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Quote of the Day: Hillary – The President is Boss
Michael Ramirez on Obama, Hillary and the Iraq War
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated her campaign pledge to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq within 60 days of taking office, and added on Thursday that she would carry out the policy regardless of the advice she might receive from military commanders.
At a news conference here, Mrs. Clinton was asked if she would keep to her promises on withdrawing troops, even if she is advised differently by military leaders on the ground.
“Well, let me just describe to you the way our system works,†Mrs. Clinton said. “Policy is set by the civilian leadership. The president of the United States sets the policy. Our military, and thankfully so, carries out the policy that is set. You ask the military for their best advice about how to implement the policy that you have set.â€
Can ANYONE envision Hillary as the Commander in Chief?
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Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: The Mayor’s “OTHER WOMAN” Mirthala Salinas Moves On
Telemundo Channel 52 Political Reporter Mirthala Salinas announces “on air†her boyfriend, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s separation from his wife.
Mirthala Salinas has moved on from her romantic relationship with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. In an interview in Los Angeles Magazine she explains and apologizes.
Read the entire interview here.
Key Graphs:
- Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez: By 2001, she had become a reporter and weekend anchor at Channel 52. Two years later, she began dang Assemblyman Fabian Núñez, who would soon become speaker. Núñez, she says, “had been divorced for eight or ten years.†Their relationship posed no ethical conflict with her work, she says, because she was not a political reporter, never interviewed him, and did no stories about issues in which he was involved. She says she told her supervisors about the relationship. “It was never a big deal.â€
- She says that she and Núñez were serious. “I mean, we met families. But I think the timing…he was in Sacramento, I was here. He was busy, I was working weekends. It was just hard.†After six or eight months, she says, they broke up. Núñez eventually remarried his former wife. Before the breakup, however, Salinas became a friend of his good friend Villaraigosa.
- Senator Alex Padilla: Alex Padilla? Where, Salinas wondered, had that name come from? She says—and a Padilla aide confirms—that she and Padilla had never done anything more than attend a couple of public events as friends. Indeed, almost comically old-fashioned, Salinas says she has been in love fewer than a half dozen times in her adult life.
- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa: “I trusted him, and I know he trusted me.†They didn’t talk about marriage, she says. But “he was so protective of me once the relationship became public, I know he loved me.â€
- In October, Mirthala Salinas’s affair with Antonio Villaraigosa came to an end.“I think it just got to the point where we both realized that it wasn’t working out as that kind of a relationship,†she says. “I don’t know what it was, I don’t know if it was being on everybody’s mouth, under the scrutiny of everybody. When I talk to my friends, they think that’s what it was.â€
And, now Salinas has a new job at W Radio (690 AM) and a new boyfriend (actually a retread) who she plans to marry.
From the Mirthala Salinas – Yanni Raz website
Flap ALMOST feels sorry for Mayor Villar. He was PLAYED a FOOL and serves up a valuable lesson for politicians (and others) who think with their extremities instead of their head.
Oh, and good luck Yanni, you will NEED IT.
Mirthala Salinas and husband to be Yanni Raz, a 32-year-old Israeli-born real estate agent
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Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Mirthala Salinas Transferred to Riverside
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Ana Garcia Spurned Reporter?
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Has Mirthala Salinas Moved into Getty House?
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Shoe Shopping with Mirthala
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Water Conservation – Setting an Example
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Telemundo Suspends Mirthala Salinas
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: The Source
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Still Waiting for Telemundo
The Miguel Contreras Learning Complex Pool Flap
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Pay to Play at LAUSD
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Villaraigosa Tries Again to Shift Focus
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: NBC Telemundo Expected to Announce Results This Week
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Corina Villaraigosa Speaks About Commitment
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Telemundo Ethics Probe of Mirthala Salinas Completed
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Watch: Mayor Heckled at Transportation Meeting
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Randi Rhodes Quits Air America Rather than Apologize for Clinton and Ferraro Comments
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Randi Rhodes in San Francisco where she called Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro “Fu***ng Whores
Randi Rhodes, suspended last week, has quit Air America and has landed a new gig with Clear Channel because she would NOT apologize for her San Francisco remarks.
