2016

[DrLeftover]

The first gusts of hot air.

At least two Hillary movies and shows are in the works.

And then this:

August 7, 2013

The former secretary of state who left the Obama administration to recharge her batteries after traveling the world for four years has been spotted with diet guru Dr. Mark Hyman, who helped former President Bill Clinton lose weight on a vegan diet.

“We’re into the science of creating health using food as medicine”, Hyman told the Boston Herald. “It’s about diet, lifestyle and personalized medicine.”

Hyman, who says he’s “good friends” with Hillary Clinton, might have foreshadowed the former first lady’s presidential aspirations for 2016.

“Being a presidential candidate is a pretty demanding job,” Hyman told the Herald. “You need to be in good health.”

http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2013/08/07/hillary-clinton-meets-with-diet-guru-as-2016-speculation-ramps-up/

 

[DrLeftover]

And then the New York Times let's the air out of HER.

August 14th, 2013

Today it runs with a fascinating takedown of the Clinton Foundation – that vast vanity project that conservatives are wary of criticising for being seen to attack a body that tries to do good. But the liberal NYT has no such scruples. The killer quote is this:

For all of its successes, the Clinton Foundation had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction and threatened by conflicts of interest. It ran multimillion-dollar deficits for several years, despite vast amounts of money flowing in.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100231113/the-new-york-times-takes-down-the-clinton-foundation-this-could-be-devastating-for-bill-and-hillary/


The story on the Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/us/politics/unease-at-clinton-foundation-over-finances-and-ambitions.html?pagewanted=all

 

[DrLeftover]

August 18, 2013

Hillary Clinton began her 2016 march to the White House last week, and it wasn't a promising debut. The former first lady and Senator used her first big policy speech since leaving the State Department to portray American election laws as fundamentally racist. The speech was longer on anecdotes than statistics, so allow us to fill in some of the holes.

"In 2013, so far, more than 80 bills restricting voting rights have been introduced in 31 states," Mrs. Clinton told her political base of lawyers at the American Bar Association. She portrayed these laws as part of an effort reaching back years to "disproportionately impact African-Americans, Latino and young voters." And she threw the Supreme Court in as part of this racist conspiracy, assailing its recent decision finding the "preclearance" section of the Voting Rights Act to be unconstitutional.
...
"Now not every obstacle is related to race," Mrs. Clinton added, "but anyone who says that racial discrimination is no longer a problem in American elections must not be paying attention."

No one thinks racial discrimination has vanished from American life or the human condition. But as for minority voting, Mrs. Clinton is the one who hasn't been paying attention. In particular, she must have missed the May 2013 Census Bureau study on "The Diversifying Electorate—Voting Rates by Race and Hispanic Origin in 2012 (and Other Recent Elections)."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324139404579013144182779468.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion

 

[DrLeftover]

August 20, 2013

WASHINGTON – Bill Clinton’s foundation has spent more than $50 million on travel expenses since 2003, an analysis of the non-profit’s tax forms reveal.

The web of foundations run by the former president spent an eye-opening $12.1 million on travel in 2011 alone, according to an internal audit conducted by foundation accountants. That’s enough to by 12,000 air tickets costing $1,000 each, or 33 air tickets each day of the year.

That overall figure includes travel costs for the William J. Clinton Foundation (to which Hillary and Chelsea are now attached) of $4.2 million on travel in 2011, the most recent year where figures are available.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/bubba_just_plane_extravagant_XaSUKqaz40XBy0x5V9LDBL

 

[DrLeftover]

Ted Cruz is as American as Mr. Obama.

And for some people, that's still a problem.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-23771433

 

[Evil Eye]

It's only fair that they should have a problem with both of them.

 

[DrLeftover]

Were that this was still true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XdNaHCvP3w

Pardon me.

I need a drink.