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From Rolling Stone Magazine
Read the entire piece either at Rolling Stone or at the more reader friendly version at Politico.
President Obama will meet with General Stanley McChrystal tomorrow and he will resign. But, the political damage to the Obama Administration has been major. The Afghanistan War is now squarely on Obama’s shoulders and his policies conducted by a cast of clowns in the White House are failing.
And, who will benefit politically?
Republican Presidential candidates who have executive experience – most notably Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. Obama is now seen as weak in domestic as well as foreign policy with numerous blunders because of his lack of experience.
Also, watch for a resurgence of noise from the Clinton Cabal to undermine Obama. Hell, it is possible that Obama could lose the Democrat nomination to Hillary if he loses the Afghanistan war.
This story may, indeed, topple “The One.” Tags: Afghanistan, Stanley_McChrystal
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
No doubt, Chris, the female version of the shirt is sweeter.
But, now, look who is getting the short of it with his critical remarks regarding the Afghanistan War and the Obama Administration: General Stanley McChrystal.
The top U.S. general in Afghanistan was summoned to Washington for a White House meeting after apologizing Tuesday for flippant and dismissive remarks about top Obama administration officials involved in Afghanistan policy.
The remarks in an article in this week’s in Rolling Stone magazine are certain to increase tension between the White House and Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal.
The profile of McChrystal, , titled the “Runaway General,” also raises fresh questions about the judgment and leadership style of the commander Obama appointed last year in an effort to turn around a worsening conflict.
McChrystal and some of his senior advisors are quoted criticizing top administration officials, at times in starkly derisive terms. An anonymous McChrystal aide is quoted calling national security adviser James Jones a “clown,” who remains “stuck in 1985.”
Referring to Richard Holbrooke, Obama’s senior envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, one McChrystal aide is quoted saying: “The Boss says he’s like a wounded animal. Holbrooke keeps hearing rumors that he’s going to get fired, so that makes him dangerous.”
On one occasion, McChrystal appears to react with exasperation when he receives an e-mail from Holbrooke, saying, “Oh, not another e-mail from Holbrooke. I don’t even want to read it.”
U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry, a retired three-star general, isn’t spared. Referring to a leaked cable from Eikenberry that expressed concerns about the trustworthiness of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, McChrystal is quoted as having said: “Here’s one that covers his flank for the history books. Now if we fail, they can say, ‘I told you so.’”
McChrystal will be fired by noon today and Obama will continue to lose in Afghanistan with a failed policy.
Go figure.
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Looking ahead to the general election, Boxer’s campaign is wagering that Palin’s endorsement will be a drag on Fiorina as she tries to woo Democrats and Independent voters to overcome her party’s registration disadvantage. On Monday, the Boxer campaign launched a web video on their anti-Fiorina website that splices together clips of Palin and Fiorina with criticism of their positions on guns, oil drilling and abortion. The closing message: “Sarah Palin and Carly Fiorina. Wrong for California.†(Fiorina's campaign, by the way, posts their objections to the California Democrat's record on their anti-Boxer website).
Fiorina’s spokeswoman Amy Thoma said the Palin video was evidence that Boxer “is trying to shore up a base of voters that should already be supporting her," underscoring "just how endangered she really is.â€
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Boxer running against Sarah Palin now? This might get real interesting……
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People who buy their own health insurance have been hit lately with premium hikes that far exceed increases in premiums for employer-sponsored coverage, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The nonprofit foundation, which is separate from health insurer Kaiser Permanente, said recent premium hikes requested by insurers for individual coverage averaged 20 percent. Some customers were able to switch plans and pay less, so people paying on their own actually wound up paying 13 percent more on average.
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Well, someone has to pay for ObamaCare
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About two weeks ago, following June 8 primary night, the big meme in political media was “The Year of the (Republican) Woman.†Primary victories by the likes of Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina in California, and a strong performance by Nikki Haley in South Carolina, followed on the back of victory the week prior by Susana Martinez in New Mexico.
But since then, another narrative seems to be taking hold in some quarters—that these women aren’t really women, they’re men in skirts. That is so because they a) didn’t emphasize their gender at every turn in the course of their respective primary races or b) don’t focus, or toe the line, on “women’s issuesâ€â€”or both. In particular, objections have been raised that these women either are not pro-choice or are insufficiently vocal about being pro-choice, and therefore—the subtext seems to be—they’re more akin to men in skirts than “real women.â€
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Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, broke ground in American corporate leadership and is now being heralded as a pioneer again – the vanguard of a new breed of "pro-woman, pro-life" feminists in the mold of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Darcy Linn, 51, a Contra Costa business executive who sees herself as conservative, proudly pro-life – and a feminist – said it's one reason she's drawn to Fiorina, who is running against three-term incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer.
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How will Barbara Boxer try to use the abortion issue to defeat Carly Fiorina?
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JD Hayworth filmed this infomercial in November 2007 for a company called National Grants Conferences – widely regarded as a fraud and a scam.
Put a fork in J.D. Hayworth and his Republican Primary challenge to Senator John McCain – He’s done.
Tags: J.D._Hayworth, John_McCain
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
But, Chris, GOP Representative Joe Barton was ill-timed with his remarks and should have concentrated on the role of government. Americans have to remember that “Big Government” is not the end all, be all. Joe Barton did not make the argument and instead looked like an apologist for BP.
It is NOT about making a stand for BP. BP has made their bed and now must lie in it.
However, the Obama Administration is not making matters better and Rep. Joe Barton should concentrate on the cleanup and let BP take care of themselves.
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