read more...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Cat Lover’s Association, Darin Schroeder, Hillary Clinton, New York Times, no cats, Pentagon, Smithsonian Institution, Towson University
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March 16th, 2011 by John Feehery
Muammar Gaddafi
President Obama said last week that he was slowly “tightening the noose” around Colonel Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator.
Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, said yesterday, “We have acted with the utmost urgency … together with our international partners to put pressure on Muammar Gaddafi and his regime.”
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with opposition forces in Libya, promising to help.
In the meantime, Gaddafi keeps rolling up victories in one town after another.
This is winning, Charlie Sheen style.
James Clapper, the President’s Director of National Intelligence, is about the only one who is getting it right. He said that he thought Gaddafi was going to win.
He was taken out to the wood shed by the media for his rare burst of candor.
You can make the case that we should help the opposition by doing a no-fly zone. You can make the case that we should completely stay out of what has become essentially a tribal civil war. You can make the case that we should provide arms to the other side to help prevent a massacre. You can make the case that the President should just keep his mouth shut and focus on other things. Read more...
Tags: Barack Obama, Charlie Sheen, Government, Hillary Clinton, James Clapper, Muammar Gaddafi, Politics
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August 2nd, 2010 by John Feehery
Charlie Rangel
Four years ago, Charlie Rangel endorsed Hillary Clinton for President, and he stuck with that endorsement until the last possible moment, until it became clear to just about everybody that Barack Obama, and not Hillary Clinton, was going to be the Democratic nominee for President.
Rangel endorsed Clinton for a variety of reasons. Clinton was his home state Senator. Rangel didn’t think Obama was going to win. Rangel was a good friend of Clinton, urging her to run for Senator in the first place.
You could also surmise that the old bull Rangel didn’t think Obama was experienced enough to be President. You could also surmise that Rangel, as the House Ways and Means Chairman, was the most powerful black leader in the country, and frankly, he didn’t want his power challenged by a young upstart.
Like many other African-American leaders from the older generation, Rangel has had a frosty relationship with Mr. Obama. Jesse Jackson has been caught on tape several times saying derogatory things about the President. Bobby Rush, who was challenged in a Congressional primary by Obama, was the first to challenge his blackness. Read more...
Tags: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Charlie Rangel, Hillary Clinton
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June 4th, 2010 by John Feehery
Jim Joyce
Maybe Jim Joyce should run for President.
This is the only guy out there who admits he is not perfect. And that refreshing bit of honesty has inspired America.
Joyce is the umpire who blew the call in Detroit the other day, and his blown call ruined a perfect game pitched by Armando Galarraga on the last out of the game.
Joyce put it this way. “I just missed the damn call…This isn’t a call. This is a history call. And I kicked the shit out of it. I take pride in this job, and I took a perfect game away from that kid over there who worked his ass off all night.”
Every time I see this story on the tube, I tear up a bit. Not only did Joyce take complete responsibility and take his lumps like a man, but the aggrieved pitcher, Armando Galarraga, was unbelievably gracious in response. He almost felt sorry for the umpire. He didn’t cry like a baby. He didn’t bitterly complain. He acted like an adult, like a mature human being, like a grown up. How rare in this world! Read more...
Tags: Al Gore, Armando Galarraga, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Detroit, Hillary Clinton, Jim Joyce, Mark Souder, Newt Gingrich, tiger woods, Tipper Gore
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March 17th, 2010 by John Feehery
Last night, I shook the hand of a person who ought to be a true hero of the conservative movement.
Nope, it wasn’t Glenn Beck. It wasn’t Rush Limbaugh. It wasn’t Jim DeMint. It wasn’t Sarah Palin. And it wasn’t Mitt Romney.
It was Brian Cowen. Brian Who?
Cowen is the Taoiseach (or Prime Minister) of Ireland, and I shook his hand at the conclusion of the annual American Ireland Fund dinner. The American Ireland Fund raises money in the U.S. to help support peace building operations in the north of Ireland.
It has been the tradition for the last two decades for the Taoiseach to come to the AIF dinner usually the day before St. Patrick’s Day, and give an address to the assembled crowd about the state of the island of Ireland. Usually, the address focuses on the latest news in the peace process, which is crawling slowly but surely forward, mostly on its own momentum now.
Last night, Mr. Cowen spent most of his time talking about the financial crisis that has gripped Ireland (and the rest of the world). Read more...
Tags: Brian Cowen, Hillary Clinton, spending, taxes
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June 6th, 2008 by John Feehery
This originally appeared in The Hill on December 4, 2007
@ 6:37 pm
Is Hillary Clinton becoming Ed Muskie?
Her faltering campaign and the resurgence of Barack Obama bring back echoes of Democratic primaries past. There are some interesting similarities between now and 1972.
There’s an unpopular war.
As during Vietnam, the Iraq war has radicalized the Democratic left. Anti-war Democrats are in no mood to compromise, and don’t want to see their party’s standard-bearers compromise.
Second, there’s the crushing burden of high expectations. Everyone inside the Beltway has expected Hillary to get the nomination, just as everyone expected Ed Muskie to run away with the Democratic nomination. Being a front-runner is dangerous business in the world of Democratic politics.
Finally, the left has fallen in love with one of their own, Barack Obama. Is he another George McGovern? Perhaps not, because unlike Obama, McGovern had some extensive experience in the Senate, having served 10 years before getting the nomination. But like Obama, McGovern has a Chicago connection, having attended Northwestern University.
But Obama and McGovern share a liberal vision that is far outside the mainstream of most voters. Read more...
Tags: Barack Obama, George McGovern, Hillary Clinton, Presidential election
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Barack Obama just turned 50 years old. He is still a young man (by contemporary standards). He still plays basketball regularly, he likes to golf, he enjoys spending quality time with his daughters.
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