She’s going to be signing a deal with Nova M Radio in the next few hours for about the same money Air America was paying her. She will broadcast Monday afternoon on all Clear Channel affiliates and several other stations. The folks at Air America don’t miss her one bit… She has moved from New York City to West Palm Beach, FL…
They’ve been planning since she was suspended but the deal is solid now…
Good luck with advertisers except maybe in San Francisco or Berkeley……..
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Air America Radio’s Randi Rhodes Suspended for Calling Hillary Clinton a Whore
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John McCain Watch: California in Play? Part Two
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, center, endorses Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, as former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani looks on at left, after a tour of Solar Integrated Technologies in Los Angeles, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008.
Can John McCain place Blue State California in play this November? Perhaps.1. If McCain wins California in November, he almost certainly will become the next president of the United States.
2. Winning California is going to be very tough for McCain.
3. Candidates who oppose abortion rights do not win California.
4. Obama favors giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. McCain opposes it, and this could give McCain the state.
McCain seems to think so in this interview with Chris Wallace.
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John McCain on Fox News Sunday, April 6, 2008
Should Barack Obama win the Democrat nomination, California MIGHT be in play. Flap’s Hispanic friends (Democrats and Republicans alike) will NOT vote for Obama. They mistrust him.
The drivers’ licenses for illegal aliens flap will not ingratiate Obama with independents and will assure no GOP cross-over voters.
If anyone can help swing California it will be California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who would be a plus for McCain in California whether she is on the ticket (and she is polling well) or on the stump.
Stay tuned……..
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John McCain Watch: California in Play?
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Elton John Fundraiser Nets Hillary $2.5 Million
Singer Elton John (L) greets Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and former President Bill Clinton (R) as he takes the stage before performing a fundraising concert for Clinton’s campaign at New York’s Radio City Music Hall April 9, 2008.
Does anyone think that this fundraiser by Elton John for Hillary Clinton will NET Hillary any more support or votes in her quest for the Presidency?
Elton John used Hillary Clinton’s $2.5 million fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall Wednesday night to stand up for women’s rights.
“I never cease to be amazed at the misogynistic attitude of some of the people of this country, and I say to hell with it,” said John, clad in a sequined black dinner jacket, red silk shirt and red sunglasses. “I love you, Hillary, and I’ll be there for you just like all the times you were there for me. Hillary should be the next President of America.”
The concert, billed as “Elton-Hillary: One Night Only” sold out just this week, with 6,000 tickets ranging in price from $125 to $2,300, according to a spokesman for the Clinton campaign.
But, Barack Obama has Oprah Winfrey’s support even though apparently SHE has backed off her support because of a fall-out over her partisan activity.
Writing at Politico.com, he suggests the aging empress of TV has paid a price for getting into the dirty business of politics with and for her man Barack. By August last year, a CBS poll found her favorable rating had plunged from 74% to 61%, still twice as good as the president but nearly a 20% drop.
MM suggests the FEC look at John’s activities since he is a foreign national (albeit our UK ally) and she may be correct.
Hillary does have a history with soliciting and collecting from foreign interests .
Flap does NOT think Elton John’s support for Hillary Clinton will translate into much more than a cash infusion to pay Mark Penn’s consulting bill.
American voters are more sophisticated than to accept a rock stars insistence that by NOT supporting Hillary Clinton that you are anti-woman and/or anti-women politicos.
But, the Federal elections Commission should look into this foreign national contribution business anyway.
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Norman Hsu Watch: INDICTED on 15 Counts
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Day By Day by Chris Muir April 10,2008
Flap is back from Disneyland after a day of birthday fun. The photos will be up on Flap’s Flickr feed and Facebook shortly.
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links for 2008-04-10
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John had a different attitude when Flap saw him this summer at Caesar’s Palace. There in Las Vegas money does the talking.
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No doubt her popularity has started to decline especially with the Jeremiah Wright flap.